Re: gathering system information

2008-05-11 Thread Torsten Curdt
On May 11, 2008, at 13:25, Finlay Dobbie wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Torsten Curdt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that you don't have to make system_profiler write to a file. You can call it with NSTask, attach an NSPipe to its stdout, and read that with an NSFileHandle

gathering system information

2008-05-10 Thread Torsten Curdt
Hey guys, Is there any other way of collection system information like - OS version - processor speed and architecture - RAM other than calling system_profiler -xml system.plist system_profiler -detailLevel mini -xml system.plist system_profiler SPHardwareDataType

Re: gathering system information

2008-05-10 Thread Chilton Webb
Hi Torsten, Apparently Gestalt is part of CoreServices (I thought it was Carbon). That will return a lot of info about the host system. I know processor speed, memory, and architecture are in there. See Gestalt.h for more info. -Chilton ___

Re: gathering system information

2008-05-10 Thread Jens Alfke
On 10 May '08, at 8:28 AM, Torsten Curdt wrote: Is there any other way of collection system information like - OS version - processor speed and architecture - RAM other than calling system_profiler -xml system.plist This was just asked a few days ago on the darwin-userlevel mailing

Re: gathering system information

2008-05-10 Thread Torsten Curdt
On May 10, 2008, at 18:12, Chilton Webb wrote: Hi Torsten, Apparently Gestalt is part of CoreServices (I thought it was Carbon). That will return a lot of info about the host system. I know processor speed, memory, and architecture are in there. See Gestalt.h for more info. Thanks,

Re: gathering system information

2008-05-10 Thread Torsten Curdt
Is there any other way of collection system information like - OS version - processor speed and architecture - RAM other than calling system_profiler -xml system.plist This was just asked a few days ago on the darwin-userlevel mailing list; search the archives for details. That poster

Re: gathering system information

2008-05-10 Thread Chris Hanson
On May 10, 2008, at 8:28 AM, Torsten Curdt wrote: Is there any other way of collection system information like - OS version - processor speed and architecture - RAM What do you need to collect this information for? Every week or so, someone asks *exactly* this question. What is everyone

Re: gathering system information

2008-05-10 Thread Jens Alfke
On 10 May '08, at 6:55 PM, Chris Hanson wrote: Every week or so, someone asks *exactly* this question. What is everyone doing with this information? I just want to know why everyone suddenly needs to parse XML and/or control other apps' windows. (Hm, maybe they're implementing botnets