On 12/11/05, Peter da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately launchd doesn't provide the same dependency management as > the newer BSD inits or the Apple SystemStarter application, so I was > expecting to be able to use one or the other to override it.
I don't know enough to judge - q.v. your observation that /etc/rc is run by init. I /should/ have known that... > I've use Dashboard (there's code available to let you run Dashboard > widgets on 10.3) That I didn't know! > and I prefer Konfabulator. Webkit is complete overkill > for what Dashboard is doing. I will take your word; I haven't tried it. Until I had the feature to play with, I couldn't see much use for it, so I never bothered exploring, but when I first got Tiger I discovered that it was actually really useful. Not bothered configuring it on the new machine just yet, mind, but it is very early days. > Spotlight is something UNIX guys seem to > have a love-hate relationship with, because it ONLY indexes files > there's a Mac-OS way of extracting information... which means all your > UNIX text files, source code, man pages, and so on get left out. I can see that that would be a problem. Apart from OpenOffice, though, I've not used the Unix side of OS X at all, and I really just use Spotlight for launching apps with. Perhaps as I use the machine more, I will explore the features more, but I do not plan to give up Thunderbird for Mail.app any time foreseeable. YHM of the "ps" output you requested. I am seeing some instability post-hack - Safari is dying a lot, Firefox once, and the system is freezing in the BOINC screensaver - so I might yet remove it again. Time will tell. I do take your point about VM sizing, but it's a reasonable rule of thumb for me. Activity Monitor suggested that I often had 3.5GB+ of VM in use but I have not yet seen my VM file actually grow *at all* past its default 64MB. I don't do image or video editing or any of that kind of thing that's really heavily RAM-intensive - the most I do is lots and lots of tabs in Firefox and sometimes many large images. I'm going to try to stress the system a little bit and see. My last machine tended to freeze with [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well, but then, it /was/ overclocked... -- Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · MSN/Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Skype: liamproven · ICQ: 73187508 Gmail/Google Talk/Orkut: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
