Jan,
You, sir, are incorrigible... you KNOW just I can't help myself...
please see (mainly vague attempts at humour) comments inserted...
davidt
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:13:20PM -0700, Jan Steinman wrote:
> I'll start: mine is working fine. I thought about re-configuring the
> registry today, but I don't seem to have one.
- .profile, .loginrc... depending on your shell you have _ultimate_
control. Thanks Mr FreeBSD!
> I also considered de-
> fragging the hard disk, but there isn't any software, Mac or third
> party, to do that, so I guess I'm feeling left out.
- built into the OS & happens all on it's own, Thanks Mr FreeBSD!
> I looked around
> for "crap that installs itself at start up," but I couldn't find any,
# ls -R /etc |grep ^rc
# ps -a | egrep ^[0-9,A-Z,a-z]d$
> and I couldn't find the Mac equivalent of "Startup Inspector"
> anywhere for me to buy.
- see above! part of the base the OS. Thanks Mr FreeBSD!
> I tried to download some drivers, but every
> disk or camera or peripheral I use just seems to work without much
> downloading.
- unless it isn't available under usbd/kextd, then you're right up the
creek... however, if you can find some essential data about the
peripheral & it's similar to something else, you can likely hack it in,
using the usb mas storage (umass) driver. thanks Mr FreeBSD.
> I'm really baffled, because people keep telling me my
> Mac was too expensive, but they're buying all these utilities that no
> one is making for the Mac -- I guess they're right that there is less
> software for the Mac!
- one more good thing: Virus scanning & eradication for a Mac is very
quick & easy (WARNING: this is a joke, do _NOT_ do this!):
# killall -9 WindowServer
BTW if you own a Mac & are starting to get interested in the wonders of
UNIX, this is an excellent page to help you figure out what all those
pesky running processes are:
http://www.westwind.com/reference/OS-X/background-processes.html
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