On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, 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. 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. I looked around
> for "crap that installs itself at start up," but I couldn't find any,
> and I couldn't find the Mac equivalent of "Startup Inspector"
> anywhere for me to buy. I tried to download some drivers, but every
> disk or camera or peripheral I use just seems to work without much
> downloading. 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!
You must be running some magical Mac over there, mine sure doesn't seems
to look like yours. A registry, yup, all those millions of plist files
all over the place. Startup stuff, now where did it all go, yup that
program must be automatically started from /System/Library/LaunchDaemons,
wait, no, it must be in /System/Library/StartupItems, or maybe it's in
/Library/StartupItems, it surely must be in /Library/LaunchDaemons, or
maybe in ~/Library. Arrgh, I sure wish I had something like Startup
Inspector :-) I really wish my old Epson printer was recognised beyond
a simple USB printer. It would be nice to be able to run a cleaning cycle
when I replace the cartridge. Don't even get me started with the mess
that Rosetta makes with shared memory.
I could go on but you get the idea. The Mac's have their problems just as
Windows has theirs. I still like the Mac and use it every day, but I also
run Windows on it using Parallels. I guess that must make me a heretic but
I don't care, I use whatever works best for me. There are still too many
Windows based tools that just don't exist on a Mac. (QImage, IMatch,
ACDsee, etc.).
-mark
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