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#1
February 2nd, 2002, 05:47 PM
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| Needed Feature, ain't it?
In response to one of the posts in the now closed thread about your Mac OS X.2 wishlist... I want a shortcut that switches to a text only console immediately. No windows to be opened, no tasks to be started, just plain old Darwin console, white on black. Just as I can do in Linux. Because if something hicks up in OS X so that the Force-Quit dialog doesn't come up or isn't responsive anymore, you could still kill single tasks in the console. That'd be nice.
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#3
February 2nd, 2002, 07:22 PM
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It would scare the livin' %$#^ out of newbies and casual users, and that sort of thing isn't really in the Mac philosophy. But as an option that can be activated by power users and programmers, maybe.
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#4
February 3rd, 2002, 01:58 AM
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| Macsbug of OS X...
Anybody remember MacsBug for OS 9? That's what we're talking about here. Something that can be activated by Command-Power (Control-Eject Key is the equiv on Pro Keyboards), where it will just stick everything into the command line, and then you can kill whatever process you need to (like loginwindow, to get back to the loginwindow), and then issue a command like the MacsBug "g" command to get back to work. Seriously, this WOULD make my day as well. That way I could preserve really long uptimes.  Please, Apple! (Be sure, everyone, to send Apple a note at http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/ )
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#5
February 3rd, 2002, 02:00 AM
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hey simx... your avatar... is that real or did you create something real quick? what i mean is... when you right-click (whoops... control-click) does it really say "No Windows" or did you do a bit of Photoshop work on that? |
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#6
February 3rd, 2002, 03:03 AM
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I just control clicked my Finder icon... and since there are no windows currently open, it does, in fact say "No Windows"... And THAT, my friends, is why we love Apple.
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#7
February 3rd, 2002, 03:31 AM
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| Yeah, it's real...
I saw a website that had a doctored version of the Finder icon saying the same thing, so I decided -- heck, why not just take a pic of the real one? So that's what I did. It's kind of annoying, because you need to put 2 1-pixel icons to the right of the Finder icon, or you'll get some other icons in your picture -- you can actually see one of the pixels in the avatar if you look really closely. But yes, it is real. Funny thing, though... if Apple was being grammatically correct, then it wouldn't have capitalized "Windows". I wonder why they decided to....
__________________ -- simX Get Memory Usage Getter, the only Mac OS X utility that graphically displays the memory usage of your open processes! http://homepage.mac.com/simx/ 450 MHz G4 Cube | 15" flat-panel Apple Studio Display | 896 MB RAM | Que! Fire 12x10x32x FireWire CD-RW | OS X 10.1.5 Build 5S66 | Mac OS 9.2.2 | Telex M-560 Microphone | Epson Stylus Color 777 | TI-Graph Link USB | Pro Speakers/Mouse/Keyboard | Airport card | iPod "Some people's minds are like cement: all mixed up and permanently set..." -- Andrew Welch, el Presidente, Ambrosia Software, Inc. "You know that first hit of heroin is free." -- Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystem's CEO, on Microsoft's .NET . "The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -- Unknown |
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#8
February 3rd, 2002, 11:09 AM
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duh...nothing even happens when i press the "programmer button" on my g4...  |
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