Mac OS X Hidden Secrets Revealed

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I found this link over at slashdot (http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/2002-04-01.01.html). For anyone familiar with playing around in the command line, here are some hints to help improve performance of Mac OS X:

defaults write com.apple.installer TrashSymbolicLinks No
defaults write com.apple.finder RunSlowly No
defaults write com.apple.EOModeler CrashRandomly No
defaults write com.microsoft.Office SendPersonalInformationToMotherShip No


I really like the last one.
 
Grr! Why does everybody miss the funniest one of that website??

defaults write com.apple.finder LoadedFolders Springy

It's right in front of your nose! :mad:



;)
 
Well, I still can't tell if this article is actually true or not. I wouldn't put it past Apple to have those sort of preferences be real hidden preferences (they do have personality, after all). But I set the preferences and pretty much nothing happened, other than the xml being reparsed. Any thoughts?
 
Originally posted by macgeek
Well, I still can't tell if this article is actually true or not. I wouldn't put it past Apple to have those sort of preferences be real hidden preferences (they do have personality, after all). But I set the preferences and pretty much nothing happened, other than the xml being reparsed. Any thoughts?
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Actually, it's not a joke. The "runslowly" preference should never have been discovered. As you know, Motorola is too stupid to make processors. They once found one on the street outside of IBM, named it G4, copied it and since then are in the CPU business. So Apple knew that Motorola would never get the G5 done (even with the current help of lended AMD technology) and Apple would never dare to ask IBM to make the G5 (it's a personal thing...don't ask) so they implemented this "runslowly" so that they can release a G4, labeled G5, which automatically sets runslowly to no and thus you think you have a faster processor this summer.

That would be the SpyMac version. If you don't believe me, make the call yourself, the number is in my iWalk...
 
NSNervousKernelNotification

This notification is sent by NSProcessInfo whenever the kernel is nervous, but before it actually panics. This allows the receiver of the notification to do things to minimize the likelihood of a kernel panic affecting its process.

Whoo! That was a good laugh, thanks for posting that!
 
Sorry, dude, those secret commands are implemented into OS X so that you can only change their flags at the 1st of April...

:rolleyes:
 
:D :D :D

sorry, pal, for kidding you, but this whole deal was a big April's fool. You can enter those modifications at any time, but they will never achieve anything...
 
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