Re: [OT] Re: Smile and FruitMenu
Re: [OT] Re: Smile and FruitMenu
- Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Smile and FruitMenu
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:03:09 -0600
On 12/07/2004 21:16, "Johnny AppleScript" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/12/07 7:02 PM, "John C. Welch" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> It would also make them
>> look a lot better if they came up with some troubleshooting tools for their
>> stuff
>
> One tool you might try that they provide is in Preferences... -> APE Manager
> -> Information ->'Disable Temporarily'; Logout/login; test your apps. Saves
> us about 31/32 of the time you indicate it takes you to rule all haxies in
> or out. But, as you've already sown them with the salt, you may not be aware
> of this invaluable and rapid testing tool already in place. (;
I am. And if disabling the hack works, it gets deleted. I don't have time to
test someone else's hack on n applications running in n order. If Unsanity
wants sysadmins to sign off on their work, they'll take the extra effort to
make sure they test their hacks with the applications, since they control
that framework, not Apple, and not Microsoft. I went through this with
RamDoubler and Kaliedoscope, and it was the same song and dance, and the
same end game. I support a large number of users on multiple platforms,
along with no less than five projects, all of which are, according to the
people who want them, so critical that all of them require me to drop
everything else I'm doing and work day and night to get them done. I
however, tend to get antsy about sleep deprivation, especially when the
cause is easily preventable.
>
> FWIW, I don't find haxies to be imperfect, but neither myself nor the users
> around here (a whole big bunch of them) would care much for OS X without
> them. Rosnya and company aren't always rapid at finding fixes for the
> occasional glitch we discover, but they are at least responsive with
> identifying and giving us valid workarounds, and do indeed jump on the
> showstoppers. Maybe that's just a function of asking nicely; maybe it's
> because, even with bug reports, we heap on the praise they deserve. On the
> whole, at least regarding those haxies actually written by Unsanity, we find
> them to be overall pretty flawless and reliable, and rarely, rarely are the
> source of an actual application crash.
Talk to the Bare Bones folks about that. I watched quite a few of them do
bad things to Entourage. You write the hack, it's your job to make it safe,
not everyone elses.
<snipped non-sequiters about showing uppity sysadmins their place>
john
--
"Klingon multitasking systems do not support "time-sharing". When a
Klingon program wants to run, it challenges the scheduler in hand-to-hand
combat and owns the machine."
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