Re(2): Setting Homepage weirdness
Re(2): Setting Homepage weirdness
- Subject: Re(2): Setting Homepage weirdness
- From: "Peter Lovell" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 13:08:16 -0500
The author (co-author, I believe) of IC commented years ago,
"It's amazing what an incident does to my scheduling algorithm"
If you have one available, this might get speedier attention.
Regards.....Peter
>Yes, I think this problem is bigger than just homepage and I think it's
>anything to do with the IC config API's, I would be curious if any others on
>the mailings are having same problems ?
>
>I'm making little or no progress with this problem (and seems to me
>completely busted for 10.4.x in my books which doesn't look well for our
>test team). So one solution I tried directly updating the
>com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist myself and I know this was not a good
>idea as could change, but enough for the deliverable happening very soon.
>
>But even though I can update the .plist, something is coming in later and
>changing it back which was slightly annoying (or by design).
>
>Does anybody know how to track which process's are doing I/O on a particular
>file ?, so maybe I can identify which process is doing this, as I'm 100% it
>isn't my code.
>
>Also anybody from Apple could shed light on this maybe the IC
>developer/owner ?
>
>Thanks
>Mark.
>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:30:03 -0500
>> From: "Peter Sichel" <email@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: Setting Homepage weirdness
>> To: "Macintosh Network Programming" <email@hidden>
>> Message-ID: <email@hidden>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>>
>> On 3/7/07, Mark Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/
>Internet_Config/in
>>> dex.html
>>>
>>> As it refer's to now use Launch Services and System Configuration for
>>> managing internet preferences, but so far I haven't seen how to set a
>>> homepage via these frameworks ?, and reading each of these introductions
>>> doesn't give the impression they should be supporting this.
>>>
>>> I remember that early 10.1 builds use to have a Internet preference but
>>> that is long gone.
>>>
>>> Anybody got any thoughts/ideas.
>>
>> I've been seeing similar problems and was hoping to get some insight.
>> In my case, it's the send Email configuration that works for some and
>> not for others.
>>
>> Perhaps someone at Apple can help sort his out.
>>
>> Thanks for posting your question.
>>
>> - Peter
>>
>>
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