And no, Mac OS X is NOT more powerful than Windows when it actually comes to flexibility and things a power user wants. However, Windows is negligibly superior to OS X in the power user category to the point a power user needs. Both OS X and Windows suck for power users, no matter how much bloggers in Mac sites (Which already pretty much make their bias obvious.) like to claim otherwise.

Macs, the computers, themselves are piss-poor choices for power users, as they don’t offer the same modularity or choice of a standard PC. And, sadly, the same hardware for the same quality in a PC is MUCH cheaper, and true power users figure out within moments that Macs are NOT worth their price tag in hardware or software, especially given all of what Macs today are based off of in hardware and software. Apple’s non-innovation strikes again.

No, true power users will use a typical PC. Not necessarily one that’s high-end, but one that can at least be considered reasonable.

And they don’t use Windows. Or OS X. Not true power users because both OS X are severely LACKING in what a power user actually wants in an operating system.

Talk to a true power user, and ask what they use. It will be BSD or Linux. Granted, OS X is based on BSD, Apple’s corrupted it enough in OS X for it not to truly matter anymore or to deliver the power of BSD that a power user would want. Face facts. I say this as a genuine power user: I wouldn’t want to use OS X or Windows, because I’ve used both and I can tell you, you’ll want to stay far away as a power user from those two.

Same goes for programming. Apple provides some sorry tools for serious programmers, Microsoft provides a semi-decent IDE, but again, Linux beats them both out in this category.

Don’t bother trying to say this blog is objective, what with it actually BEING a Mac website with Apple’s boring logo emblazoned everywhere.

Oxymoron.

REAL power users just plain don’t use Macs. Largely because Macs do next to nothing a power user would actually want.

Up there with “real geeks don’t buy Apple.” It just doesn’t occur.

tell application “application name”
activate
end tell
for example:
tell application “Mail”
activate
end tell

to quit use:
tell application “application name”
quit
end tell

Simply put those lines in for every application that you want to launch or quit, respectively, and then choose File –> Save As –> and save it as an application. You can then drag it to the dock and launch/close everything with one click.
I also map network drives and other such customizations, but that might be getting a little too in depth for most new to applescript.

When I have downloaded the latest Anacron 3.3 it told me:

“This version has been updated with a Universal binary for both PPC and Intel architectures. It will run on Leopard (MacOS 10.5), but is not needed because the Leopard launched will correctly run skipped events when the machine is next awake.”

As Anacron 3.3 stopped running, I have completely uninstalled it in accordance with Anacron’s instructions but I can’t find any records of Leopard’s running automatic maintenance in /var/log/ .
Does that mean that the maintenance is not running or that it is no longer listed in /var/log/? Is it listed anywhere at all?

When I have downloaded the latest Anacron 3.3 it told me:

“This version has been updated with a Universal binary for both PPC and Intel architectures. It will run on Leopard (MacOS 10.5), but is not needed because the Leopard launched will correctly run skipped events when the machine is next awake.”

As Anacron 3.3 stopped running, I have completely uninstalled it in accordance with Anacron’s instructions but I can’t find any records of Leopard’s running automatic maintenance in /var/log/ .
Does that mean that the maintenance is not running or that it is no longer listed in /var/log/? Is it listed anywhere at all?
Wacek