Security Recommendations

On your computer turn on all encryption algorithms and firewalls. Then, make a separate account the administrator account. Finally, lock all the folders and files in your home folder.

All of that makes it hard for a hacker or virus to run a shell script to remove files. Their only other option is to do something with visual dialogs which also slows down or completely halts what they can do.

DarWINE

DarWINE is a windows emulator for Mac OS X. (The name is clever because it says Darwin like the Mac OS X kernel).

Anyway, I had tried Crossover which was also a windows emulator but it didn't work that well. DarWINE has worked with every application that I have tried including Firefox, Grahpical Analysis 3.4, and Google Chrome.

So, AFAIK DarWINE sets up folders that act like the C drive and the program files folder. Then, since Windows program are x11 based, the X11 terminal like app runs that virtual folder that DarWINE set up.

THE END.

Chrome Your Algorithmic Inefficiencies Disappoint Me

What is this?! Chrome has three processes running named "Chrome Helper" This doesn't seem good for my RAM! I hope they make this more efficient or at least builds the chrome program to delete any older Chrome Helper processes. Well, I will file a bug report!

Little reversing algorithm (non-recursive)

I will make a recursive algorithm for reversing later. I wrote this in applescript because it will be easier to follow since it is highly English-based.

tell application "Finder"

set answer to ""

display dialog "Input:" default answer ""

set userInput to text returned of result

set counter to count of userInput

repeat while counter is not equal to 0

set answer to answer & item counter of userInput

set counter to counter - 1

end repeat

display dialog answer

end tell

Too many...Finder windows?

The other day I had about 200 finder windows open. It was slowing down the system to the point where I could not interact with Finder; everything else worked well though. This is why I recommend a backup file navigational program such as Path Finder. Anyhow I had to find a way to close it.

You can do this from property list editor. Open com.apple.finder.plist from ~/Library/Preferences. You can do this in Property List Editor. Just check the box that says BrowserWindowRestoreAttempted. It should be type Boolean.

If you want to do this in terminal just open a terminal window. Type in the following without the quotations: "defaults write com.apple.finder.plist BrowserWindowRestoreAttempted -bool true"

Then, type "killall Finder" without the quotes.

Finder should restart and not reopen those windows. Everything will run normally and the system will handle itself fine after restart.

Customizing View in Window Mac

Here is a quick tip. It will increase your productivity for Customizing the menus in a window.

When you are in an application you can hold down command and rearrange the icons in that window. it helps you organize with out right clicking or going to the View Menu and clicking Customize.

Theory I Have about System 7 relating to the success of Apple (in the long run)

I read recently that System 7 was experiencing major crashes and worst of all they were random. At the time, Steve Wozniak pieced together that it was only happening with computers running IE. If you ever opened it it could crash on you at any time. I figured that it probably was eating up RAM.

What I think is a possibility is that Microsoft new it had the only mainstream browser for Mac. The others held a low market share, iCab and Netscape Navigator. Microsoft might have taken that to their advantage by having IE crash the OS by maybe a physical memory dump which they could have controlled if they made their program not quit one process. That process could have crashed the entire computer at any time making it hard to determine that the cause was IE. Anyway, long time users of Mac's said these Macs are bad now and we should go to PC. So, they left Mac when Mac was dominating the market for Personal, Educational and Business computers.

I must say that if Microsoft did that then they are terrible people, at least at the time. However, there are pro's and con's. Microsoft did "steal" thew market share almost causing apple to go out of business. However, Apple thought it was the virus invulnerable, secure and strong OS that was the problem so it caused them to make a new OS. This in turn resulted in OS 8 and OS 9 which originated from NeXTSTEP which was virtually the predecessor to OS X.

In the end, Apple could have gone out of business but since they didn't and their market share is now climbing Microsoft actually did Apple a favor because it helped them form the best OS in the world (Mac OS X).