[X4U] Let's start the FUD presses.

[PoolMouse]

jamiekg at wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:

>Randy B.Singer <randy at macattorney.com> wrote:
>
>>  Neil Laubenthal said:
>>
>>  >>I wish the Dock were an optional program....
>>  >You can do what I do . . . put it at the top and hide it. You can't
>>  >get rid of it but at least you never know it's there this way.
>>
>>  Sure you can get rid of it.  You can do so with any of these:
>>
>>  Dock Death (free)
>>  http://www.nonamescriptware.com/forums/index.php?&act=Downloads&CODE=02&id=
>>  15
>>
>>  Dock Toggler (free)
>>  http://www.nonamescriptware.com/forums/index.php?&act=Downloads&CODE=02&id=
>>  14
>>
>>  DockDisabler (free)
>>  http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/extras.html
>>
>>  KillDock (free)
>>  http://madej.ca/killdock/
>[snip]
>>  Randy B. Singer
>>  Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)
>
>Which would you recommend, Randy? Will killing the dock (and is there a
>way to do so automatically every reboot with these applications?) cause
>any instability when an application might expect it to be there?
>
>Sorry to be so nervous - it just seems as if Apple's wound the Dock
>fairly tightly into the system. How safe is doing this?
>
>TIA,
>  Jamie Kahn Genet

well, when you apply all those hacks randy recommended and start 
having problems, you'll know who to complain to. :) i would not 
recommend system level hacks if you're not ready to deal with 
compatibility issues, instability, etc.

(avoid everything ape)

don

don montalvo, nyc