[Ti] Apple's Future

[Kynan Shook]

Sometimes instability in just one OS or the other can be indicative of 
a hardware fault.  Specifically, bad RAM (ie you bought from the 
cheapest place you could find) often does this, since OS X gives your 
RAM a heavier (or at least different) workout.

If you're looking to find an application's preference file, it *should* 
always be stored in ~/Library/Preferences/.  A few applications don't 
follow the standard, however.  The naming convention (which again, some 
applications don't follow) is the company's domain name in reverse 
without any www, etc. (ie apple.com becomes com.apple, omnigroup.com 
becomes com.omnigroup) followed by the name of the program, followed by 
the .plist extension, meaning it's a property list, aka preference file.
So, if I see a file in my ~/Library/Preferences folder called 
"com.roxio.Toast.plist", I know that it's a preference file for an 
application called Toast, made by a company at roxio.com (and since 
most companies have their name identical or very similar to their 
domain name, you can also identify the company name as well).

CBIRDS <cbirds at earthlink.net> writes:
> Well, I must say I've had a much different experience which is why I'm
> reluctant to put it on my Titanium which runs like a clock on OS 9.1.
>
>> I've had everything from
>> web browsers to games "unexpectedly quit" on my Powerbook and it still
>> runs very smoothly.
>
> This is my biggest problem. Even apps like TE quit for no reason and 
> there
> is no way to up the memory or trash a file to fix them......there are 
> so
> many millions of cryptically named files, I don't dare touch any of 
> them!
> So, I reboot. Constantly. And constantly have to fiddle with the screen
> geometry on my eMac as it becomes more and more distorted every day. 
> The
> thing weighs a ton, so not easily brought back to the store.



Kynan Shook
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