What do you mean busted?

On 4/21/10, John Carmonne <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Apr 20, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
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>> You know that "About this Mac" window that can be accessed at the top of
>> the Apple menu on the menu bar? look at it.
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>> Well, the reason why this is "supposedly" running Snow leopard on a PPC
>> mac, is because i hacked one of the .strings files that display that
>> system information. I actually have Leopard on it, but since Leopard and
>> Snow Leopard's GUI on the desktop don't look too different, I waned to
>> surprise people on how I did this. A couple of weeks ago, I learned this
>> trick on Mac OS X hints website.
>> to modify the file that shows the information, go to:
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>> file:///System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/AboutThisMac.strings
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>> open it with textedit.
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>> If you see the following lines that look like this, except with leopard's
>> info but want to change it to Snow Leopard, copy this:
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>> /* The format string used to generate the Build text field in the About
>> This Mac window. */
>> /* The "%@" sequence is replaced by the build number. */
>> "ABOUT_BOX_BUILD_FORMAT_STRING" = "Build 10C540";
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>> /* The format string used to generate the Version text field in the About
>> This Mac window. */
>> /* The "%@" sequence is replaced by the version number. */
>> "ABOUT_BOX_VERSION_FORMAT_STRING" = "Version 10.6.2";
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>> Then save it to the desktop and uave it as: AboutThisMac.Strings using
>> that specific format, otherwise it won't work. Then drag it to the
>> English.Iproj folder, authenticate it, replace it, and click on the About
>> this Mac button on the Apple Menu. You will get the same result I did.
>>
>> --Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth.
> OH OH busted.
> John Carmonne
> Yorba Linda USA
> Sent from my MBP
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