OK, I can see folk are hungry for PCI mail. So I share a phenomena that
happened to me yesterday. Some extensions in Mac OS 9 and maybe < 9 take
effect without needing to restart the machine.

I decided that, yes, I did - after all - need to tear off the application
menu so I could more conveniently switch between programs on my screen
hoping no one from this list would hear about it considering I opened my big
fat mouth once to declare that why would anyone want such a thing blah blah
blah and could the app menu be in a better position than where it is by
Apple design blah blah blah and why have useless ext turned on slowing
loading time blah blah blah. Well, now, you do hear about it because I am
opening my big fat mouth again. Where was I? O yeah, the app switcher ext.


OK... so I get the ext manager up (I am really fast at doing this bit. In
Taxi Driver, de Niro practised drawing various guns from his person, some on
home made rails and so on in front of a mirror. Well, with me, it's items
from the apple menu control panel...) Hell, I've lost my thought again. O
yeah, the app switcher ext. OK. So I tick it back on and decide not to
restart because there was no urgency to do this, it would be there for me
next time. But I try to tear the app menu off anyway (why did I try? why try
something you know won't work? An irrational and irresistible urge to place
in a more prominent position the huge list of apps able to be opened with
900 MB RAM? Of all the gobsmacking... It came off. It tore off without
restart.


Now, what can be said of such a thing? One thing: is it REALLY an extension?
Perhaps it is not a full blooded one. It pretends to be an extension. Sure,
it roams about between the ext folder and the disabled ext folder and can be
ticked and unticked in the ext manager ... but this is just a convincing
front... had me fooled for years... Have I unearthed a joke by Apple? Is it
like the pedestrian traffic lights in Sydney which are centrally timed and
do not really respond to button pressing?

Suppose I better stop...

David Elmo



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