Re: Terminal (spurious command line) problem

[Brian McKee]

On 18/04/06, Alan Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 A weird problem with Terminal.app has arisen in which a command line
 (of the form perl file1.plx file2.txt )gets written to the Terminal
 window each time a new Terminal window is opened (File-New Shell).

 The problem seems to owe its origins to some experiments with
 ScriptGUI to see if that app would create a 'droplet' to fulfil the
 function of the command line above. Somehow a file (?) seems to have
 got left somewhere (?) in the bowels of system which is 'read' by
 Terminal each time a new window is opened. ScriptGUI itself has
 subsequently been deleted.

 Can anyone suggest where to look for such a file? Where could any
 'command string' be kept in the system which would be 'written' to
 the Terminal window on launch?

 The machine BTW is a G4 running Tiger 10.4.6. and for what it's
 worth, both of the files referenced in the spurious command line have
 been deleted.

 I would be deeply grateful to anyone for some clues as to where to
 look or what to do to mitigate the nuisance (and apologise if this is
 too far off-topic for this list).

 Alan Fry


Start Terminal.app and check under preferences (apple-,)
If you don't see it there, quit Terminal,  backup and delete
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist
Betcha that gets it.

HTH
Brian

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

[Brian McKee]

On 7-Jun-05, at 1:57 PM, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:


Why wouldn't you?  Memory, drives, video, etc. are all the same right
now. Motherboard has pretty standard features, other than it is setup
for a Power processor. Apple has been going cheap for a while, SCSI -
IDE ring any bells? It would be a real shame if they didn't allow you  
to

install OS X on any commodity PC, once again back to that whole volume
issue. Without a different chip, Macs really are just a pretty looking
box with a nice software package preinstalled. Darwin runs on Intel
already (mostly) which is the real key, if Apple goes through with this
and won't let you install on a commidity PC then they really missed the
boat, in fact I would say they couldn't even find the dock.


Quoting cnet   
http://news.com.com/Apple+throws+the+switch%2C+aligns+with+Intel+- 
+page+2/2100-7341_3-5733756-2.html?tag=st.next
After Jobs' presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller  
addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs,
saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based  
Mac.
That doesn't preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably  
will, he said. We won't do anything to preclude that.
However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac  
OS X on other computer makers' hardware.
We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple  
Mac, he said.


Shades of Sony...