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Does launchd Beat cron?
Blamemyparents writes "For those who aren't Appleheads, you may not have heard that with Tiger, Apple swapped out old Unix standby cron for their own creation, launchd (Apple mentions it on their OS X page and has the man page for it up as well). Seems like it's a bit nerdy, but this changes a LOT about how *nix systems have done things for many years. Launchd is Apple's replacement for quite a few utilities, including launching and quitting quite a few different things, and getting info from the system and other running processes. This page from Ars Technica talks a bit more in depth about it. Apple has open sourced the thing, and is apparently hoping all the unix kids will take a look."
sind verboten!
sounds intreasdfging
Poking around Tiger and so far I like it but nothing seems revolutionary except Spotlight. Is there a way to make Dashboard widgets sticky on the desktop? Amy I crazy to think battery life on my Powerbook is a bit better now with 10.4?
This guy is way out there
Troll? Do we have a bunch of Apple fanbois here? Do you know what it's like to fork out $500 for an ipod, only to discover that you can only upload to it ONCE PER DISK FORMAT using the USB port, and THEN find out that it will cost you $49.99 to talk to someone who *might* be able to fix your problem?
I was making a very serious comment here, in that I hope their QA with launchd is better than it is with some of their other products.