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How OS X Executes Applications
MacHore writes "0xFE has an excellent tutorial on Mach-O, which is the file format used by OS X executable files and libraries. It goes into great detail about how Mach-O works, and explains what OS X actually does when it loads and runs an application. Subtopics include Universal Binaries, The Dynamic Linker, Using otool, and other goodies."
When FORCE QUIT doesn't work, 120V A/C to the processor does the trick every time.
Do you mean big "O" tool?
With extreme prejudice?
Oh dear, does Linux practice this awful act as well? I'm an opponent of capital punishment, so it's now clear to me that I can't, in all conscience, use a Mac or Linux. No application, however detestable a crime it may be accused of, should ever face what is no more than state-sanctioned murder!
My question to Slashdot, therefore, is what operating system should I choose?
I've heard good things about FreeBSD's jails, which are apparently very secure without being inhumane. But on the other hand, Windows also has some advantages - I understand it opposes the death penalty so strongly that that it's been known to commit suicide in protest when a user attempts to execute too many applications?
Bastards.
And wormii! Don't forget wormii.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Duran