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Single user mode – Mac OS X

Mac OS X users can accomplish this by holding down Command-S after powering the system. The user may be required to enter a password set in the firmware. Single User Mode is different from a Safe Mode boot in that the system goes directly to the console instead of starting up the core elements of [...]

Gentoo/Alt – Gentoo for Mac OS X

Gentoo for Mac OS X was the first non-Linux project of Gentoo and focused on making the Gentoo experience available on Apple’s operating system by introducing the Portage system as a separate entity. This was roughly similar to Fink and Macports, but it used Portage instead of a Debian-like or Ports-like system. Later on, Gentoo [...]

Verdana – Legal restrictions and prevalence

Released in 1996, Verdana was bundled with subsequent versions of the Windows operating system, as well as their Office and Internet Explorer software on both Windows and Mac OS. In addition, it was long available for download from Microsoft’s web site allowing it to be used by any system supporting TrueType fonts. The downloadable file [...]

Control-C – Introduction

Control-C is a common computer command. It is generated by pressing the key while holding down the key on a computer keyboard. The equivalent key combinations on Mac OS computers is Command-C. In graphical user interface environments that use the control key to control the active program, control-C is often used to copy highlighted text [...]

History of the graphical user interface – The 80s: Early commercial developments

Apple Lisa and Macintosh (and later, the Apple IIgs) Beginning in 1979, started by Steve Jobs and led by Jef Raskin, the Lisa and Macintosh teams at Apple Computer (which included former members of the Xerox PARC group) continued to develop such ideas. The Macintosh, released in 1984, was the first commercially successful product to [...]

Services menu – Mac OS X

Apple advertises the Services menu in connection with other features of its operating system. For example, it’s possible to desktop search for a piece of text by selecting it with the mouse and using the service from Spotlight. Other central services are Grab for taking screenshots, and the system spell checker. The concept is similar [...]

Daemon (computer software) – Mac OS equivalent

On the original Mac OS, optional features and services were provided by files loaded at startup time that patched the operating system; these were known as system extensions and control panels. Later versions of classic Mac OS augmented these with fully-fledged faceless background applications: regular applications that ran in the background. To the user, these [...]

BALL – Introduction

BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) is an extensive open source C++ framework of algorithms and data structures for molecular modelling and computational structural bioinformatics. The library also offers a Python scripting interface. Among the supported systems are Linux, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and MacOS X. The library is supplemented with command-line utilities and supports display with Qt [...]

Security-evaluated operating system – Mac OS X

Apple’s Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server running 10.3.6 both with the Common Criteria Tools Package installed were certified at CAPP/EAL3 in January 2005. [http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/vpl/vpl_type.html#operatingsystem][http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/commoncriteriatools.html] Apple’s Mac OS X & Mac OS X Server running the latest version 10.4.6 have not yet been fully evaluated however the Common Criteria Tools package is available. [...]

Digital Performer – Mac OS X

Present day Version 3 of Digital Performer was the last to run on OS 9, the Classic Macintosh operating system. After a complete rewrite, MOTU released Digital Performer 4.0 in May 2003, which ran exclusively on Mac OS X. Beginning with version 4.5, MOTU introduced a number of important new features to Digital Performer. The [...]

Home key – Mac OS X

On most Mac OS X applications, the key works like the original on UNIX in the days of dumb-terminals, where Home moves to the start of a document. When the key is pressed, the window scrolls to the top, while the caret position does not change at all; that is, the home key is tied [...]

E/OS – History

The project was started in 1995 with the goal of a free DOS. Until 1998 it was based exclusively on FreeDOS, and since then has been based on SEAL GUI. In 2000 the E/OS project switched to a larger focus, to create a system capable of running programs written for multiple platforms, including BeOS, Microsoft [...]

Crash reporter – Mac OS X

In Mac OS X there is a standard crash reporter in /System/Library/CoreServices/Crash Reporter.app. Crash Reporter.app sends the Unix crash logs to Apple Computer for their engineers to look at. The top text field of the window has the crash log, while the bottom field is for user comments. Users may also copy and paste the [...]









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