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On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Peter da Silva wrote: > A utility is apparently something that Apple wrote that the user is > not normally expected to run directly. Oh, but it's more fun than that. The "normally" in that sentence is important: they're saying that in most cases, most people wouldn't want to run any of these programs, but sometimes you might, so they put them somwhere that, with a little effort, they'll turn up eventually. By contrast, take a look in your /System/Library/CoreServers folder, where all kinds of interesting things like. Finder. Dock. Help Viewer. Software Update. loginwindow. Et cetera. Now, okay, sure, these ones probably really shouldn't be invoked directly by casual users, but why are these ones squirrelled away somewhere so obscure, when other ones that seem just as esoteric are out in the open in the Utilities folder? Why, for example, is Network Setup Assistent hidden under the System folder, but the Airport, Bluetooth, and Printer Setup Assistants aren't? The argument is probably that the latter are all more likely to come up on a system that has been up & running for a while, while the Network Setup Assistant is only ever likely to be run once, at the beginning. But in that case, why not just have it delete itself after finishing? Hidden away like it is, it's not like most people will find it to run it again later, so why waste the disc space? There's some logic to this, but it seems pretty tenuous... > iSync because it's Important (me, I hate it, I've got a Clie full of > duplicate address records because it sucks). Yeah, that was fun. Only took me a weekend to clean up, too :-/ Supposedly, Tiger breaks backwards compatibility with iSync in such a way that it'll tend to want to duplicate everything *again*: <http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050426071411251&query=isync>; I predict many headaches from just this one "feature". Yay. -- Chris DeversThere's stuff above here
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