Re: Hating the Mac OS X installer

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From: Bill Page
Subject: Re: Hating the Mac OS X installer
Date: 08:47 on 20 Nov 2006
you may be interested in something called "activity monitor"
quicksilver it up, kill what needs to be killed
yes it should do it automatically but really how hard is it to push
apple+q in itunes?

On 11/20/06, Timothy Knox <tdk@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> So Software Updater recently told me it wanted to update X11 and iTunes. No
> problem, sez I, 'cause neither one needed a restart (I hate that). Go ahead, sez
> I. And so it begins. After a few minutes, the installer pops up a dialog that
> says, "You must quit X11.app before updating it. OK?" (or words to that effect).
> I clicked "OK", expecting the installer to either quit X11 for me, or to stop
> the install. Nope! It just popped that d*mned dialog box, over and over AND
> OVER! HATE!
>
> Worse yet, when it got to be time to update iTunes, yes, you guessed it. The
> whole d*mn cycle repeated. HATE! HATE! HATE!
>
> --
> Timothy Knox <mailto:tdk@xxxxxxxx.xxx>;
> "People who are willing to rely on the government to keep them safe
> are pretty much standing on Darwin's mat, pounding on the door,
> screaming, 'Take me, take me!'"
>     -- Carl Jacobs, from alt.sysadmin.recovery
>

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