macosx

A couple of month ago, I've tried to install a copy of Photoshop CS3 downloaded from the adobe website.

Unfortunately, photoshop always crashed when I tried to start it. (an exception was thrown in some CoreFoundation code)

I first was thinking that something was wrong in my system, maybe CS3 is not compatible with my version of Leopard... But After some hours of hunting, I discovered that it was entirely my fault : remeber my hack to disable font anti aliasing, it was consisting in setting a new global preference named AppleAntiAliasingThreshold with the command :

defaults write .GlobalPreferences AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 200

This command adds the new property in the ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist file as a String and Photoshop tries to parse it as a Number thus resulting in an awful exception ; so the solution is either you remove the property or you change it's type. (any plist can be open file from the command line using the open command)

After I have upgraded my Macbook Pro to Leopard some month ago, I was wondering why I couldn't launch the Activity Monitor anymore (I was having an error claiming some symbol was not found in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dydl or somthing like that).

As usual ; my first comment about that was : again, mac os x is a piece of crap... This is not totally true, only the installer of MacOS actually is a piece of crap

Yesterday I figured out that I have two version of the Activity Monitor : one in /Application (the buggy Tiger version) and one in /Application/Utilities (the Leopard version). So I deleted the Tiger version and start using the new Leopard version and a miracle happened : it worked !