Tuesday, April 2, 2002

The interesting OS X/Classic bug I posted about a few days ago has become more amusing. WindowServer crashed while I was running Classic, but Classic didn't quit. Once the WindowServer restarted, instead of getting the message I got in the past—about two copies of Classic not being able to run simultaneously—Classic dutifully started up again. Hey, it works! Two copies of Classic are running. nicholas 13672 17.2 4.7 1125088 43040 ?? R 21:06.41 TruBlueEnvironment nicholas 21204 2.1 3.0 1123772 27696 ?? S 0:36.86 TruBlueEnvironment I wouldn't have noticed this if I hadn't been listening to RealPlayer at the time of the crash. As WindowServer crashed and restarted, sound continued to play uninterrupted, and RealPlayer continued to draw its status on the screen. I can't interact with the phantom Classic any more, but everything works still—even networking and audio in both copies of Classic simultaneously. Here's a screenshot of the whole mess. 3:41:53 AM | reply [] I got sick of the multi-step process involved in forwarding my overdue to do items in Palm Desktop to another day, and wrote a script to automate it: Reschedule To Dos. For all the visible, overdue to dos, it presents a list of choices: today, tomorrow, this Saturday, this Sunday, next Monday. These represent the most common reschedulings I perform; they're easy to customize for other people. There's also "Other" so you can type in another date. 2:43:08 AM | reply []