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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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I got this new program, Butler, It seemed to be a very capable, powerful, and useful program for greater control of your computer through menu items and key commands. While I was tinkering with it to find out if I could make specific applications hot-key activated, I somehow managed to make a hot key to open
every single application in my applications folder! You can only imagine my the horror my computer must have felt. There was at least 70 applications running while more were opening, I think the total was around 80, and I'm sure it would have been a lot more because not only was it opening applications, it was also opening folders and the applications inside them. I have 63 items in my applications folder, 40 applications 23 folders, inside those folders are god knows how many things to open. I really wanted to stick it out and wait for everything to load, so that I could take a screenshot, but honestly, my computer would have been working harder than it's ever worked all night long, and even then, it'd probably be running so slowly that taking a screenshot would be frustrating and difficult. So, Butler is a neat looking program, but don't mess up when using it!  |
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Way south of Maine
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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This reminds me of a video I made back in the 10.0 (10.1?) days that I sent to my father for the sole purpose of showing him the power of Mac OS X's memory and thread management.
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Sucker for shiny objects
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kitchener, ON
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Thats crazy Brad.
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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That really means a lot coming from the resident loonie toon.
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Sucker for shiny objects
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kitchener, ON
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Sucker for shiny objects
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kitchener, ON
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I just downloaded Butler and it kicks so much ass. Now I just have to figure out how to use it.... Looks like Im not going to bed tonight.
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Yarp
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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it's an amazing program, it's just pretty confusing..hence my terrible...terrible mistake. Brad, YUP! |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Hillsborough, CA
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I don't recommend doing this since you'll probably open some headless apps and uninstallers and other evil things, but if you really want to open every app you have...
Paste this into Terminal: find / -name "*.app" -print0 | xargs -0 open DON'T DO IT. |
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Yarp
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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you know someone with a DP 2.5 g5 will try that... |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Don't tempt me!
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Banging the Bottom End
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Join Date: May 2004
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Hell I'll try it right now. I have adium, safari, cisco's VPN and the terminal open. I'll run it as soon as this messages posts, and Ill post another message after and we'll see how long it takes.
1.25Ghz G4 1.25Gb RAM 4200RPM HD. On your mark, get set go! |
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Done.
It took a while to find everything, but then everything started opening. It doesn't seem to have opened everything either, like it stopped before it got to calculator, alphabetically. Not sure why. All the adobe apps took FOREVER, and all my games would have been bad, but I didn't have the cd/dvd in for like unreal or battlefield. Of course I only got to battlefield because it's a 'b'. Edit: Talk about killing battery life |
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Sucker for shiny objects
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kitchener, ON
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Join Date: May 2004
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I had to try as well. Only opened the programs I had in the root of my applications folder. 46 programs with tiny icons running on my 12" PB. But it worked! Snapz Pro made the most trouble, and started some feedback noise, that I struggled to stop, since everything was so slowly...
Pretty cool to "tab-switch" between more than 40 tiny application icons.  1984 is 20 years late. |
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Yarp
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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Ya know, it was under similar circumstances that I encountered the most ridiculous, and most hilarious error message I've ever gotten from a MacOS.
I remember I had at least 6 applications open in OS 9.2, and I went to open a few more, while simultaneously I was doing crap in all these apps. So the computer( 500 mhz iMac g3) suddenly crapped out, it panicked, A singular error messaged appeared above all the windows that spoke one word. Can't. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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I ran the find part of that command just to list all of my apps. The output went on for HUNDREDS of lines. Even if I executed them all, there are several full screen games that would be competing for the display. On top of that, Mac OS X has a limit to the nmber of distict processes you can start. You'll see in my movie above (look in the terminal window in the background at the beginning) that I had hit that ceiling when I was trying it out then.
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Hoonigan
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Canada
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I torture test my 600MHz G3 iMac fairly often. It's brutal. I'll click Safari, iChat, Mail, iTunes, and TextEdit in rapid-fire succession. I usually have time to go crack a cold one and get back before it's done opening all of them.
 *watches new G5 iMac travel from Shanghai at FedEx* Come on baby. Hurry. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
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My search resulted in 721 different ".app"s and, of course, that doesn't include Classic applications or Carbon apps that don't need the .app extension. I guess it would be more if I reinstalled the old software and games I just have on CDs.
To put that into perspective, the above list has 305 entries. Edit: Oh crap. I hope this doesn't turn into an "I have X more apps than you do!" discussion. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Yarp
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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nah I don't think will happen, but my penis is enormous
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Now, I don't care about how many apps, I don't think it'll be that type of thread...but as for a thread like this... but my dick is bigger then wrao's dick Guess that is a different thread...a poll maybe? |
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Selfish Heathen
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 (turn on animated GIFs if you have them disabled!) |
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Sucker for shiny objects
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kitchener, ON
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Haha, I love Family Guy.
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