Back in April, a tip detailed how to enable the crash reporting system in Mac OS X. With the release of 10.1, that tip is now irrelevant (but I linked here for those that haven't updated yet), as the method of enabling the crash reporter has changed.
In 10.1, the reporting system is now always running. To actually receive crash reports, however, you need to enable them. Open the Console application (in Applications -> Utilities) and open the Preferences. Click on the Crashes tab, and check the box as shown here. After that, if an application crashes, you should find a crash.log file in ~/Library/Logs/, which you can open in Console to see if it provides any useful information. Thanks to Cricket on the X4U mailing list for this useful tidbit!
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