Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Xoptimize | 20 comments | Create New Account
Click here to return to the 'Xoptimize' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
Xoptimize
Authored by: unxmaal on Mar 31, '02 06:08:35PM
There's this thing called Duh Internet, and on it you'll find this other thing called Google, and you can use it to search for things on Duh Internet. Things like xoptimize, which is a FREEWARE APPLICATION THAT YOU DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL.

Try researching before you post.

[ Reply to This | # ]

Xoptimize
Authored by: Peganthyrus on Mar 31, '02 08:10:02PM
Try not being a patronizing butt-head.
It's quite easy to assume that mysteriously-named tools such as 'xoptimize' are obscure UNIX commands that your installation is mysteriously missing, if you don't have an intimate knowledge of both UNIX and Apple's custom extensions to it.
XOptimize and info about it can be found here.

[ Reply to This | # ]
Xoptimize
Authored by: unxmaal on Mar 31, '02 09:34:19PM
There are many things in life that are much more obscure and mystifying than UNIX commands.

Every one of them can be researched via Google.

Who is more helpful: someone who points out that people need to do research before requesting assistance of others, and who provides those in need with a method to perform that research, as well as a simple solution to the problem, or a person who criticizes the first person for his tactics, without presenting any other valid solutions to the problem?

Some people need to be clobbered first, just to get their attention.

[ Reply to This | # ]

Xoptimize
Authored by: autrefois on Jul 11, '02 11:05:21PM

This is my first time using macosxhints, so I felt almost compelled as a new user to comment on your reply to Graham Haultain who asked what seems to be a valid question to me. Even tho this apparently happened a couple of months ago (and perhaps not coincidentally it was apparently the end of the thread) it's an important point I think.

"I am caught on "ran xoptimize to prebind while classic was up". Pls explain, thanks. "

Saying that he should have searched Google to find out the answer completely defeats the purpose of this site. If you read the "About MacOSXHints", the creator of the site himself says

"I'm also hoping that, with everyone's help, this can become a key resource for quickly finding the answer to a question. I was personally getting somewhat frustrated at having to jump all over the web to find answers to OS X questions. There are some excellent sites out there (make sure you check out the OS X Web Sites link!), but none that seemed to focus specifically on providing how-to's in a quick, easy-to-use format."

The whole idea of this site is so that people don't have to spend their time searching all around on the Internet to find answers to their questions. I read all the posts in this thread, did the Google search and even downloaded the software and read the "ReadMe" and I'm still not exactly sure about what Xoptimize does, and I read English perfectly well and am more knowledgable than the average computer user about how many things work...just not about UNIX unfortunately.

Mac OS users do not necessarily know anything about UNIX, and a topic about how to make Classic run better would not make me automatically assume that I need to know UNIX and prebinding in order to participate in the forum. One of the good things about OS X is that you don't usually need to know what's "under the hood" (as Steve Jobs says) in order to do almost anything the average user needs or wants to do.

A good way to get new users to *not* use a forum is to have them see that if they ask a question they will get insulted. I fortunately see that other post-ers are more polite than you were in this thread. So I hope I will be able to get hints/help from this site and, if I ever get knowledgable enough, share tips as well. I believe that's the purpose of this forum.



[ Reply to This | # ]
Re: Xoptimize
Authored by: prime on Apr 05, '02 12:11:45AM

Why don't YOU read posts before you reply in anger? He DID talk about X Optimize. If you didn't spend all your time insulting people, then maybe you would have noticed that.



[ Reply to This | # ]