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Ipnetmonitorx crashes3/12/2023 ![]() In case anyone is curious, the ISP did an 'Upgrade' to their systems to 'help customers access the internet'. Who but a wild eyed Unix minion would want to know that kind of stuff. Well, from themselves basically.ĭoes deprecating the Network Utility fall into that? Well, it does if you want to make macOS 'friendlier'. There is a danger layering something on top of 'Unix', that Apple would have been derelict to not protect the user from. ![]() I remember a joke about people posting a command to Unix listsrv groups that when unsuspecting junior admins invoked it, erased the filesystem, making the server useless. I guess it makes sense for Apple to do something like that. ![]() ![]() So after that experience, I haven't wanted to dive too deeply into the console because who is to know what other things are 'disconnected', and knobs that don't work. 'We can't have people in mucking around in the kernel like that', he said. He said that I would run into that in quite a few places, areas where the 'knobs aren't connected'. I ended up calling Apple, and eventually got to someone called an 'engineer', who said that he was involved in writing some of the utilities in OSx. The commands were accepted, but did nothing. Not that they errored out or anything, they just didn't control the area of the modem connection that I needed. I found instructions for Unix/Linux for that ISP, and figured 'Why not!'. I was, many years ago, trying to get an obscure ISP to work with my mom's mac. Learn to use your Mac.Īctually, a lot of the mechanism in Mach/Unix has been disabled, or disconnected on the back end. You all act like one needs a degree in computer science or even an IT certification to run a simple terminal command to replace a rudimentary GUI app that solely ran like 6 specific terminal commands. Otherwise, it's the exact same functionality. Literally, the only additional "work" that has to be done to run those same commands in Terminal is to type the name of the command out and then hit the space bar before entering whatever you were going to originally enter into the text field in Network Utility. Network Utility was hidden in an obscure location for the last several macOS releases and even if you found it and used it, you still needed to know what the individual tabs did (which, again, use the same names as the UNIX commands). (And even if that is the point you are trying to make, I'm sure there are many Mac users that would take offense to that, myself included.) Unless the point you're trying to make is that the Mac is designed for people who don't know or want to learn how to use their computer, then I think you are the one missing the point of the Mac here.
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