I Feel Anachronistic
Dan Wood has a good post up about storing per-machine preferences. But what struck me wasn’t the use of MAC addresses, it was his example of what sort of per-host preference they need to store:
For instance, we have a preference to remember if Core Image is accelerated on the particular machine. (The test for this is a bit of a lenghty process, so it’s best to perform it once when needed and store the result in user defaults for subsequent launches.)
What this means to me is that, while gestaltVIA2Addr lives on, there is no gestaltCoreImagePresent or gestaltCoreImageAccelerated. I’ve been living in server-land so long that my knowledge of the Mac APIs has slipped into Stone-Age status. This weekend may need to be spent digging out my copy of THINK Pascal, firing up Basilisk II, queuing the Footloose soundtrack on my iPod, and proving that a stone knife can still cut.
