Don8217t do it!

I tried out a trick making the rounds on many of the Mac news sites. Supposedly, it is possible to enable Apple's Front Row on the MacPro.

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This sounded like a great idea. I'd love use my Mac Pro as a media machine but for some reason Apple chose not to include an IR remote with the Mac Pro. The hack seemed easy enough. Just modify the AppleHIDMouse extension to allow the mighty mouse to control Front Row.  So I backed up my file and applied the hack. I then tried to install Front row from my installer CD but got the usual error. So I downloaded the updated installer from Apple. This time it claimed to install the package, but I couldn't find the application anywhere on my machine. So, I gave up and pretended nothing happened.

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Well, my Mac wasn't going along with that decision. Within a few hours I was having kernel panics just about every hour. For no particular reason. Sometimes when I was using iTunes. Sometimes in Safari. No specific cause.

I tried to just replace the modified extension and delete the cache files. This, of course, required me to rebuild my privileges as well. No good. I was starting to think that I would have to do a new system install. I finally resorted to running Onyx, restarting, and then running Applejack. Everything seems fine now. No kernel panic for the past hour. I've been pushing it with Safari, Aperture, Devonthink, and now Ecto.

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