Don’t Steal Mac OS X Extension

As a means of procrastination, I followed these instructions to print out my desktop’s complete configuration, per these instructions:

Basically, it’s a printout of all the information that’s stored in System Profiler. Here’s how to do it. From the Apple Menu, select About this Mac. A new window appears. Click More Info to launch System Profiler. From there, select print and watch as your Mac prepares the System Profiler info for printing.

You’ll notice that it’s taking a long, long time. That’s because there’s a huge amount of information being compiled. Aside from the basics that we addressed last time, it’s grabbing every error log entry, vitals on every app you’ve got installed, network information and a whole heck of a lot more. When I ran this report the resulting document was 2.7MB and 500 pages!

(click to continue reading Mac 101: Comprehensive Mac system information.)

The resulting file was 830 pages, 4.2 MB large. Every application, every system extension, every font, every network configuration, every peripheral attached, etc. An extension called “Don’t Steal Mac OS X” amused me: wonder how it is ever triggered? I’ve never noticed it before¹

 

Dont Steal Mac OS X:

Version: 7.0.0

Last Modified: 8/1/09 12:55 AM

Get Info String: Copyright © 2006,2009 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.

The purpose of this Apple software is to protect Apple copyrighted materials from unauthorized copying and use. You may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, transfer or redistribute this file, in whole or in part. If you have obtained a copy of this Apple software and do not have a valid license from Apple to use it, please immediately destroy or delete it from your computer.

Kind: Intel

Architectures: i386, x86_64

64-Bit (Intel): Yes

Location: /System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext

Kext Version: 7.0.0

Load Address: 0x87a73000

Valid: Yes

Authentic: Yes

Dependencies: Satisfied

Footnotes:

1. but then I pay my Apple tax whenever due, and happily, since sticking with Apple products through all these years has helped me to be in the position I’m currently enjoying [↩]