Re: What computer would you buy to replace your //* ?

[glaurent@aye.inria.fr (Guillaume Laurent)]

In article <109797@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt2011a@prism.gatech.EDU (gt2011a Sheldon
Simms) writes:
> In article <54703@sophia.inria.fr> glaurent@aye.inria.fr (Guillaume Laurent)
> writes:

> >Ok, by now the Mac OS has separate directories, but Apple itselft strongly
> >discourage to do any operations in those, and urges you to use proper
> >installers instead.
> 
> This is nuts. The official 'Apple-approved' method of adding a font on a Mac
> is dropping it in the font folder. The difference between the Mac and an

Ok, ok, installing a font isn't a good example anymore (at least it was for a
looong time :-). I apologize.

> Amiga is that Apple is selling to the business market, not the hobbyist
> market. Hobbyists like to muck around with things and if they screw something
> up, they can probably fix it. That is not the case for your average run
> of the mill business computer user. The whole point of the Mac is that
> klutzo people won't do any unintentional damage, but the tools are available
> if you want to screw around with things.

Precisely, what I don't like about the Mac is that those tools are entire
applications designed just for the purpose of it. And there is still no
simple way to actually know what's happening when running them.


						Guillaume.