--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Vaj wrote: > > > > sparaig wrote: > > > > > It's the commandline Mac GUI interface > > to the UNIX shell. Careful, > > > you're playing with fire if > > > you use it. An administrator > > account + command line = god on UNIX. > > > > No, I think you meant to say "Terminal". > > The "Console" is just your > > system feedback window. > > Anyway, I thought access to the Unix > shell was supposed to be a good thing, > letting hackers and developers under > the hood, so to speak, to develop > ever-cooler applications. Us > run-of-the-mill Mac users would be > unlikely to stumble into that zone. >
True. But if you DO accidentally go in there and type the wrong stuff while using an administrator account, you're screwed. UNIX is the OS that inspired the original hacker community. It is extremely powerful and if you go behind the scenes of the GUI, you're asking for trouble if you don't know what you're doing (even moreso if you only THINK you know what you're doing ->looks depressed<-).
