begin quoting Dave_Thomas mailing lists as of Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 05:18:09PM -0800: > And do those Macintosh users suck the Microsoft teat too? I thought there > were still some of those out there running some hacked BSD.
Sometimes, they're forced. Many of 'em are tied to the tools, and they go where the tools go. Back in the WFWG and NT3.5 days, I watched a photoshop user used to Macs fight with WFWG and Photoshop. Photoshop apparently liked to manage its own swap. So it would get the list of free blocks on the disk, and then allocate 'em to itself, but without going through the bother of actually using the filesystem. He'd lock up his machine in about a day and a half... no free disk space, but no temporary files anywhere on the disk. Rebooting didn't help, unless the scandisk (or whatever it was called) was run, to reclaim the "unallocated" blocks floating around in FAT limbo. "Just do this when you have this problem" didn't work. "Call Stewart" was *much* easier to remember. So. I dropped the scandisk invocation in his autoexec and gave him strict instructions to shut off his machine EVERY NIGHT. The downside of finding a workaround was that the company didn't consider getting him a Mac after that. The problem was fixed. A daily reboot was an acceptable fix. . . He didn't care. He just wanted to use photoshop. The OS underneath didn't matter to him. He used photoshop. Everything else was beneath his notice. Kinda like emacs users, really, when you think about it. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
