On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 01:01 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote:
The Mac's way of doing things has always seemed a little like "Big Brother"Umm, er, I'm going to sit on my hands rather then reply to that, though I will make intimations about the invidious nature of the "registry", how Win insists on icon view as default even when you've just *specified* you want lists, and of course the fact that if you simply move a program from one installed location to another folder all of a sudden it doesn't work any more.
to me. The Mac wants to keep control of everything and not let the user
control stuff himself.
Because here we have PCs and Macs networked togetherSure there is. All the later pre-X systems shipped with a control panel that let you set up associations easily. X makes it even simpler with the "get info" window, letting you set the app to open a given file with quite readily.
with Linux servers, sometimes files will lose their resource forks after
being copied back and forth, and then they no longer have any file
associations on the Macs! That's one of the major things I don't like about
the MacOS . There's no easy way to restore file associations.
It is true that Macs tend to lock out the deeper functions from *novice* users, and this is likely one reason they tend to not roll over as often, but there are literally stacks of tools out there you can get that will let you get in and do whatever your heart desires. The idea is to keep the OS less breakable than others, which it most certainly is, though a dedicated user can find a way to break almost anything. ;)
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