The Mac's way of doing things has always seemed a little like "Big Brother"I don't think that's necessarily true since I could say the same thing about Windows, but that wouldn't be right either. I just happen to "know" the Mac better than I do Windows. So to me I think I have a lot more control over my Mac. It's easy to assume the OS isn't letting you control everything, but it's the same with all OS's--you just need to figure out how to gain that control (Just because I can't hack the registry doesn't mean the registry can't be hacked). The reason the options aren't there by default is so the "average" user doesn't get confused by, or do damage with that extra control. The same reason Windows XP initially hides the contents of the C drive. Big Brotherish, but easily circumvented.
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 together with Linux servers, sometimes files will lose their resource forks after being copied back and forth, and then they no longer have any fileIn OS 9 there was a shareware utility called Snitch I believe that was pretty useful for that--although you're right. It was pretty stupid for Apple to never build a utility into the old OS for resetting those easily. ResEdit worked but it was never really convenient.
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.
Although I always thought the dot-three naming convention was a little over simplistic, since only one application could control any one file type. Mac resource forks were pretty nice as long as everything stayed on a Mac, but as stated once the resource fork was lost so was the average user.
OS X is actually a great improvement in this area simply because you can set file permissions and associations right from the info palette and make them system wide if you so choose. It uses both the old resource forks as well as the dot-three naming convention, and it all can be conveniently modified.
Actually the file system in OS X is where Apple has taken a lot of flak for not more closely emulating Be OS. I never used Be, but I heard it had a very robust file system where each file could hold a very customizable amount of metadata.
It's funny how often I hear of Be as the greatest OS of all time. It's too bad I never had a chance to use it myself.
later,
kyle
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