JTK wrote:
> > That's one of the things I've liked the Mac system "up until OS-X" is
> > that you can't wipe out all the contents of the hard drive you are
> > working on by accident. It has to be a deliberate act.
> OS X lets you wipe out your root drive accidentally? Wowzers.
No, nor can you do so on a PC. Phil's idea of an accident is quite dramatic
indeed. According to Phil's idea of accidents, it's also possible for a steam
engine train to accidentally hit a deer while in orbit of pluto.
> So after you've accidentally brought up a command.com and accidentally
> typed "format c:", you then accidentally answer "yes" to the question
> "Do you really want to format your root partition?"? I think you'd
> better stay away from computers altogether Phil.
Don't forget accidentally forgetting to try to CONTROL-C, CONTRON-BREAK,
CONTRON-ALT-DELETE, Reset, or Power down before the percentage meter reads 100%.
For Hard drives, until it hits those last few percentage points of completion,
nothing is actually written.
> > Despite my ablities in Electronics and Hardware repair. I always felt
> > inadaquate trying frograming even in the mildest of Basic. I always felt
> > that people that had those abilities were more of the MIT types.
> Not sure what any of that has to do with an illogical love of the Mac.
He feels he's incompetent, thus he uses a Mac, which is very forgiving.
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