jesus X wrote:
>
> 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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No not exactly imcompetent. Let's just say uncomfortable/battel
scared/ptsd (post traumatic stress Disordered). I may dig in into OS-X
but i may wait until OS XI is out before i do so.
When working with the schools system I was reinstalling either DOS,
Windows 3.1.1 or W95 on computers where either Brainiac Kids would
wipeout files or init or fdisk the hard drive just for pure meanest
(future Virus writers) or Teachers/Supervision attempting to install or
remove a programs.
Let's just say I had battle scars.
I expect actually the first year or two OS-X is out there will be many
people contemplating throwing themselves out windows or jumping off
bridges because they wiped out the hard drives they have all their
life's work on. (Either work or home computer).
Personally i think Apple should disable the commands that would allow
you to do so when you drop into command line. To prevent such accidents.
(Make them available on the developer disk so they would be conciously
made aware the can screw up major big time.
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