I was trying out a new web service that permits sharing files from the desktop to others online. It does seem a bit dodgy, but I was curious about how it worked.
Well after a few attempts to install it on a Mac OS X system I finally dope out that it only seems to install and run as admin. That is, I not only need to install it as admin (that's OK, ordinary users can't write to the /Applications area), but I need to run it as admin. After a few e-mails to the developers I get the following response: "the only other thing that I can suggest is to install it (and run it) in an admin account. Starting from scratch. I'll have to log it as an issue that non-admin users can't install it (I've honestly never created a non-admin account on OS X and I guess no one else here has either because we didn't think of it!)" I am flabbergasted. When I first encountered Unix in 1983 I was taught that you always run as an ordinary user, and only use admin (root) privileges when needed. If OS X developers are running as admin, and building and testing their products as admin, well ... I'm still in shock. And I weep for the species. -Bill Anderson http://praxis101.com/blog/
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