From: sabrina downard Date: 16:04 on 04 Sep 2003 Subject: Installer Hate You know what I hate? I hate the fact that Adobe PageMaker is only available for MacOS, not OS X. I hate the fact that I'll have to run Classic to use it. But what I /really/ hate is the fact that the installer insists that I quit all other running applications in order to install it, and then it proceeds to quit not just apps running under Classic (of which there were no others, because everyone else has finally moved into the new millennium), but everything I had running in OS X. Why? Whywhywhy? ... Ferchrissakes, if an app is running under an emulator, it should only be able to muck around with /other/ apps under the emulator. You just keep your grimy little fingers out of the rest of my work, pal. Okay, if I was running OS < X, I suppose I could see making the case for quitting. It messes with printer settings, probably dumps an INIT or sixteen on my disk. But, news flash! OS X really could give a crap about what piddly stuff goes on in /System Folder/Extensions. All my Terminal windows didn't care about those font suitcases it maybe just dropped in there. iTunes didn't give a flying fuck about anything at all, that's for sure. (Of course, it quit everything up to and including Finder... but left all of my Konfabulator widgets. I suppose Konfabulator is safe, because we all know that none of these widgets ever goes off into its own little bizarroworld where I have to hunt it down and slaughter it with all the mercy 'kill -9' can muster. Or the time one of them moved off the edge of my screen after I woke the machine up from sleep, and I had to *blow away its preferences file* to get it back. No, no, Konfabulator widget instability is just carzy talk.) I suppose I should be grateful that I'd only just gotten in to work and hadn't really gotten rolling yet. The best part was when the installer just crapped out and I had to go force quit it. Grrrrrrargh. Oh well. Off to open four thousand terminals again. hatefully, --sabrina
From: Chris Nandor Date: 16:13 on 04 Sep 2003 Subject: Re: Installer Hate At 10:04 -0500 2003.09.04, sabrina downard wrote: >Why? Whywhywhy? ... Ferchrissakes, if an app is running under an >emulator Technically, it is not an emulator, FWIW. >it should only be able to muck around with /other/ apps under >the emulator. You just keep your grimy little fingers out of the rest >of my work, pal. The reason Why is because it was written for Mac OS, and doesn't know anything about Mac OS X. It can't not quit Mac OS X stuff because it doesn't know it is Mac OS X stuff. :)
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