Re: [OT] Re: Smile and FruitMenu
Re: [OT] Re: Smile and FruitMenu
- Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Smile and FruitMenu
- From: Johnny AppleScript <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 20:16:11 -0700
On 04/12/07 7:02 PM, "John C. Welch" <email@hidden> wrote:
> It would also make them
> look a lot better if they came up with some troubleshooting tools for their
> stuff
One tool you might try that they provide is in Preferences... -> APE Manager
-> Information ->'Disable Temporarily'; Logout/login; test your apps. Saves
us about 31/32 of the time you indicate it takes you to rule all haxies in
or out. But, as you've already sown them with the salt, you may not be aware
of this invaluable and rapid testing tool already in place. (;
FWIW, I don't find haxies to be imperfect, but neither myself nor the users
around here (a whole big bunch of them) would care much for OS X without
them. Rosnya and company aren't always rapid at finding fixes for the
occasional glitch we discover, but they are at least responsive with
identifying and giving us valid workarounds, and do indeed jump on the
showstoppers. Maybe that's just a function of asking nicely; maybe it's
because, even with bug reports, we heap on the praise they deserve. On the
whole, at least regarding those haxies actually written by Unsanity, we find
them to be overall pretty flawless and reliable, and rarely, rarely are the
source of an actual application crash.
If our sysadmin told us we could not use them (all haxies, not a select few
that may indeed be badly written or provide a real security threat), we'd
find a new sysadmin; one who recognizes his job is to support the users
needs and desires, and not to dictate to us how we may use our machines to
do our work. That's one huge reason we use Macs in the first place. If such
a sysadmin can explain to us the additional cost of suffering a particular
tool, add-on or application, versus any productivity gain it may provide,
and we deem it too expensive, we may accept his recommendations; or we may
accept that our desired tools require additional IT staff to adequately
support the sysadmin. But one or two crashes in rare situations is not
enough, at least in this instance, to raze an entire suite of really cool,
really productive add-ons. But maybe ours is a rare environment where such
an attitude that a sysadmin is there to attend the needs the users who do
the work that generates the income (satisfies the client, meets the charter,
etc.) directly, and not the other way around (product as foundation versus
process), is not the norm.
Cheers -- JA
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