Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X! [OT]
Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X! [OT]
- Subject: Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X! [OT]
- From: Scott <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 03:57:05 -0700
Ryan,
Thanks for the advice! I run off the root account now, but I've had
problems with it reverting to no user accounts, etc. and I have to reset the
whole thing up again. It's just a huge pain in the behind for someone who
is the only user of this machine. It's absurd to be forced to setup users
in my case.
I completely agree that this would be a great feature and it's totally worth
pursuing -- I just think the feature Gods of OSX keep forgetting about the
"little" guy. I'd rather see something that wasn't so integral to the OS
(yeah, I know it's Unix).
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From a UI perspective, it seems like there was a huge rush to go to OSX/Unix
without thinking the whole thing through. I've talked with several people
at Apple about the UI and their response is always the company line: "it's a
baby OS, give it time to mature" which translates into "we really wanted to
get this product to market regardless of its usability."
I also don't like the idea of my computer knowing who I am or what I'm
doing. It gives me the heebie-jeebies (man, that actually came through the
spell checker!). Maybe I'm just in denial about how much time I spend with
it. ;)
Don't get me wrong, I'm not completely down on OSX, I think it's quite
interesting and full of adventure -- it has room to grow. For me, I'm using
it and developing for it, but I'll wait 12-24 months before I put it into
production.
Perhaps the most interesting thing is 500 years from now, none of this'll
matter. Alas, I digress...
Scott
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On 7/5/01 12:34 PM, "Ryan Dary" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Scott,
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For you, just create one account at the Admin level and set the
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automatic login. Then use that one account ALL the time for you and all
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your friends and family. You will not be bombarded with any multi-user
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stuff if you do that. You will however have to find multi-user/profile
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software for your email needs (or any other per-user settings
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applications) unless you intend to have one inbox for everyone.
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What is it about the multi-user system that you dislike? Obviously for
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a single user it can be unnecessary, however for most
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families/offices/schools where more than one person is likely to be
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using the same computer it is an ideal solution.
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Besides any concerns you have against using a multi-user environment,
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this feature is still very desired. It just wouldn't affect those who
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don't use it.
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- Ryan
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On Thursday, July 5, 2001, at 09:56 AM, email@hidden wrote:
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> Let's bring it back the other way for a sec.
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> Personally, I very much dislike the multi-user crap in OSX
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> altogether. I
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> think as with any good user interface, there should be a way to turn it
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> off.
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> (i.e. no references to root anywhere.) I constantly live in fear that
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> my
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> OSX partition is going to be "fixed" by Norton again and I'll lose all
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> my
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> "user settings", auto login, etc. and I'll be stuck without knowing the
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> root
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> password again. Unix...
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> I can do the whole scenario below under OS9 right now without having to
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> switch user accounts, etc.
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> But, I can see the value of the feature for people concerned about
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> multi-user setups, but what about the little guy ;)
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> Scott