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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
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Sabrina L Downard -- sld@xxxxxxxx.xxx -- Bit Shuffler, ENSA, NSIT
"Railway lines really are not a place you should be when you are intoxicated."
PC Bob Burrowes, of British Transport Police
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