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On Sun, 21 May 2006, Peter da Silva wrote: > In OSX you know the ownership and purpose of any file because that > information is built into the file system. You don't have to look it > up, it's right there in the name and owner and type. Sure, just like an *nix or whatever; but you don't know why it's that way, and you don't know if that's correct. Anyone know how Apple's "check disk permissions" tool works? Can I introspect that? $10 says it's just a huge list of permissions, and that it only ever works for OS stuff -- I can't add to the list, for instance. How can I ask my Mac if a given package is installed correctly? Oh, right, I can't. > If you insist on treating it as a kind of inconvenient subset of Linux > you're going to lose out. It's got nothing to do with Linux; it's got to do with the OS being able to answer straightforward questions like, "Are you configured correctly?". > > Those who do care can run Debian on their powerbooks. > > Why, for god's sake? Apple's laptops are horrid, and even if you bought > one and you're stuck with it, you can probably trade it even up for > something like a thinkpad that's actually designed for use rather than > looks. Yeah. Buying a Mac to run Debian is about like buying a Porsche and putting an American engine into it or something ridiculous. -- The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. --Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.comThere's stuff above here
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