On Feb 18, 2006, at 9:24 PM, david_elmo wrote:
But I am constantly bemused by my having a user folder and in it is me! The machine also seems to be an owner. I paid for this damned thing, not the machine, I bought it! But it seems to have a higher status than me, it rides supreme at super top level. I am a level down within one of its folders. But, crazily, I can fiddle with it with an admin password. So I am given at least the illusion of super boss, right?
Yeah, multi-user systems can be confusing if you've never used one, but first, you'll get used to it in a while, and second, be very, very grateful it is that way.
On Windows systems everyone IS the boss (in most cases, if you're not, it's a PITA) which means that any old bit of malware you encounter while you're working gets to be boss, too.
It's not an illusion. You are, when you give your password, The Boss, you just had to show your credentials.
Think of it as the Mac as a company that has you as Owner/CEO, and you hired a vigilant, duty-conscious security guard.
No matter if he THINKS he recognizes you, you gotta show your ID card to get into the executive washroom or fiddle with Payroll, because everybody needs to do this.
(ok, ok, so he's VERY single-minded, and can be quite annoying at times. But he never sleeps, he's always on duty, and you've never had anything stolen, unlike Joe's WindowsCorp down the street who's constantly being burglarized, gangsters run prostitution, drug and gambling rings out of his business without his knowledge, and the building's mysteriously burned down five times already.)
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