At 10:11 PM -0400 06/14/2005, Charles Martin wrote:
the above statistic for a dozen Mac suggests one of the following
possibilities:
1. You have defective hardware.
One iMac G5 is a bit suspect, IMO. But the others pass diags, and
have already been serviced by Apple. The ones that can boot OS 9 are
totally stable when running that OS.
2. You are not competent to service OS X Macs.
If any Mac technician of my acquaintance said that out of a dozen
Macs, each was averaging 10 kp's inside of six months, it would be
clear to me that that tech needs replacing with someone who can
actually isolate what the problem is.
Your employer should do exactly that with you -- put you on the OS
8-9 machines (which you clearly know how to take care of) and find
someone competent in OS X to find out what's the REAL problem with
the other machines, since you clearly cannot and are letting your OS
X hostility prevent you from mastering it.
God forbid the problem could actually be OS X. It's just gotta be
me. Stick it, Charles. And I mean that in a friendly non-directly
insulting way.
ps. This afternoon I took an AppleWorks database over to our local
Apple store. We demonstrated that the database works fine in
AppleWorks 6, both in booted OS 9.2.2 and in Classic under Panther.
Then we loaded it into the OS X version of AppleWorks 6. We kernel
panic'd three iMacs and a PM G5. Go figure - an Apple app that
panics OS X! So much for apps dying gracefully. I guess their
hardware is defective too? Or the Apple techs and gurus there are
all incompetent? Then we hooked up a scanner - and killed off two
more Macs. The driver for that scanner, btw, was written under
contract by Apple.
- Dan.
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