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Subject: Re: [SC-L] how far we still need to go
At 2:03 AM +0100 7/26/07, Dinis Cruz wrote:
> It's a simple economics problem. The moment these companies and
>developers lose sales (or market share) because the
At 2:03 AM +0100 7/26/07, Dinis Cruz wrote:
> It's a simple economics problem. The moment these companies and
>developers lose sales (or market share) because their products require
>admin / root privileges to run, is the moment they start to REALLY support
>it.
For Windows that day might be when
BB, well yes I did gloss over the OS X admin and Unix "root" diffs.
And I agree that the install does create the first user as admin. That's a
problematic scenario.
Furthermore, I probably know too much, because I knew I wanted to create an
ordinary user acc't in addition to admin on my personal
It's a simple economics problem. The moment these companies and developers
lose sales (or market share) because their products require admin / root
privileges to run, is the moment they start to REALLY support it.
And the reason why there isn't such REAL demand (with the exception of crazy
securi
William L. Anderson wrote:
> I am flabbergasted. When I first encountered Unix in 1983 I was taught that
> you
> always run as an ordinary user, and only use admin (root) privileges when
> needed. If OS X developers are running as admin, and building and testing
> their
> products as admin, well
On Jul 25, 2007, at 9:36 AM, William L. Anderson wrote:
Well after a few attempts to install it on a Mac OS X system I
finally dope out
that it only seems to install and run as admin. That is, I not only
need to
install it as admin (that's OK, ordinary users can't write to the /
Applications
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, William L. Anderson wrote:
> I am flabbergasted. When I first encountered Unix in 1983 I was taught
> that you always run as an ordinary user, and only use admin (root)
> privileges when needed. If OS X developers are running as admin, and
> building and testing their product
I was trying out a new web service that permits sharing files from the desktop
to others online. It does seem a bit dodgy, but I was curious about how it
worked.
Well after a few attempts to install it on a Mac OS X system I finally dope out
that it only seems to install and run as admin. That is
