clever responce required - urgent!

[Sun Baked]

Give him the Terminal and NetInfo Manager to play with, I'm quite sure the putz can find enough parameters to screw up that he'll need to reinstall the OS.

The OS has diverged some from the NeXT OS that it used to be, but the old Mac OS is a fancy GUI, and you can't mess with it doesn't hold water anymore -- if you want the play with it, you can.

Just takes some hunting to find out wher the stuff is stored so this putz can render the OS non-functional, and/or delving into the developer toolkits.

 

[rdowns]

I have been on a chat site and I want to reply to this......


If you know bugger all about computers then MACs are fine. Ditto if you work in something like the music industry or you just want to work with documents and multi-media. However if you're a serious IT professional and you need to make a computer sit up and beg then it HAS to be a PC. I set up a friend's MAC a while ago and it was a painful process. Is there the equivalent of a Registry Editor and a command (DOS) prompt? Must everything be run through a GUI? I need to feel I'm in control, I need to see the parameters of what I'm installing etc even if I don't want to change them,.

They DO look pretty though. The ultimate triumph of style over substance.


I want to stuff it up him...best reply (ies) get the reply!

Just tell him women prefer men who use Macs and that your dock is 10".

 

[FatSweatyChimp]

I have been on a chat site and I want to reply to this......

Slightly worrying, of course, that you yourself couldn't reply positively about Macs, no?

 

[Flynnstone]

This was his responce.....
Absolutely! I've never written for MACs but I make extensive use of the Registry for my PC applications.

Lets look at the job at hand ... say a word processor. The job is to edit text. If you are writing code for anything else, you really are doing any work. If you are spending a lot of time write registry manipulation code then if fact you are wasting your time ! You are wasting our time as well. You are wasting energy sending these useless bits back and forth over the internet.
Simply a waste !

They DO look pretty though. The ultimate triumph of style over substance.

Absolutely true! I don't think there are many that think the Mac interface is not pretty or pleasing to the senses. Style over substance ... absolutely (sort of), Windows is the largest ball of Band Aids I have every seen!

The "sort of" because a computer program is not actually substance. It's more like a figment of our imaginations.
I prefer to imagine "better"