[geeks] Macitude

[Phil Stracchino]

nate at portents.com wrote:
>>Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>
>>This kinda crap is part of why I've always hated Macs.
> 
> 
> That's not a fair assesment of the situation.  You should blame the copy
> protection scheme, where the fault lies,

Well, that's true, but that's not really the issue here.

>  And if you think it's bad that
> you have to mount disc images on the Mac, how about on the PC where copy
> protection schemes such as StarForce not only run as drivers in Ring 0 and
> intercept drive I/O but also prevent the use of debuggers or drive image
> mounters from even running, which cause all sorts of problems!

That stuff is plenty nasty, but it's not the issue either.  The issue
here is that I cannot do something as simple as tell MacOS "This user
has permission to mount disk images".  Macs have always suffered worse
than most GUIcentric OSen from the classic problem of the GUI:  It makes
the commonplace trivial, but makes the unusual all but impossible.  If
it didn't occur to one of the GUI designers that you might want to do
it, no matter how conceptually basic "it" is, it probably can't be done
without hacking code.



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