> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of William T Goodall > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 8:15 PM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: Re: Windo$e > > > On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 11:24 pm, Jon Gabriel wrote: > >> Nothing one can install without an admin password is capable of > >> crashing any serious OS. > > > > Heh. Ironic. > > > > I guess OS X 10.2.6 is out then. > > Which does require an admin password to install :)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. :) > > Co-workers clean-installed the latest version of Safari on three > > relatively new iMacs today and after a restart it crashed all three of > > them. We'd never seen a panic-crash before. Tech support is here now > > trying to get the computers to boot up in OSX. Hopefully we'll have > > them running tomorrow. > > > > And it's not even a third-party application. :) > > > > Which illustrates another important point - never be an early adopter :) > > Let somebody else find the problems in the latest sw updates... > OSX 10.2.6 *is* a software update! It's the 12th (13th?) update to the OS software since they hit "X". (It's the sixth update to Jaguar, which came with the three iMacs. As you probably know, once a Mac comes with a certain OS installed, you can't downgrade to a previous version.) For that matter this version of Apple's Safari is their third update. So, how many eons must one wait before one is no longer considered an early adopter? ;-) I better recap this all for myself so I don't forget: A "serious" OS doesn't crash... ...as long as you don't run third party software (or for that matter any software, even by the computer manufacturer) that requires an admin password to install... ...AND you've got all your software updates... ...AND all your OS updates... ...AND you're not installing a version of any software that's still buggy and untested... *grin* Did I miss anything? ;-) Jon Merely Amusing Myself Maru Le Blog: http://zarq.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
