Re: Strategy for moving to Mac

TheLetterK wrote:

Let's say I'd like to keep all apps on the system up-to-date
automatically?

Fully automatic? Thanks, but no thanks.

What you're doing is abdicating Configuration Management control.

For both professional and personal applications, Configuration Control
includes when the "invisible stuff" underneath is or is not allowed to
change. That means "man in the loop" every time. A smart IS manager
controls when system changes come through, so that they don't come
through at potentially bad times.

The first "automatic, transparent upgrade" that royally screwed me over
was Christmas 1980. The end of year reports got royally messed up with
and no one had any fun working 12-16 hour days on the 25th as well as
straight through to New Year's.



With GNU/Linux, I can write a very simple shell script...

I'm sure someone will suggest OS X's Applescript as an equivalent. Its
free, too.


I don't even have to go through the hassle of buying OS X upgrades ...

Translation: perceived cost is a factor.


Repairing Permissions? 30 minutes.

iDisk does this. Set up to run in the background ... how long it takes
will depend as much on hardware disk speed, and letting it run during
lunch or overnight means "who cares how long it takes?". To quote
Shakespeare, "Much ado about nothing."


Cleaning out dead preference files? 5 minutes.

Like, why? I've not touched my Pref's folder ever, and since 2003, it
has swelled to 313 files which is occupying a huge, er, well...its
60.9MB, which a decade ago was considered a lot, but today, its a
whopping 0.04% of my available space on my 3-year old 150GB boot drive.


YMMV, but I'm not going to be making a mountain out of a molehill.

And in any case, if you really want to putz with some wierd new app,
the the smart thing to do anyway is set up a 'sandbox' account. When
the account gets too cluttered for your liking, you just blow away
whole sandbox account and just set up a new sandbox account...which
proverbially takes "1 minute" to do.


-hh

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