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Wednesday April 21st 2004 11:57 AM PST

i just witnessed a mac tech sit down at my computer and do one of the dumbest things i have ever seen. On my desktop is a icon for the primary hard drive for the computer. he click on it and hits get info. in the info window there are permissions for the items on the hard drive. every file on the hard drive has its own permissions as far as who can read, write or execute the file. each file has these permissions for a good reason. some files should not be writable by ALL users. Well, this mac tech sets the little info box to owner "nobody" and then sets everything to read and write. For about 5 seconds i watch in disbelief. All he has to do at this point is hit one button that is labeled "apply to all enclosed files" in order to fuck the computer. I stop him and grab the mouse. I ask him if i can do one thing before he continues. I then eject my ipod and let the mac tech continue. So now i'm on a computer that does about half of what it did about an hour ago. Half of my apps are fucked because their prefs files are now global writable (and they don't like it). So i'm just laughing. I don't think i'm going to be on this computer for much longer. Its just slowing me down too much.

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Sheesh! And why was this tech-monkey doing that? P.S. Hey, we need an interim programmer, and I gave my bosses your name and resume URL.

Posted by: Angelo