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Please stop being patronizing
Authored by: babbage on Mar 05, '02 12:01:36PM
What's with the marked increase in "if you're afraid of the terminal, this could be a bad idea" editorial footnotes recently? This comment looks pretty non-descructive and safe -- all it does it let you observe what a running process is doing at a "turn & cough" level with the kernel. You might not be able to do much with this as a newbie, but it's certainly interesting information, and you can learn more about how your system works by watching it. Please don't scare people away like this.

And then the comment after this, where we are editorially advised to obey whatever an installer tells us to do. Well, that's not such sound advice either. As commenters over on MacSlash have been saying today, the reflex to force a reboot after all installations is not at all necessary unless you're upgrading the kernel itself. There really isn't any good reason to force you to close out other running programs and reboot for each install -- the modern protected memory system OSX provides makes all of this irrelevant now. Until software developers figure out that almost none of them need to do this -- except for Apple, and anyone else you might allow to muck around with the kernel -- then yes, you can generally ignore these reboot orders.

Sorry to rant at the sudo editor like this, you're doing a good job running the site and I appreciate the hard work. But the recent patronizing tone, with both editors, is getting really annoying -- like having a content-free "first post!" pasted in from Slashdot with each article over here. Please try to refrain from these editorial footnotes unless you really have something to add.


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