Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Mac Ad: Cancel or Allow
Apple has a new Get a Mac ad up called "Security" which is a commentary on Vista's (apparent) proclivity of asking "cancel or allow" for everything you want to do.
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I have been running various versions of vista since august. This is a gross miss-caricaturisation of the feature. You do get it a lot while you are setting up your computer, but once you are setup it happens rarely and it is not that big a deal to click OK. Maybe Apple is gearing up for political adds in 2008.
I haven't used it so I don't know. I'm curious, how does it improve after "setup"? Do you say "never ask me this again" or "never ask me this again about this person/site"? My problem with IE on XP was that I could never get the granularity I wanted on such things. E.g., in a browser I want to (dis)allow based on the site I visit, but with email I want to disallow always (because when friends get infected they send me infected mail; you can't trust the source of what you receive, only of what you visit).
You only need to confirm things that are installing or making system level changes. So when you install a program it asks you if you want to install it, but it doesn't when you run it. There is also something it does where if verifies the publisher of the application, if it can't verify the publisher it will prompt you to confirm if you really want to run it. I only have a few obscure apps that this happens on. Over all you don't really notice it.
Uhh, I've used Vista briefly on a test machine, and it pops up MUCH more than that for me.
I tried to create a simple folder, and it pops up TWICE in a row, asking me to cancel or allow. Then when it creates it with the default name "New Folder" and I change the name to what I want, it then asks me twice if I want to rename it.
FOUR times I have to hit Allow to just create a simple folder!
No thanks, I think I'll just stick with my beloved XP...
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I have been running various versions of vista since august. This is a gross miss-caricaturisation of the feature. You do get it a lot while you are setting up your computer, but once you are setup it happens rarely and it is not that big a deal to click OK. Maybe Apple is gearing up for political adds in 2008.
I haven't used it so I don't know. I'm curious, how does it improve after "setup"? Do you say "never ask me this again" or "never ask me this again about this person/site"? My problem with IE on XP was that I could never get the granularity I wanted on such things. E.g., in a browser I want to (dis)allow based on the site I visit, but with email I want to disallow always (because when friends get infected they send me infected mail; you can't trust the source of what you receive, only of what you visit).
You only need to confirm things that are installing or making system level changes. So when you install a program it asks you if you want to install it, but it doesn't when you run it. There is also something it does where if verifies the publisher of the application, if it can't verify the publisher it will prompt you to confirm if you really want to run it. I only have a few obscure apps that this happens on. Over all you don't really notice it.
That sounds good, and the install part is just the way OS X behaves.
Uhh, I've used Vista briefly on a test machine, and it pops up MUCH more than that for me.
I tried to create a simple folder, and it pops up TWICE in a row, asking me to cancel or allow. Then when it creates it with the default name "New Folder" and I change the name to what I want, it then asks me twice if I want to rename it.
FOUR times I have to hit Allow to just create a simple folder!
No thanks, I think I'll just stick with my beloved XP...
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