I know I shouldn't, but
You're a good
little Mac user. You back up your files. You repair your permissions. You install the latest updates. But, there's that
one bad habit you maintain that isn't in accordance with your regular behavior. Maybe you don't back up regularly, or
you've shut down your Mac by just yanking out the power cord. When I was using Mac OS 9 (and I still do at work
sometimes), I've been known to force quit the Finder, just so I could rebuild the desktop without having to restart the
machine (because laziness is the mother of invention). So it's confession time, TUAWers. What's your bad Mac habit? It's ok, we'll protect your anonymity.
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You're a good little Mac user. You back up your files. You repair your permissions. You install the latest updates. But, there's that one...
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I don't "repair permissions". In fact, I don't get it. At all. Why would anyone have to "repair permissions"? Do they just randomly break? Why is there such a feature at all? Wouldn't it be better to fix whatever is causing them to break instead of having to fix them all the time? Not that I ever needed to anyways. I think "repair permissions" is just a myth from the days of MacOS 7 or so. Kind of like that nasty StuffIt relic (pleeeease don't use it - you're forcing me to install nasty, icky, disgusting software on my Mac when you package your things with it!).
February 22 2006 at 1:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAs far as stuff that's already come up: never shutting down even in transit with my laptop, not backing up enough, unplugging drives [only iPods though], chain smoking into the computer, folding and I used to make my PCs look like Macs.
I also go through and open it way up. People on the same wifi network as I'm on will come up and try to be nice letting me know that I have an open apache ftp on my computer. Usually I just say "I dare you to try to do anything. See what happens if you even accomplish anything at all".
Having too many iPods might be another. I have four right now.
I never organize my bookmarks or use my dock that's pretty full since I got Quicksilver.
I use FAT32 on small drives. :(
Never registered my Apple Care and still haven't taken my Powerbook in for the free display replacement.
It's nice to see I'm not as bad as some to Macs though. It's like a mini support group.
I always keep all the applications with round icons in the dock and throw everything else out no matter how usefull it may be to me.
February 22 2006 at 5:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOccasionally i like to splash water on my powerbooks keyboard, i like to see how much i can splash before i get an internal error or random weird beeping noises.
jokes.
I almost never eject my ipod. :( i'm so sorry (not)
Well, I restart every two weeks or so, (I have a AL 'book 1ghz 768ram) run the cron jobs almost every day, (manually in the terminal, of course) I backup using a partition on a external drive using CCC. I clean off my desktop as much as possible, pretty often (if it needs it). I am also pretty anal about keeping my 'book clean. I have a can of compressed air I shoot under the keyboard. I wipe my screen with one of those special lcd cloths. I use running alcohol on the palm rests to get off any little spot that appears. The only thing I have trouble with is keeping up with the rss feeds. I am subscribed to 29 of them, including Engadget, TUAW, and two feeds of Craig's list that alone pipe out 100 feeds a day. I need a way to filter the ones I don't want to read out.. That can be my project right now.
February 21 2006 at 8:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMy only mac sin is that i read TUAW.... In the nude....
February 21 2006 at 6:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replysometimes, when I download a lot of files, I tend to throw them in a folder somewhere, and then burry that folder in another one.
I'm lazy
I don't back up enough. I know I should, but I don't.
Extra HD space is there for extra stuff, not duplicate copies of the same stuff. Right?
Ditto for crumbs. Have gotten them in the left speaker grille of my latest PowerBook G4 twice in just a few months. And, there's a bit of chocolate on the fabric of my optical drive slot. Blame it on those tiny tables at Starbucks.
I MUST say that cooling a computer with urine is disgusting. Worse sin yet.
I recently got Deja Vu, so I'm doing my maintenance backups like a good boy. I do a lot of music and audio production, though, and archiving is a different matter. I try to do it monthly, but usually it doesn't happen until I run out of disc space.
Also, I'm a cronic eater over my keyboard. I've already disassembled it twice to clean it out because it's so nasty to see food and crumbs under the lexan.
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