Comments on: Do what I mean, dammit. Or, why being silently “helpful” is evil. http://andrewgdotcom.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/do-what-i-mean-dammit-or-why-being-silently-helpful-is-evil/ How many blogs does one man need? Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:45:32 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Stephane Corlosquet http://andrewgdotcom.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/do-what-i-mean-dammit-or-why-being-silently-helpful-is-evil/#comment-40 Stephane Corlosquet Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:57:33 +0000 http://andrewgdotcom.wordpress.com/?p=32#comment-40 Good post. That illustrates the necessity of checking the backups from time to time. I know it's boring and can take some time (especially if it's a whole fs), and that's probably why people don't do it. Good post. That illustrates the necessity of checking the backups from time to time. I know it’s boring and can take some time (especially if it’s a whole fs), and that’s probably why people don’t do it.

]]> By: andrewgdotcom http://andrewgdotcom.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/do-what-i-mean-dammit-or-why-being-silently-helpful-is-evil/#comment-39 andrewgdotcom Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:36:59 +0000 http://andrewgdotcom.wordpress.com/?p=32#comment-39 I understand perfectly why they made it so that ownership was by default ignored on removable disks. It's a simple, elegant solution to a common problem. What makes me mad is that they went out of their way to hide it. If I sudo to root and specifically tell it to do something that (for whatever reason) it doesn't want to do, it should have the common decency to tell me that it hasn't been done. I understand perfectly why they made it so that ownership was by default ignored on removable disks. It’s a simple, elegant solution to a common problem.

What makes me mad is that they went out of their way to hide it. If I sudo to root and specifically tell it to do something that (for whatever reason) it doesn’t want to do, it should have the common decency to tell me that it hasn’t been done.

]]> By: mj http://andrewgdotcom.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/do-what-i-mean-dammit-or-why-being-silently-helpful-is-evil/#comment-38 mj Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:16:44 +0000 http://andrewgdotcom.wordpress.com/?p=32#comment-38 Ignoring permissions is a setting, yes. It's the default, yes. But then the default is the average bod user. And it's hardly the end of the world? You ran out of space? Did you report it? See, you're coming at this from the point of view of a Linux head. This stuff was obvious to us Mac heads :) Ignoring permissions is a setting, yes. It’s the default, yes. But then the default is the average bod user.

And it’s hardly the end of the world? You ran out of space? Did you report it?

See, you’re coming at this from the point of view of a Linux head. This stuff was obvious to us Mac heads :)

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