The ultimate shootout: Apple Mac OS X vs. Microsoft Windows Vista

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goobimama

goobimama

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*was sick/bed ridden these past few days. still am so i might talk nonsensical things*

Lolz....Goobi, how do u hide your porn folder
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Hide? I got nothing like that to hide.

I do keep my documents safe in an encrypted DMG file though. No one's getting in there.

And if I want to avoid some casual prowling in a folder, then I just get info, and change the permissions to "No Access". Sure someone reverse the action and get full access, but most people don't know the know-how.
 
iMav

iMav

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and also send those vdos and pix to ur cell fone thru bluetooth

ah! shucks u cant :D
 
goobimama

goobimama

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And I thought Mac were easy to use
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That option is not the easiest to figure out on your own. If you click on a folder and it says access denied, would you (you=a regular idiot, and not you) think of trying to get some access permissions reset? You would obviously think there's a password to it or something and forget about it. And anyway, there's no snooping around of folks on my Mac save for movies...
 
goobimama

goobimama

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Yeah. Works the same way. Just saying that if there something that I really want to keep safe, I use an encrypted disk image. For everything else, there's folder permissions.
 
gxsaurav

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goobimama said:
Yeah. Works the same way
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Nope. Mac's way block access to the folder/file. Windows way blocks access for only those users or things u want it blocked from :D

Windows file permissions in Vista/XP is 1000 times ahead of Mac.
 
goobimama

goobimama

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Yeah it looks to be complicated so it might be more advanced.

But its not like the OS X only blocks permissions you know. There's a lot of options for groups, ownerships and such. And it is really simple to use. I had to struggle for ten minutes trying to figure out how to turn off the folder permissions in vista...

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Anyway, you show me something like Disk utility on Vista.....
 
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gxsaurav

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This just in...

Despite of having Native read only support for NTFS, Mac OS X doesn't mounts them in Finder. Now since NTFS -3G is out still....Leopard has no support for NTFS.
 
gxsaurav

gxsaurav

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Time to resurrect....

Another place where Windows Vista pwns Mac OS X is Language support & compatibility. In both Mac OS X & Vista home Premium, there is native support for many languages like Hindi, Tamil, Spanish etc however there is no front end in Mac to add or remove them.

Like in my case I reduced support for any language other then Hindi & English to reduce the hard disk space in Mac OS X, but now suppose I want to get French support back, I can't do it without reinstalling the OS. Or using hacks to install using the Mac OS X DVD using Pacifist.

In Windows Vista I can simply use Language support Wizard to remove any language to reduce hard disk space & add whatever I like later :)

Vista rox.,... :D

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iMav

iMav

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:lol: dude u really use OS X as ur primary OS ... i stopped booting into it unless i have to show some frenz what i got under the hood :lol:
 
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