28 Mar
2001
28 Mar
'01
10:17 a.m.
They run At Ease at the university library here. It
really is the
Apple predecessor to Microsoft's "Bob", and it really makes you feel
like an uncouth infant instead of a grown-up computer user. No wonder
the Macs are in a permanent state of disuse.
When I was in Junior high, the computer lab was filled with Mac Classics.
Each Mac had FoolProof installed on it, which I believe is the same sort of
idiotware. I was pretty proud of myself for figuring out that I could use
ResEdit to change FoolProof's file type string from INIT to TINI so
FoolProof wouldn't load. Alas, it did not work out as a demonstration to
the school of the software's uselessness; I told the wrong person and he
started deleting things he shouldn't have...
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)ou.edu