Journal (H)elix1's Journal: Update question for OSX users (and mod bombed for wondering) 4
WTF moderators... I hate the 'overrated' mod that will not be m2'ed.
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My bride wandered down to my home office asking if I 'did anything' to her MacBook since it halted unexpectedly. She closed the lid and was walking to another room when it made a shutdown sound. She had several applications open with stuff she was working on, so this was not a good time to just stop. When she restarted it, it prompted her to install the update, which she did. Did it did shutdown as part of an update? Untimely static electricity that would do a proper shutdown? (she did not believe she was responsible for the restart)
A bit of background from the Windows world. If you have your machine set to "automatic" updates, Windows will occasionally download, install, and then reboot your system. It will prompt you to 'restart now or later', but selecting later will cause the dialog to pop up again... only later. If you ignore the dialog (and possibly leave the machine idle) it will take it upon itself to reboot your system. Does OSX do this same sort of thing? We are fairly new to OSX in our home and to be honest I really don't know.
This thing just got stranger... The shutdown might not have anything to do with an update after all.
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One "overrated" undone (Score:2)
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Also, if you've used a Mac recently you'd know that as soon as you begin dragging a mounted volume the trash icon is replaced with an eject symbol.
To which I wished to reply:
It still took them 15 years to correct that counterintuitive oddity of the Mac OS. (MacOS 1.0 was released in 1994 with the original Mac. The feature referenced in the quote above came out with MacOS X in 1999).
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