{"id":1461,"date":"2016-02-18T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T21:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2024-09-16T14:33:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T06:33:56","slug":"dangerous-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2016\/02\/18\/dangerous-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous software"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some time now, Lloyd Chambers has been pointing out some serious problems with Apple’s OS X<\/a> operating system. Where it used to be the case that Apple produced excellent software, it now looks like the company places a higher priority on appearance than functionality. This is the main reason why I’ve stayed with an older version of Mac OS X (10.6.8) as my main operating system. It’s the platform underlying my image processing workflow, and I want it to be rock solid.<\/p>\n

Just a few days ago, Backblaze<\/a> discovered\u00a0that an\u00a0update\u00a0to Adobe’s Creative Cloud software deletes<\/a><\/em>\u00a0the first folder on the user’s computer! (News courtesy of Thom Hogan<\/a>.) Thankfully, Adobe appears to have fixed the problem quickly, but this is another example of newer software not necessarily being an improvement on older software. My image processing programs are my tools, every bit\u00a0as much as my lenses, cameras, and monitor. I don’t need them to be fancy; I want them to be reliable.<\/p>\n

On a different note, and quite separate from the issue of quality, I’ve long thought that Microsoft’s Malicious Software Removal Tool<\/a> has one of the most amusing\u00a0names in computing. It is, of course, a tool\u00a0for\u00a0removing malicious software, such as computer viruses\u2014but to the uninitiated, it could just as easily be read as being a malicious tool\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For some time now, Lloyd Chambers has been pointing out some serious problems with Apple’s OS X operating system. Where it used to be the case that Apple produced excellent software, it now looks like the company places a higher priority on appearance than functionality. This is the main reason why I’ve stayed with an… Continue reading Dangerous software<\/span> →<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[398],"tags":[293,81,296,297,295,294,300,299,301,298,87],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","tag-adobe","tag-apple-computer","tag-apple-macintosh","tag-apple-os-x","tag-backblaze","tag-lloyd-chambers","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-malicious-software-removal-tool","tag-microsoft-windows","tag-software","tag-thom-hogan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}