Partition benefits . . .

[Richmond Mathewson]

Well . . .

Apart from Applejack, on the computers that run Mac OS
10 I have, either a second partition (wife's G4 iBook,
my PPC Mac Mini) or another HD with an OS on it (my G4
Windtunnel has 4 HDs).

http://applejack.sourceforge.net/

apropos de quoi je voudrais to point out that 'Cider'
in the part of the world where my Mother comes from
(Somerset/Dorset, England) contains about 12% alcohol,
plus an extremely large proportion of fusel oils, and
is exactly what North Americans call "Applejack'.

Unfortunately the word 'Cider' has been debased, in
both the American Colonies and Bulgaria to mean either
Apple juice, or Apple flavoured fizzo.

While I am on the topic of the American Colonies, I
see that the Hanoverian usurper is currently visiting
the Head of the Colonial Rebels in the said Colonies.
I, as a good Scot, remain loyal to my sovereign,
Francis II:

http://www.defendersofscotland.org/monarch.htm

What I would say in favour of Applejack is that most
of my crashes (about 1 a week with 10.4.x) a choice of
Number 5 (cleans out VM) does the trick ()% of the
time and takes about 1 minute:

so: reboot into Cmd-line = 2 mins

Applejack #4 = 1 min

reboot = 2 mins

total = 5 mins  

CF...

other HD/partition/boot CD:

reboot = 2 mins

hanging around while Disk Utility "sees" the HDs = 10
- 25 minutes

Disk Utility "struts its funky stuff" = 10 - 25
minutes

reboot 2 mins

NO CONTEST

Of course, if you want to get on with the work a quick
reboot from another partition/HD with all the Prefs,
Plug-in and so forth = 2 mins

BUT you are still left with the need to sort out the
problematic initial boot HD/Part.

or, as a friend of mine puts it "to DeF**k the bl**dy
thing" - which, on a daft Sunday morning (say about 5
am) is, albeit, very rude, almost exactly how I feel.
[And before you rush to say it, 5 repetitions of one's
Gayatri Mantra, while possibly appeasing Indra and
various other capricious divine entities, does not
seem to speed up the time taken sorting out one's
computer!].

Should anyone reading this message decide that parts
of it are quite mad; they are right - Richmond is
having a lot of fun:

Your part in the fun is to work out which parts are
serious, and which parts are a tremendous leg-pull.

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson

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A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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