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Posted by OtZman on Wed Dec 7th at 12:30am 2005

Today at school when having a design related course, where we use macintoshs when working, my computer froze. I told my teacher what had happened. She then told me it had happened because I had downloaded and installed fonts on it. After a while she basically asked me if I was an idiot and the whole thing ended with me telling her to shove the computers up her arse and f**k off, quitting the course.

My question is: Is it possible that downloading and installing fonts may cause a computer (a macintosh) to freeze? A better question might be: How likely is it that downloading and installing fonts may cause a computer (a macintosh) to freeze? In this case it was a macintosh (with osx, I think) and the fonts where downloaded from dafont.com. I installed the fonts in the Fonts folder in the Library folder on a specific user (I think, I'm not very familiar with macs and their folder structures). Anyway, I probably did it correctly as I could use them, and they appeared in the font menus inside programs.

Would be interesting to know. She also said that downloading fonts is the same as downloading music off the internet, which it isn't, as most music is copyright protected while the fonts on dafont aren't.

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Posted by Nickelplate on Wed Dec 7th at 12:54am 2005

A better question is what kind of F-tard uses a MAC?!?


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Posted by OtZman on Wed Dec 7th at 1:01am 2005

The only experience I have of macs is bad experience. I've only used these so called computers during this course, and they are so incredibly slow it makes me wanna kill someone. On top of that, the teacher and the rest of the students are so God awfully annoying I have to bite my lip and pray to God for the 3 and a half hour long class to end. Today I just had it when this retarded looking person asks me such an outrageous question.



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Posted by Crono on Wed Dec 7th at 1:09am 2005

Nickel, shut up.

No it's not. There could be some virus laced in with the files, but that's doubtful.

Macs work like any other computer, especially in the software realm, you're talking about a difference of instruction sets built into the hardware.

But, OSX does crash ... I'd say make a complaint ... you shouldn't have dropped the class like that though, even if the instructor is a moron. I've had my share of instructors telling me I've done something to a computer ... which is ridiculous (seriously ridiculous stuff).

Idiots are everywhere. Get used to it, I guess. It just happens nine times out of ten they have some higher authority than you :

There really is nothing wrong with Macs. People think they're terrible because they always use them in schools. I've got some news: they load so much software that "guards" the computer from the users. It's really stupid, because they can just pay for proper administration and not worry about it.


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Posted by OtZman on Wed Dec 7th at 1:21am 2005

Mkay, thanks for your answer Crono.

I really have a problem dealing with certain kinds of people. Especially when the act like gods, playing almighty. Don't know if I would've been able to deal with that teacher and her arbitrary judgement for another five or something months.



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Posted by gimpinthesink on Wed Dec 7th at 1:23am 2005

I get to use those wonderfull machines to produse my final pices of work and I've had them crash before OSX even finished loading, loading a program and i think one crashed when I sent something to print.

Not had one crash by installing a font cos were not alowd to do that because passing the course aint that important to the tit of a technition they have runing the network. Damn bloke buggers off when ever you need him.

My tutor dont like them but cos the graphic design studios think there cool and hip we have to learn on them.

/rant sorry there gone off there a bit

anyway no I highly doubt it was to do with the font.



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Posted by wil5on on Wed Dec 7th at 1:52am 2005

The computer science department at my university uses macs. Theyve never actually crashed for me, but have had fairly regular network issues (inability to access user files on the network etc). All theyre really used for is first-year PHP and Java, so theyre not as stressed as graphic design machines I imagine.

The thing that annoys me most about macs is the user interface. The keyboards are tiny, which makes it surprisingly easy to accidentally hit the key combination which hides all the windows. The mice are for the most part single-button. Two machines have three-button ones, but no mice have scroll wheels. The way mac word processors are set up also annoys me, particularly when programming. Ctrl+left and ctrl+right are handy key combinations to move the cursor along a line quickly, but on macs these work as home/end do on a pc. Home and end on a mac take you to the top and bottom of the file, which is nearly useless for programming. A taskbar would be nice as well.

Macs are used in the graphic design industry because back in the day, most graphic design software was solely available on macs. The graphics firms kept their apple machines, and to this day still mainly use macs.




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Posted by OtZman on Wed Dec 7th at 3:00pm 2005

I spoke with our headmaster today about what had happened and he thought I should continue the course. He said that I'd be the one losing if I decided to drop it. And I figured it'd be worse for the teacher if I continued than it'd be for me, so I'll continue. Then the time I spent on the course so far won't go to waste. Why should I let such tards ruin my life?



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Posted by Nickelplate on Wed Dec 7th at 5:56pm 2005

? quoting Crono
Nickel, shut up.

No, YOU shut up!!





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Posted by Gorbachev on Thu Dec 8th at 3:07am 2005

I've yet to have a real enjoyable experience with a Mac. They've always been a lot less impressive than everyone makes them out to be. They're still just computers.




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Posted by FatStrings on Thu Dec 8th at 4:00am 2005

i had to use mac's during a small course i did at MU but they were really nice (for mac's) seeing as they were at a college and i have to admit i do like the Adobe programs much better on them, but other than that i can't say that they appeal to me at all




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Dec 8th at 4:06am 2005

My G5 at home burnt up for absolutely no reason. We only managed to recover 87% of the data on the hard drive. Before then, I had liked macs, now I'm not so sure. Applecare is s**tting on us too.




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Posted by Underdog on Thu Dec 8th at 1:25pm 2005

My only experience with a MAC was at our old library (before they upgraded to PC's)

Somehow, the one button mouse was oddly dissatisfying.




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Posted by FatStrings on Thu Dec 8th at 3:10pm 2005

yeah always tell my mac-liking friends that thats why windows is better just to piss them off, mac now has a 3 button mouse i guess so that arguement is obsolete, which is why i use it




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Posted by OtZman on Thu Dec 8th at 7:18pm 2005

Those original mac mice with one button are very annoying since the whole top is one big button. Because of this the button is released as soon as you lift the mouse.



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Posted by gimpinthesink on Thu Dec 8th at 7:55pm 2005

? quoting FatStrings
yeah always tell my mac-liking friends that thats why windows is better just to piss them off, mac now has a 3 button mouse i guess so that arguement is obsolete, which is why i use it

You can replace the mac mice with any other three button usb mouse. it dont have to be a apple one.




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Posted by OtZman on Thu Dec 8th at 10:33pm 2005

While we're on the topic and I'm complaining over this and that, almost all mice in our school are pure s**te. I had a course last year where we used Photoshop on PCs. The mice were the cheap ball-type with a seam in the ball, which made the mousepointer bump every 5 cm or something and getting stuck on the screen occasionally. Pretty damn annoying when you're working with photoshop. Pretty annyoing no matter what you're doing really. Most of the mice in our school are of the same class, either that or the mac standard ones.



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Posted by Gorbachev on Fri Dec 9th at 2:28am 2005

Hell, I feel crippled if the mouse doesn't have a wheel.




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Posted by wil5on on Fri Dec 9th at 2:30am 2005

The macs in the CS lab which do have 3-button mice have the middle button raised slightly, and in the same shape as a wheel, but it doesnt act as a wheel. Its like theyre teasing you.


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Posted by OtZman on Fri Dec 9th at 3:07pm 2005

Don't think I've seen a mouse wheel in my school a single time. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif"> I've gotten spoiled with my MX1000 at home. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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