Is it possible that a mac craches because of downloaded fonts?

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.

Please excuse any improper language in this post. I'm tired and slightly upset. Goodnight and thanks in advance. :smile:

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Crono said:
Nickel, shut up.

No, YOU shut up!!

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.

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

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.

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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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

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

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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Don't think I've seen a mouse wheel in my school a single time. :sad: I've gotten spoiled with my MX1000 at home. :smile:

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Take it with you and see if it works on the macs. If you can "install" fonts ... can you install drivers? (Hopefully, a generic usb wheel mouse driver will be present)

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That'd be too much work for me. :razz:

Btw, does anyone know how to turn of the mouse pointer acceleration
function? The one that makes the mousepointer move different distances
on the screen, while moving the mouse itself the same distance,
depending on how fast you move the mouse.

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"Control Panel >> Mouse >> Pointer Options" is the only one I know of.

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Oh, I forgot to mention I meant how to do it on a mac. Or perhaps
that's what you've described? I've too little mac knowledge to tell. :razz:

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I have a new hate in the world of macs the Mac Mini what a complete
waste of money you dont get a screen, keyboard or mouse with it and it
still costs about ?300.

Oh and I hate people that buy crappy lcd monitors that you have to sit 1 inch away from to beable to see what your doing.

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I have used Macintosh stuff since the days when Apple II was the new thing and Oregon Trail was the coolest new game! Ever since then I have hated them. I always had a PC back home from the days of the 80/86 Tandy. I always liked my PC better...

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