{"id":671199,"date":"2010-02-21T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-9213693234589207885"},"modified":"2010-02-22T08:58:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:58:03","slug":"os-x-defect-the-missing-uninstaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/671199","title":{"rendered":"OS X defect: The missing uninstaller"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I strongly prefer OS X and Macs to running XP or Windows 7. (I&#8217;ve no experience with Vista, I know XP extremely well and Win 7 well).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Even so, there are several domains in which Windows crushes OS X &#8212; and has for many years.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One example is Windows terminal services\/remote desktop. It&#8217;s fabulous technology; Apple&#8217;s VNC variation is relatively pathetic. Another is Parental Controls. A third is the file security model. There are about a half-dozen of these persistent, significant, but little noted Windows advantages.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One of the most peculiar Windows advantages arises from Apple&#8217;s approach to product uninstallation. Take CrashPlan for example:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.crashplan.com\/doku.php\/faq\/installation\">FAQ: Installing and Uninstalling    [CrashPlan Support Site]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.crashplan.com\/doku.php\/faq\/installation\"><\/a>&#8230;Mac OSX: Open the installer.dmg file and run the uninstaller.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Windows: Use Add\/remove programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>Windows &#8212; Use Add\/Remove. Mac &#8211; go to the product website (if it still exists), find an installer, download it, run it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>One of the painful memories of my OS\/2 days was learning that installation was irreversible. Many applications could not be uninstalled from the WorkSpace environment. Things are only a little better in OS X.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yes, many apps can be uninstalled by dragging them to the trash. Many, however, cannot.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is an ancient problem, and Apple has never shown an interest in fixing it. It&#8217;s one of those lacunae that makes OS X feel old and forgotten.<small><\/small><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>PS. Incidentally, the CrashPlan uninstaller is a very unfriendly unix shell script that, at one point, asks for your admin password in a fairly cryptic manner. It fits with my suspicion that CrashPlan has been causing my MacBook to lockup on awakening from sleep.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-9213693234589207885?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I strongly prefer OS X and Macs to running XP or Windows 7. (I&#8217;ve no experience with Vista, I know XP extremely well and Win 7 well). Even so, there are several domains in which Windows crushes OS X &#8212; and has for many years. One example is Windows terminal services\/remote desktop. It&#8217;s fabulous technology; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2OBN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}