I still remember, nearly 20 years ago, setting up a brand new Macintosh system in my home. Up till then, I did most of my work at the office, but I had seen the future, more or less, and telecommuting was going to be a large part of it, so I had to be prepared.<\/p>\n
Now I had used Macs at the office almost from day one, as soon as they become practical solutions for getting real work done. But I was also losing assignments, because I couldn’t complete them after the workday ended.<\/p>\n
In any case, not 15 minutes after opening QuarkXPress to edit a document, I got a system error prompt. If you remember the days of System 6, there would even be a Restart button in the dialog, but it would rarely do anything, and that was the case this time. So I forced a restart, and got back to work.<\/p>\n
In those days, a stable Mac was one that didn’t crash a couple of times a day, and it was awfully easy for that to happen, particularly if you fitted your Mac with lots of third-party stuff. Even the useful hacks, such as the ones that would allow you to select fonts without going through the drudgery of using the traditional method, Font\/DA Mover, could do nasty things. The reason is that the developers had to use unsupported tricks to fool the system into accepting their unorthodox way of handling your font library.<\/p>\n
Story continued in this week’s Tech Night Owl Newsletter.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I still remember, nearly 20 years ago, setting up a brand new Macintosh system in my home. Up till then, I did most of my work at the office, but I had seen the future, more or less, and telecommuting was going to be a large part of it, so I had to be prepared. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[875,1908,7130,187,1728,8159,8998,1855,26,205,579,2491,989,25,8684,8685,319,3284,248,8706,9174],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blu-ray","tag-can-of-worms","tag-columnist","tag-commentator","tag-corporate-communications","tag-dvd","tag-eddie-cue","tag-firmware-update","tag-iphone","tag-ipod","tag-joe-wilcox","tag-listeners","tag-mac-os","tag-night-owl","tag-panasonic","tag-plasma","tag-point-of-view","tag-quarkxpress","tag-steve-jobs","tag-support-document","tag-wrath"],"yoast_head":"\n