Things not to do with OS X...

[griffman]

An anonymous (for obvious reasons, as you'll see) reader submitted the following hint to the hint queue on the main macosxhints site. After reviewing it, I've decided that it's not really a hint, but it is quite humorous, so I thought I'd post it here. Here it is in its "as submitted" form:

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How to not get fired using OS X
Wed, Apr 3 '02 at 10:34PM • from: Anonymous
If you set the Screen Saver Prefs Panel to "Random" and then forget and download a bunch of dirty pictures into your "Pictures" folder, every once in a while "Slide Show" runs, usually when your boss wants to borrow your computer.

- currently unemployed
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So there you have it -- a good example of how NOT to use OS X! :)

-rob.

[Craig R. Arko]

That's the ticket; good 'real world' tips! :D

[Maran]

Don't try to open Netscape Communicator 4.7.5 in classic layer. It was my first and only Kernel panic -- required a complete zeroing of the disk and reinstall of X .

(yes, I know there is netscape for X, but I'm a web developer and need to test my sites in all browsers people typically use...)

[powermacg4_450]

I used navigator for a long time, until AOL took it over, then, I canned it.

its bloatware.

but, thats another post. ;)