[Ti] Norton Utilities for OSX

[Kynan Shook]

Chances are, actually, that it *is* broken.  The OS is very fault 
tolerant of errors in the directory.  You'll think it's working 
perfectly, and then POOF one day your computer won't boot at all.  OK, 
so that's in the more extreme category of cases, but it happens 
regularly, due to crashes, bugs, power loss, bad RAM, etc. etc. etc.  
Even if it never gets that bad, you can get things like overlapped 
files, or files that don't behave properly.  DiskWarrior is a good 
thing to run every few months, as neither the OS nor Disk Utility will 
catch many of these errors.  In my job for an Apple Authorized Service 
Provider, I'd say I run DiskWarrior on somewhere around half of the 
computers that come through to try and get them working again, or to 
try to prevent future problems, or to correct problems caused by bad 
hardware once the hardware has been replaced.

Norton, on the other hand, is worthless (unless you have the one time 
in a thousand where DiskWarrior can't fix a couple problems).

Jerry Krinock <jerry at ieee.org> writes:
> I think you should ask yourself: What is the reason for using Norton,
> DiskWarrior, or any of this stuff?  I use my powerbook for both work 
> and
> play, certainly more than 50 hours a week.  I reboot it once every 
> week or
> two, after i've got more than 6 swapfiles and I feel it's getting a 
> little
> sluggish and gee I should quit some of the 40 applications I've got 
> open
> which I haven't used in a while.
>
> If it ain't broke, why fix it?