I don't remember seeing anything about the scanning capabilities mentioned either. I failed to put a link here, I thought I had, but it may be in another post. At any rate, the capabilities are there and I suspect they make use of some of the OSs Core technologies as well as any driver capabilities the scanner company may provide.
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The only drive that requires me to register is Calamity Kitty, there is only one partition
OK, but you
are booting from this drive, correct? Any new boot loads the new system and its setting apply. If you didn't ask to be logged in automatically, it will always ask for your name/password. At least that's what I thought the whole point of the log in screen was.
Even changing users will request a password (the name being already selected by the request to change). Perhaps I just don't understand the problem. Wouldn't be the first tyme! Today, even!
"Suspicious" seems to be another way of saying 'reliability is critical.' Obviously, changing an OS in any critical environment must be done carefully, with escape and backed up data and always with caution. But I wasn't aware that this is what we've been talking about here. Certainly upgrading our family computer is important and still needs to be done with caution and the understanding that things may not work exactly as they had and that some of the dozens of apps most people use will also need updating. I would hope that most businesses would not be running nearly the number, much less the variety, of apps many of us have on our personal Macs.
So, I now better understand what you are "suspicious" about, I would simply have used a different term. And in no way would I recommend anyone update/upgrade something as critical as the OS without doing a good deal of due diligence.
And that's the main reason I didn't worry that much about a new app/program/computer/etc in any aircraft I flew. First of all, it wasn't me inserting/writing the code. Second, I don't think most people realize how long and arduous the testing programs are for this kind of thing. Not only does the company have to test it, they have to then prove to the Feds that it will do what it should and fail in the way they say. Then, they have to convince the airline company to use the new thing since it will hardly ever be a "free" upgrade! And if this thing is something from a subcontractor for the aircraft, the airframe maker will also have to be convinced of its need and safety, before it even see the light of day at the Federal level. Finally, once this thing has been accepted all the way to the cockpit, the training department, the flight ops people, the safety people and eventually the flight crew all will be trained and get experience on the new operating requirements. By that time, "suspicions" have no place. Pilots can't afford to fly or use software/hardware that they don't trust with their lives. Whether there is anyone in the back or not, 99.9999% of all the pilots I ever met none had a death wish!
And I think you already know and are pursuing a logical, conscientious testing of your new hardware and software while maintaining a save, stable working environment for all your critical maters, anyway. My only question was the use of "suspicious." Right now, I have to slowly open the back door to check out some black helicopters flying by...
