| Author | Message | ||
     Too_tall_ss |
I feel for all of you PC users. http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/128643/beware-con ficker-worm-come-april-1/ I'm guessing the author is Jobs himself  | ||
| Danger_dave |
Don't we miss .exe files. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
I don't miss having a pseudo computer smile blithely at me while it refuses to execute my command. I don't like spinning pinwheels.  | ||
| Barker |
"spinning pinwheels" That is too sugar coated. We call it the "Beach Ball of Death" or "The Marble of Doom" | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
 Apple's version of "blow me". That and I can't stand when it does things I didn't ask it to do and then refuses to undo them. Great for right brained people. Suck for left brain actual business machines. | ||
| Danger_dave |
Run a very successful design BUSINESS on them for 20 years. Ya just gots to be smarter than the machine :-P (Message edited by danger_dave on March 25, 2009) | ||
| Too_tall_ss |
Yeah, I'm one of those right brained people that program  Gotta love Web Design and Development! I'm an artistic nerd! | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Key word, "DESIGN". Great for artistic folks. I'm NOT artistic. Autistic maybe. | ||
| Old_man |
Isn't Mac a PC? | ||
| Xl1200r |
When I was in DESIGN school about 8 years ago, Macs were on top for things like graphic design. Anything 3D or animation was done on powerhouse PC machines. Just sayin'. My laptop is old and slow, and every so often I consider a new one. I'm waiting to see what Windows 7 is like. I like Macs for the kind of stuff I need to do, but the laptops are too expensive for what you get. | ||
| Danger_dave |
I don't think there is any difference these days - I use both. If you go back to 386 machines - macs had colour monitors, coloursync software, sound cards and CD readers. 386s didn't and that is what started the accounts V design divide. It all joined up again more than 5 years ago. Now it's what tool you prefer using. And the lack of .exe files. | ||
| Froggy |
I love how the article fails to mention that this was patched by Microsoft back in OCTOBER. Also the major antiviruses have been immune just as long. Most viruses spread from stupidity, including running your machine with an administrator login, and going to questionable websites. You eliminate 86% of all security risks simply by using a limited rights account. Macs use the limited account by default, Linux does it, and if you setup your Windows box correctly it does it fine. If you get infected by this thing at this point, you pretty much deserve it. Mark, I have been playing around with 7, its great, its Vista with a face lift for 95% of what most people do. Some little tweaks behind the scenes, but so far I haven't noticed any real reason to upgrade to it from Vista. | ||
| Danger_dave |
>> and going to questionable websites.<< MILFY....errrr....Guilty as charged. | ||
| Froggy |
I meant Myspace and other sites like that, full of nothing but spam and spyware. | ||
| Too_tall_ss |
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| Steve_mackay |
Froggy, I was thinking the same thing. I use Windows, Linux, and OSX. They all have their pros and cons. I do wish that the latest OSX update wouldn't have rendered my 2 external HDs completely useless in OSX, but works just fine in bootcamp<shrug>. So officially, OSX has just given me more problems than windows & Linux(combined) has so far this year  | ||
| Froggy |
Steve, just wondering, what did they do that made them not work? It is the first time I am hearing of this. | ||
| Steve_mackay |
I honestly don't know why it's not working. They show up in disk utility, but refuse to mount. They work just fine in Windows with macdrive. I think it's just the particular chipset my external enclosure is using. It's not the 1st time Apple has problems with USB2, or Firewire HD chipsets. They had a problem a while back with Oxford based external drives. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
I hate it when my hard drive refuses to mount. | ||
| Danger_dave |
Take the blue pill. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
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| Spiderman |
NO ONE NOTICED THIS!?!?! What's known so far is that on April 1, all infected computers will come under the control of a master machine located somewhere across the web, It bloody Skynet! http://www.skynetresearch.com/ | ||
| F_skinner |
I love how the article fails to mention that this was patched by Microsoft back in OCTOBER That is incorrect, what Microsoft attempted to patch was an earlier version, what was believed to be a test version. The purpose of this botnet has not been determined yet. It is by far the biggest botnet to date. This is not a PC vs MAC problem. The sky is not falling, yet! | ||
| Doon |
yeah can't wait to see what If anything they do with it (I run an ISP, and I can pretty much bet that 20% of the idiots^w users that we have are infected). Macs make up such a tiny market share, they are not too worth attacking (at this moment). the ROI on cracking/collecting windows boxes is much. All about efficiency. If I recall correctly in the lastest pown2own, most OS's got owned (but suprisingly the mobile phone browsers didn't). That being said I am programmer and Network geek and I love my Macs (but I also run FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris on the various boxen @ the office and @ home). | ||
| F_skinner |
Doon, nice to hear from a fellow geek. Most of the Mac exploits target Safari and a few for the iphone. Adobe has been getting hit hard lately as well. I agree with you on the Mac market it is really not worth targeting. It is my job to keep track of all exploits being used and report on them. I had a meeting with the US-CERT (U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team) which is a department of HLS. I was impressed with their capabilities and knowledge. We will see what happens on 1 April! | ||
| J2blue |
Frank, better you than me sitting in that seat! Got tired of that tread mill for sure. | ||
| F_skinner |
I hear you, I have 6 months left. I will be doing what you did. Look for something totally unrelated. | ||
| Methed |
"Horay" for spell-check functionality on my Mac! | ||
| Cadhopper |
I love my macbook pro and imac but I've not been very happy with the leopard operating system. All though I rarely use it I still need to keep a laptop with XP around to use mapsource for the garmin GPS and ecmspy. I could dual boot but it just seems wrong to load windows on my macbook.  | ||
| Court |
My only problem is hard drive space . . . I just overloaded (again) my iMac and am headed to J&R for yet another (this is soon going to make an impressive stack on the desk) 1TB external drive. One of the problems of shooting LOTS of photos in NEF RAW. |
