> -----Original Message----- > From: Dave l [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=151250154&size=o
I've been running Vista for months now and I've never seen that many popups for one thing. For my day to day stuff I don't get the security popups at all. > I just dont have all the crap to do that i did on windows. I don't have to > shut down the computer at night or reboot when i wanna work to get it to > run better, i dont have to clean it or virus scan or clean out registry, > etc... This is something I just don't understand, I never do these things, I don't shutdown the system, I don't go around cleaning out the registry. On my XP machine its been up for over 26 days. I installed it in May of 2005, I've never installed a virus scanner, never had to deal with spyware. > And all the people who dispute it havent actually worked on a mac and if > you havent noticed especially in the developer world a majority of the > well known bloggers are switching to macs in droves. Sure I have, I've had to get them to test with in the past. But its never made sense. By the time OSX came out I was doing .NET development. I'd used OS9 in school, and for testing in the past, but it didn't make sense as a workstation because of the cost. > Then there are the security issues. Ok well, like Dave Watts said in other > forum (which i didnt keep up on), it depends on the user and dont run in > admin mode. Well wtf is that? Things have gotten so bad on a pc that you > cant just turn it on and go, now you cant even run in admin mode and all > the popups and all the questions and blah blah blah, too me thats not a > very productive OS, its bullshit. And for the people who say "but if macs > were as popular as pc's then they'd have more problems too....", well > maybe so but the fact is that right now and for a lot of years to come mac > users just dont have that to worry about and personally I'd rather be > productive during that time than a coward hiding behind a faux security > mode in windows. This is something that is interesting, in OSX do you always run as a privileged user? I thought it would prompt you if you were doing something that required additional permissions, and I didn't think you were always in admin mode. You can turn off the security stuff in Vista if you want, it isn't hard, I haven't done it because it doesn't bother me, I don't get them. My Wife, never gets them, she didn't get that one Mac ad because she hadn't ever seen one. > The windows users can say what they want, for those who try the switch, > you see what it does and how it helps you. If you are to chicken to try > then enjoy vista and know its just a piss poor version of OS X and while > we are playing with new toys for the next few years you will still be > having sloppy seconds...... I would try to the switch if I could afford it. I can afford to spend two to three times the price for a Mac. If they would let me build my own machine and run OSX on it, I'd give it a shot, but they won't. Give me an option. On the other side, of it, until I can do my job on a Mac, and play the games I want on a Mac, there isn't a point in even trying. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:228876 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
