On Sep 13, 2011, at 10:51 PM, Jim Preston <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well here I have to take exception. You have every option to choose mirrors > that suit your liking better. If the US servers are not meeting your needs, > pick a different region. If the US round-robin are using mirrors half way > around the world, then..... there is no detraction to picking default mirrors > that are half way around the world but choosing something other then US as > the location. The fact that ClamXav HAS chosen to make it inconvenient for > users to change update frequency or setting of db mirrors is NOT a clamav > fault. The mechanism exists in freschclam but the port to OS X has chosen to > ignore this very important feature. Would you like me to write a user > interface application so OS X users can do this very simple preference > setting? And don't get me started on some of the stupid approaches Apple has > taken to a very simple to manage OS like FreeBSD. Although I choose express > no opinion on the MACH kernel versus other kernels, the MACH kernel choice, > is not issu e that has detracted from the ability to easily set preferences. Apple has chosen to go the Microsoft route of "our users are too stupid to be allowed to do their own customization" and as such we OS X users have to suffer as we do with the choices made in Redmond. Thanks for the offer Jim. I realized after I hit send that I gave an emotional answer that I knew wasn't technically correct. As I think you know I try to represent the average ClamXav user here. In the forum I try very hard not to recommend solutions the average user won't be able to easily implement. If it's something that can be built into ClamXav I put it on Mark's suggested improvements list. Otherwise I may try it out myself, but rarely recommend tailoring clamav unless the user has special needs. As such, it's important that I maintain the baseline on my computer, otherwise I can't be as helpful to others. Believe it or not, I could care less whether my setup works for me or not as long as it performs the way it does for everybody else. Sent from Janet's iPad -Al- -- Al Varnell _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
