agreed here. the repetitiveness of these arguments is stultifying.
On Apr 17, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Robert Patterson wrote:
Please, people, I beg you. Take this offlist. It is dullest most
pointless religious argument every single time it comes up, and it has
absolutely nothing to do with the topic of this list.
dhbailey wrote:
Lawrence David Eden wrote:
I wrote to the head of the computer sciences center at University of
Maryland to get his opinion as to what machine to buy. Some of you
may be
interested in his reply:
"Why on earth would you want to subject her to the horrors that
Windows-using students are subjected to here? I spend almost all my
time trying to help them recover from Internet attacks, and more and
more of them are having to reformat their hard drives and reinstall
the
operating system (which leaves them no less susceptible to repeat
performances unless they take the mass of security steps that I
almost
never have time to go over with them in detail.
Unless she HAS to get a PC (and I can't think of a single reason why
a
freshman would be that committed to one of the departments that
requires
them) she ought to get a Mac. Period."
As a Mac user, (Macher) I don't have to deal with the virus issue.
How do
PC mavens protect themselves from the deluge of attacks on their OS?
Larry
Install an antivirus program and that's that.
As well as follow some sound computing practices, such as never
opening attachments you haven't solicited, even when they appear to
come from friends or relatives.
If that person convinces enough people to buy Macs, then there'll be
a big enough Mac user market that he'll have to be dealing with
viruses over there, as well as on windows machines.
It's like anything -- use it wisely, invest in tools to protect
yourself (they're not that expensive) and you're fine.
--
Robert Patterson
http://RobertGPatterson.com
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