Cotty wrote: > > >True, Cameron, but I'd like to elaborate a little. > >I use one of the older Macs, a 3rd rev. Beige G3 PowerMac, with OS 9.2.1. > >I've paid for and maintain a good virus program, and it's always > >checking the incoming, but since 1986 I've never got a virus attack! > >Well, not quite true, I did get a "worm" once, but the effects were > >mild, and that was perhaps in 1990 (?) > >Nothing since then. <big grin> > > Keith, you should try OS X - stability like you wouldn't believe.
So I've heard, for the more recent incantations thereof. I'm toying with the idea of getting a G4 tower, with OSX 10.2x (and Classic) already installed, maybe a dual processor version, however they come, 500 mhz, 800 mhz...whatever. Need a faster machine (mine's 300 mhz!) > And a nice bonus, I use 'Safari' - Apple's own web browser (still in beta) I have read numerous posts about the instability of Safari, and in earlier versions, some folks even lost or had severly messed up hard drives. Apple does have problems with beta versions of most of their stuff, as I recall. You like Safari better than Communicator? Or Mozilla, for that matter? > and so have rid myself of all MS software on my Macs. Having said that, > the Mac team at MS do a very good job - IE 5.x is no slouch and I used it > in preference to Netscrape or iCab or Mozilla. IE5 in preference to anything is a wonder! I tried it just once, and finally managed to eliminate it from my hard drive. For one thing, like all MS products, it absolutely takes over your computer! It's amazing the places it inserts this or that fragment of itself! How do you like PowerMail 4.1.3? It replaced what? Worth the $49 (well, that's U.S. ainit) ? > Th Windows SAN virus is now eating into a lot of British PCs - I filmed > at Sophos (UK anti-virus company) this morning re the virus, later at PC > World (like CompUSA) where they were besieged with customers carrying > towers waiting in line to drop them off to be de-bugged for a few pennies > short of twenty quid. > > While waiting to film the interviews I went over... Where? At PC World? >...and cleaned up all the Macintosh desktops, getting rid of nonesense > and setting mouse speeds and sizes to something half-decent ;-) Gotta > keep the side up! > > Cheers, > Cotty keith
