Cameron, Take it to another forum please - this is about photography and Pentax - Being a Software engineer for 23 years, I don't want to hear about the silly wars here.
Thanks, Bruce Friday, August 15, 2003, 6:20:30 PM, you wrote: CH> A bit of both. OSX has superb onboard encription which is about to CH> get even better, and Macs are notoriously difficult to write viruses CH> for, anyway, EXCEPT for the Microsoft software which we can now, CH> thankfully, avoid. There are a few Mac viruses out there set to go CH> against Outlook Express and Internet Exploder, but they are rare, and CH> now with the latest version of OSX, we have a dedicated mail and CH> browser program integrated into the operating system, so we need no CH> longer rely on the evil empire. And a new release of OSX is slated for CH> the fall, with built in faxing. CH> Macs are fabulous, and as a former Windoze user who has switched, I CH> personally will never go back. Photoshop, with Mac's Coloursync CH> controlling the colour consistency from scanner to monitor to printer, CH> running in a Native OSX environment with symmetrical dual-processing CH> and a gig and a half of RAM - YAHOO! BTW, the new mac G5's will take up CH> to 8 gigs of ram, have dual 2 GHZ processors, each with 1 gig frontside CH> busses. Smokin'! CH> Do yourself a favour - get one - they are not just better for CH> graphics, or video, or music, they are just better machines for CH> everything, they really are. CH> Cameron CH> On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 11:51 AM, CH> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:38:06 -0400 >> From: "Steve Desjardins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: OT Virus warning (no hoax believe me) >> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> Content-Disposition: inline >> >> I have a question: >> >> Is the security for Macs better than Windows or does no one really >> bother to write viruses that attack them? >> >> >> Steven Desjardins >> Department of Chemistry >> Washington and Lee University >> Lexington, VA 24450 >> (540) 458-8873 >> FAX: (540) 458-8878 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
