I got asked to put together a app for a local college to track something (haven't seen it yet). They want to use access.
Me, I'm thinking VFP But I haven't seen it yet, so that might change -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul McNett Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 3:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] M$ Web Site [RANT] On 11/20/14, 12:44 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > The malware keeps getting nastier. > > A coworker who only surfs People Pets and yahoo (network admins know > these > things) came down with a Google Search replacement malware that > replaced search engines and start pages and embedded a Windows service > to keep them that way on *all three* browsers. On a fully-patched > machine with firewalls and virus scanners. This stuff gets nasty. My rule of thumb is to only use Windows when forced to. Practically speaking this is: 1) At my day job (multinational company has adequate IT and procedures to keep it safe) 2) When testing my applications - fire up my Windows VMs that aren't network-connected. If I happen to still get infected with something, can restore from the last snapshot. 3) I provide IT services to a company in town that runs various Windows flavors on their workstations and a couple servers. They need Windows for the VFP app I wrote for them over a decade ago, plus other off-the-shelf and accounting software. I keep their systems patched, use multiple layers of firewalls and anti-malware, and implore users to be smart about what they click on. Still, I probably bill them 20 hours a year on malware removal. 4) My mom runs Windows because of the VFP app I made for her a decade ago. But she does little else, so there haven't been too many issues. Even though #3 is only 20 hours and is readily absorbed and forgotten about, it sucks because I'm not billing them for time that adds any value to their business processes, it takes away from the available time for me to provide the same, and it is annoying, tedious, unenjoyable work for me. There really isn't much reason to *use* Windows these days, other than for legacy VFP apps. Apple, Chrome, and Linux pretty much have the user experience nailed. Even for my #1, I do all stuff save Outlook (yech) and Office (yech) in a VM running Linux. Nobody's still making new stuff in VFP, right? ;) Paul [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
