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Does Mac Malware Benefit From Obscurity No! Proved By Data. 2471
No, I didn't prove your point, as you noticed below. This is why you should read the whole thing before imagining that you know what's coming. It's...
Does Mac Malware Benefit From Obscurity No! Proved By Data. 2472
Derek Currie 6) The rewards for breaking into OSx systems have not yet reached critical mbutt to warrant the effort, even if that effort is less...
Does Mac Malware Benefit From Obscurity No! Proved By Data. 2473
snip These figures appaer to count any sort of malware at all for the PC, but only infective viruses on the Mac. This will exagerate your results, though by no means...
Does Mac Malware Benefit From Obscurity No! Proved By Data. 2474
Derek Currie Wrong. Simple statistics prove nothing. Because they are nothing but simple statistics. There is no proof of causality. Out of the box, yes. Properly secured, no. True. True. True. Not true. "Easier...
Does Mac Malware Benefit From Obscurity No! Proved By Data. &A#JD1Tg!d8!' 2475
Agreed. I just replied to John Slade regarding that subject. To quote both of us: John Slade said: I replied: Therefore, one of my goals is to enlighten Mac users about being...
Does Mac Malware Benefit From Obscurity No! Proved By Data. 2476
aa bunch of arithmetic Algebra? All I saw was arithmetic. I'd say that anyone trained in algebra would wonder...
Does Mac Malware Benefit From Obscurity No! Proved By Data. 2477
I am still horrified about malware on OS X (if it ever ships!) because of false sense of trust in majority...
Does Mac Malware Benefit From Obscurity No! Proved By Data. 2478
George Graves Forget all the math. Forget that almost every government in the world uses Unix based (like Mac OS) machines for servers and storing sensitive data. Forget that Windows draws a...
Windiws Genuine advantage phones home
If you've noticed some unexplained traffic on your network every day, it could be Windows Genuine Advantage. As Matt on M-Dollar pointed out...
Mac Security: Weekly Summary 20060601
And it has suddenly dawned on me (yes, I am dense) why Symantec, McAfee, Sophos, et all went on an OS X security witch hunt recently. Why all the white...
LCD without mode change alerts
Anybody know of an LCD monitor that lets you disable alerts for its mode change? I upgraded to a 21" LCD and DVI KVM. The trouble is, everytime I switch systems, or when...
Apple dries up in the Sun
Ever dream of a multiplatform, dual-core workstation that provides blazing x64 performance, supports 32...
Apple dries up in the Sun 2483
Steve Hix Want to stack it up against an SGI? Integraph? The Mini doesn't have anywhere near the graphics capability Maccies have told us in the past is expected from workstations...
Apple dries up in the Sun 2484
What SGI workstation was selling for less than $5K five years ago? Perhaps one of their NT boxes. As...
Apple dries up in the Sun 2485
Steve Hix So when you "The base Mini outperforms just about any Unix workstation that sold for less than, oh, about $5K...
Apple dries up in the Sun 2486
GreyCloud No, the price for a dual core starts at $895. Key Specifications One AMD Opteron processor (dual-core up to 2.6 GHz, single core...
Apple dries up in the Sun 2487
Edwin That $895 system on that chart shows an AMD model 144 processor. At AMDs website the model 144 is a single core processor. It seems that Sun has...
Apple dries up in the Sun 2488
GreyCloud Bingo. See, Edwin posts a link to Sun's website and states with Edwin-esque authority "Sun make a dual-core machine for $895, let's see Apple beat that", when had...
Apple dries up in the Sun 2489
What planet do you live on. If everything misleading were also false, we wouldn't need the word in the first place. Since you're so fond of...
Apple dries up in the Sun 2490
Lefty Bigfoot Just how did I "prove" that? "PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a byproduct of an ongoing heterogeneous network computing research project involving the authors and their insbreastutions. The general goals...
Apple dries up in the Sun 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd* 2491
Edwin wrote (in article X to either for just about anything else. Feature. I can't remember the last time I...
Apple dries up in the Sun 2492
Lefty Bigfoot Which version of Solaris have you used? Costing more is a "feature?" Besides, I just end your arguments, in the style of Maccies who think yelling "it doesn't run Mac OS...
Apple dries up in the Sun 2494
Lefty Bigfoot Solaris 8. Apple can compete at the high end, but unfortunately for them, most of computing is done at...
for the sladeboy who thinks no viruses abound in PC's 2495
And all we are doing is making the point that Windows users MUST DO THAT. Would you disagree? Would you say that even thought you...
for the sladeboy who thinks no viruses abound in PC's 2496
No. Yes I can. Just like you can say that it's a waste of time to...
for the sladeboy who thinks no viruses abound in PC's 2497
I would say that making it necessary wastes the user's time -- the computer is supposed to work for the user, not make new demands on the user's time and money...
for the sladeboy who thinks no viruses abound in PC's 2498
In Microsoft's case, it would take a major shift in programming and design. In particular, they'd have to make the decision to drop legacy support...
for the sladeboy who thinks no viruses abound in PC's 2499
Not really true, but anyway, irrelevant. The current Windows, compared to the current Mac is neither well-designed nor efficient. Compared to the Mac it is neither simple nor elegant, and that's...
for the sladeboy who thinks no viruses abound in PC's 2500
You don't have to. Once it is demonstrated that the OS itself is vulnerable, it doesn't matter that well-informed and expensive experts have...
for the sladeboy who thinks no viruses abound in PC's 2501
OS X is vulnerable. There have been many exploits that could result in an OS X system takeover...
for the sladeboy who thinks no viruses abound in PC's 2502
Sre, and many of the same for Windows XP. In most cases, Apple has released a patch very quickly -- lots faster than Microsoft...
for the sladeboy who thinks.. Windows gets Credit Debt for computer benefits
Huh? What does Windows do? It is the hardware or the application that is doing the work, right? Ah -- I see, because it was written...
for the slade who thinks... Windows gets Credit Debt for comptuer benefits
How? You are citing that computers do important work. You haven't shown how you know it is a Windows computer doing it. You haven't shown how the work is more important because it is being...
for the sladeboy who thinks no viruses abound in PC's 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd* 2505
John Slade wrote I'm not so sure about that. That is of course the common mythology...
for the sladeboy who thinks no viruses abound in PC's 2506
That's for sure. This group might create an opposition of perspectives, but it too often degenerates into name-calling and breast-for-tat insult posts. Those are typically...
for the sladeboy who thinks no viruses abound in PC's 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd* 2507
John Slade wrote This is very true. It's a bad thing, especially for Windows credibility...
Join me in my fight against PCs 2508
This is just obfuscatory BULLpoo Brian, and YOU know it. The argument has nothing to do with both platforms using...
Join me in my fight against PCs
Yes. I forgot who, but I think his point was only that the term PC was originally used to refer...
Join me in my fight against PCs 2510
Hi! on doubt? If that's so, where's the Intel motherboard that Apple uses in the Mac mini? The iMac? Macbook (Pro)? EFI (it's *not* "EFF, that's something different...
Join me in my fight against PCs 2511
Hi! Read my posting. Try again. There is a lot of standardization in the parts between a Mac and a PC. Not everything...
Apple gets served! 2512
Edwin It certainly isn't vapor, since no one has announced it yet. And, considering that Apple's transition to Intel is running *ahead* of schedule, saying an Intel version of the XServe is vapor is...
Apple gets served! 2513
Edwin Eddie, why do you always get yourself into these bouts of defending really silly...
Apple gets served! 2514
Dave Fritzinger When did you change your name to "Eddie?" I see the opposite. Jim Polaski and you have both unofficially announced them. Sure, I answer your posts without having...
Apple gets served! 2515
Edwin Sigh. Same old Edwin. When you find yourself in an untenable, you do this BS. Eddie, it just...
Apple gets served
Maccie" has been used, for years, to mean "Mac advocate". I.e. everyone that's in this group using a Mac and telling others how great it is. You have lately used the word...
Windows Gets It Done 2517
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 21:43:00 -0400, Mayor of R'lyeh I'm a Mac user but I have to admit that I agree with your point. Over and over and over...
Windows Gets It Done 2518
Well, some people in this thread do, anyway. Edwin has used his "work of the world" line several times, but the only...
Windows Gets It Done 2519
says... Hardly. You were constantly pointing out that no one needs an SUV but were very defensive...
Windows Gets It Done
Oh, goodie - let's see! I.e. a complete truth. Not directed at you - which was the issue at hand...
Windows Gets It Done 2521
You're telling many lies again, Mayor. I never said nobody needed an SUV; merely that many people (not all people, please...
Photos from the brain surgery
Earlier this week, getting increasingly annoyed with my new MB's "mooing" issue, I cracked it open to check out the thermal paste issue...
Dogs on IRC
Agenda" is a funny word. I was once involved in starting an amateur hockey team. Many of the other members were politically correct liberal types who wanted to make sure...
Steve Jobs being a retard &A#JD1Tg!d8
Ok. I watched the video. Steve Jobs himself, being very friendly and neighborly, talks to the the Cupertino city council about the new expansion of Apple to a second campus. Apple needs room for...
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