[geeks] "Borg foot" pix.

[Ken Hansen]

The "choice" of running this "virus vacuum" is truely based on hardware
choice.

If I had a Solaris laptop that was under 1" thick, weighed less than 3-4
pounds, ran for 2+ hours w/802.11b support for those two hours I'd be happy
to switch.

I will probably get my wife a nice iBook (the one we discussed Pete), and if
that goes well, I may get a used Powerbook later for me.

I could run Solaris on this laptop, but no supprt for 802.11b (once you
wireless, you never go back!).

I could run Linux on it, I suppose, but I am choosing not to (for now, that
might change, but that is my choice).

Besides, I've been running Win OSs for years, and I've only gotten a couple
viruses (virui?) - the latest "Hi!" virus, and had no impact on me (didn't
open them, not infected).

I've been lucky, I know, but the experience has not been too negative so
far...

My wife, on the other hand, spent an extra 3 or four hours at work after her
Mac crashed at 4:45 on Friday - some bizzarness with ATM font manager,
IIRC...

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [geeks] "Borg foot" pix.


> On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 08:42:30PM -0800, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> > > Good luck hacking my Win98 laptop behind the firewall, but you would
> > Geez, why would anybody *want* to...
> > I'm ashamed of you, running the "virus vacuum" of OS's... :-)
>
> I was on a friend's movie set yesterday, setting up a Mac G3 laptop in
> an emergency to put a picture up on some flatscreens we had.. the laptop
> was on the floor, and I was on my knees typing away...
>
> One of the crew said "So, is that the required operating position for that
> OS?"  (on my knees, ass in the air).  I said "no, you're thinking of
Windows.."



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