Re: Bad sectors... how bad?

Pdigmking writes:

> Dude, linux is free ...

In theory, but not in practice. And you get what you pay for.

> ... if MS want's to start giving away their OS's I'll
> gladly stop complaining.

As soon as you start giving away your work without asking for a
salary.

> Besides, you can't seriously be suggesting that
> Linux and Mac Os's are experiencing anywhere near the security problems
> that MS does.

They are far more rarely attacked, because they represent only about
five percent of the market (almost all of that being the Mac). They
do indeed have serious security problems, but nobody is exploiting
them right now.

> Macs have always been way more stable.

Not true, for the older version of the Mac OS, which had the same
general architecture as 16-bit Windows, and the same fragility. Apple
managed to drag this archaic OS all the way into the 21st century,
since it had neither the resources nor the organization to write a new
one, but it finally compromised and borrowed a stable UNIX-like OS and
built its own shell on top to produce a stable desktop OS. UNIX isn't
really the best choice for that, but Apple couldn't afford to roll its
own from scratch and there wasn't much else around in terms of free
stuff. It's interesting that they still didn't choose Linux.

> You used to be able to go into your ten line auto exec
> batch command and fix boot problems in two minutes.

Now you simply don't have boot problems to begin with, so nothing
needs to be fixed.

> MS just keeps adding
> bells and whistles, and every bell and whistle they add is another
> potential problem.

So does everyone else. Software bloat is hard to avoid.

> On and on I could go.

But you'd be saying essentially the same thing over and over, and
repeating something doesn't make it true.

> Pay twice as much for the exact same disk.. yeah.

You pay a lot more for the hardware. An OEM copy of XP Professional
is about half the cost of a mediocre video card.

> Nope, I do not think it's nice of them. Look, I'm using their operating
> system either way and they profit form that. It's got nothing to do with
> nice. They keep producing crappy OS's with security bugs, which in turn
> have to be replaced with the next generation crappy OS. This is their
> marketing strategy, not mine.

Everyone is doing this, not just Microsoft.

> Dude, the only reason MS can charge these prices for a messed up OS is
> that they have a monopoly that they established illegally.

No, even companies that do not have monopolies charge similar prices
for their products. Some charge a lot more. I paid $2300 for a copy
of Quark XPress some years ago, which is about seven times what it is
worth.

> Again, at this point, when you get SP2, you are already one year behind
> in patches and upgrades. You have to go online to the last years worth
> of patches, if you have a dial up connection your looking at hours and
> hours of downloads. Remember, you don't leave dial ups connected all the
> time unless you have a second line.

That's why God invented broadband. And if you're not continuously
online, you're far less vulnerable, anyway.

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