Re: 2nd bodies


If you keep up-to-date with the security patches, which is really easy with XP, and you have a decent anti-virus package then you shouldn't have any problems. You should still educate the users not to open attachments unless they're expecting them, but that's just common sense anyway. 


Anti-virus software? What's that for? Oh yeah, I use a Mac.


You're safe on a Mac for much the same reason that Linux users are safe, they are such a small minority that hackers are less inclined to try to compromise them. Windows is a prime target just because it is so widely used. I think if Apple had the same kind of market share as Microsoft, it would also suffer from the same kinds of problems.


I've set up computers with Win 95, 98, 2000 Pro, 2000 Server, XP Pro, and 2003 Server and I've never had a virus get any further than the virus scanner. I've set up computers for non-techy users as well and they've still managed to keep them virus free without any trouble.


So have I. Windows still sucks, especially XP.

My main issues with XP are that it's ugly and inefficient and that it requires activation. I actually quite like Windows 2000. It's a no-nonsense OS, easy on memory and things just work. In XP they've significantly slowed down things like the Windows Explorer, and the Find Utility has been seriously crippled. The graphic design for things like the task bar and start menu etc. looks like it was done by a programmer.

Actually thare are a couple of other things I don't like about Macs. I think the CD/DVD eject button on the keyboard is a silly idea. What if you want to have multiple optical drives or other ejectable devices, zip drives etc? It always confuses new users, who instintively look for a button somewhere near the drive itself, as you'd see on every other CD/DVD device. I also think it's pretty non-intuitive to have to hold down the mouse button when booting to eject stuck discs or zip drives etc. I once tried to use a multi-session CD in a Mac and it crashed it and prevented it from booting. One of the guys in the lab told me to hold down the mouse button while rebooting, and initially I thought he must have been joking. Why on earth would they design it so the mouse button is the emergency eject button? Oh and also there seems to be less integration between applications on Macs, like on a PC the clipboard is a universal thing that works across all applications. Like I can select and copy something in Mozilla then close the application and still be able to paste the text back into some other application. Last time I tried this on a Mac it lost the information as soon as I closed the original application. When programming applications on a PC, the clipboard is something you can pretty much ignore, because windows handles it all automatically.

I think these are things that I could get used to though, and I do really like the way it can show little icons of my photos even in list view. I have to change to thumbnail view in Windows 2000 to see a preview icon. When dealing with a directory with hundreds of images this gets really slow and tedius.

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