Comments | dershem: Murphy hates me.

dershem

Murphy hates me.

Nov 29, 2009 15:49

First there was the band music incident. The van is cleaned out and now smells faintly of Pine-Sol, but still ( Read more... )

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_twilight_ November 30 2009, 00:51:51 UTC

Oh shit. That's no fun at all!

anonymous November 30 2009, 03:31:35 UTC

Oy, and we had hoped that you would have time to catch up and relax a bit...sorry.

antinomic December 1 2009, 13:08:48 UTC

At work, we suffer with similar problems from time to time. Behind 3 firewalls and then a proxy server. Even the Navy can't keep out all the problems.

But at home, never an issue. Get a Mac!

Bad way to spend a long weekend, my sympathies.

dershem December 2 2009, 05:32:42 UTC

I am really looking seriously at a Mac next time. Were it not for the cost of replacing all of my programs, some of which don't exist for Mac, I probably would have long ago. But as it is now possible to run a few apps in a virtual machine, it is more tempting.

Of course, the Mac I want runs about $15K, but I guess I could settle for something less. :)

jajy1979 December 3 2009, 06:15:22 UTC

Macs contrary to popular opinion are NOT resistant, immune, or impervious to viruses. There are viruses out there that work just fine on Macs, more to the point as a general rule of thumb the Mac Viruses are more debilitating on a 1:1 ratio than their Window's cousins.

Also realize that more and more viruses are spread via flash, Shockwave, and Adobe style files which run on BOTH OS's. Also as Mac incorporates more Windows-based and other generalized software and the two major OS become more and more similar the rate of cross-infection will increase.

Sucks to have these problems, but I'd rather pay half the cost for the computer than lose the larger investment only slightly more infrequently.