Posted on 01/11/2005 10:49:21 AM PST by HAL9000
Really? You don't think a lib or Arab hacker mad over Iraq might want to take down the U.S. Army web site? It's running OS X.
Writers don't always write for the majority OS, they also write for the easiest one to take down, which is Windows. In this case, the two are the same. Like the recent hacker study, Windows does have a lower TC0, that is, a lower Total Cost of 0wn3r5h1p.
I like that. Let's see, 14 million is 1.8% of the market, which means maybe ~784 million Windows boxes. Now if Windows has 68,000 viruses in the wild then that means the Mac should have at least 1,200 viruses by now. Let's give a BIG fudge factor to our guests due to the smaller marketshare, say by one hundred, so maybe the Mac should have at least 12 viruses out there. Nope, still not.
Sorry dudes. UNIX has been fighting off attacks in a networked environment for over 30 years, and the developers have learned how to secure the OS far better than Windows, which barely learned how to network about 12 years ago.
It basically did. Intel stalled for a while around 3 GHz, and they've apparently hit a wall now with the cancellation of the 4 GHz Pentium. Around the same time came the announcements of dual-core. It's obvious that the clock speed race is over.
That leaves Intel with a dead-end technology, while IBM and AMD both have chips that do more at less clock and already have working dual-core designs (although not released yet). Plus IBM and AMD still have room to easily increase their clocks by 40%.
All of that is very bad for Intel. I hope they get their act together, because I love the competition. Don't want IBM or AMD to get complacent.
First, they're not viruses. Second, they are rarely as severe as those in IE (better architecture). Third, Mozilla has had lots of security bugs through the years. You only know about the recent ones since you only recently discovered that Firefox exists.
It took me two minutes to look up three sets of benchmarks with the Itanium and the Xeon/P4. Could it really be that hard? Besides, I didn't really want to pick one for him -- he'd probably say it's not "real world." Let him pick one for himself after two minutes on Google.
I have to admit something though. I was one of Itanium's original detractors, but the latest Itanium 2 is pretty smokin', although damn expensive.
no it is becasue it has a better security model and lacks all the holes present in Windows. For example, most servers run Linux or some other unix variant. By your logic we should see tons of Linux viruses.
Whow! TEN YEARS... you really hold a grudge, don't you?
Again, the vast majority of the 5300s performed impeccably and did not catch fire. I had one. The motherboard connection (which was weak) for the power brick broke five years after I got it... Apple replaced the motherboard. My cost? ZERO.
After the first release 5300s the rest of the 5300 models did not suffer from these problems.
Despite this aberation, the Apple PowerBook line has a reputation for robustness and reliability.
I could also point out to you Apple's handling of another lemon product (and every manufacturer has them). Apple wide carriage ImageWriter II dot matrix printer did not hold up as well as the normal carriage ImageWriter II... in fact, they sucked big time. After a couple of years or so, Apple offered all owners of the wide carriage ImageWriter II a FREE Apple LaserWriter...
Still waiting for your example of a Mac OSX spyware in the wild...
Dang Kwasi, they're on to you!
Amen to that, though installing your own power supply couldn't be simpler. It's simply a self-contained box with 4 mounting screws. Besides, most cases I've seen with pre-installed power supplies have underpowered supplies (IMHO, anything less than 400 watts is underpowered, and if you have the top-end Nvidia or ATI video card, better make it 500W).
This was the old EISA config utilities.. and no these don't exist anymore either.
However, thats 2 CEO's ago, and long before the introduction of the iMac, the G3, the G4, the G5, iBooks, OS X, iPods.. and a whole progression of wild successes that have brought Apple back from the brink to being highly enjoyable and desirable. 1997 was like.. uh.. 8 years ago. Get over it. Or don't. What ever.. this is starting to sound like counting ballots in Ohio.. when the real fraud was occurring in Washington.
It's stupid-ware if you install it yourself without knowing that it will be "calling home" with information about you.
I am still waiting for Kwasi to produce an example from the wild...
Linux is independent of x86 so it is running in native mode on both Opteron and Itanium processors. The PPC has moved on.. too this chip (the G5) is also known as PowerPC 970. Shockingly in relative terms this chip is getting long in the tooth. But it has a stunning advantage over compeditive 64bit processors. The largest of which is that the PPC 970 uses about half the wattage of the Itanium or Opteron at similar frequencies. This might not seem like much but Intel compatible gamers are now talking about 700watt power supplies as standard equipment!!! Todays coolers are miracles of technology sucking the heat of a 100 watt light bulb out of a device perhaps half the size of your pinky fingernail. If the coolers fail for just one second .. China Syndrome! This used to be a complaint about the Athlon Chip long long ago. Now chips immediately cut off when the temperature gets above their already screamingly hot comfort zone.
This is a nice article from Ars Technica on PPC 970 vs. Pentium 4 architectures
Anyone really interested in the depths of these comparisons can read the following article.. which is awesome.
This is a good article comparing Power5 processor to the current Itanium offering
If I remember correctly that 2% market share statistic that everyone loves to throw around is only the number of new systems sold. It is not taking into account the number of systems in actual use.
I am both a Mac user and a PC user, I work for a company that had Macs and switched to pc's. I work in the IT department, most of the technicians I work with are well informed and very and good at what they do. However, even they are still thinking of Macintosh and the Mac OS as it was in the late 80's early 90's. They could not understand why I bought it until they have seen that if I wanted to I could do my job on this machine. I have Office, Lotus Notes, I can remote control Windows XP machines to do work on them as I do with my Windows box now. It easily connected to my XP machine and shared files, it allowed me to connect to NT Domain resources. The built in Bluetooth was of interest to them as well.
In my office is the last of the new Macintoshes my company bought before switching over to Windows machines. It is a Power Macintosh G4 350mhz tower, it was built in 1999. It is running the most current version of Apples OS, Mac OS X 10.3, it has two Firewire ports they came standard. It is still a viable machine to work on, a lot of Mac users keep their machines for long periods of time because they are still able to run the newest versions of software. Most of the PC's that we had in service in 1999 are now too old and slow to even think about loading XP on. Most do not have USB let alone Firewire and USB capabilities.
As I said before use what you like best, I have become partial to my Mac. I use Windows at work because I have to, I use my Mac at home because I want to.
As far as spyware goes, I have seen even the most up to date patched Windows machines allow a drive by install of software from the internet. My Mac requires a password before it will allow any software to install itself, even though my account is an Administrator account it still requires authentication before it will allow an install. I know that you stop this on a Windows machine by limiting the user accounts, but in the environment we are in at work all of the users must be Administrators because of the legacy coded applications left over from the Windows 95 days.
Again, use what you think is best. I like my Mac, most of the guys I work with like Windows (sometimes grudgingly) and I even work with a few Linux guys.
Windows isn't all bad, it has its uses, it has some serious security flaws, like IE. I stopped using IE on my Windows machine and only use Firefox, I also use it on the Mac.
The OS debate cannot be won for either side, it is just too subjective. All you can do is make your case for one side of the other and do what works for you.
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