Later, doing some Unix development I was surprised to see VMS code, lifted from fiche probably, the the Unix kernel. Unix/Linux was and is a grad school project. Apache works because it doesn't have to change. Macs work because Apple has always taken the no one but Apple approach. That is why it will never be used extensively in business, except the publishing business. More credit to Apple's business model. They get all sorts of free publicity and have a committed clientele happy to pay fifty percent more for a limited machine.
This trojan looks nasty, but I've never had a trojan, and neither have most people. A firewall will prevent reassignment of DNS addresses. Current antivirus definitions will identify most trojans. Microsoft gives away pretty decent antimalware tools to legitimate customers. Defender and whatever they named the antivirus product seem fine. My dozen systems run Microsoft and BitDefender. I always use Defender. Being a bigot of any platform is an old story. Unix has been taking over for thirty five years now, but Dave Cutler's work, RSX-11, ELN, VMS, Windows after NT, is real engineering excellence. Some of the imitators look promising, such as Mono. Mono will allow the proliferation of truly machine independent tools, based upon Microsoft innovation, a machine independent Intermediate Language with support for over sixty procedural languages. Mono will promote the migration of .Net to markets outside of Microsoft's business domain.
Nothing keeps people from writing business applications for Apple. The free OpenOffice suite is already available for Windows, multiple Linuxes, and Mac. Business managers just don’t like spending on Mac.
People don’t seem to get that IBM invented everything in computing in the 1950s. We are just tweaking it ;-]
The Mac folks don’t know crap about computing because they play around with cute stuff and don’t realize how it works. “Dude! Check it out! I have a nice salmon matched with an antique white and it looks fab! Let’s PS it and rotate it on the latest advert then have a doob!”
A solid router prevents most stuff w/o the need of a firewall. I use Vipre for most defense now.
Macs have who? .NET has Anders. Pick someone in the Mac community better than Anders. Not going to happen.
Pffftttt on most of the folks out there who have a Mac fanboy poster on their wall. They have no idea how coding works or how computers operate.
Give me lambda expressions or give me death!
The story, as I understand it, is this.
The VMS guys came up with a new kernal. They asked DEC to support it. The kernal guys were in Seattle. DEC said, move to Boston and we don’t like the idea.
The team lead at DEC went to Bill Gates and said they had an idea for O/S. Bill G said cool, and hired them en masse. Win NT came out which had NOTHING in common with Windows but some screens. But people think they are connected.
You still have folks that think that Windows is based on DOS. It isn’t. It is based on VMS. The last DOS Windows was Windows ME and even it wasn’t that DOS based.
Hence, Win NT, Win 2000, Win XP, Win Vista, Win 7 are all VMS products with a deep lineage. And VMS is a mainframe system with similarities to zOS. It lifted functionality from IBM.
Ah well. Getting gray hair in this industry.
I worked for VMS for DEC, Compaq, and HP. Dave Cutler, the principal architect of Windows NT, left DEC/VMS to work for Microsoft.
Windows NT (WNT) is VMS++. The next letter after V is W, after M is N, after S is T.
Dave had a vision, and DEC did not want to fund development for it. Microsoft offered Dave a great opportunity. As for DEC, Another in a long list of missed opportunities.
On a previous visit to the MIL I put on anti-spyware and anti-virus. On the most recent visit I spent most of my Easter day getting two trojans and other assorted nasties off her machine.
It would be easier jut to get her a Mac.