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PeterArnel
03-09-2006, 02:21 PM
Do we have a hardware section??? - I have heard that when Intel chips go into Macs all the Virusrs will follow mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Peter
iamback
03-09-2006, 03:39 PM
Do we have a hardware section??? - I have heard that when Intel chips go into Macs all the Virusrs will follow mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
PeterViruses don't run on chips - they run on software, notably operating systems. Cross-system viruses (even worms) are very, very rare.

Hardware section though? I don't think it would be a bad idea to have one! External drives, servers, networking, ... struggling with all that today now I have one more set of bits and pieces together.

I hate hardware! :mad:
Hugh Wyn Griffith
03-09-2006, 04:58 PM
<< when Intel chips go into Macs >>

They are in already!
ktinkel
03-09-2006, 05:45 PM
Hardware section though? I don't think it would be a bad idea to have one! We should consider it. For now, though, we use the General Publishing Topics for hardware questions.

You should know my husband — he says he hates software! (He is an engineer, after all!).
ktinkel
03-09-2006, 05:50 PM
Do we have a hardware section??? - I have heard that when Intel chips go into Macs all the Virusrs will followIn theory, the underlying Unix of the Mac OS offers more protection than the MS OS.

Though nothing is perfectly safe, the Mac OS has more built-in safeguards. But it would be foolish to be complacent, on any platform, on any computer, at any time!
imatt
03-25-2006, 02:47 AM
What this really means is that Macs are just "Designer" PC's.....
with a different OS.;-) After all a PC can run Unix, Linux, non MS versions of DOS, beOS and in the past OS/2 and GEM.
Kelvyn
03-25-2006, 04:46 AM
We should consider it. For now, though, we use the General Publishing Topics for hardware questions.

I think a hardware/gadgets section would be quite useful, too. I'm just doing some more upgrading to my network which has gone OK so far - but next week a new networked backup HD will be delivered and I'm not sure yet how I'm going to make best use of it.
PeterArnel
03-25-2006, 12:00 PM
mmmmmmmm
I got that info from one of the top Intel engineers - their Euro headquarters is in Swindown
peter
dthomsen8
03-28-2006, 02:29 AM
We should consider it. For now, though, we use the General Publishing Topics for hardware questions.

You should know my husband — he says he hates software! (He is an engineer, after all!).

It takes both hardware and software to do computer work. My degree is in electrical engineering, and at times I get caught up with playing around with older computer hardware, but not so much now, I got married.

Then there is the ancient programmer joke, how many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

KT: Let's just continue as we are with the General Publishing for hardware.
djb
03-30-2006, 10:53 AM
Most linux boxes are running on Intel or compatible chips. Have you heard a massive viral attack on that operating system? Of course not.

Whoever told you this was either having you on or is truly ignorant about viruses and operating systems.
PeterArnel
03-31-2006, 01:32 AM
U could be right - time will tell
Peter
Was it you who said u were trialing staocastic printing?
djb
03-31-2006, 04:15 AM
U could be right - time will tell
I am right. There are several operating systems that have been running on Intel for years and years. Only Windows has serious virus issues. Can you name one virus affecting Linux or any Mac OS since System 7?

Was it you who said u were trialing staocastic printing?
Yes.
dthomsen8
03-31-2006, 04:34 AM
I am right. There are several operating systems that have been running on Intel for years and years. Only Windows has serious virus issues. Can you name one virus affecting Linux or any Mac OS since System 7?


It seems to me that there are two major reasons that Microsoft Windows operating systems have virus problems:

1) Windows is by far the largest target out there, compared with Linux or MAC.

2) Microsoft gives lots of lip service to security, but not nearly enough in resources, compared with the effort for developing new features to get people to upgrade to the next Windows operating system. There is lots of money in the upgrade/new computer OS market.

For Linux, there have been so many open source programmers and paid commercial distributor programmers out there finding and plugging the security holes, that the operating system is far more secure and reliable than any version of Windows.
ktinkel
03-31-2006, 07:49 AM
It seems to me that there are two major reasons that Microsoft Windows operating systems have virus problems:

1) Windows is by far the largest target out there

2) Microsoft gives lots of lip service to security, but not nearly enough in resourcesThere is also #3: unix-based and unix-like OSes, including Mac (not MAC!) OS X, are inherently more secure. It isn’t that they cannot be penetrated — most viruses and worms require at least some operator error (opening unknown files, for example) — but it is much more difficult.

I can set up my system so that it is even difficult for me to make changes — add or remove files, for example. I don’t think that sort of security is built into Windows.
iamback
03-31-2006, 08:55 AM
U could be right - time will tellHe is - as right as I was before in this thread! - and time has told already, over and over again. :)