rec.autos.simulators

by **Mike Beaucham** » Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:47:53

Ahahaha.. oh man that was classic! :) I love when mac people say "blah blah,
we can't get that virus.. blah blah".

Mike
http://www.racesimcentral.net/

> Yup, plus if your Mac is down it doesn't even matter since you weren't
> running anything on it anyway :)

> > > Sorry, I tend to ignore the specifics of the latest Windows exploits.
> > > I use a NAT router, a firewall and don't use MS mail/news clients so
> > > life is a bit less exciting for me :-)

> > One of the benefits for us Mac users is we're almost automatically
> > immune :)

> > (The most unhackable and virus-resistant Mac ever was the old Mac
> > Classic, though. Not only do nearly all hackers & virus writers not know
> > how to 'attack' Macs, this model also had it's entire OS in ROM, had no
> > command line, could start without any disk and only spoke Appletalk thru
> > the network. Now that's a challenge ;)

> > Regards, Rudy

by **Ruud Dingeman** » Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:13:47

>>Two words: Old Mac.
> Sounds great, how does it run GPL/F1C/N2003? =)

Dunno 'bout the first ones but if you have a notso-old, it runs NR2003
just fine ;)

Regards, Rudy

by **Ruud Dingeman** » Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:17:12

>>One of the benefits for us Mac users is we're almost automatically
>>immune :)
> true, but try finding a good racing sim on a mac :D j/k

? Well like I said in my previous message: what's wrong with NR2003?

(Yes, there is a MacOSX-version too, you know ;)

I'll be trying to find out if some of the pc mods/addons work on the Mac
version as well but first I'm waiting for a G5 to test on!

Regards, Rudy
(GPLRank -3.7)

by **Ruud Dingeman** » Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:18:17

> Yup, plus if your Mac is down it doesn't even matter since you weren't
> running anything on it anyway :)

If that were true, you wouldn't be reading this here message right now
sir ;)

Regards, Rudy

by **Ruud Dingeman** » Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:33:06

> Ahahaha.. oh man that was classic! :) I love when mac people say "blah blah,
> we can't get that virus.. blah blah".

I love it when Windows people say "yeah, mine's been infected... lost
data... AGAIN" ;)

<grin>

Don't worry though, I've got a Repentium for comparison (to run GPL on)
as well...

(Actually, that's probably the thing about Windows and Mac people.

Whether they want to or not - usually, they don't, but hey, that's life
- Mac users will always have some hands-on Windows knowledge --

(from their job, local institutions, pc-using neighbours, pre-Mac days
etc). Consequence of this being a Windows-monopolised world, I'm afraid.

Windows users who have hands-on Mac experience (other than maybe just
'mousing around' for two minutes), on the other hand, are pretty rare.
So I'll leave it up to you to figure out who is best placed to make
actual comparisons, hum hum...)

Regards, Rudy
(Mac/Windows/MSX/C64/CP/M/DOS/RT-11/Linux/AppleII/BBC/Sinclair/Tandy/Amiga/NeXT/SGI
user)

by **Blain** » Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:51:21

>> Ahahaha.. oh man that was classic! :) I love when mac people say "blah blah,
>> we can't get that virus.. blah blah".

>I love it when Windows people say "yeah, mine's been infected... lost
>data... AGAIN" ;)

><grin>

>Don't worry though, I've got a Repentium for comparison (to run GPL on)
>as well...

>(Actually, that's probably the thing about Windows and Mac people.

>Whether they want to or not - usually, they don't, but hey, that's life
>- Mac users will always have some hands-on Windows knowledge --

>(from their job, local institutions, pc-using neighbours, pre-Mac days
>etc). Consequence of this being a Windows-monopolised world, I'm afraid.

>Windows users who have hands-on Mac experience (other than maybe just
>'mousing around' for two minutes), on the other hand, are pretty rare.
>So I'll leave it up to you to figure out who is best placed to make
>actual comparisons, hum hum...)

>Regards, Rudy
>(Mac/Windows/MSX/C64/CP/M/DOS/RT-11/Linux/AppleII/BBC/Sinclair/Tandy/Amiga/NeXT/SGI
>user)

heck, I'm a WinTel guy.. and I have "Hands On" Mac experience...
I put my hands on and around the last mac guys puter who was preaching
aplle crap, and promptly threw it out the window....

after he had said something along the lines of " my apple would never
crash like windows does..." well he was wrong, the window and the mac
both crashed :)

Blaine

by **Joe6** » Fri, 15 Aug 2003 03:08:05

Well, I could just not use a computer at all, be immune, have the same
software choices as Mac users, AND save money.

;-)

by **Tim** » Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:58:48

http://daniel.head.users.btopenworld.com/why_macs_suck.wmv

by **Larr** » Sat, 16 Aug 2003 23:41:40

I've had to deal with many, many user infections. This Virus is a friggin'
nightmare.

Larry

by **Larr** » Sat, 16 Aug 2003 23:42:03

Then you probably have it, because it has NOTHING to do with Email.

Larry

> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:49:24 GMT, "Colin Harris"

> >Apparently it all expleded at aroun 6pm GMT (1pm ET) yesterday...I got
it, I
> >know 3 others who did - anyone in here?

> No, I don't go near Outhouse Express.

> Andrew.

by **Goy Larse** » Sun, 17 Aug 2003 07:10:57

> I've had to deal with many, many user infections. This Virus is a friggin'
> nightmare.

Personally I consider it a Gold Mine....I get paid to fix this stuff as
it's not covered by the warranty I give on my PC's :-)

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"goyl at nettx dot no"

http://www.theuspits.com

"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--

by **Ruud Dingeman** » Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:32:14

> I've had to deal with many, many user infections. This Virus is a friggin'
> nightmare.

<GRIN>

Sorry, couldn't resist on behalf of all other lowly Mac users...

(There's even talk that the US power outs could be a result of safety
overrides in the power grid shutting down because of worm infections;
dunno if that's true though.)

Regards, Rudy

by **Eldre** » Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:21:00

>Sorry, couldn't resist on behalf of all other lowly Mac users...

>(There's even talk that the US power outs could be a result of safety
>overrides in the power grid shutting down because of worm infections;
>dunno if that's true though.)

There, I feel MUCH better...<g>

Eldred - recovering from a 27+ hour blackout...
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Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett

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by **Ruud Dingeman** » Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:02:49

>>Sorry, couldn't resist on behalf of all other lowly Mac users...

> <slaps Ruud with a trout>

> There, I feel MUCH better...<g>

<Ouch!> Ok, I deserved that.

..actually, now *I* feel better too. Could you do that again? ;)

Any Electrical Withdrawal Symptoms you've noticed? :)

Regards, Rudy
(GPLRank -4.8)

by **Eldre** » Mon, 18 Aug 2003 21:16:12

>> Eldred - recovering from a 27+ hour blackout...

>Any Electrical Withdrawal Symptoms you've noticed? :)

A bit... But I ran two online races today, so that helped.<g>

Eldred
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