On 8/13/03 4:59 AM, "Mark Schieldrop" <mark@schieldrop.net> wrote:
I shoulda bought a mac when I had the chance.
No, you should have gone and applied the update offered more than three weeks ago. Lax updating is no reason to bash a product. The update was right on windowsupdate.com, and there has been plenty of press about the exploit and the possibility of a worm.
Typing reboot.exe -a at a command prompt will halt the shutdown.
Yeah, I guess he could have done that. But the cool thing is that you don't have to worry about "keeping up on security hole updates" on the Mac. NO viruses, ever. It just works. There's a new security update every freakin' week for Windows (I know, I have a PC @ work right here). And the updates don't always catch the problem before it becomes a problem. What if you are away from an internet connection for a few months? I don't want to get on a Mac/PC bashing debate, but I was just talking about this whole worm/virus thing w/my girlfriend on the way to work today, and it just fucking sucks that some 14 year old hacker can take down your entire PC without you even knowing it. All your precious data = gone. Nothing more horrifying. Stepping off the platform war soapbox, _jason_ _________ ________ _______ _____ ____ ___ __ _ _ _