On 17 Apr 2005 at 8:14, Lawrence David Eden wrote: > I wrote to the head of the computer sciences center at University of > Maryland to get his opinion as to what machine to buy. Some of you > may be interested in his reply: > > "Why on earth would you want to subject her to the horrors that > Windows-using students are subjected to here? I spend almost all my > time trying to help them recover from Internet attacks, and more and > more of them are having to reformat their hard drives and reinstall > the operating system (which leaves them no less susceptible to repeat > performances unless they take the mass of security steps that I almost > never have time to go over with them in detail. > > Unless she HAS to get a PC (and I can't think of a single reason why a > freshman would be that committed to one of the departments that > requires them) she ought to get a Mac. Period." > > As a Mac user, (Macher) I don't have to deal with the virus issue. > How do PC mavens protect themselves from the deluge of attacks on > their OS?
The person you wrote to obviously has *no* experience in configuring and administering Windows PCs, so his advice is highly suspect, in my opinion. His reaction is definitely a wild over-reaction, as you seem to suspect from what you've asked. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
