Re: My views on Microsoft and Apple since thread seems done on usb
Re: My views on Microsoft and Apple since thread seems done on usb
DISCLAIMER: The Text Below reflects Dan W's Opinions as a person and in no
way reflect Microsoft's Opinion or Apple's opinion or any other MVP's opinion
and so take them for what they are worth which could be just mindless
ramblings or something you might get a grain of truth from but I just felt
like expressing my opinion for all who may care enough to view and possibly
even <gasp> respond.
First of all many thanks are due to PCR, Robear <MVP>, Chris Quirke, MVP,
Jim MVP, and all others who are far too numerous to mention who have guided
me along a path fraught with the puzzling and sometimes crazy moments of
technology in an ever increasing information society led world.
My prayer, hope and thought is Please greater something out there let us
never at least in the States never get as bad as George Orwell's Vision in
1984 as far as an oppressive and over-bearing government and let people's
free will be restrained in a good way to the betterment of society as a whole.
Computers: Microsoft and Apple Commentary
The problems with Windows 98 Second Edition seemed to mainly have been due
to 3rd parties that did not know how to properly write drivers with the
proper software code for working well within 98 Second Edition.
This seems now largely resolved because it has been a while since I have
seen a BSOD. I sometimes get errors now but realize and see they are not due
to Windows 98 SE but due to a third party program that is not happy within
Windows 98 SE for some reason and then time to remove, figure out what is
wrong, and install again if that program is actually needed after all. It
seems to work well for me nowadays.
In addition, you can compare all three operating system at secunia.com and
you just use the search box to see how safe/secure 98 SE is compared to XP
Home/Professional and even Vista. What you find out may surprise you as well
as the fact that currently Mozilla Firefox 2.x and 3.x has less serious
vulnerabilities than these browsers thus the Justice Department was right in
pursuing an anti-trust case against Microsoft for this back in 1998 of tying
Internet Explorer with Windows.
Unfortunately, Microsoft is doing well and complying well now but Apple is
the guilty party and it just fires me up. Apple in all their great and
mighty pride and glory say in a sense "We are so great" and "We will show you
how much greater we are than Microsoft" Apple is doing this now by tying
Itunes with Quicktime with Bonjour and even pushing its Safari web browser on
users and I am not too confident in Safarii because for one thing Safari does
not have the 256 bit AES cipher strength of Mozilla Firefox even in 98 Second
Edition as well as not having the compatibility of the industry.
In addition, if you remove Quicktime which I have done because I don't need
or want Quicktime then it breaks Itunes which I want with my Ipod. The
vicious cycle is constant updates for Apple software because of security
vulnerabilities. Check this out that even recently Apple released a huge
patch and yet people like Walt M. of the Wall Street Journal in the past has
said how safe and secure Apples are compared to PC's. This is not true and
comparing Apples to Oranges (PC's) in a sense. Please see:
us-cert.gov
Apple Releases Security Update 2008-005
added August 1, 2008 at 08:17 am
Apple has released Security Update 2008-005 to address multiple
vulnerabilities that affect a number of applications. These vulnerabilities
may allow an attacker to conduct DNS cache poisoning attacks, execute
arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, or access the affected
system with elevated privileges. Please note that this update addresses
recent issues with weaknesses in common DNS implementations; see
Vulnerability Note VU#800113 for additional information.
US-CERT encourages users to review Apple Article HT2647 and apply any
necessary updates as soon as possible to help mitigate the risks.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-037.mspx
Thank you again and have a great day. Your belief, attitude, behavior are
all in your heart and mind and also in my case in DreamWorld because of who I
am as a strange unique individual who is crazy and weak in my physical body
but determined and not weak in my faith. Dan just wants to get along but
cannot with certain people and it certainly is sad but I put the blame on me
for being too wild, too crazy and too repetitive but it just goes along with
surviving cancer, having a learning disability and being me. Please I do not
need your sympathies and just your thoughts and prayers would be way awesome
for a little weak guy like me.
<grin --- how is that for an explanation of my odd behavior in the past but
currently much more stable thanks to modern drugs and the power of science
but faith plays a part in it for me as wel----- Thank Goodness for modern
medicine, drugs and doctors --
-o)
"Peter in New Zealand" wrote:
> > | Incidently, I mentioned somewhere I had upgraded my reasonably grunty
> > | desktop to Vista. Yep, well, I like a lot about Vista and it ran
> > | great on the machine, but owing to a few software issues I have it
> > | back on XP, and there it will stay I think. Seriously, I am thinking
> > | of putting MS Virtual machine on and installing 98SE into it for a
> > | smile. I'll let you know how it goes if I do.
> >
> > OK. Keep us informed. Sounds like a big project. Blanton is
> > knowledgeable on that virtual machine.
> >
>
> Ah well, it was fun trying, but it's the old thing about drivers again. None
> for the chipset for W98 on the CD that came with the mobo, and none on the
> manufacturer's web site. Sigh. Can't really blame them. It was just a hobby
> project anyway, and I've really run out of time to play with it.
>
> But the little laptop still trundles along on 98 just fine and makes a great
> mobile extension of the desktop machine. I just use Briefcase on a USB flash
> drive to take my data files between the two. So when my grandson comes to
> stay and wants to use the grunty desktop to shoot up aliens or something I
> can go onto the dining room table with the laptop while he blows up the
> universe in my office. (grin)
>
> I don't use it every day, but at least every 2 or 3 days, and I have not, in
> a month now, had one single crash, lock up, BSOD, or any other hiccup. Oh,
> yes, just one, and it was caused by a scruffy bit of software I installed. I
> used Task Manager to close it, rebooted, and everything was fine again. I
> really wonder if we have gotten so used to hearing all about the admitted
> weaknesses of the W9* kernal that we have forgotten it was once the main OS
> of choice for business and serious users. Sure it isn't as stable as the XP
> and Vista series, but I have to say I am enjoying using it with reasonable
> confidence.
>
> --
> Peter in New Zealand. (Email address is fake)
> Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and
> compulsive computer fiddler.
>
>
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