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SatCure · #33 June 14th, 2007, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by bluedevils

I used to work in a company that had windows and mac desktops. The main problems I heard about the macs were how they interloped with the windows server environment!

Huh?
DEF: interlope (as in "intervene") v. : encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license

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Originally Posted by bluedevils

Macs are unix machines and can be hard to hack (without using third person software) given the right user/admin. If macs became more popular, you would definitely see more problems.

With over 20 million in use, Macs are more popular than Mercedes cars. How popular do they need to be before a single hacker notices?

supanatral · #34 June 14th, 2007, 02:36 PM

Thats true, but there were 660 million PC users in 2004.
http://news.com.com/A+billion+PC+use...3-5290988.html

ex2bot · #35 July 9th, 2007, 12:35 AM

Where are all those viruses and spyware apps people have been promising us? I mean, I don't think it's fair that we don't get our proportionate share

It's embarrassing! Macs have only a handful of worms, a handful of spyware. None propagates over the Internet. What good is that? Doggone it!

Oh well. There's always 2k8.

Doug

symphonix · #36 July 9th, 2007, 01:10 AM

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Originally Posted by icemanjc

Another thing I like about windows is that you can just pull a USB thumbdrive out, but with mac you have to eject it.

Ummmm, well no, you're really not supposed to do that. There is a very real risk of corrupting the data on the thumb drive, regardless of whether you are on Mac or Windows. On Windows, you should still unmount USB drives using the "Safely remove hardware" icon in the system tray.

nixgeek · #37 July 9th, 2007, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by symphonix

Ummmm, well no, you're really not supposed to do that. There is a very real risk of corrupting the data on the thumb drive, regardless of whether you are on Mac or Windows. On Windows, you should still unmount USB drives using the "Safely remove hardware" icon in the system tray.

I second what symphonix is saying. No matter what the OS, you still have to "safely remove" the USB flash disk. WIndows even tells you when you disconnect it without unmounting it (aka, the "Safely Remove" option) that you run the risk of corrupting your data. Much of the writing is done during the unmounting process on USB flash drives, so removing it without unmounting it first will surely bring undesirable effects.

I don't know how many times I've had people who were working on documents right from their USB drive, saved the file, and improperly removed the drive say that they couldn't believe that they lost the file when trying to pull it up from another computer. Usually, it's because of the improper unmounting.

icemanjc · #38 July 9th, 2007, 08:45 AM

i havent lost any data yet though.........

nixgeek · #39 July 9th, 2007, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by icemanjc

i havent lost any data yet though.........

Famous last words...

I wouldn't risk it. It doesn't take that long to wait for it to finish writing the data in the filesystem. But that's up to you.

icemanjc · #40 July 9th, 2007, 03:11 PM

yah..... I guess, but i'm in a hurry a lot, and having to do al of that can be annoying.