On Mar 12, 8:24 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> You only know good when you've seen bad...
>
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> | Paula is not an unintelligent woman. She holds a PhD. in her field and a
> | famous publication relevant to her profession recently published a paper of
> | hers. No, Paula isn't stupid by any measure. Maybe you can help me with the
> | descriptors here.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Sbe was desperate to have us fix her existing Windows machine. She stated
> | that she had so many viruses on it that it would rarely boot but when it did,
> | it was almost useless. I explained to her that "We don't do Windows" and gave
> | her a brief explanation of what we did and how she could benefit.
> |
> | No sale...she thanked us and hung up.
> |
> | Then called back two days later.
> |
> | She wasn't kidding about the viruses. ClamAV reported 163 viruses active and
> | we lost count of spyware applications somewhere around 400. It was truly a
> | sight to behold. I have never seen viruses fight each other for dominance. I
> | booted the live cd while she sat next to me and for 20 minutes, I showed her
> | how Linux worked. When I thought she was comfortable with it, I let her have
> | the chair.
> `----
>
Fascinating story. I didn't know that Windows apps running under Wine
could pick up viruses, but it makes sense. Is the same true for
Windows apps running under OS/X? Eric makes it sound like it's a
Linux problem, not a Windows problem. If it happens under OS/X, too,
then that's obviously an OS/X problem. Obviously. Never mind that
Linux and OS/X never get viruses when they *don't* run Windows apps.
As for Paula screwing up her xorg.conf file from the command line, I
don't know what could be done about that except not to teach her how
to use the command line. She could have done something similar under
OS/X, or she could have erased her registry in Windows. Then her
boyfriend buys her Vista. Given that he wanted to spend a lot of
money on her, he should have bought a Mac, seeing as how the Vista
machine also got viruses in short order. You know Linonut has some
interesting quotes. The one I'm thinking about now is, how did the
fool ever get his/her money in the first place?
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