Macs vs. PCs

Nayr · Post by **Nayr** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 3:50 pm

Shadowfury333 wrote:
Nayr wrote: I believe Mac OS X's main problems, which a virus could use, is the sudo command.
nope, I have thought of this, but then I found out that sudo requires a password.

btw to destroy a UNIX system
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cd /
sude rm -r *
you will need to type in the root password after typing this in.

but it could ask you for a password to, say, add a song to your itunes music library. (by means of GUI).

zip · Post by **zip** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:18 pm

And some unwary user would probably type it in.. even though they weren't trying to add a song and iTunes had never asked for a password before.

Gramage · Post by **Gramage** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 6:03 pm

One word: Longhorn.

Longhorn is going to be the most awful OS ever. Palladium will let companies put expiration dates in their software and the documents it creates, so they can force you to upgrade or face loosing all your data...

Nayr · Post by **Nayr** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 6:09 pm

all in all, it's better that windows users stay on windows-so that macs don't get cluttered with "block popups" and "get your virus protection today" crap.

DudetheCreator · Post by **DudetheCreator** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 6:32 pm

Longhorn is supposed t be a big rip-off of Mac os X, isn't it?

zip · Post by **zip** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 6:36 pm

Sort of like.. uh, XP.

DudetheCreator · Post by **DudetheCreator** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 6:54 pm

bah, if microsoft made it it's ****.

Gramage · Post by **Gramage** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:34 pm

Nayr wrote:all in all, it's better that windows users stay on windows-so that macs don't get cluttered with "block popups" and "get your virus protection today" crap.

Agreed. Most of those billions of PC users are HORRIBLE computer users... the very reason viruses are so succesful. Yes, they can stay with their PCs.

DudetheCreator · Post by **DudetheCreator** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:48 pm

pc users need all the virus software before they can even consider themselves safe.

zip · Post by **zip** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:54 pm

*cough*
Complete techno-imbeciles.. *cough*

Gramage · Post by **Gramage** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:05 pm

I think this quote from bash.org does a nice job:

<Superpig> my uncle has a celeron
<Superpig> would XP run on it, do you think?
<ravuya> about as well as a dog runs with no legs or torso
<ravuya> and with bricks tied to its head
<ravuya> at the bottom of a solid concrete pool
<ravuya> filled with dead corpses and rocks
<Superpig> so, about the same as it runs on my P4 then
<ravuya> more or less

Nayr · Post by **Nayr** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:33 pm

no, this covers it all... http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

DudetheCreator · Post by **DudetheCreator** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:34 pm

Gramage wrote:I think this quote from bash.org does a nice job:

<Superpig> my uncle has a celeron
<Superpig> would XP run on it, do you think?
<ravuya> about as well as a dog runs with no legs or torso
<ravuya> and with bricks tied to its head
<ravuya> at the bottom of a solid concrete pool
<ravuya> filled with dead corpses and rocks
<Superpig> so, about the same as it runs on my P4 then
<ravuya> more or less

lol lol lol lol...rofl...rofl...*dies of laughter*

Gramage · Post by **Gramage** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 9:57 pm

I wonder how hard it would be for a virus to make use of this little dealy in Windows?

deltree /y c:\*.*

And how hard it would be for one to utilise the equivilent command in OS X.

Post by **Jeff** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:04 am

I have never had a virus problem.