Jim Hampton wrote:
Hello, Dan

True enough, but the fact is that the problem is the screwball folks that
get their jollies writing the darn things in the first place.

There is that. We just have to quit making their dirty work so easy.



Yes, I.E. is a major problem - mostly because it is popular and your
comparison with cars and trucks makes sense.

If IE was a car, you would have to put new lug nuts on it every day
because the wheels would fall off otherwise. No one would put up with a
vehicle built like PC's are run.


Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I'm having fits getting my dial-up to work
properly and still have the DSL.

Hey, I just spent around 30 hours cumulative time working on a laptop
computer to get a logging program that the writers insisted would work
to work on it. First it said that the .ocx files for the program weren't
registered. I went in to manually register them, and one would register
but the other wouldn't. So I upgraded the OS, then found out my bios was
behind and needed upgraded then I got a VFAT error, and the machine
wouldn't respond to anything. In the meantime I'm troubleshooting all
the error messages, and being led down blind alleys and getting nowhere.
Applying all kinds of updates and "security" patches. Finally, I could
get the computer to boot up in safe mode, and verified that the software
would run. But the video wouldn't work correctly then. Oops, the VFAT
problem comes back.

So I gave up and recovered the original OS on the laptop, and used my
home desktop for Field day. Now I have a video problem with the home
computer that showed up probably from operating it in the great
out-of-doors. My opinion of PC's is oddly poor right now

I love my G5 dual processor. My Macs have never ever given me problems
like what PC users seem to take for granted as part of the territory.
Upgrades, software installation, it's all good.

A big part of my job is to whip PC's into submission, so I think I can
give an informed opinion between the two systems.


73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA

"Dan" wrote in message
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On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:25:36 GMT, "Jim Hampton"
wrote:


If everyone changed to Linux, you can bet the virus and worm writers

would

be writing most of the stuff for Unix systems.

Indeed. This whole notion of "everyone should switch so all of these
problems go away" is naieve at best, plain stupid at worst.

It's like looking at stats for fuel usage of passenger cars and
trucks, noting that cars make up most of the usage of gas, and trucks
use a small percentage, then saying "Gee, we should all start driving
trucks to save gas"!

Hell-o!

Dan

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