Ah and this is WHY i love my Macbook

[nadinbrzezinski]

so hubby uses a nice XP box for gaming. So he tells me the weird stuff that the box is doing. Yep, tell tell signs of a virus...

So guess what I will be doing this afternoon after he leaves for work?

1.- Brew a pot of coffee.

2.- Take tylenol (NOT REALLY) for the headache to come.

3.- Prepare to do battle with the pesky thing that infected the machine.

Yep, I love to do IT, REALLY.

And that summarizes why I love my macbook, it is almost three years old, and except for a hiccup when installing snow leopard, I love a system that does not do that.

Of course if we had all the games he loves playing on the Mac... we would have kicked that piece of crap to the curb, but that is not happening anytime time soon, and Mac is losing that market... Oh and yes, that is the reason....

Gets ready to do battle with a pesky virus... lovely....

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. ARRGHHH one down side of using a Mac

I forgot how critical it is to ahem defrag the drive.... in an XP box

Yes, go ahead and laugh folks.

I did the virus... found all them tracking cookies.

Did the spybot (for any windows folks, highly recommended).... and now defragmenting a highly fragmented drive. I have not seen such a fragmented drive in months....

Feel free to finger waggle....

LOL at least no headache looking for the pesky virus.

[alfredo]

3. Games are moving to the iPhone in big numbers.

BTW OmniWriter is in Beta. I will let others know what I think of it.

[Deja Q]

2. Games are best served on a Wii or PS3... computers are for more than playing games.

:shrug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yeah I use Word 7 for the other use

most people do not understand... Desktop publishing.

Oh and no, the playstation ain't good enough. It has to do with the size of the population at serves. 16 spots vs how many it will handle... hard core gamer... he LIKES his fast refresh.

Oh and the other use... mapping. Pro Fantasy has not migrated to the Mac... never mind many of their well known users are.

Rumor has it that CC 4 will be multi platform... I wonder Python and updating the pretty horrific interface... some of us do hope.

[Deja Q]

10. I got Office 2008 from college...

The basic version (the only other version sold has Expression Web, which is worthless as I have Dreamweaver. Professional-class software instead of Microsoft's dilettante competition) is rather good overall, better than iWork for usability. MS's one strength is in their office suite. Even if it is buggy (and I've had problems with Office 07 and 08 on both Windows and Mac).

I've seen works created by those who think they do publishing. With the classes I've taken, what was just "tacky" before now look like total toddler pieces, they are that BAD.

I'm tempted to re-do one for my own company and show them that appearance really DOES impact a company. Even if the supervisors are on record saying it's not in the company's interests. :eyes: Um, yes, it is. Image means a lot. It really does.

[Lost-in-FL]

4. Sorry to hear that.

I hope you didn't plans for your whole weekend. I do not miss windoes AT ALL!

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. It was... a highly fragmented drive

I forgot....

<-------- finger waggle.

[TommyO]

7. I was working a PC helpdesk quite a few years ago

One of the calls that I received was from a user who was describing what sounded like a virus issue, after she described the problem, she asked me if she "needed to defragmatize her drive"

I couldn't laugh at the time, but I was able to help her, and had a good story for some of the people that I worked with.

I've been using a Mac personally for the almost five years now and am never looking back (though I do run Windows 7 and Office 7 via Parallels)

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. I will give windows props for two things in Vista

It will defrag the drive in the background.

I can secure it like Fort Knox against my lovely niece who loves to do things on other people's machines without asking, like my favorite... downloading and enabling the virus backdoor otherwise known as Microsoft Messenger. Yes kiddies, password and guest account...

But the headaches were so huge we ended up "upgrading" back to XP and I simply forgot... you need to defrag an xp drive.

I will defrag it again... it is not fully back. I know when they get that bad, you need to do it a few times.

[TommyO]

9. My mom's PC has Vista on it and when I went to defragment it

I found that it does indeed have a scheduled defragment, since the machine doesn't get turned off, it's set to run it in the middle of the night when nobody is around.

We also have it set up with an account for the grandkids so they can use it, but with some pretty strict limitations on what they can do (heck, I've even restricted some things on my mother's account to keep her from blowing it up).

[Deja Q]

11. FAT32 and especially NTFS are known for file-level fragmentation

Other platforms check for contiguous space before writing to the hard drive.

Windows slops it out, for 'faster writing speed', but the resulting fragmented files only make future writes slower... to say nothing of file read speeds plummeting.

One can still fill up a hard drive and performance will drop as every OS I know of caches drive data and such, but file fragmentation is not an issue.

Like the lack of PAE in Windows, file-level fragmentation is still a problem. (With MS demanding all drivers be digitally signed for quality, there is no reason why PAE can't be re-enabled. PAE is still enabled on the 32-bit server platforms to access 4GB or more of RAM, and with Vista and Win7 being real piggies in the market, they need PAE more than ever. 64-bit does throw a spanner into application compatibility...)