[X4U] Flushed his toilet

[Earle Jones]

Greetings!

David Farber is a Professor of EE and CS at U. of Penn and runs a  
mailing list to what he calls "Interesting People".
This was posted to his IP list recently:

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From: Bob Hinden <bob.hinden at nokia.com>
Date: January 24, 2007 7:45:18 PM EST
To: dave at farber.net
Cc: Bob Hinden <bob.hinden at nokia.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Leo Gomes: As Duo Publicizes Bugs In OS X, Mac  
Owners Rush to the Rescue
Reply-To: bob.hinden at nokia.com

Dave,

For IP if you like.

To put this discussion in some perspective, I recently talked to the  
CTO of a well known AV company.  I asked him how many virus/malware  
he was aware of by platform type.  He told me:

Win32	200,000
MacOS	      4
Linux	    300
Symbian      341
FreeBSD       0

This is different from the number of known vulnerabilities, but still  
interesting.

earle
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On Jan 26, 2007, at 12:18 AM, Eugene wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 09:37:39PM CST, Stroller  
> <macmonster at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> :
> : I'm sorry. I'm just sick and fucking tired of Mac users - not
> : everyone here, but particularly on this list - making like Macs are
> : God's gift and Mac-users God's chosen people.
>
> As a Unix admin who's done lots of work on non-GUI systems,
> I have the option to look down on all Mac & DOS/Windoze users.
> Whatever.
>
> Having said that, Windoze users have belittled the Mac
> platform for *years* on false premises.  Like how they don't
> consider Macs to be serious business machines because Macs'
> cute GUI makes them more like toys than real computers
> (although more games are available for Windoze).  Or how
> they think Macs can't run M$ Word because it's not available
> (although M$ Word was born on a Mac and has existed since
> the birth of the Mac platform).  Only with the extraordinary
> development of the Mac OS X platform, the sudden popularity
> of the iPod platform, the move to the Intel chipset, and
> several critical missteps best known as Windoze Vista has
> begun to chip away at these long-standing stereotypes.  Too
> bad I *still* run into old-timers who think that M$ Office
> is not available on the Mac.  Old habits die hard.
>
>
> -- 
> Eugene
> http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
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