[P1] Please help to stop the conversion to "Windoze".......

[Jack Rodgers]

On Nov 5, 2003, at 12:42 PM, Fred Stevens K2FRD wrote:

> Jack, I presume you meant "make" instead of the first "Mac"?

Yep.

> Local Windows techs charge $50 an hour (a couple have initial $75 
> troubleshooting fees) to repair PCs which are infected with a virus. A 
> couple/three guys in our group who don't bother with regular Norton 
> updates have had to take their machines into the shop repeatedly. One 
> finally gave up and bought a new machine. Not counting the frustration 
> they feel having their machines unusable and the downtime while their 
> computers are in the shop, they have to shell out a lot of bucks 
> whereas us Mac folk just keep clicking away.

One client paid me almost $1000 to fix the tragedy caused by blackouts 
and now ups, over a period of a year or so. Everyone, including me, 
told him repeatedly to put his macs on $50 upses.
Finally, his accountant pointed out the wisdom of doing so.

> Speaking of the costs of viruses, I hear those estimates of viruses 
> costing "us" $6 billion, 9 billion, 20 billion, etc. on CNN every time 
> a virus/worm/Trojan bites a large number. Where do they ever get those 
> figures?

87.45% of all statistics are made up. 12% are dubious.

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