Re: [www.openbsd.org] faster machines and scareware

2012-07-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
there is that. still, over the last 15 years or so, I have seen a vastly higher number of windows machines infected by "defective users". repairing as i always say - right product for right people... issue involving malware. Now that the iOS and OS X platforms are starting to acquire a majori

Re: [www.openbsd.org] faster machines and scareware

2012-07-28 Thread Eric Oyen
there is that. still, over the last 15 years or so, I have seen a vastly higher number of windows machines infected by "defective users". repairing those installations was always a nightmare (especially when the user wanted to retain all data). in all that time, I saw, at most, a handful of macs wi

Re: [www.openbsd.org] faster machines and scareware

2012-07-28 Thread Peter Laufenberg
>btw, I hope no one minds if I plug OpenBSD's website in the subject. this is a >method of trying to get the site back up to better rankings in google. AFAIK, and few _really_ know, Google rankings use an acyclic graph with cumulative "credibility" weights. Say a NY Times article points to a web

Re: [www.openbsd.org] faster machines and scareware

2012-07-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The reason I often hear why people around me goes from Windows to OSX is often because they can't handle Windows and they think it's hard to do pretty much anything and they just want it to work so they abandon Microsoft for that reason. but this is true in any software that hide it's internals ov

Re: [www.openbsd.org] faster machines and scareware

2012-07-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
zippy to them and then end up spending lots of money to get back to where they were. Even Mac users aren't amune to this (though there is a much smaller percentage of dumb mac users there are just less mac users. They are not be average smarter. One of the advantages to OpenBSD (and other uni

Re: [www.openbsd.org] faster machines and scareware

2012-07-28 Thread Johan Ryberg
The reason I often hear why people around me goes from Windows to OSX is often because they can't handle Windows and they think it's hard to do pretty much anything and they just want it to work so they abandon Microsoft for that reason. I think there are 3 categories of people that are using OSX

Re: [www.openbsd.org] faster machines and scareware

2012-07-28 Thread Florenz Kley
On 28 Jul 2012, at 00:03, Eric Oyen wrote: > (though there is a much smaller percentage of dumb mac users than windows). Bollocks. Attributes in large enough populations tend to follow the normal distribution. There is a smaller number of Mac users overall, and therefore a smaller number of mac