[Eug-lug] Operating Systems.

[erock23175 at aol.com]

  There isn't anything wrong with having an old-school mac laying around. I still have mine (although a friend of mine just HAD to get a G4 upgrade card put into it behind my back) and all of it's games. Although I admit I havn't been doing much with it as of late. I'd like to put some distro of linux on it, but then what would I do with all of my old mac games?lol 
 
 -E 
  
 -----Original Message-----
 From: mike.mikemiller at gmail.com
 To: euglug at euglug.org
 Sent: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 5:20 PM
 Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Operating Systems.
 
  I think the answer to that is time. If it's not taking there slice of 
 the network to it's knees or costing them money they don't care. 
 
 -Miller 
 
 On 2/12/07, Ben Barrett <stircrazyben at gmail.com> wrote: 
 > And why aren't google, microsoft, and major ISP's really cracking down 
 > on the botnet infrastructure?? They have all the tools and the power.... 
 > To me, this says something about organized crime... sorta like getting 
 > a traffic ticket ona bike while you notice drug deals and auto thefts 
 > going on across the way :( 
 > Oh, we can't take them on... they're lining our pockets, and/or we started 
 > that crime-lord off back in the day... or, they provide us with "certain 
 > intelligence". 
 > 
 > ben 
 > 
 > 
 > On 2/12/07, Michael Miller <mike.mikemiller at gmail.com> wrote: 
 > > Bob, 
 > > 
 > > Who knows. I don't think your doing any web surfing on it. Not only 
 > > that I don't think you can run a Java stack on there. I also don't 
 > > know what malware is out there for said OS. I think the largest 
 > > problem with sell low cost computers is this. 
 > > 
 > > Normal end users don't update there software. 
 > > Normal end users don't upgrade there anti-virus subscriptions. 
 > > Normal users just want there computers to work nothing else. 
 > > Normal users don't understand that DSL and Cable Modem connections are 
 > > always on. 
 > > 
 > > With these issues at hand you can see why there are 3,000+ botnet 
 > > channels on IRC. 
 > > 
 > > I think the ISP providers don't do enough to stop there users from 
 > > becoming problems. 
 > > ISP's should be firewalling there users off from the rest of the 
 > > world. If you need to ssh to telnet or what ever X service you should 
 > > pay extra. Basic Internet service should be low cost like under 
 > > $15.00 dollars a month. IMHO 
 > > 
 > > Anyway I think Bob's Mac OS 8 machine is fine. The problem is older 
 > > version of Windows and the fact that un-patched Windows XP machines 
 > > can be taken over in less than a hour on a unfiltered Internet 
 > > connection. 
 > > 
 > > On 2/12/07, Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com> wrote: 
 > > > Ben Barrett wrote: 
 > > > 
 > > > > I keep hearing from family and acquaintances about how happy they 
 > still are 
 > > > > with their 
 > > > > win98 boxen... ug, how do I explain the badness there, since it 
 > "works" for 
 > > > > them?? 
 > > > 
 > > > One of the four boxes on my desk runs MacOS 8.5. It works for me (for 
 > > > cheesy early '90s games). Is it bad? 
 > > > 
 > > > -- 
 > > > Bob Miller K<bob> 
 > > > 
 > kbob at jogger-egg.com 
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