Mac Attack.

For all those who believe Mac products are bullet proof:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/technology/dig ... rid-of-it/
http://au.news.yahoo.com/technology/dig ... rid-of-it/
kickinit wrote:only suspecting 600,000 effected by it. Now how many billions have been affected by malware on windows?
Westsider wrote:kickinit wrote:only suspecting 600,000 effected by it. Now how many billions have been affected by malware on windows?
How many windows users vs mac users?
tipper wrote:thats funny, i know people with macs, that run windows on them
dedja wrote:Add tablets & smartphones to the equation and it's not so rosey for Billy Gates ...
Psyber wrote:A friend of mine had a Mac mini her son had left running for her after he went overseas to do his Ph.D.
It kept falling over, and although I'm familiar with Linux I couldn't work out how to make a Mac behave.
In the end I built her a cheap Windows XP Pro machine based on and old AMD64 3200+ chip.
It works, and her spreadsheet and data work done at home now works with the systems at Flinders University.
kickinit wrote:"Falling over" ?????Psyber wrote:A friend of mine had a Mac mini her son had left running for her after he went overseas to do his Ph.D.
It kept falling over, and although I'm familiar with Linux I couldn't work out how to make a Mac behave.
In the end I built her a cheap Windows XP Pro machine based on and old AMD64 3200+ chip.
It works, and her spreadsheet and data work done at home now works with the systems at Flinders University.
I'm guessing she was using excel to do her spreadsheets? if she was there shouldn't be any problems running it from windows to mac as long as you save it as the right format.
Psyber wrote:kickinit wrote:"Falling over" ?????Psyber wrote:A friend of mine had a Mac mini her son had left running for her after he went overseas to do his Ph.D.
It kept falling over, and although I'm familiar with Linux I couldn't work out how to make a Mac behave.
In the end I built her a cheap Windows XP Pro machine based on and old AMD64 3200+ chip.
It works, and her spreadsheet and data work done at home now works with the systems at Flinders University.
I'm guessing she was using excel to do her spreadsheets? if she was there shouldn't be any problems running it from windows to mac as long as you save it as the right format.
It kept losing icons off the bar at the bottom of the screen, and failed to install some software which seemed to be the correct version for that model when I looked at it.
Yes, she was looking for Excel and Power point presentation compatibility because that's what the department at Flinders used.
She isn't the most technically adapt and may have been making wrong choices in saving her work - her Masters course is in Education.
That probably explains some of the issues - she and I are used to icons just staying where they appear when installed unless you actively move them.kickinit wrote: when you open a new program it shows it in the bottom dock but to keep it there you have to right click and select keep in dock.
When using microsoft word you have to change the format it saves as, for some reason it saves it automatically with a x on the end.