Digital BW, The Print

In my own experience, it is nearly impossible now to install the OS from 
CDROM on a fresh disk drive, then connect to the 'net and download the 
patches. But the time your download is complete, you are almost assured 
of being infected. Twenty minutes is very generous, two minutes is more 
likely.

The only way to be sure to end up with a healthy PC is to go to a known 
stable PC, download the patches to CDROM, and apply the patches from 
this CDROM before connecting to the 'net.



The simplest solution, and it does support the attitude that "less is more" (those who don't subscribe to geek-headism, "I gotta upgrade, upgrade, upgrade . . . gimme a fix"), is to have a second computer dedicated to web usage only. I know, here come the violins about "that's soooo expensive". Well, buy an older Mac or a Pc set-up with 95/98 and a small screen (17"). It can be had for at the very most a couple of hundred, more likely a sack of potatoes and a promise to never bring it back to the geek who is getting rid of it . . . read: nothing. Then your system that you use for your "work" is free of any potential infection, and consequently can be run with a less memory hungry and more stable OLDER system . . . including as one poster remarked, an older photoshop. The entire computer industry is founded on the same mentality of the drug dealer . . . give them a little, promise them a lot, get them hooked . . . and as always the victims . . . yes, that means YOU, are too stupid to realize what you have gotten into.

I defy any of you out there who support MS or rotten Apple to show me at least one person who utilizes ALL the "wonderful innovations in the operating system" who does actually not only use, but understand all the "features". No one does, the same goes for suites like "office" etc, and indeed photoshop itself. The computer industry operates the same way as does the cable TV business and record clubs with their "negative marketing" (I don't remember if that is the right phrase . . . I think not). Sell you absolutely everything, unless you say no . . . ensuring that you have to buy more and more just to make sure it works, while you really only need a very little slice . . . like I said . . . stooo. . . . pid.

Now . . . I have to go and feed the mice running in the treadmill of the back of my commodore 64

rots of ruck ;-)
Paul Apaycki


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