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In Reply to: RE: PCs are cheap.... posted by Michael Samra on February 24, 2015 at 19:26:02
Mike - in terms of cost, probably the cheapest will be to buy a feasible Windows OS (for instance, versions of Windows 7 are pretty cheap these days), and if you have the spare hard drive space, do Bootcamp (which in itself is free).
Radu.
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I do have plenty of space on my HD and all the stuff I use for school I keep on an external HD.I am terrified of PCs..My sister had her identity stolen and they charged 145k dollars in her name and she had a time straightening out that mess and it was all because of XP. Then I had my bank acct hacked into and paypal caught it and I was lucky because if I didn't look my email at 11:30 and this was on a school night,I would have had a mess on my hands..Luckily I was able to stop payment and not get charged any fees from the bank because I didn't make any purchases.One did go thru on my paypal buyer credit but paypal refunded that along with 4500 dollars that put my paypal acct at a negative balance.Now if I didn't get to bank to stop all those phony charges,I would have a bigger mess on my hands.
The last straw was when I wrote the written part of the final exam for my driviability class and I worked 4 hours getting everything the way I wanted it and guess what? This little box comes up in the center of screen as it has many times before and it says,We have encountered an error and must shut down..After 4 hours of working on that exam all for naught.That's when I blew my stack and tossed that little HP Pavillion in the trash and ordered a new Power Mac the next day. I have NEVER had to rerun the operating on any of my Macs and I have never gotten a virus of any kind and I never used any anti-virus.So that's my story of why I hate PCs.
I did like Windows 98 tho on my old HP desktop when everything was dial up. It's when everything went to high speed that I had all the trouble with PCs.
"If it measures good and sounds bad, it is bad; if it measures bad and sounds good, you have measured the wrong thing."
- Daniel R. von Recklinghausen
I am always amazed by stories of people being exposed to fraud "because of Windows" (whichever version). It's not the OSes fault that you get tricked by criminals on-line, it's your own.
Let me explain: it's a combination of lacking knowledge, being unbelievably naive, and not thinking enough about the consequences of your actions. Since nobody likes to be criticized (what is worse criticism than suffering a loss because of one's own shortcomings), people tend to blame something else, like the operating system.
The only way to protect a user who is not knowledgeable and not aware of his actions is to restrict his freedom of actions or choice: that is what we try to do with our children (all sorts of parental guidance and similar restrictions). Those who cherish their freedom and consider themselves adult usually hate being restricted and look for ways to do things the way they want.
I actively use Windows, OSX, iOS, Android, and Linux distros. My system of choice is Windows because of the tools available. If you are wondering, I perform my online payments (home banking) using Windows. OSX comes without java for "security reasons" but you can install it if you want.
By now you might have understood that I am an IT professional, which is mostly true. But that fact only confirms the validity of my words in this case: I know what I'm talking about.
Get yourself a nice older second hand PC, and do not connect it to the internet: extract or disable the network card and eventual modem, so you don't need an antivirus and can't do yourself any harm. Treat it as a lab instrument (your DMM can't access the internet, so why should your lab PC?).
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