The panic of the PC or the placid complacency of the mac user
This morning I arrived at work and thanks to the indulgent nature of my boss I unpacked my own Mac Book Pro that faithfully follows me to and from work each day. On which I do most of my daily work. The occasions when I must I remote desktop the 2 feet to my PC under my desk.
This allows me to only have to faff with one keyboard, the peripheral that's actually connected to my desktop remains, through the magic of blutack, hidden mostly out of site below my monitors. The single keyboard and mouse effect works very well, the one exception if you happen to be in the UK is when mounting a drive in a remote desktop session, \\ is needed but in a remote desktop scenario one gets ## - annoying. I know some that get around this by using historical data in the map drive box to start with a template.
Anyway this simple explanation of my environ beguiles the true nature of this tale of woe. I mention it merely to point out I am a mac user in a windows world. As such I have begun to take certain features of the computer I use for granted.
Whether the argument about market share is the reason for a low number, 3 is a low number right ? A low number of viruses is the position we're in. Therefore I had forgotten, somewhat, the urgency with which a virus scare on a network must be treated.
It turns out that someone who will obviously remain nameless had opened a dirty attachment that like Pandora's box had filled our world with evil and virus ridden things began to happen.
The next big issue was that for some reason the default desktop virus protection, hadn't been updating properly or something. Hence a rallying cry had gone up to every able bodied man to update a virus scanner. The phones were ringing off the hook, women where weeping at windows (ha ha no pun intended).
Firing up remote desktop I tended to my machine for anything could contaminate it... but as the "Live Update" did it's think I reveled in the knowledge that my mac amongst all this carnage would be fine - whether or not every PC in the establishment burst into flames.
OK Bursting in to flames is more of a mac trick at the moment - but you know however many viral nasties took hold.
This allows me to only have to faff with one keyboard, the peripheral that's actually connected to my desktop remains, through the magic of blutack, hidden mostly out of site below my monitors. The single keyboard and mouse effect works very well, the one exception if you happen to be in the UK is when mounting a drive in a remote desktop session, \\ is needed but in a remote desktop scenario one gets ## - annoying. I know some that get around this by using historical data in the map drive box to start with a template.
Anyway this simple explanation of my environ beguiles the true nature of this tale of woe. I mention it merely to point out I am a mac user in a windows world. As such I have begun to take certain features of the computer I use for granted.
Whether the argument about market share is the reason for a low number, 3 is a low number right ? A low number of viruses is the position we're in. Therefore I had forgotten, somewhat, the urgency with which a virus scare on a network must be treated.
It turns out that someone who will obviously remain nameless had opened a dirty attachment that like Pandora's box had filled our world with evil and virus ridden things began to happen.
The next big issue was that for some reason the default desktop virus protection, hadn't been updating properly or something. Hence a rallying cry had gone up to every able bodied man to update a virus scanner. The phones were ringing off the hook, women where weeping at windows (ha ha no pun intended).
Firing up remote desktop I tended to my machine for anything could contaminate it... but as the "Live Update" did it's think I reveled in the knowledge that my mac amongst all this carnage would be fine - whether or not every PC in the establishment burst into flames.
OK Bursting in to flames is more of a mac trick at the moment - but you know however many viral nasties took hold.
posted by M at 4:03 PM
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