Re: [doc] OT Email Problems

[Alex Gant <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here, here. Well said that man!

The other bonus with a Mac is that there are currently no (that's  
zero) viruses, trojans or worms that affect them.

Some of you PC users may want to re-read that last line.

Imagine a world without rogue diallers, blasters, sassas and the  
like.That place is Mac OS 10!

-Alex Gant

On 30 Jun 2005, at 23:58, Daniel Shane wrote:

> I’ve worked in IT all my life I have had hundreds of HD fail.  I’ve  
> used
> Unix, Linux, Windows and Mac and yes the all hardware fails.
>
> The bonus of the Mac is that when you need to reload you Machine  
> you don’t
> have to spend hours finding drivers etc.  A Ghost util comes with  
> the OS
> called Disk Utility and works great.
>
> Dan
>
>
> On 30/6/05 9:30 pm, "david sandell" <davesandell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>> macs still have hard drives though (or is that an idrive??) and i  
>> dont think
>> ghost works with macs. i ghost my system weekly - just in case!
>> Dave
>> DOC#479
>> (works in pc world in pc clinic!!)
>> Daniel Shane <daniel.shane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Stop playing with those PC’s and get a Macintosh ;-)
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> On 30/6/05 7:08 pm, "david sandell" <davesandell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> i had a simular problem too, only i think mine was fairly  
>>>> terminal - and
>>>> hardware based rather than virus, for a little while i had been  
>>>> getting
>>>> "whrrrrr clonk!" from my main hdd. it finaly died this morning -  
>>>> just as my
>>>> parcel arrived from dabs.com with 2 new 200GB hard drives in it!
>>>> good timing - or what!
>>>> all back up and running now.
>>>> Dave
>>>> DOC#479
>>>>
>>>> Claire Usher <claire.usher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Hi Kevin,
>>>>
>>>> My Windows 2000 Pro went a bit haywire yesterday morning,  
>>>> Outlook was ok
>>>> to a certain extent, but it wouldn’t go into Netscape saying  
>>>> that it had
>>>> generated a problem and would be shut down by Windows. We’d been
>>>> receiving shedloads of spam emails to Dave’s email account and  
>>>> the spam
>>>> filter was having a field day!
>>>> We rebooted it and during the start up screens it basically got  
>>>> to the
>>>> point where it came up with an error message (cant remember exactly
>>>> what), so we put in the Win 2k CD rom and it couldn’t repair, so  
>>>> the
>>>> hard drive is well and truly knack’d. My ISP host (also a very good
>>>> friend of mine) suspects a virus got in before the virus checker  
>>>> had had
>>>> a chance to update and immunise my pc against it. He’s sorting  
>>>> me out a
>>>> new hard drive (one better then the old 5400rpm 20gb) and is gonna
>>>> recover as much as possible from the old drive then send me a  
>>>> new one
>>>> with…..XP installed &shy; yes, I’m finally getting XP after  
>>>> years of saying
>>>> I wouldn’t touch it.
>>>>
>>>> I’ve reinstalled Win2k on my other hard drive and its running ok  
>>>> so far,
>>>> but my new drive will be here in a few days so it’s only temporary.
>>>>
>>>> Seeya Sunday,
>>>>
>>>> Claire
>>>> #2292
>>>> DOC171
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On  
>>>> Behalf
>>>> Of Kevin Milliken
>>>> Sent: 30 June 2005 16:37
>>>> To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: RE: [doc] Matching Green this Sunday/Email Problems
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Claire and Stuart
>>>>
>>>> Did the disks just fail, dead, no-more. or was it a message  
>>>> "DISK BOOT
>>>> FAILURE"?
>>>>
>>>> Kevin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> No virus found in this incoming message.
>>>> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
>>>> Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.7/34 - Release Date:  
>>>> 29/06/2005
>>>>
>>>>
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