This is like telling people Jaws sucks switch to NVDA then being shocked when they complain excell is barely usable and powerpoint is unusable. Seriously? Get a Mac is hardly helpful advice after the fallout from flashback. Now the Mac is being targetted with this sort of Malware it isn't a safe platform these days. Switch platform is rarely good advice to give even if in jest unless you can justify the reasons for the switch and insure no loss of functionality. It's personal choice however for many the needs they have outway what the Mac can do in certain key areas. Peple enjoy the Mac but I don't yet know too many blind people that do real work on the Mac interoperating with the windows world efficiently and seamlessly. You'd better also hope whoever is using it doesn't want excellent terminal window support, apreciates only having 1 or 2 OCR solutions and enjoys having a couple of browsers to view sites with. firefox is still unusable on the Mac right now, Chrome is getting there but not ready for prime time and Saphari is getting better but still drops the ball far too often. Facebook anyone? There is no alternative to webvism on the Mac as far as I know and no easy way to solve capchas which aren't going away. Fusion tends to corrupt virtual machines without warning so running Micros~1 Windo~1s so you can do sensible editing of tables footnotes etc in word documents in a meaningful manner without fighting with pages is not as easy as it should be. Outlook is inaccessible on the Mac and unstable to boot, so there goes your ability to interact with a majority of organizations and their calendars and mail systems in a native manner. Don't tell me to buy an iphone, the calendar is broken there also especially where hitting the all-day button crashes voiceover. Not to mention there is no way to schedule and untimed event. don't look at it the wrong way when you're syncing with pc and I-cloud or you'll get double contacts. If you're suggesting OSX server i'll just run away and scream. We had an X-serve at the academy with drives that failed out of the array every 3 days and terribly broken and dated installs of Mailman with tools that made managing the whole mess almost impossible. You had to use the tools or your careful edits to apache's configuration would get smashed by server manager. We replaced the Mac with a Pc Running Ubuntu and all the problems went away sadly. Teamtalk isn't accessible on the Mac and no plans to make it so, this is a big show stopper for many. Efficiency in the Mac interface has a ways to go. I've personally tried Mac and found it wanting more than windows. Finder just does so well with network drives or large external drives where it decides to look into all your music files. Yeah buy a mac! We've all got nothing better to do than learn another paradime. Oh and i've seen Macs torn apart by nasties, even with time machine backups they're fun to rebuild. regards, Kerry. On 22/05/2012 12:51 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
Get a mac, that's my solution. ;) I'm kidding. What I really meant to say is run and get a mac.
No, if you don't get your problem resolved let me know. I have a few very good windows admins that I work with who I'd be happy to forward the question on to. I think Kerry is on the money though with that suggestion.
If that doesn't work, replace it with a mac.:)
Ok, I'll stop now
On May 22, 2012, at 12:47 AM, Kerry Hoath wrote:
I'd get rid of it with revo uninstaller available from ninite and then reinstall fresh. that might work.
regards, Kerry.
On 22/05/2012 8:16 AM, David Mehler wrote:
Hello,
I've got an xpsp3 pro box that is having a problem updating Security Essentials. Apparently about a week back the box began an automatic download and install of definition updates, something happened and it was not successful. I've rebooted, tried it myself from the Essentials interface and not had any luck, It's looking for a file that's in a nonexistent path.
I've cleared out the windows update cache in %windir%\SoftwareDistribution, rebooted, and again reran the update no good.
I then manually downloaded Security Essentials from Microsoft and atempted to uninstall the existing copy intending to install the download. That also failed while looking for a file in a nonexistent path. I tried to install the file over the existing copy, an update, that didn't work.
Finally, I have downloaded the latest definition updates two files one a definition the other a net file of some kind, ran those, seemed to work alright, but didn't do anything I wasn't prompted at all. I rebooted again and thinking the files were now in place for an update tried again from security essentials, this did not work.
Urgently need help!
Thanks. Dave.
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