[muglo] Re: Fwd: Mac will run Windows

On 06/04/06, Dave Bonhoff <gtidave@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> LOL!  thanks for the correction Eric, but I typed what I meant to
> type - viri.  I don't care what is on the 'pedia because all that
> info is posted by users and must be take with a grain of salt.

Comparison of WikiPedia with Encyclopedia Brittanica is leaves
WikiPedia looking quite good:
Nature 438, 900-901 (15 December 2005)

As for that unmentionable word (its use will only bias search engines):

Google searches for...

"computer virus with es" =3D 19,200,000
"computer vir with one i" =3D 1860

For something even more detailed than the WikiPedia entry check out:

<http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html> ;-)

> The important thing to remember in all this, is that IT IS AN
> OPTION!

That's the beauty of it. Once DarWINE starts working well, I suspect
I'll be moving over to a Macintel (slowly I'm starting to use apps
which are Windows-only :-( :-(.

> The best thing about a Windoze install on a Mac getting hosed by viri
> is that it still won't touch the OS X partition, and the machine will
> still boot into OS X just fine.

This is where I fear the worst. Dual boot Windows-Mac OS X is pretty
hamstrung if there isn't an easy way to move data back and forth
between partitions. The easiest way to do that is by making the Mac OS
X partition Windows-writeable.

One solution for Apple would be to write a work around to allow the
Windows side of things to read HFS+ partitions whilst respecting all
the UNIX and access control permissions.

Eric.
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