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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 12/16/2006, you wrote:

> The fellow-felon kudos for being the first to implant a Mac virus
> must be seductive. So I suspect that the system software is simply
> better written.

In the early days MAC was the preferred target but as their system improved 
and Maxisquash started making too rapid changes and cut back on testing, 
the focus shifted to windoze.  The Mac OS is somewhat based on the Berkeley 
Software Distribution, a variant of unix from when you could get a cheap 
copy if you were an educational institution.  BSD was different enough from 
Bell Labs unix (Unix Is Not multiX) that they could distribute it without a 
Bell Labs license.  Jobs used BSD in his Next system which was folded into 
Mac OSX.  The other major used of BSD was Sun Misrosystems which has now 
shifted to a varient of Linux.

Now most Viri, worms, etc are written by script kiddies.  They are just 
doing some minor modification to an existing program then parading around 
like they did something.  There are still new programs being written but 
truly original work is rare.

Another thing that has happened is that companies are hiring people to look 
for problems so they can be found and fixed before they are exploited.



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On 12/16/06, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
> I have mental plans for year-round maters using below-ground piping
> with hot water flowing through.
When you get those perfected, you'll share them with us, of course?

Some things seem better when you can only get them in a limited
season, but I don't think having good tomatoes for, say, 9 months of
the year (or even 12) would be a deterrent to enjoyment.

Did I say I like tomatoes?

Marie