On Monday 29 November 2004 18:58, Rony Bill wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vivek J.Patankar" <vivekpatankar(a)spymac.com>
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> That's not quite correct. The two most popular AV solutions, Norton
> & McAfee, both check files as soon as they are accessed.
IF the virus is in the database the AV program will find it. Usually u get infected by some uknown mutant of existing virii. And often by a new one. The average time to infection is 4 minutes on a dialup. The average time to download a patch on a dialup is several times longer - a rather idiotic situation. And this does not include the great OS killer win XP - SP2.
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> Migrating a customer to linux is not so easy even if the driver
> issues are resolved, as all his old data has to be converted to the
> linux format which his new non-microsoft programs in linux should
> read and edit just as before.
OO does that quite well. And issues if any are very minor. Just be clear that when you change to linux u have to learn to do things differently - a small price to pay for freedom, reliability, stability, security etc. If ur customer prefers to stew in the microsoft pot well happy boiling. And guess what it's u the support guy who will get the flack not Billybhai. He will be preaching homilies about security, piracy, innovation etc., at some lackey seminar.
> Many use Tally or QFA or similar
> custom accounting software and this data will go waste in linux
> without the program being able to run. Outlook Express has one
> unique feature where you can have multiple accounts with their own
> individual smtp settings. If there is a suspicious mail you can
> right click on the header and view its entire source code without
> opening it. I have downloaded and tried out different email clients
> but OE was most feature rich.
Yeah features like executing random vb scripts - man wake up.
Regarding printers, peripherals etc. Check if the stuff u plan to buy works under Gnu/Linux before u pay.
rgds
jtd