Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG>> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH>>> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG>>>> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH>>>>> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:

 EH>>>>>>>>> I don't have any protection on this
system or six of my other
 MG>>>>>>>> systems. I
 EH>>>>>>>>> do have protection (avast!
anti-virus and a couple
 MG>>>> anti-spy/malware
 EH>>>>>>>>> apps) on the only Windows computer
I have, though. :-)

 EH>>>>>>>>> The nice thing about Linux is that
there are no viruses or
 EH>>> spyware
 MG>>>>>>>> that

 MG>>>>>>>> *YET*  :)

 EH>>>>>>> I doubt there will be anything to worry
about anytime soon.

 EH>>>>>>>>> effect it. That and it blows
Vista/XP/etc. away.

 MG>>>>>>>> Your preference, my machine does
everything I need it to do and
 EH>>>>>>> doesn't
 MG>>>>>>>> require me to learn too many new things. :)

 EH>>>>>>> You'd be surprised at how little you would
need to learn to do
 EH>>>>>>> everything you do now.

 EH>>>>>>> Ed

 MG>>>>>> New technology intimidates me.

 EH>>>>> There's nothing new about Linux. It's based on Unix
that has been
 MG>>>> around
 EH>>>>> since the 60s. :-)

 MG>>>> It's new to me. :)

 EH>>> Point taken. :-)

 MG>>>>>> I'm sure that my cell phone does lots of
 MG>>>>>> things besides phone calls (I have a Motorola
Razr) but I'll be
 MG>>>> darned
 MG>>>>>> if that manual is in English.  :)

 EH>>>>> Heh heh... I have a RAZR and a KRAZR and they do all sorts of
 MG>> things.
 EH>>>>> But... I usually only use them to make calls. ;-)

 MG>>>> I know it'll take pictures, but I don't know how, besides that's
 EH>>> what my
 MG>>>> camera is for.

 EH>>> It's pretty easy to take pictures with it, but I agree that it's
 MG>> better
 EH>>> to use a camera instead.

 MG>>>> My dad, the Imagineer, used to say "the more goodies in
 MG>>>> it, the more things to break. He was making that
observation about
 EH>>> cars,
 MG>>>> but it fits a Razr as well. :) He'd probably go crazy
with all the
 MG>>>> things on a PC. You have to remember that he worked
with room sized
 MG>>>> computers. :)

 EH>>> Those room sized computers had less computing power than your RAZR
 EH>>> cellphone. Your father would be amazed at what can be done with
 MG>> today's
 EH>>> computers.

 MG>> There are many things today that would amaze daddy, not the least of
 MG>> which is how the Disney Corp has ruined Walt's dream.

 EH> I'm sure he would.

Walt built Disneyland "for the child in all of us", there's very
little magic left in the Magic Kingdom. I think the idea behind California
Adventure was a good idea that failed in the execution.

 MG>> I'm not sure that daddy would be all that impressed with cell
 EH> phones, he was a licensed
 MG>> Ham radio operator and cell phones use the same sound waves that Hams
 MG>> do/did (do Hams still exist?)

 EH> I'm a licensed HAM operator. I hold a Amateur General Class HAM license.
 EH> And yes, we still exist. :-)

 EH> Cellphones use parts of the 800, 900, 1900MHz and 3GHz bands.

 EH> HAMs have privileges in parts of those bands as well for
 EH> experimentation. There is no conflict between the two services, though.

I didn't phrase my thought well, I meant that cell phones are a natural
progression from shortwave (HAM) radios, not that they use the same bands
as HAMs.

-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

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