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.

I'm sure he would.

 MG> I'm not sure that daddy would be all that impressed with cell
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?)

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

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

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

Ed

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