Dragaera

Fw: READ! (fwd)

Wed Feb 12 18:53:15 PST 2003

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:49:26 -0500, you wrote:

>At 21:26 2/12/2003 -0500, Chris Turkel wrote:
>
>>On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 09:23 PM, Baralier wrote:
>>
>>><Snip>
>>>
>>>>>Hope this clears everything up :-)
>>>>
>>>>Not exactly.  Then what was it that I deleted?
>>>>
>>>>Reen
>>>
>>>See the other David's email below for what you deleted...
>>>
>>>>>>    In this case the target file is JDBGMGR.EXE, a Java Debug
>>>>>>    Manager program used by the Microsoft Java runtime engine. This
>>>>>>    file is included as part of a standard Windows installation and is
>>>>>>    not a "virus." (The icon for this file is a graphic of a bear like
>>>>>>    the one shown to the left.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    If you deleted this file, don't sweat it -- JDBGMGR.EXE is only
>>>>>>    important to programmers who use Microsoft Visual J++ 1.1 to
>>>>>>    develop Java programs. Its absence will not cause your PC to stop
>>>>>>    working or interfere with your applications, so if you're not a
>>>>>>    Java developer, you don't have to worry about restoring it.
>>>>>>    Consider the experience a lesson learned about the perils of
>>>>>>    believing and acting upon unverified e-mail warnings.
>>>
>>>The Internet: the modern equivalent of "some guy down the pub told me..."
>>
>>This just makes me praise the powers that be that I own a Mac :-)
>>
>
>Mac's .....  I've heard that they emulate Windows pretty well.
>
>W
>

Beyond that, rumour is that Apple is working on Marklar, a version of
the Mac OS that would run on Intel and AMD chips.  So our PC's could
go, in Steve's words, "Windows free".



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