{"id":72,"date":"2004-01-20T20:41:29","date_gmt":"2004-01-20T20:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewebgal.com\/wordpress\/?p=72"},"modified":"2004-01-20T20:41:29","modified_gmt":"2004-01-20T20:41:29","slug":"makin-it-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Makin&#8217; it MAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gfx\/blogpix\/g4-small.gif\" alt=\"photo of a Mac g4\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been looking into getting a MAC for the next computer I buy.<br \/>\nIn the past, I&#8217;ve assembled my own PCs; from the 286-20 I built in 1989 and started the BBS with; through the intermediate AMD machines;  to the Pentium-4 tower I use these days.  From MS-Dos with DesqView and QEMM through Win 2000, all have been on the WinTel hardware platform. <\/p>\n<p>\nFrankly, its just too vulnerable anymore. I&#8217;ve got antivirus and firewalls and all of that &#8211; but MS just leaves too many opening for their &#8220;partners&#8221;  that translate to open doors for all the crackers and scammers out there. Well, no more.<br \/>\nAll I do is webwork and graphics anyway &#8211; why not use a machine better made for such work. I&#8217;l look them over for the next couple months, and hopefully by June &#8230; I&#8217;ll decide and &#8230; get either a G4 or G5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking into getting a MAC for the next computer I buy. In the past, I&#8217;ve assembled my own PCs; from the 286-20 I built in 1989 and started the BBS with; through the intermediate AMD machines; to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=72\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computertech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}