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life after Windows....
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dest wrote: Linux is way to much customizable. Now that strikes me as an advantage. One of my complaints about some "up"grades I've been forced to accept is that they chop out customizable features I found very useful in favor of supposedly idiotproof clunky features. And that's from a Mac point of view! At least with pre-OS X Mac I could keep using old versions for quite a while. -- Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar) You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo* |
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life after Windows....
"Doug Jewell" wrote in message ... There is no single standardised configuration store like the registry. Thank God. . There is no single standardised GUI. You should have been around a few years ago when Windows wasn't the only choice arounf the place. I rather liked an operating system called GEM made by Digital research, but Microsoft killed it, and I don't mean outsold it, I mean sued them and stopped them selling it under very strange circumstances. -- William Black I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach Time for tea. |
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life after Windows....
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AZ Nomad wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:41:31 +0100, Mxsmanic wrote: William Black writes: Sorry, XP. Who cares, it's all crap. That's true for Windows 9x, but not for versions of Windows descended from Windows NT, which, as I've said, is a totally different operating system. That explains how all the worms and viruses running around in the wild are for unix. Not. or Mac. Not. -- Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar) You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo* |
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"Shawn Hirn" wrote in message ... Yeh, except probably every bank on the planet, major investment houses, probably tons of government agencies, etc. German government agencies won't run Windows as there's requirement for their software to be open source. The UK government is trying to move towards this but do seem to insist on employing imbeciles like Capita to do their systems planning, which means stuff doesn't work anyway... -- William Black I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach Time for tea. |
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"Shawn Hirn" wrote in message ... In article , Mxsmanic wrote: William Black writes: The major advantage of using Linux is security. The "security" of Linux is illusory. Its only security advantage is that it's too small a target to merit attacks. You have no clue what you are talking about. Linux machines are attacked and some are also compromised. I know. They obviously weren't properly 'locked down'. -- William Black I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach Time for tea. |
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life after Windows....
"Martin" wrote in message ... On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:28:05 -0000, "William Black" wrote: "Martin" wrote in message . .. On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:06:52 -0000, "William Black" wrote: "Mxsmanic" wrote in message m... William Black writes: Right now I'm running two computers, Ubuntu on the new one and W98 SP2 on an elderly Dell, with a KVM switch and a teeny weenie Samba server running 2x 500Gig disks in RAID 1 for backup storage. Windows 98 is a completely different operating system from Windows XP. Sorry, XP. Who cares, it's all crap. It isn't all crap. W98 is from a decade ago. WinXP and NT are totally different products. I've used WinXP since 2002 and never had a crash. I wish. I've had a vanilla Dell desk-top running XP since about 2006 and I've lost count of the reinstalls I've had to do. At least half a dozen so far. I have never had to reinstall. Between us we have it running on three Dell Desktop PCs since 2002, including one where the a very close relative downloaded all sorts of junk and viruses, but we have never had to do a reinstall. Then you've been very lucky... Just about everyone I know who runs a Windows desktop of any type has needed a reinstall at some point. -- William Black I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach Time for tea. |
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aracari/humminbird is a no nothing newbie life after Windows....
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John Stubbings wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:15:15 GMT, Franklin wrote: Schrodinger's cat? Maybe he meant Stubbings's cat? My cat is a multi dimensional being capable of spontaneously appearing on my lap... Isn't that true of all cats? -- Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar) You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo |
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life after Windows....
William Black writes:
"Lou Ravi" wrote in message ... I don't have a server nor do the vast majority of computer users. So what do you back up to? It's very easy to back up to a removable external disk, such as a USB disk. That's probably the best option for desktop users these days. |
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On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:43:51 -0000, William Black wrote in post :
: "Martin" wrote in message ... On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:28:05 -0000, "William Black" wrote: "Martin" wrote in message ... On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:06:52 -0000, "William Black" wrote: "Mxsmanic" wrote in message om... William Black writes: Right now I'm running two computers, Ubuntu on the new one and W98 SP2 on an elderly Dell, with a KVM switch and a teeny weenie Samba server running 2x 500Gig disks in RAID 1 for backup storage. Windows 98 is a completely different operating system from Windows XP. Sorry, XP. Who cares, it's all crap. It isn't all crap. W98 is from a decade ago. WinXP and NT are totally different products. I've used WinXP since 2002 and never had a crash. I wish. I've had a vanilla Dell desk-top running XP since about 2006 and I've lost count of the reinstalls I've had to do. At least half a dozen so far. I have never had to reinstall. Between us we have it running on three Dell Desktop PCs since 2002, including one where the a very close relative downloaded all sorts of junk and viruses, but we have never had to do a reinstall. Then you've been very lucky... Just about everyone I know who runs a Windows desktop of any type has needed a reinstall at some point. We have about 60 PCs running XP (that is all the staff), and only once have we had reinstalled XP - and that was because of an awkward combination of a virus combined with a new graphics card, and it was just easier that way. We could probably have got around it but you know, time is money. -- Tim C. |
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life after Windows....
White Spirit writes:
I often run FreeBSD as well but to say that it is a real UNIX(tm) as opposed to a fake UNIX(tm) is ridiculous. Beyond POSIX compliance, what more do you want? FreeBSD and the other freeware BSDs are actual descendants of UNIX, whereas Linux has a kernel that is a clone of UNIX functionality. Additionally, the BSD operating systems are complete operating systems that are functional "out of the box," whereas Linux is just a kernel around which a great deal of additional software must be added in order to get anything resembling a functional operating system. And since everyone adds something different, there are zillions of different "distributions" of Linux, whereas there's only one FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc. |
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