Windows Vista

nynoah · Post by **nynoah** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:55 pm

haunter, you are playing with fire. If I was you, I would do a dual boot system and surf to your hearts delight on the linux system.

silver · Post by **silver** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:46 pm

Well to each their own. And I completely agree with Haunter. Viruses and spyware are for n00bs as are most of the applications that block them. Likewise, I run no firewall on any of the 5 computers in my home and no antivirus on my personal workstation and notebook.

I looked at KomPozer (yet another program that starts with "K" ?) and put screenshots of it and Dreamweaver together at :

http://www.fastriders.net/html/computer/d_vs_k.html

It's kinda like comparing a SR500 to a R1. And I say "yet another program that starts with "K" ?" as I find it quite annoying to have nearly every KDE application start with a "K". It's like George Eastman gone berserk or something !

Here's a link on how to get rid of duplicates in Linux :

http://elonen.iki.fi/code/misc-notes/re ... ate-files/

In Winderz I just use Doublekiller.

http://www.bigbangenterprises.de/en/doublekiller/

As I stated in the thread If you have Windows XP, why do you use linux?" on Ubuntu's forum ", "Sometimes you have to stop working ON the computer and start working WITH it!" Hmmmm, kinda like bikes, right ? Anyway, Linux has a few million beta testers and very few real developers. If you want a commercial strength OS you run XP or Vista. If you want to beta test, you run Linux. I've done my time as a beta tester. Again, I'm no MS fanboi, In fact I use Linux servers for my sites and for good reason. That's what Linux does best. However I simply refuse to waste a lot of time trying to make a square peg fit in a round hole.

haunter · Post by **haunter** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:01 pm

nynoah wrote:haunter, you are playing with fire. If I was you, I would do a dual boot system and surf to your hearts delight on the linux system.

I run the inlcuded windows firewall with OneCare now. OneCare is now one of the highest detection rate personal use AV cleints with a low resource impact, and it works WITH defender and windows firewall.....so I figured it was a good bet. plus they started the 3 clients per software purchase before anyone else and I used to have 3 XP boxes, now I just have one vista and one xp...

but like I said, most viruses count on bad decisions on the users part.

silver · Post by **silver** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:19 pm

Often it's not clear as to which one is worse, the virus or the anti-virus ! Unfortunately AV programs like McAfee and Nortons security suites are riddled with bugs and are notorious for their updates.

Anyway, I've turned off all software firewalls on all systems as I have a firewall in my router that handles everything in hardware. In case most don't know, you're DSL and cable modems usually include a firewall as well. I use Remote Desktop to access my system at home when roaming with my notebook so I had to disable that firewall as well. Now I rely solely on my router and to that end I went with a D-Link DIR-655 which is a pretty good N-series router. Lots of options.

Re:Linux, I just took another look at the list of scanners supported by SANE and it's still limited to either high-end scanners such as the 4990 or low-end scanners such as the HP AIO that my wife uses. Also I find that my Creative X-Fi still isn't supported. Back to Winderz !

haunter · Post by **haunter** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:13 am

norton/symantec is bad, and a resource hog

mcafee is WORSE, it has a horrible catch rate

mcafee scored worse on catch last time than the FREE AVG. The pay for AVG is better still.

AVG, Kapersky, and OneCare are the only ones I will consider. None are resource hogs compared to the others(last time I checked) and had better catch rates.

and yeah, no virus's on LINUX, but patch daily or have big security holes too!

silver · Post by **silver** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:25 am

It's amazing how some things just stick in your mind, isn't it ? I installed Zenwalk and had it running for about 2 whole days when they posted a new kernel through their update utility. I installed it and instant KERNEL PANIC !

haunter · Post by **haunter** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:38 am

ouch!

KontoBoy · Post by **KontoBoy** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:49 pm

Symantec/Norton is a resource hog but it has its benefits--it's and easy install and if you have young kids you can set up parental controls on it. With three kids with laptops going to college, I like it because I can install it, configure it for automatic updates and scans, set up the personal firewall, and pretty much and forget about it until time to renew the license. They've added spyware protection now which saves me from buying another product.

Except for when my son uninstalled his Symantec we've not had a virus, and my kids downlad a lot of crap.

All it need now is remote monitoring in the partental controls so I can spy on my kids' on-line activity.

Kontoboy

silver · Post by **silver** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:24 pm

KontoBoy wrote:All it need now is remote monitoring in the partental controls so I can spy on my kids' on-line activity.

Kontoboy

As long as Symantec and McAfee are in business, I'll have a job.

As far as the kids, Vista has all that and more built right in. Also, the very first thing any parent should do prior to giving a computer to a child is install a good hosts file.

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

That combined with Firefox, Avast AV and Windows Defender and a few strong suggestions about file sharing and porn had better be adequate. Simple rule in our home. I'm the dictator until someone else wants to pay the bills.

straygator · Post by **straygator** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 2:45 am

HAPPY NEW YEAR

I need a new laptop for gameing and AV tasks ... blue ray DVD veiwing ,burning, photo editing ect and want to do it on widescreen 1080p with a built in HDTV tuner. I got the idea that those of you on this post would be able to help me and I'm sorry Silver is no longer here to help ... he was the MAN !!! I know I'll have to go Vista but can't decide processor, memory, graphics card . I want BIG 18.4" seems to be HOT. I am thinking Macbook Pro for the featured Multi Touch Pad and the ability to run XP on a divided harddrive. I have SO Much software and hardware that is Xp only. I also like the LED backlight for display screen .I'm also looking at HP HDX18T, SONY Vaio VGN-AW190, Thinkpad W 700. I've been racking my brain out ... Nvida 9600M GT, Quad processors, 1066MHz system bus, 6MB L2 cache, LED screen ... can't get it ALL in any 1 machine.
Thanks, I know you all know more than me.

Paul

EXUP Worldwide

Windows Vista

Laptops ... which one