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Spyware Removal: Drop PC in Dumpster
morganx writes "The New York Times is reporting that some users prefer throwing out their PCs and buying new ones to actually removing their spyware. Does this mean lots of free hardware for the dumpster-divers among us?"
Or actually, malware is I guess what we should be calling it.
There's malware out there that will reformat your hard drive, right?
So maybe the best recommendation we can give these people is not to throw out their computers, but to try and have as much malware installed on their systems as possible, because eventually the situation repairs itself.
And as a bonus, every time the hard drive gets wiped means they reach for the Windows Install CD. What better opportunity for Linux evangelization than at the point of operating system installation? What do they have to lose by trying Linux at this point?
If we can see to it that enough of these Live/Install CD's are distributed en-masse, a la AOL, then the chances are good that at least some of these people will at least try installing Linux.
OpenOffice, Evolution, the GiMP, and Firefox? For free? Without malware or the threat of same? A lot of people are going to say "Yes!" to that.
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Why didn't you know?
Haven't I read this somewhere before?
How is it that the editors know less about what's on their site than someone like me who very rarely glances at the headlines?
Dupe!
I took a dupe in your mouth...
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Fuck this shit; this'll be the last time I visit slashdot. Every other news source I read manages to cope with *multiple editors* (how hard can that be?!?) and yet not post dupes; Slashdot, by contrast, posts dupes all the fucking time.
Enough is enough. Bye bye slashdot
[PS, posting as AC because my computer always deletes my cookies, and for some strange, unknown reason, slashdot isn't allowing me to login with my username/password]
WTF? Why would Intel care what OS you run? Hell for quite a while after Itanium shipped the only non-beta quality OS to run on it was Linux. Now to placate the content industry Intel is working on DRM to protect content, but that only means that you might not be able to play certain content under Other_OS, or that it might require Non_Free and Binary_Only App to view. Being a little paranoid is often healthy, but being very paranoid and uninformed is not.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
A most excellent recommendation indeed.
If you're really ambitious, you could try This Mac.
Beige box! Looks exactly like a wintel PC! Fool your friends!
And if you need something portable, apple has a solution for you.
Hey, while we're having free tech support day ;-)
I have a Dell optiplex GX260. When I plug in a PCI video card, Linux immediately kernel panics. It's done it with 3 different video cards using SuSE, RedHat and Gentoo.
Any ideas?