Even on Linux, she won't be any safer if she isn't instructed not to click on crap and install it.
Not true. She can click on whatever ads/spam she want. The majority of viruses out there are targeted to windows. Linux boxes are NOT capable of executing windows binaries. If she clicks one, Linux will ask you "with which program do you want to open it with?"
Linux WILL be able to execute windows binaries if you install wine (some kind of win32 API wrapper).
Even if she clicks on a virus targeted to GNU/Linux systems, she would be safe since GNU/Linux is secure BY DEFAULT. The virus would only be able to install on her user account and would be easily removable.
Learn a little more about other operating systems before instructing users to move to crapy/joke operating systems.
My new daylight CFL lamp damaged my laptop IR sensor. I use the laptop remote to control my audio player software. One day it stopped working for no reason. A moth later I replaced the lamp above my TV (on another room) with one similar to the CFL lamp in my bedroom (where I have the laptop), the TV remote control stopped working. With quick electronics I made a IR meter, guess what? The CFL lamp was emitting IR like crazy.
I replaced my bedroom lamp with the old (warm) CFL but it was too late. The laptop IR sensor was borken.
Now, I have to live with a dead laptop remote. The TV sensor is OK, I guess it didn't have much exposure to the IR light.
For those who like ultimate whiteness light CFL lamps and with a HP dv6xxx laptop, I REALLY RECOMMEND TO PUT THE LAPTOP AWAY FROM THE LAMP.
Nice article. Screen shots tells a lot from a OS. *shrugs*
So congratulations, from that pictures I can tell that Microsoft R&D Lab had a great time installing KDE 4 and plasmoids while the core Microsoft team was busy masquerading Vista.
I think no one cares unless they are shareholders of SUN.
OpenOffice is under LGPL and there are currently some forks out there. If SUN cuts down $$ funding on it, the other OO forks will gain community attention.
I mainly use OpenOffice for doing posters (with OOImpress), LaTeX is perfect for papers and reports. Presentations are best made with LaTeX too (with beamer).
Hilarious! Last.fm is widely known yet no one uses Amarok nor Linux.
Hilarious is your ignorant observation.
The amarok team received a lot of requests for a Windows port. With the introduction of QT4 the port should be pretty usable by now. And why is that people are asking for amarok to run on Windows?
This is the proof that Linux geeks are so outside of the latest Internet services.
I think you have not been living on Mars but rather on Pluto. * Did you miss the news about a new OS stack called Android? * What about Microsoft (not limited to) developing their.NET framework and Silverlight to GNU/Linux? * What about Adobe releasing the first and unique 64bit version of Flash specifically for GNU/Linux?
I first found last.fm when trying amarok. I loved the idea of automatically submitting the name of listened tracks to a database which is used to build statistics among other listeners.
During some time using the service, I found some artists with a music genre similar to the one I used to listen. This was great since I don't listen commercial or popular music, so musics I like are difficult to find.
Since last.fm also works as social network (it is the single and only one I use as a matter of fact) I received some PMs from other users telling to try listen FOO or BAR artist.
There is another great resource. The last.fm neighbour system. One is able to find users with similar musical taste. It is possible to find a lot of new music just by looking at their prefered musics.
I hate social networks, this one however is different. These are just my 2cts to explain a service I use for a long time.
PS: I read some posts here on/. that last.fm is under RIAA eye. I hope it is just speculation. If not, I just don't care. (Maybe because I'm overseas)
I left two Gentoo Linux computers on my parents house. The main computer is acting as gateway, firewall, file server, print server... My sister is currently using it with gnome and she loves it. The other one is currently being used by my parents (with gnome too).
The two boxes don't update automatically. I do the updates myself once I arrive parents home or if needed, I update remotely using a secure shell.
They don't have a root password, they don't need it. Everything works, everyone is happy.
In the digital content creations space practically all of big packages support 64 bit; Photoshop. 3ds Max, Maya, SoftImage, etc...
Well.. That seems to be a very reduced subset of the Windows ecosystem.
Explaining this in another way would be: My x86_64 Gentoo Linux install has its entire userland built with 64bit support except Macromedia's Flash (which now has also a native *beta* version). This install was made 5 years ago and moved from my first Athlon 64 laptop (yes it was heavy) to the current Turion 64 X2 laptop.
So if within 5 years Windows didn't care to move to 64bits, why one would think they will in the future? Microsoft pushed everybody into Vista, they would do the same for x86_64 if they wanted.
I'm not a sysadmin myself so pardon my incorrect usage of terms.
I know there are some group policy implementations for UNIX. Samba does a good job (much better than windows from what I've heard). Although, I only worked on systems with POSIX ACLs.
I never saw a system that prevents users to clean their history (maybe because I avoid windows machines) but, IMHO, that's a privacy concern.
with IE7 via group policy you can stop the user from clearing history etc, can Firefox do the same ? or is Firefox going to be deemed a security threat by Administrators ? which is not good for corporate usage and compliance
Are you STUPID or IGNORANT enough to think there is only a Operating System available?
1) If you run firefox as unprivileged user, you can't change system (widely available) options. 2) Why the fuck you want to prevent users from clearing history? That's a privacy threat not a fucking "security threat". 3) Read (put whatever UNIX for stupid people book here) and be a MAN.
But since users' standard practice, as trained by M$ security theatre over many years, is to click on everything that has an OK on it, I think it doesn't matter.
There, fixed that for ya.
Yeah! The allow/deny app access control in Vista is the exact example how microbloft "train" users to simply click without reading.
If your OS is constantly popping up windows with YES/NO, ALLOW/DENY, ACCEPT/CANCEL.. whatever, you'll get pissed off and click on whatever shows up next without even reading.
Micro$oft clearly has it share of guilty on this one.
How dare MS maximise compatibility for Windows 7 and implement what will be a handy feature for low end systems, particularly netbooks (it's the chipset that draws all the power in atom based systems, not the CPU).
Yes, but CPUs also drain less power when running at lower frequencies (speedstep, cpuscaling whatever) and low cpu load.
Transferring the graphical bloat to the cpu will make the CPU power saving management less efficient.
For example, word processors don't require much from a CPU. Although, with software rendering you will get CPU usage spikes every time you open a menu (think on the shadows, anti-aliasing,..), scroll the document, etc..
So IMHO that's no good for laptops, specially when integrated graphics solutions are available and low-end graphic cards are cheap.
I can't seem to figure out why some many people (usually MS haters) claim that Windows Mobile crashes consistently. I've had my phone for years and have only had to reset it about 12 times
Maybe because it CRASHES indeed? EXAMPLE #1: Open a big.pdf or image file with your favorite app. The app will grab all existing resources and make the device unresponsive/ultraslow. This is totally unacceptable!! A decent kernel will raise a OOM (out-of-memory) and KILL the damn app!
EXAMPLE #2: Maybe you don't need to change too much your wifi ip address, but the real fact is that it is required to soft reset the device everytime you do it.
I could stay all day here remembering really bad usability issues on windows mobile but Google is better than me.
Windows Mobile likes to keep apps open, but if you get MagicButton or any similar task manager, you can make programs actually close. This improves the performance and the stability quite a bit. And while I haven't done any heavy statistical analysis, I've found the built in Excel to be capable of meeting my needs (quick spreadsheet to track boxes of girl scout cookies sold for my daughter, a spreadsheet to help calculate loan costs of cars when shopping for a new one, etc.). Not a lot of need for Word and PowerPoint, so I can't speak to those.
Good for you that windows mobile fits your needs. But the truth is that it is not as pleasant as you said. Again, I'm helping with the porting of GNU/Linux to the HTC Wizard. http://linwizard.sourceforge.net/ Do you imagine how much people shows up on our official linwizard IRC channel? A lot, most of them asking how to put android or openmoko on it. If you still don't believe, just google for the IRC logs.
Growing up with a C64 and then DOS of all flavors and even Windows 3.x, I'm used to limits of an operating system (and before you raise too many flames, how many programs can you run on an iPhone......). If those limits mean that I can't have 20 programs running at once, I'm ok with that. If you live within the limits, the OS is usually very stable and performant. Sure Windows Mobile isn't the worlds greatest OS, but I don't think it's as bad as the bashers like to claim.
You can't resume everyone as basher/microsoft hater. The truth is that windows mobile really sucks and there is little we can do to improve it, since most of problems are on the kernel or the UI itself. That's why GNU/Linux makes sense: - If you don't like something, you CAN fix it.
I don't own a iphone so I won't comment. But either way, please be aware the the HTC wizard is not so limited as you may think.
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Try this instead.
1. Install GNU/Linux.
The best part is, this will work with virtually *any* malware infection, and will generally catch things that even Malwarebytes misses.
Fixed that for you.
Even on Linux, she won't be any safer if she isn't instructed not to click on crap and install it.
Not true. She can click on whatever ads/spam she want. The majority of viruses out there are targeted to windows.
Linux boxes are NOT capable of executing windows binaries. If she clicks one, Linux will ask you "with which program do you want to open it with?"
Linux WILL be able to execute windows binaries if you install wine (some kind of win32 API wrapper).
Even if she clicks on a virus targeted to GNU/Linux systems, she would be safe since GNU/Linux is secure BY DEFAULT. The virus would only be able to install on her user account and would be easily removable.
Learn a little more about other operating systems before instructing users to move to crapy/joke operating systems.
Well.. at least Microsoft is still good making computer mouses.
My new daylight CFL lamp damaged my laptop IR sensor.
I use the laptop remote to control my audio player software. One day it stopped working for no reason.
A moth later I replaced the lamp above my TV (on another room) with one similar to the CFL lamp in my bedroom (where I have the laptop), the TV remote control stopped working.
With quick electronics I made a IR meter, guess what? The CFL lamp was emitting IR like crazy.
I replaced my bedroom lamp with the old (warm) CFL but it was too late. The laptop IR sensor was borken.
Now, I have to live with a dead laptop remote. The TV sensor is OK, I guess it didn't have much exposure to the IR light.
For those who like ultimate whiteness light CFL lamps and with a HP dv6xxx laptop,
I REALLY RECOMMEND TO PUT THE LAPTOP AWAY FROM THE LAMP.
anyone?
Nice article. Screen shots tells a lot from a OS.
*shrugs*
So congratulations, from that pictures I can tell that Microsoft R&D Lab had a great time installing KDE 4 and plasmoids while the core Microsoft team was busy masquerading Vista.
Give me a break!
Please mod parent up!
It just means that Sun is dying.
I think no one cares unless they are shareholders of SUN.
OpenOffice is under LGPL and there are currently some forks out there. If SUN cuts down $$ funding on it, the other OO forks will gain community attention.
I mainly use OpenOffice for doing posters (with OOImpress), LaTeX is perfect for papers and reports. Presentations are best made with LaTeX too (with beamer).
Spreadsheets have always been useless for me.
So, I don't think I really miss a Office suite.
.. what about that?
Hilarious! Last.fm is widely known yet no one uses Amarok nor Linux.
Hilarious is your ignorant observation.
The amarok team received a lot of requests for a Windows port. With the introduction of QT4 the port should be pretty usable by now.
And why is that people are asking for amarok to run on Windows?
This is the proof that Linux geeks are so outside of the latest Internet services.
I think you have not been living on Mars but rather on Pluto. .NET framework and Silverlight to GNU/Linux?
* Did you miss the news about a new OS stack called Android?
* What about Microsoft (not limited to) developing their
* What about Adobe releasing the first and unique 64bit version of Flash specifically for GNU/Linux?
Why would they do that?
Yes, I know. No one uses GNU/Linux.
I first found last.fm when trying amarok. I loved the idea of automatically submitting the name of listened tracks to a database which is used to build statistics among other listeners.
During some time using the service, I found some artists with a music genre similar to the one I used to listen. This was great since I don't listen commercial or popular music, so musics I like are difficult to find.
Since last.fm also works as social network (it is the single and only one I use as a matter of fact) I received some PMs from other users telling to try listen FOO or BAR artist.
There is another great resource. The last.fm neighbour system.
One is able to find users with similar musical taste. It is possible to find a lot of new music just by looking at their prefered musics.
I hate social networks, this one however is different.
These are just my 2cts to explain a service I use for a long time.
PS: I read some posts here on /. that last.fm is under RIAA eye.
I hope it is just speculation. If not, I just don't care. (Maybe because I'm overseas)
Exactly,
I left two Gentoo Linux computers on my parents house. The main computer is acting as gateway, firewall, file server, print server... My sister is currently using it with gnome and she loves it.
The other one is currently being used by my parents (with gnome too).
The two boxes don't update automatically. I do the updates myself once I arrive parents home or if needed, I update remotely using a secure shell.
They don't have a root password, they don't need it. Everything works, everyone is happy.
In the digital content creations space practically all of big packages support 64 bit; Photoshop. 3ds Max, Maya, SoftImage, etc...
Well.. That seems to be a very reduced subset of the Windows ecosystem.
Explaining this in another way would be:
My x86_64 Gentoo Linux install has its entire userland built with 64bit support except Macromedia's Flash (which now has also a native *beta* version).
This install was made 5 years ago and moved from my first Athlon 64 laptop (yes it was heavy) to the current Turion 64 X2 laptop.
So if within 5 years Windows didn't care to move to 64bits, why one would think they will in the future?
Microsoft pushed everybody into Vista, they would do the same for x86_64 if they wanted.
It looks as though Linux users will have native 64-bit Windows applications before most Windows users.
Mod parent up +1 Funny.
Thank you, you made my day.
Everybody knows the failure of Windows XP x64.
Most Vistas out there are still x86 only.
I have Vista x64 for gaming but guess what? Nobody cares.
So, what's the point of running 64bit PEs if the whole windows ecosystem is not interested in it at all?
I'm not a sysadmin myself so pardon my incorrect usage of terms.
I know there are some group policy implementations for UNIX. Samba does a good job (much better than windows from what I've heard).
Although, I only worked on systems with POSIX ACLs.
I never saw a system that prevents users to clean their history (maybe because I avoid windows machines) but, IMHO, that's a privacy concern.
with IE7 via group policy you can stop the user from clearing history etc, can Firefox do the same ?
or is Firefox going to be deemed a security threat by Administrators ? which is not good for corporate usage and compliance
Are you STUPID or IGNORANT enough to think there is only a Operating System available?
1) If you run firefox as unprivileged user, you can't change system (widely available) options.
2) Why the fuck you want to prevent users from clearing history? That's a privacy threat not a fucking "security threat".
3) Read (put whatever UNIX for stupid people book here) and be a MAN.
But since users' standard practice, as trained by M$ security theatre over many years, is to click on everything that has an OK on it, I think it doesn't matter.
There, fixed that for ya.
Yeah! The allow/deny app access control in Vista is the exact example how microbloft "train" users to simply click without reading.
If your OS is constantly popping up windows with YES/NO, ALLOW/DENY, ACCEPT/CANCEL .. whatever, you'll get pissed off and click on whatever shows up next without even reading.
Micro$oft clearly has it share of guilty on this one.
Mozilla needs your permission to install plugins from unverified sources.
But since windows standard practice is to click on everything that has an OK on it, I think it doesn't matter.
Sure, just imagine Vista running on a 800MHz computer with software render.
I think you mean "walking"
How dare MS maximise compatibility for Windows 7 and implement what will be a handy feature for low end systems, particularly netbooks (it's the chipset that draws all the power in atom based systems, not the CPU).
Yes, but CPUs also drain less power when running at lower frequencies (speedstep, cpuscaling whatever) and low cpu load.
Transferring the graphical bloat to the cpu will make the CPU power saving management less efficient.
For example, word processors don't require much from a CPU. Although, with software rendering you will get CPU usage spikes every time you open a menu (think on the shadows, anti-aliasing, ..), scroll the document, etc..
So IMHO that's no good for laptops, specially when integrated graphics solutions are available and low-end graphic cards are cheap.
Sure, just imagine Vista running on a 800MHz computer with software render.
Then there's Microsoft Research, which actually clones up some great stuff, though most of it is not (yet) implementable on a commercial scale.
There, fixed it for you.
LOL! You made my day.
I can't seem to figure out why some many people (usually MS haters) claim that Windows Mobile crashes consistently. I've had my phone for years and have only had to reset it about 12 times
Maybe because it CRASHES indeed? .pdf or image file with your favorite app. The app will grab all existing resources and make the device unresponsive/ultraslow.
EXAMPLE #1:
Open a big
This is totally unacceptable!! A decent kernel will raise a OOM (out-of-memory) and KILL the damn app!
EXAMPLE #2:
Maybe you don't need to change too much your wifi ip address, but the real fact is that it is required to soft reset the device everytime you do it.
I could stay all day here remembering really bad usability issues on windows mobile but Google is better than me.
Windows Mobile likes to keep apps open, but if you get MagicButton or any similar task manager, you can make programs actually close. This improves the performance and the stability quite a bit. And while I haven't done any heavy statistical analysis, I've found the built in Excel to be capable of meeting my needs (quick spreadsheet to track boxes of girl scout cookies sold for my daughter, a spreadsheet to help calculate loan costs of cars when shopping for a new one, etc.). Not a lot of need for Word and PowerPoint, so I can't speak to those.
Good for you that windows mobile fits your needs. But the truth is that it is not as pleasant as you said.
Again, I'm helping with the porting of GNU/Linux to the HTC Wizard.
http://linwizard.sourceforge.net/
Do you imagine how much people shows up on our official linwizard IRC channel? A lot, most of them asking how to put android or openmoko on it.
If you still don't believe, just google for the IRC logs.
Growing up with a C64 and then DOS of all flavors and even Windows 3.x, I'm used to limits of an operating system (and before you raise too many flames, how many programs can you run on an iPhone......). If those limits mean that I can't have 20 programs running at once, I'm ok with that. If you live within the limits, the OS is usually very stable and performant. Sure Windows Mobile isn't the worlds greatest OS, but I don't think it's as bad as the bashers like to claim.
You can't resume everyone as basher/microsoft hater. The truth is that windows mobile really sucks and there is little we can do to improve it, since most of problems are on the kernel or the UI itself.
That's why GNU/Linux makes sense:
- If you don't like something, you CAN fix it.
I don't own a iphone so I won't comment. But either way, please be aware the the HTC wizard is not so limited as you may think.