That's how I got started. I wanted to learn to program in C and found it difficult on Windows as I couldn't afford copies of expensive software. A friend suggested linux and after trying multiple distros on my exotic hardware (scrounged from multiple old computers I could get off a local school for free) I managed to install and configure slackware as my first full distro. 3.5 Yrs and a new computer later debian is booted 98% of the time. I only boot windows for games (defcon at the moment, Introversion I'm waiting). I'm never going back.
All you need is a laptop with a hidden directional antenna. Connect, watch the signal as you turn the antenna around, head in direction were it is strongest and if you see a drop scan a bit more. Works for any radio signal as long as you have a receiver (hand held scanner) with a meter on the right frequency. The only problem is for most people modifying/replacing your antenna on your wireless card is illegal as it is a transmission device.
Some off us ran the RCs and Betas just to see how bad it was. Fresh install runs fast and you wow after that everyday it gets slower. My friend and I both pulled it off our computers.
Also I blew my motherboard and so replaced it windows wouldn't even boot (both XP and Vista RC). Ubuntu booted no problem at all.
It's slow and cumbersome, has much to complicated file system permissions, breaks most previous programs (including visual studio) and doesn't deliver what M$ promised (new file system, expose effects,...).
It will still have plenty of viral attacks (from creating my own to test on my own PC).
Also everybody knows real men use UNIX.
Ubuntu and Beryl is the wining combination here.
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That's how I got started. I wanted to learn to program in C and found it difficult on Windows as I couldn't afford copies of expensive software. A friend suggested linux and after trying multiple distros on my exotic hardware (scrounged from multiple old computers I could get off a local school for free) I managed to install and configure slackware as my first full distro. 3.5 Yrs and a new computer later debian is booted 98% of the time. I only boot windows for games (defcon at the moment, Introversion I'm waiting). I'm never going back.
The one for .NET failed.
That's why my copy is used for building native open source libraries.
I thought that piece of paper got lost years ago. One of the office workers accidentally shredded it. ;-)
And real men use UNIX.
Now lets put that in perspective.= 2&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=95/
From http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid
For December 2006
OS Market Share(Percent) Botnet(Percent)
Windows 93.87 23.47
Mac 5.67 1.42
Linux 0.37 0.09
Other 0.09 0.02
Now there wouldn't be that many in those last 3 sets of figures for various reasons and to be honest I do not trust the original data.
All you need is a laptop with a hidden directional antenna. Connect, watch the signal as you turn the antenna around, head in direction were it is strongest and if you see a drop scan a bit more. Works for any radio signal as long as you have a receiver (hand held scanner) with a meter on the right frequency. The only problem is for most people modifying/replacing your antenna on your wireless card is illegal as it is a transmission device.
Some off us ran the RCs and Betas just to see how bad it was. Fresh install runs fast and you wow after that everyday it gets slower. My friend and I both pulled it off our computers. Also I blew my motherboard and so replaced it windows wouldn't even boot (both XP and Vista RC). Ubuntu booted no problem at all.
Bash, KDE (Konqueror and kontact), Amarok,GCC,kate,gdb,... I want them all native too.
It's slow and cumbersome, has much to complicated file system permissions, breaks most previous programs (including visual studio) and doesn't deliver what M$ promised (new file system, expose effects,...). It will still have plenty of viral attacks (from creating my own to test on my own PC). Also everybody knows real men use UNIX. Ubuntu and Beryl is the wining combination here.
It is fairly sure protection as you could just overite disk image/directory when hit byvirus or anything
Only if you know the master. What you don't? I just love Konqueror/KDEwallet and Firefox.
Some times I think it's the parents that need spying on. Mine don't even know what URL stands for let alone GNU. Now got to go and set up squid.
That would be proxy server not firewall to filter URLs, firewalls only filter ports.