I never used an antivirus software in more than 8 years. All my computers are connected to the internet. And no, I am not using only linux, i use windows also. And I never had a virus. The problem is different. Infecting with viruses or not is a problem of education. It is very easy to respect simple rules and avoid infecting your computer. And the worst thing is that all computers running antivirus software that I saw were moving slower and slower every day, and they all end in a few month unbootable and requiring a reinstallation of the operating system. These days, the antivirus software destroys more than the virus itself on the computer. The viruses are now just boring e-mail stuff, not like in the old times where they did very bad things (like erasing your hdd for example). And what bothers me more is that in the old days(tm) virus programmers had fun, most of the viruses did something funny: drawing something on your screen, singing.. these days virus programmers are stupid kids that copy and paste from eachother and imagine they know something about computers.
The problem is that the high bandwidth means a bigger subscription fee to their ISP and the high availability site means expensive hardware, that will be 99.99% up, so the more money you require will be spent on these things. The gain is not big enough to keep a business running. Just my opinion..
I have a very old system, running redhat 4.2 on it, that does the billing for the X.25 part of my network. It runs a lot of scripts and binary programs that are reading accounting files generated by the X.25 switches, transforming them into text files and generating monthly reports for the billing department. It is so complex, that I would think more than twice even for upgrading the kernel from its current 2.0.32 to the new 2.0.39, and upgrading the operating system to a newer distribution will never be done, because it does not worth the effort. Its great to see that somebody still takes care of old software and if a bug will bother me someday, i will have the option to upgrade or at least to talk with somebody that still mantains the software.
I have machines running for more than a year full on ext3 (inc. root) over a software mirroring raid (it does not really matter, but may be this increases the complexity of the actions the machine performs). The filesystems survived to a power outage when the generator failed to start before draining out the UPS and also to a hardware lock when a HDD controller broke down and somehow made the SCSI chain unusable (all the other HDDs became inaccesible). I am pretty happy with it, and althoug it is very intensive used - e-mail, syslog from a lot of cisco routers, netflow collection (this is really big - about 80G of logs/month), it created no problem, error or crash.
So where the Romans, the Spanish, the English, the French.. in their times. And all belived they will rule forever.
Just that empires come and go, power becomes corupted, and they fail.. probably the next great power will be China.
You should be aware that air conditioning equipment takes also care of humidity. Putting the computer in an open (to the outside) environment will create a lot of condensed water on the electric boards, which is a very bad thing.
The linux drivers for NVIDIA are working great.. sometimes i even feel they work better than the windows version. And i have never experienced a lock on my machine
I had some problems when writing a monitoring application in Java that had to run 24/7/365, because of some strange memory leaks in thread creation, that were causing the JVM to allocate about 500Mb in memory in two days. Finally i solved it by keeping the threads and reusing them instead of starting new ones when needed. There was no problem with my code (referenced objects or so on), the only fault was GC's. So i decided that this was not a good job for java, my C++ rewrite runs fine without a halt since february.
He never said that a faster computer cannot exist. Just said that this is the ultimate limit for a transistor. Probably the next step will be a different technology, without transistors.
If i want console editing, i always use joe. I cannot accept that i have to press a special key before i can insert/append some text. And also, the delete method in vi is awful.
And more, joe feels better than vi on strange terminals.
When i can (X available) i use nedit.
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Do you have anything against Caldera? it is better than redhat because uses serious applications instead of new, buggy software, but also has enough new library versions to make me hapy.
Debian is just a geek-toy (ugly to install from so many floppies, poor configuration style - and i am not talking about visual tools, but about the style of the configuration files). I am using caldera for one month (i was using redhat before but 7.x series were to ugly to upgrade to and 6.x were always requiring many upgrades).
I have an old Pentium Pro (100% original Intel hardware from Ireland, not sure if the fan is also from them, but came in the cpu's box), and it runs for 4 years without any pause, and works fine.
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I never used an antivirus software in more than 8 years. All my computers are connected to the internet. And no, I am not using only linux, i use windows also. And I never had a virus.
The problem is different. Infecting with viruses or not is a problem of education. It is very easy to respect simple rules and avoid infecting your computer.
And the worst thing is that all computers running antivirus software that I saw were moving slower and slower every day, and they all end in a few month unbootable and requiring a reinstallation of the operating system. These days, the antivirus software destroys more than the virus itself on the computer. The viruses are now just boring e-mail stuff, not like in the old times where they did very bad things (like erasing your hdd for example). And what bothers me more is that in the old days(tm) virus programmers had fun, most of the viruses did something funny: drawing something on your screen, singing.. these days virus programmers are stupid kids that copy and paste from eachother and imagine they know something about computers.
The problem is that the high bandwidth means a bigger subscription fee to their ISP and the high availability site means expensive hardware, that will be 99.99% up, so the more money you require will be spent on these things. The gain is not big enough to keep a business running. Just my opinion..
What Y2K fiasco? nothing bad happened in 2000, at least to me..
I have a very old system, running redhat 4.2 on it, that does the billing for the X.25 part of my network. It runs a lot of scripts and binary programs that are reading accounting files generated by the X.25 switches, transforming them into text files and generating monthly reports for the billing department. It is so complex, that I would think more than twice even for upgrading the kernel from its current 2.0.32 to the new 2.0.39, and upgrading the operating system to a newer distribution will never be done, because it does not worth the effort. Its great to see that somebody still takes care of old software and if a bug will bother me someday, i will have the option to upgrade or at least to talk with somebody that still mantains the software.
I have machines running for more than a year full on ext3 (inc. root) over a software mirroring raid (it does not really matter, but may be this increases the complexity of the actions the machine performs). The filesystems survived to a power outage when the generator failed to start before draining out the UPS and also to a hardware lock when a HDD controller broke down and somehow made the SCSI chain unusable (all the other HDDs became inaccesible). I am pretty happy with it, and althoug it is very intensive used - e-mail, syslog from a lot of cisco routers, netflow collection (this is really big - about 80G of logs/month), it created no problem, error or crash.
So where the Romans, the Spanish, the English, the French.. in their times. And all belived they will rule forever.
Just that empires come and go, power becomes corupted, and they fail.. probably the next great power will be China.
You should be aware that air conditioning equipment takes also care of humidity. Putting the computer in an open (to the outside) environment will create a lot of condensed water on the electric boards, which is a very bad thing.
a sgi fuel or sun ultra 80
a high-end gps
scuba diving equipment
a trip to Nepal
a digital photo camera
a car mp3 player
The linux drivers for NVIDIA are working great.. sometimes i even feel they work better than the windows version. And i have never experienced a lock on my machine
I had some problems when writing a monitoring application in Java that had to run 24/7/365, because of some strange memory leaks in thread creation, that were causing the JVM to allocate about 500Mb in memory in two days. Finally i solved it by keeping the threads and reusing them instead of starting new ones when needed. There was no problem with my code (referenced objects or so on), the only fault was GC's. So i decided that this was not a good job for java, my C++ rewrite runs fine without a halt since february.
Anybody ever tried to disassemble the OS of a garmin etrex gps ? (afaik, they are strongarm). If yes, i would appreciate some hints for doing this..
He never said that a faster computer cannot exist. Just said that this is the ultimate limit for a transistor. Probably the next step will be a different technology, without transistors.
IMAP is a very good protocol. Way better than pop3. Too bad it is not used more often.
If i want console editing, i always use joe. I cannot accept that i have to press a special key before i can insert/append some text. And also, the delete method in vi is awful. And more, joe feels better than vi on strange terminals. When i can (X available) i use nedit.
Do you have anything against Caldera? it is better than redhat because uses serious applications instead of new, buggy software, but also has enough new library versions to make me hapy. Debian is just a geek-toy (ugly to install from so many floppies, poor configuration style - and i am not talking about visual tools, but about the style of the configuration files). I am using caldera for one month (i was using redhat before but 7.x series were to ugly to upgrade to and 6.x were always requiring many upgrades).
I have an old Pentium Pro (100% original Intel hardware from Ireland, not sure if the fan is also from them, but came in the cpu's box), and it runs for 4 years without any pause, and works fine.