Personally I think Avast is annoying as hell, I don't remember what it did but it was annoying. Also at least earlier it wasn't to good at find viruses either, I think that had improved now though.
He is kind of correct though, on my Athlon64/Via K8T800/NV GF6800le whatever version which used the text based installer worked. But once they switched to the live-CD with installer approach the machine couldn't boot into the GUI so no live-anything and no installation.
I have no idea if it is like that for plenty of people and true for all versions since then but it was for sure for that one.
At that time I only needed a dist with a kernel new enough* to mount Solaris UFS and OS X HFSX+ though so I just installed plain debian with it's no live-cd, no bullshit approach, which obviously worked.
* And yes, I know how to download and compile a kernel but since I'd rather been running FreeBSD or Solaris instead of Linux for the last couple of years and how most distributions seems to tweak the kernel configuration to their likening I didn't wanted to compile a vanilla one just to end up with a system which refused to boot it because it relied on some extra things which I would had to figure out and work around. Less mess and more things done thank you.
Hondas still use wheels which can puncture so I don't see how that bad car analogy would work.
Rather make it "Get a tank" or "Use steel wheels" or something like that. Which would indeed be about as helpful as suggesting that she install a Linux distribution.
Why does a retarded answer like this get moderated 4, insightful rather than -1, off-topic?
I doubt she gives a shit about Ubuntu or wants to use it.
ScrewMaster was correct, a fast lame first post which don't offer any insight or a solution.
What's the purpose of having useless posts like this in the thread? It won't help her.
My suggestion is avira. It's good at its purpose and uses few resources. I like comodo firewall to and they have an anti-virus called "anti-virus 2" I believe but it's beta and I don't know how good it actually is. Comodo got plenty of free totally usable products.
But there is no confirmation about the approach of each package over UDP is there? I wasn't 100% sure so I left naming TCP specifically because I didn't wanted to write anything which was wrong. Saying the transfer protocol would include each and every protocol which would do any sort of confirmation of the transfer.
The usage of "your" is to say "which you are using."
"that TCP sends a confirmation for each package" requires that he knows what the purpose of TCP is and when it's used so he don't believe there is always a confirmation or maybe that it only happens very rarely. "that TCP, the transfer control protocol, sends a confirmation for..", would explain what it did. "that your TCP, the tra...", would tell both what it is that explain that when you are using it it does confirmations.
"Which I belive comes from the fact that then you use the transfer control protocol TCP to handle your data transfer it sends a confirmation after receiving a package, and if you upload a lot you will have less bandwidth over for such confirmation which will therefor be sent less frequently and your download speed will drop."
Would get much longer, especially if I added "at least, maybe that statement is valid for even more protocols."
It's not some kind of fair use policy / design feature. It's a flaw in the shitty technology used.
(Which I belive comes from the fact that your transfer protocols sends a confirmation when it have received a package, and if you upload a lot you will have less bandwidth over for such confirmation which will therefor be sent less frequently and your download speed will drop.)
If he made me a list I could download the things for him, burn them and send the discs for less:D
I see that people have suggested large cache, I guess ad- and flashblocker are basic stuff to.. But uhm, I guess the web of today do require quite a lot of bandwidth duh to all the bloa.... uhm, web2.0 and flash..
I wonder if I would really waste my precious 1 GB of data on crap like youtube if I had a cap. Uninstall flash, block all ads, block shitty iFrames, get a decent deal on the connection,..:D
Makes me remember, how I don't understand this "omg it would be like moving back into caves", I live in a cave damnit! Sure it may be made of concrete and have artifical lighting, still a fucking cave.
But Obama is the democrat isn't he? So he's like 5% less rightish?
I would say "poorer" or more middleclass or whatever to but someone earlier said that he was a lawyer.
Though that doesn't have to mean that he's super-rich, have been silver spoon feed or don't care about others. I don't see well educated as an issue =P
Would be somewhat intresting to know more about then but well, not my country, not my vote, and their opinions may differ a lot compared to how Sweden is ran anyway.
I meant that what I would vote for, how I'm not american and what everyone else on Slashdot would vote for is off topic.
Also I guess I didn't remembered the article was about political people which people knew a little about. I would belive that as soon as you start to learn to know them looks matters less.
Yeah, so unless you think extra work, added noise, worse audio quality, extra storage space to keep the original files if you still want to keep them and so on for something which was so useless and easily circumvented well then yes: Maybe it doesn't matter..
Yeah, but he said people (would accept to) use it once it become invisible. And when it's broken it does somewhat become invisible. So I guess he's right, because I'd prefer my information with broken rights management and copied for free thank you.
Of course you'll trust someone which looks like they is from your family / closely related more than someone who's not.
Makes perfect sense and makes me wonder why some people decided that "correlationisnotcausation" was a valid tag for this story. Would be intresting to hear their theory about why this happens if it's not because of the similar looks...
ASUS X50 (L ? If I remember correctly) 5.890 SEK. 2 GHz A64 X2 4 GB ram 320 GB HDD 15.4" 1440x900 HD3200
Lenovo N200 4.500 SEK. 1.83 GHz whatever the budget version of C2D is called. 2 GB ram 250 GB HDD 15.4" 1280x800 or something. X3100
So for 40% of the price you get slightly slower cpu, twice as much ram, twice as much diskspace, magnesium body instead of plastic in the Lenovo, and for 55% of the price you get a machine which is more or less like the Macbook Pro as long as you run it on the integrated nvidia graphics.
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Personally I think Avast is annoying as hell, I don't remember what it did but it was annoying. Also at least earlier it wasn't to good at find viruses either, I think that had improved now though.
Or a projector to make it easier for everyone else to follow the action if their is some competition night / guitar hero style gaming and so on.
Or he could just let a couple of PSPs/DSs lay around at the sofas / whatever in the lounge / dinner room.
He is kind of correct though, on my Athlon64/Via K8T800/NV GF6800le whatever version which used the text based installer worked. But once they switched to the live-CD with installer approach the machine couldn't boot into the GUI so no live-anything and no installation.
I have no idea if it is like that for plenty of people and true for all versions since then but it was for sure for that one.
At that time I only needed a dist with a kernel new enough* to mount Solaris UFS and OS X HFSX+ though so I just installed plain debian with it's no live-cd, no bullshit approach, which obviously worked.
* And yes, I know how to download and compile a kernel but since I'd rather been running FreeBSD or Solaris instead of Linux for the last couple of years and how most distributions seems to tweak the kernel configuration to their likening I didn't wanted to compile a vanilla one just to end up with a system which refused to boot it because it relied on some extra things which I would had to figure out and work around. Less mess and more things done thank you.
Not being able to run the apps you want to use tend to have that effect.
Just compare the load with and without running supreme commander.
Hondas still use wheels which can puncture so I don't see how that bad car analogy would work.
Rather make it "Get a tank" or "Use steel wheels" or something like that. Which would indeed be about as helpful as suggesting that she install a Linux distribution.
Why does a retarded answer like this get moderated 4, insightful rather than -1, off-topic?
I doubt she gives a shit about Ubuntu or wants to use it.
ScrewMaster was correct, a fast lame first post which don't offer any insight or a solution.
What's the purpose of having useless posts like this in the thread? It won't help her.
My suggestion is avira. It's good at its purpose and uses few resources.
I like comodo firewall to and they have an anti-virus called "anti-virus 2" I believe but it's beta and I don't know how good it actually is.
Comodo got plenty of free totally usable products.
But there is no confirmation about the approach of each package over UDP is there? I wasn't 100% sure so I left naming TCP specifically because I didn't wanted to write anything which was wrong. Saying the transfer protocol would include each and every protocol which would do any sort of confirmation of the transfer.
The usage of "your" is to say "which you are using."
"that TCP sends a confirmation for each package" requires that he knows what the purpose of TCP is and when it's used so he don't believe there is always a confirmation or maybe that it only happens very rarely. ..", would explain what it did.
"that TCP, the transfer control protocol, sends a confirmation for
"that your TCP, the tra...", would tell both what it is that explain that when you are using it it does confirmations.
"Which I belive comes from the fact that then you use the transfer control protocol TCP to handle your data transfer it sends a confirmation after receiving a package, and if you upload a lot you will have less bandwidth over for such confirmation which will therefor be sent less frequently and your download speed will drop."
Would get much longer, especially if I added "at least, maybe that statement is valid for even more protocols."
It's not some kind of fair use policy / design feature. It's a flaw in the shitty technology used.
(Which I belive comes from the fact that your transfer protocols sends a confirmation when it have received a package, and if you upload a lot you will have less bandwidth over for such confirmation which will therefor be sent less frequently and your download speed will drop.)
Same here, 2.5 cent / MB!?!
If he made me a list I could download the things for him, burn them and send the discs for less :D
I see that people have suggested large cache, I guess ad- and flashblocker are basic stuff to.. But uhm, I guess the web of today do require quite a lot of bandwidth duh to all the bloa.... uhm, web2.0 and flash ..
I wonder if I would really waste my precious 1 GB of data on crap like youtube if I had a cap. Uninstall flash, block all ads, block shitty iFrames, get a decent deal on the connection, .. :D
As long as you have enough air to cool the vapor why wouldn't it work? Just because Googles has issues with it not everyone does.
"Sleeping with the fishes", on the ground, on a branch in a tree, ..
I don't see the problem with caves though, we seem to like them, natural or artificial doesn't matter.
I've moved plenty of years ago, only home was more of a hut though (wooden house :D), this cave has multiple rooms!
Makes me remember, how I don't understand this "omg it would be like moving back into caves", I live in a cave damnit! Sure it may be made of concrete and have artifical lighting, still a fucking cave.
But Obama is the democrat isn't he? So he's like 5% less rightish?
I would say "poorer" or more middleclass or whatever to but someone earlier said that he was a lawyer.
Though that doesn't have to mean that he's super-rich, have been silver spoon feed or don't care about others. I don't see well educated as an issue =P
Would be somewhat intresting to know more about then but well, not my country, not my vote, and their opinions may differ a lot compared to how Sweden is ran anyway.
I meant that what I would vote for, how I'm not american and what everyone else on Slashdot would vote for is off topic.
Also I guess I didn't remembered the article was about political people which people knew a little about. I would belive that as soon as you start to learn to know them looks matters less.
Yeah, so unless you think extra work, added noise, worse audio quality, extra storage space to keep the original files if you still want to keep them and so on for something which was so useless and easily circumvented well then yes: Maybe it doesn't matter ..
Yeah, but he said people (would accept to) use it once it become invisible. And when it's broken it does somewhat become invisible. So I guess he's right, because I'd prefer my information with broken rights management and copied for free thank you.
But to begin with you probably always know some stuff about those presidental candidates.
I don't know much about them but I'd vote for the black guy (I'm not american), simply because the white one looks so old, upper-class and is white..
Younger and black has to get some credit.
But this is off-topic.
A caravan is only about the size of a big tent, hardly a house or worth the ridiculous price tag.
(And houses are just our days caves anyway.)
Of course you'll trust someone which looks like they is from your family / closely related more than someone who's not.
Makes perfect sense and makes me wonder why some people decided that "correlationisnotcausation" was a valid tag for this story. Would be intresting to hear their theory about why this happens if it's not because of the similar looks ...
In Sweden the greens/environmental party have worked for switching taxes on income/profit into environmental hit instead.
I have never bought Dell.
But I do (and everyone should) feel retarded when/if I buy an Apple machine.
Build quality vs Lenovo or such? Bullshit.
Mac live longer? Bullshit.
Resale price? In absolute numbers or percentages? I call bullshit on percentages, may even be worse since they are so redicilously overpriced new.
I have no idea what a Chrystler cost compared to a BMW, I live in Sweden, kind of noone drives Chrystler here.
No chance in hell they slow it down as much as Safari and Flash does on my mac anyway.
Oups, percentages on the old 11.000 sek price, didn't thought about 9.500 sek pricepoint, anyway around 47 and 63% or so then.
But it's not common practise from them, it's over 8 months old and it's probably only there because they increased the price of the other ones.
Anyway, what do you get?
9.495 SEK.
2.1 GHz C2D
1 GB ram
120 GB HDD
1280x800 13.3"
X3100
ASUS X50 (L ? If I remember correctly)
5.890 SEK.
2 GHz A64 X2
4 GB ram
320 GB HDD
15.4" 1440x900
HD3200
Lenovo N200
4.500 SEK.
1.83 GHz whatever the budget version of C2D is called.
2 GB ram
250 GB HDD
15.4" 1280x800 or something.
X3100
So for 40% of the price you get slightly slower cpu, twice as much ram, twice as much diskspace, magnesium body instead of plastic in the Lenovo, and for 55% of the price you get a machine which is more or less like the Macbook Pro as long as you run it on the integrated nvidia graphics.
Drop it to 6-7.000.