I would not be surprised if someone in management at Intel tried AVG Free and liked it enough to "buy the company". I would think that the free version would continue to be available.
It's a good product; effective, low resource usage, and updated often. I have found Norton to be a TERRIBLE resource hog. McAfee is a bit better, but buggy (in my opinion).
What I ESPECIALLY like is the reponsiveness of the company itself. Version 6 had a fixed installation location; I believe in installing security software like a firewall, anti-spyware, and virus checkers to non-standard locations to at least help thwart possible attempts to disable them through malware. When I suggested via e-mail that the company change their installer to allow varying the installation location, it was clear they took me seriously -- and, lo-and-behold, version 7 allows the user to do just that.
My research lead me to write an article on this a while back, based on my own experience:
XP-Out-of-the-Box: http://www.ameritech.net/users/mpr_support/XP_Box. html
Not too long after Commodore crashed-and-burned, I saw some stuff that was being done vis-a-vis the AmigaOS GUI that involved translucency. I have lost my archives from that time, unfortunately, but it is much as described here. IIRC, one aspect was that the translucency could vary with mouse movement as well, so as a user moved "off" a window with the mouse, the transparency could increase to make the partially-hidden underlying window more visible.
...I get this weird phenomena where the monitor image "throbs".
I'm a monitor repairman (among other things). I have seen something similar in the past. It sounds like your monitor has a power supply problem -- the scan rate that Knoppix is defaulting to on your system may be interacting with power supply ripple (usually dry electrolytic capacitors) to cause a beat-frequency effect that's affecting the screen zoom size. Try one of the screen-resolution cheat-codes at the Boot: prompt or [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[keypad +] at the desktop to change screen resolutions on-the-fly.
There is an easy way to install Debian: Knoppix.
For one thing, it gives you a chance to work with a Linux environment BEFORE committing to an install.
While it IS true that you will need to tweak a hard drive install once completed, the tweaks are being done from WITHIN Linux, either from the HD install or from the CD-booted environment. You can then go to http://www.Knoppix.net for details as to massaging the install as you see fit.
-- Michael Rudas
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I would not be surprised if someone in management at Intel tried AVG Free and liked it enough to "buy the company". I would think that the free version would continue to be available.
It's a good product; effective, low resource usage, and updated often. I have found Norton to be a TERRIBLE resource hog. McAfee is a bit better, but buggy (in my opinion).
What I ESPECIALLY like is the reponsiveness of the company itself. Version 6 had a fixed installation location; I believe in installing security software like a firewall, anti-spyware, and virus checkers to non-standard locations to at least help thwart possible attempts to disable them through malware. When I suggested via e-mail that the company change their installer to allow varying the installation location, it was clear they took me seriously -- and, lo-and-behold, version 7 allows the user to do just that.
"XP-Out-of-the-Box" http://www.ameritech.net/users/mpr_support/XP_Box. html
It works for me...
I know I'm late to this party, but try:
Linux Public Broadcasting Network: http://www.lpbn.org
It has a variety of interesting content, not just Linux.
My research lead me to write an article on this a while back, based on my own experience: XP-Out-of-the-Box: http://www.ameritech.net/users/mpr_support/XP_Box. html
Not too long after Commodore crashed-and-burned, I saw some stuff that was being done vis-a-vis the AmigaOS GUI that involved translucency. I have lost my archives from that time, unfortunately, but it is much as described here. IIRC, one aspect was that the translucency could vary with mouse movement as well, so as a user moved "off" a window with the mouse, the transparency could increase to make the partially-hidden underlying window more visible.
I'm a monitor repairman (among other things). I have seen something similar in the past. It sounds like your monitor has a power supply problem -- the scan rate that Knoppix is defaulting to on your system may be interacting with power supply ripple (usually dry electrolytic capacitors) to cause a beat-frequency effect that's affecting the screen zoom size. Try one of the screen-resolution cheat-codes at the Boot: prompt or [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[keypad +] at the desktop to change screen resolutions on-the-fly.
-- Michael Rudas
There is an easy way to install Debian: Knoppix. For one thing, it gives you a chance to work with a Linux environment BEFORE committing to an install. While it IS true that you will need to tweak a hard drive install once completed, the tweaks are being done from WITHIN Linux, either from the HD install or from the CD-booted environment. You can then go to http://www.Knoppix.net for details as to massaging the install as you see fit. -- Michael Rudas