I use linux on my home Desktop PC, but my work laptop is windows 2000 based. A friend of mine said, hey chat with me later, I will be on msn. But I was leary of installing msn. Yea I know its free, but, is it full of holes? If I install it, will a hacker gain control of my laptop? Will Microsoft gain control of my laptop? Part of Microsofts problem is they want control of your computer, and the same vehicle they use to gain control of your computer is used by hackers to do the same thing.
I work for a company with about 150 windows PCs, and surprisingly, a few cubicles down, a fellow worker is running Red Hat on his PC. I asked him, what are you doing? He says, if he ever gets fired, he will just boot to his Red Hat installation, and quickly format the hard drive! I almost fell over in my chair laughing!
We all know that windows wouldn't let you do such a thing quickly, but if this needs to be done, linux can do it in a matter of minutes.
I just bike when the day is done, I head out at 6:30 to 7:30pm (kinda late I know) and ride 25 miles with a friend. I get back home before 10:00pm. I live in a hot area of the United States so that is the perfect time to ride I think, it is much cooler out. I don't ride the bike in the morning to work, I like to sleep in;)
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I use linux on my home Desktop PC, but my work laptop is windows 2000 based. A friend of mine said, hey chat with me later, I will be on msn. But I was leary of installing msn. Yea I know its free, but, is it full of holes? If I install it, will a hacker gain control of my laptop? Will Microsoft gain control of my laptop? Part of Microsofts problem is they want control of your computer, and the same vehicle they use to gain control of your computer is used by hackers to do the same thing.
I work for a company with about 150 windows PCs, and surprisingly, a few cubicles down, a fellow worker is running Red Hat on his PC. I asked him, what are you doing? He says, if he ever gets fired, he will just boot to his Red Hat installation, and quickly format the hard drive! I almost fell over in my chair laughing! We all know that windows wouldn't let you do such a thing quickly, but if this needs to be done, linux can do it in a matter of minutes.
I just bike when the day is done, I head out at 6:30 to 7:30pm (kinda late I know) and ride 25 miles with a friend. I get back home before 10:00pm. I live in a hot area of the United States so that is the perfect time to ride I think, it is much cooler out. I don't ride the bike in the morning to work, I like to sleep in ;)
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