It was microsofts fault that their operating system they integrated with a web browser (showing their operating system should be used on the internet) was not designed with security in mind.
What im saying is although winXP SP2 (afaik) doesn't give you a root account by default, everything before it did, so it is there fault that games released around and before XPSP2 were designed with being admin in mind.
I know its possible to keep windows free of spyware/virus's etc, but its just not feasable sometimes.
If his wife is as clueless as he makes her out to be, there's no existing software that could keep crap off her computer unless she learns.
The alternative is to use a real operating system which was designed with security in mind from the ground up (ie linux, one of the BSD's, etc).
You cant run windows as a non-root user if you want to play the sims (i know thats not microsofts fault, but thats the way things are, i suppose if the windows 2k and up had given you a non-root account by default, things would be different).
He has two choices, one is to blame the OS, one is to blame his wife. I vote both, but fixing one would do the trick just nicely.
When i fix somebodys computer for them (windows), i always say i'm only doing it if you agree to do the following, and give them a list of things to do, like keep AVG up to date, turn your computer on at a set time (when AVG, windows, etc, is set to update/scan)
I had to deal with a computer last weak that i thought would just take a 10 mins. It was riddled with spyware and other such crap that reinstalling windows (which i wanted to avoid to save time) was by far the fastest option.
This was a reasonable computer to, about 1.5ghz 256mb ram iirc.
It took minutes to open windows explorer each time. (This was after i turned off the teletubby theme and special effects)
He should educate his woman. My girlfriend 2 and a half years ago used Windows 98 IE and had the comet cursors (plus a load of other crap). Now she hates windows and its trying to think which distro to put on her new computer.
my pairents got a new computer a couple of months ago. Its got a wireless keyboard and mouse, but the keyboard was playing up. I went round and had a look. I said "batteries might be dying", my mum said "What? its got batteries. GEOFF!!! (my dad) take this keyboard back, it needs batteries.
Yes, far easier than it used to be, its imho better than windows
coldlplug for loading 'drivers' on bootup hotplug (like coldplug but for while the computer is on, stuff like usb) udev - device driver pseudofilesystem that, using hotplug and coldplug, dynamically adds devices to/dev.
just compile your kernel very modular or use the one your distro came with.
Gentoo's live CD (gentoo is supposed to be shit hard) detects all my relevant (to the install) hardware on bootup for me, as does my gentoo install, after i got it working (i know gentoo isn't for everybody)
When I look at my IT spend as a percent of revenue, it's decreased every year over the last five years for the IT organization--even though head count has grown every year for the company
my guess is that 98% of spam comes from redmond because the sys admin decided to get a serial for half life using IE on hotmail's servers, now MS is just one great big botnet.
every time my mum rings me on her mobile i have to move the phone away from my ear and when she stops 'talking' quickly say "mum, dont shout, i can hear you fine just talking".
If she carries on shouting i just put the phone down. She learned.
Maybe its just new phones or because i have my volume on full, but it hurts my ears when people shout down the phone (im fine listing to heavy metal music at full volume).
I think its just people who were born in a time when the telephone (landline) was still considered to be work of the devil.
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Thats how reiserfs works
It was microsofts fault that their operating system they integrated with a web browser (showing their operating system should be used on the internet) was not designed with security in mind.
What im saying is although winXP SP2 (afaik) doesn't give you a root account by default, everything before it did, so it is there fault that games released around and before XPSP2 were designed with being admin in mind.
I know its possible to keep windows free of spyware/virus's etc, but its just not feasable sometimes.
If his wife is as clueless as he makes her out to be, there's no existing software that could keep crap off her computer unless she learns.
The alternative is to use a real operating system which was designed with security in mind from the ground up (ie linux, one of the BSD's, etc).
You cant run windows as a non-root user if you want to play the sims (i know thats not microsofts fault, but thats the way things are, i suppose if the windows 2k and up had given you a non-root account by default, things would be different).
He has two choices, one is to blame the OS, one is to blame his wife. I vote both, but fixing one would do the trick just nicely.
When i fix somebodys computer for them (windows), i always say i'm only doing it if you agree to do the following, and give them a list of things to do, like keep AVG up to date, turn your computer on at a set time (when AVG, windows, etc, is set to update/scan)
Tried it - doesn't work. Thats what distro she had though (my favourite at the time)
Because the programmers were lazy. Thats the way The Sims 1 was written anyway.
I had to deal with a computer last weak that i thought would just take a 10 mins. It was riddled with spyware and other such crap that reinstalling windows (which i wanted to avoid to save time) was by far the fastest option.
This was a reasonable computer to, about 1.5ghz 256mb ram iirc.
It took minutes to open windows explorer each time. (This was after i turned off the teletubby theme and special effects)
Bush only lent them that money - he wants it back.
What about applications that for some reason need to be root, like the sims
He should educate his woman. My girlfriend 2 and a half years ago used Windows 98 IE and had the comet cursors (plus a load of other crap). Now she hates windows and its trying to think which distro to put on her new computer.
I think its the boot logo that did it (tux)
or pipe /dev/dsp into a file
apparently you have to _pay_ for that feature in quicktime
if a kernel is written to take advantage of multiple cores, would this mean applications written ontop of it would start using the multiple cores?
if not, how feasable is a multicore > single core emulation in linux.
emerge mod_php
apt-get mod_php
you choose.
my pairents got a new computer a couple of months ago. Its got a wireless keyboard and mouse, but the keyboard was playing up. I went round and had a look. I said "batteries might be dying", my mum said "What? its got batteries. GEOFF!!! (my dad) take this keyboard back, it needs batteries.
old people eh?
kpdf makes out the names just fine. im running a ~x86 world (updated today) in gentoo, not sure what software versions
Yes, far easier than it used to be, its imho better than windows
/dev.
coldlplug for loading 'drivers' on bootup
hotplug (like coldplug but for while the computer is on, stuff like usb)
udev - device driver pseudofilesystem that, using hotplug and coldplug, dynamically adds devices to
just compile your kernel very modular or use the one your distro came with.
Gentoo's live CD (gentoo is supposed to be shit hard) detects all my relevant (to the install) hardware on bootup for me, as does my gentoo install, after i got it working (i know gentoo isn't for everybody)
thank god i wasn't the only one that didn't understand
here's a few apps for you to try:
:)
kdevelop (just about anything)
kylix (delphi/c++)
vi
monodevelop (c#, vb.net i think, not sure)
sharpdevelop (c#)
So theyre hiring more mexicans than ever before.
but then you have to factor in bugs in php, and anything running below it (apache, kernel, etc)
are you trying to imply that there are bugs in my computer?
/. id away from him, he obviously doesn't know what he's doing with it.
Quick, somebody take this mans
my guess is that 98% of spam comes from redmond because the sys admin decided to get a serial for half life using IE on hotmail's servers, now MS is just one great big botnet.
every time my mum rings me on her mobile i have to move the phone away from my ear and when she stops 'talking' quickly say "mum, dont shout, i can hear you fine just talking".
If she carries on shouting i just put the phone down. She learned.
Maybe its just new phones or because i have my volume on full, but it hurts my ears when people shout down the phone (im fine listing to heavy metal music at full volume).
I think its just people who were born in a time when the telephone (landline) was still considered to be work of the devil.
I use ms's formats by default in open office because the only time i write files in OO is when im writing something for college, which uses MS Office.
Just changed the default in preferences, and it doesn't try to save in OO's format after that.
this story sounds like home alone, further confirmed by the fact that if the burgularizers were scared away, nobody would have known.