On Monday 11 September 2006 12:14 pm, Sanket Medhi wrote: > On 9/11/06, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are far to many "sometimes". Carry a knoppix cd around. It > > is very useful, particularly when u have limited time- cyber > > cafes, clients office etc. > > Do you know how much time it actually takes to start a live CD on a > P4 with 128 MB RAM? Who is going to go through the pain (read time) > required to boot a live CD, then setup networking and what not, > just to check email?
I was talking off important things which u need to do on a machine while living a happy n healthy life. Meds, mails from sundry lists and general time pass ka public can wait. > Frankly, I don't think its the OS that might be causing these > problems. No. Not if u blame only worms and users. > Its because many people are taking advantage of Google's > ability to crawl the web and fetch email addressed from mailing > lists. That is the ability of bots and is available to any script writer. Got nothing to do with google per se. However read the "confidentiality" clauses with any service that u sign up. Ur info is a valuable tradeable commodity and is used precisely for that and to provide the "free" service. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
