On Sunday 07 September 2003 04:25 am, Marc wrote: > > Wrong. Rebooting into windoze would only cause a problem if you then > open the virus in a windoze email client or somehow transfered the virus to > your windoze partition >
well, currently all my mail is saved onto my /home partition, but every other document/file/picture/whatever i get e-mailed to me that i want to save, i save it to my other hard drive, which is all FAT32. i actually do want to figure out how to make KMail save all my e-mail on one of those FAT32 partitions, so if i have to wipe out MDK for whatever reason (or screw it up and wipe it all out) i don't lose some stuff i've got in my e-mail currently, some of it is good information that i'm just too lazy to save in a different way. however, the next time i do boot into windoze, i do have to get AVG to update it's virus list and then just sit back and watch, because it does checks all the time on it's own. however, this e-mail account (which is my primary) is only used in linux. i NEVER open it in windows anymore, and if there's something i get e-mailed here that i think i need in windows, i foreward it to myself on another account and go to windows to retrieve it. > > You can be glad that you do not have win xp for more reasons than just > the virus issues. I have used machines with 95, 98, ME and XP as best as I > can tell the single biggest difference between 98 and XP is eye candy. Same > old winblows crap with a lot more eye candy and a generous portion of bloat > added also. I almost forgot a defragmentation utility that is as F#$ked up > as a football bat. Any given machine seems to run much slower when 98 is > upgraded to XP, and to top that off there still seems to be a lot of issues > with getting drivers to work in XP. IMHO in the last 5 years all MS has > been able to do is take a bad product and make it worse. A few new features > were added but I cant see where getting a few improvements were worth the > problems that came with them. > I have seen much more genuine improvement from Mandrake in the 6 months > that it took mandrake to change from 9.0 to 9.1 than I have seen from MS in > the 5 years that it took to go from 98 to XP. > > Oh well enough of my rant. > i am glad i'm not using windows often. while i have heard some things about XP, there's an extensive process that must be done to turn off a lot of programs hiding in teh background that are sitting there eating up memory and resources, and MS did not make it easy to find the "switch" to turn them off at boot up. but everything that has gone on in the ms world and them trying to control what we do with a computer loaded with their software, i just don't like it. that's one of the main reasons i'm trying to stay away from it at all costs. i just can't justify supporting that way of thinking. while i'm not violently lashing out against it, when in computer related discussions with friends and whatnot, i do bring up linux and am able to inform them of what i know about it and what i've seen as advantages and disadvantages over using a MS OS (disadvantage - gotta start learning how to use the command line, it was a struggle for me at first, now i'm comfortable with it). linux is a disadvantage to some people because all they want to do is point and click, but even then most of what i do in linux has become point and click thanks to the GUIs. but even when doing things in the GUIs, i still feel i have more control over the system than i ever did in ms. but now this is kinda going off topic, so to boil it back down to linux...from what you all say, the threat of a virus attack isn't here, and it's one less thing to worry about. that's good, and i like that. Mike
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