> I guess I'm fortunate enough to receive a lot of > computer know-how at such an > early age. I was grade 4 when I started > programming (BASIC was the norm then) > and playing the DOS 5.00 command line. Before I
sir, please tone down the signal to noise ratio. memoir should be in a book, not on a technical linux mailing list. > and rundlls, 'coz I know for > a fact (and I feel vindicated now ;) that these > things that claim to work > wonders for your PC would be the very same > things you'd be cursing at 5 or 10 > years later (MS Blast wasn't a surprise; so was > Swen and the rest of > spam-zombie species). So, while people around > me were crying in pain as the > latest virii trashed their disk, I was all up at > a whistle ;) > > Now, I run Debian. The virii/spam landscape > hasn't changed much, and can still > listen to howls of pain as another windows user > succumbs to the BSOD. Spoken like a budding Linux zealot. :) Another tip, Don't be that typical /. guy. Frankly, win2k/XP (not the winME, 98,95) is stable in the hands of a capable/sensible geek. that is true in any OS anyways. virii? AVG anti-virus. free for Personal use. spyware? spybot/ad-aware. It's free. IE crap? Firefox. It's free. Media Player crap? k-lite codec mega pack. free. security and updates? windowsupdate. it's free. software firewall? kerio PFW. free on a specific version. And of course, the usual optimazation and tweaks. Mine does not BSOD, I run it 24 hours a day, cpu is always hammerred all day by project64/mame32 by the kids. I'm not even a windows guy. old timers here will tell you i'm a linux guy. regards, andre -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
