On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 02:02:01PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > sir, please tone down the signal to noise ratio. > memoir should be in a book, not on a technical > linux mailing list. >
Point taken. But looks like you colwidth's set to a low val. Doesn't really bother me, but it might gain the ire of other folks who hate scrolling... ;) > > Spoken like a budding Linux zealot. :) > Another tip, Don't be that typical /. guy. > Thanks for the heads up. ;) I love reading those slashdot posts, however: though sometimes it can be a drill... > 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. > Huh? Then I guess you keep yourself very updated with Win*Update... and you have to turn off services and whatnots... that's good :D Actually, I still prefer vanilla Win32/Win32s codebase instead of WinNT: no pretending being a multi-user OS when it ain't, which definitely means no user separation, which also means you can do pretty much what you want in a Win32 environment. Also, even though it's old, at lease it doesn't have ports 5000, 113 and the rest of the spamholes open (you *would* notice that all the spam-zombie species target *only* WinNT code, right? ;) > virii? AVG anti-virus. free for Personal use. Where was that when Jerusalem was around? Or Joshi? Or fun freaks like Brain and Ping Pong? Anyone even remember Possessed? Hell, before AVG, Trend Micro, Norton and McAffee(?) came along, there was already VIR-X! (and I don't mean the drug: I mean the ALL-FILIPINO shareware anti-virus made by some hacker at AdMU) > spyware? spybot/ad-aware. It's free. Even better: firewall && !IE ;D maybe even !surf at all, just use ssh and friends... (PuTTY comes to mind ;) > IE crap? Firefox. It's free. That's a good point. > Media Player crap? k-lite codec mega pack. free. And another. > security and updates? windowsupdate. it's free. Fsck win*update! You don't need it in a standalone system, and definitely not in networked systems. My attitude towards updating windows hosts is completely orthogonal to my stance on eternal apt-get: the more updates in Windows, the more problems you face. Now don't tell me this ain't true, or you're probably in a hole in the ground by then ;-D Especially for WinNT hosts, nothing shakes 'em down like a good l0phtcrack ;)... > software firewall? kerio PFW. free on a specific > version. I *definitely* don't want free-for-specific-version sorties. If it's free, it should be *free*, not only because it is under some legal mumbo-jumbo open source license, but because all people are *free* to do whatever they want with it... OTOH, firewalling under windows ain't good. I'll take iptables anytime :D And if I have to mention a brand, it would be BlackICE... > And of course, the usual optimazation and tweaks. > Always the windows' hacker's best friend: regedit. > Mine does not BSOD, I run it 24 hours a day, cpu > is always hammerred all day by project64/mame32 > by the kids. > Good for you! :D I salute you for making your Win* BSOD-free. But hopefully, someday, no matter what voodoo you do to it or whatever precautions you take, it will crash and burn ;P and don't say I didn't warn ya. > I'm not even a windows guy. old timers here will > tell you i'm a linux guy. > Nice. Cheers, Zakame -- |=-------------ZAK B. ELEP (Registered Linux User #327585)-------------=| || Web: http://zakame.spunge.org GPG ID: 0xFA53851D || || http://zakame.homelinux.org ICQ UIN: 33236644 || || Location: Daet, Camarines Norte Running Linux 2.6 || |=----------1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D----------=| Debian - When you've got better things to do than to fix a borken system
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