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MS Anti-Spyware: Norton Antivirus is a trojan!

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piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---That's just someone's personal experiance, I rest my case, I have yet to see an objective well-reasoned argument against Windows's memory management. Just the fact that my work's computer is still usable despite having only 256MB of RAM and a big memory resident anti-virus program running is enough proof to me that it isn't as bad as you say.
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But if you try what worker tried, you're fucked. Most people won't be doing that though, but some will, and the memory management will suck for them.

And er, if you're comparing memory management between Linux and NT, wouldn't it make sense to bring large things into memory?

Lead Head:
Well I am not quite sure where this fits in, but on my dads laptop, it has only 256MB ram, and it runs UT2004 with 100MB aviailble ram, (ut2004 uses about 200-300MB ram)

Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---But if you try what worker tried, you're fucked.
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I've never had the need to so I'll probably never know but there again one day when I'm bored I might have a go. Worker wasn't even comparing Windows to Linux, he was comparing it with Mac OS which runs on PPC, which is a totally different architecture, therefore how do we know whether it's Windows being slow or it's PPC being being faster than x86?


--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---And er, if you're comparing memory management between Linux and NT, wouldn't it make sense to bring large things into memory?
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To have give Windows fair test you need to disable any memory ant-virus and use similar (preferibly the same) software and compare it with the other OS running on the same hardware.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---I've never had the need to so I'll probably never know but there again one day when I'm bored I might have a go. Worker wasn't even comparing Windows to Linux, he was comparing it with Mac OS which runs on PPC, which is a totally different architecture, therefore how do we know whether it's Windows being slow or it's PPC being being faster than x86?
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Well I guess it's a shame Windows XP won't run on PPC ;) GNU/Linux and Mac OS X run on PPC and x86.

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To have give Windows fair test you need to disable any memory ant-virus and use similar (preferibly the same) software and compare it with the other OS running on the same hardware.
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Yep. I might install XP here temporarily and open up some large image in the GIMP.

/me opens up the GIMP to create the largest image ever.

Aloone_Jonez:
I'd also remove any malware first or even better do it on an install that's never had any malware before.

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