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dmcfarland

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Re: Gates Renews Attacks on Education
« Reply #15 on: 22 November 2005, 22:33 »
This might be a good opportunity for the Seattle school district to go from XP to Linux, and hopefully spare a generation of americans from having to use expensive, buggy, resource hungry bloated and doesnt maximizes the hard that its used to run. It would be a good way to tell BIll and microsoft to go :fu: themselves. I doubt their smart enough to do that. After all they are politicians.

I got my feet wet on TI tr80. BTW BG also gave money to the Democrats as well.


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Re: Gates Renews Attacks on Education
« Reply #16 on: 22 November 2005, 22:48 »
It was a pain in the ass when I did system support. The company I was working for was too cheap to flip for a mass updater product that blasted updates to every pc in the network. The users were told not to open emails that contained the virus but despite that they did, and everything went to shit on the windows boxes. The linux boxes remained unaffected. FUCK M$:fu:

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Re: Gates Renews Attacks on Education
« Reply #17 on: 23 November 2005, 08:05 »
No level of security can stop user stupidity.

Linux can isolate the virus so it cannot affect other users, but I'm sure windows can do that too.

I fail to see how linux could be better in that situation if a user can infect a PC apart from the fact no one bothers to write linux viruses.

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Re: Gates Renews Attacks on Education
« Reply #18 on: 23 November 2005, 09:49 »
The newer incarnations of Windows can (Longhorn/Vista). I think XP after SP2 can as well.
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Re: Gates Renews Attacks on Education
« Reply #19 on: 23 November 2005, 19:31 »
You cant shut down a process in windows to isolate a virus. You have to run a virus cleaner or have one that uses advanced hurestics. Most companies have virus scanners on their pc's but they dont ever update them.

Now you can shut down a process in linux and that what I like
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Re: Gates Renews Attacks on Education
« Reply #20 on: 23 November 2005, 21:58 »
I'm sure there's a reason why most hackers or virus producers don't write viruses for Linux ... actually many reasons :D ... I don't need to state them, you know what they are.

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Re: Gates Renews Attacks on Education
« Reply #21 on: 23 November 2005, 22:17 »
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I'm sure there's a reason why most hackers or virus producers don't write viruses for Linux ... actually many reasons :D ... I don't need to state them, you know what they are.
There has been at least one trojan written that takes advantage of Sony's rootkit. How many people have Sony's rootkit on their systems? I doubt it's anywhere near the amount of GNU/Linux systems on the internet.
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Re: Gates Renews Attacks on Education
« Reply #22 on: 24 November 2005, 00:49 »
That was the straw that broke the camles back. I decided to switch to an all linux computer after I heard that.

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There has been at least one trojan written that takes advantage of Sony's rootkit. How many people have Sony's rootkit on their systems? I doubt it's anywhere near the amount of GNU/Linux systems on the internet.
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