NOD32 anti virus software

My wife and I recentoy purchased an Acer laptop for her photography business. I actually took an Ubuntu cd into the store and tried it out before purchasing the laptop. Boy did they give me some wierd looks. While we were in the store, I checked the Win system monitor. running vista basic, not premium and aeroglass, the op sys was eating up almost HALF of the system's memory. (486 MB of 1 GB). the intel integrated graphics would not handle vista premium.

I experimented with Beryl, one of the Linux 3D desktops, transparencies, desktop cube and everything, it worked, and it only took up 394 MB. since she does a lot of graphics work on the Gimp (think Adobe Photoshop CS2), she needs the system memory, so I took Beryl off again. she is now running under 200 MB. It sped her up quite a bit.

I am glad that Dell is installing Ububtu for desktops now. It is an excellent distro, especially for beginners to Linux. they have sold servers and business machines with Red Hat for quite a few years now.
 
oh, and warrior, Novell, the owners of SUSE, have signed an agreement with Microswindle to the effect of if someone wants to use a different op sys, Novell will recommend MS server, and MS will recommend SUSE. also in this agreement MS agrees not to sue Novell or their customers for violations of Intellectual Property that Squishysoft claims to own. MS and SCO have already used that agreement to try to get rullings on IP against IBM and Red Hat in court. However, I have seen Novell already pushing the limits of the agreement by slamming Vista.

the three DVD's for Debian contain ofer 18000 packages. only the first is needed to install. Debian is a very stable system, but a good knowledge of the command line helps a lot. Ubuntu and SimplyMepis are both based on Debian, and are more user friendly.

Ken
 
Well, the command line isn't used too often with many of the distros, they have been building graphical programs to help. Many new linux users can go months without ever opening a terminal. The command line is a much more powerful utility though. When I set up Christels laptop, the monitor wasn't configured correctly. using the KDE(desktop environment) and pulling up the menu-system settings and then clicking on monitor, I was able to get a better screen for her. but the highest resolution still wasn't working. I opened a terminal: (note: the words before the $ show what directory you are in, after are the commands used)

christel-laptop/home$ cd ..
christel-laptop/$ cd etc
christel-laptop/etc$ cd X11
christel-laptop/etc/X11$ sudo gedit xorg.conf
Password:
the edit window came up, I scrolled down to the monitor settings, addes the resolution that I wanted, and added a virtual setting for the log in screen. saved it, and restarted X(the graphical display manager) and had her screen ready to go.

I know that this seems like a lot, but it was actually about the same time as clicking through everything, and then not getting quite what I wanted. GUI's are easier, but the command line gives you more options. A great book on the command line is "the Linux Phrasebook" it is a little more friendly than "Linux in a nutshell", but either book will give you a lot of ideas.
 
Surf secret offers a good program to avoid picking up alot of junk that plugs up the PC. Set it to stealth mode and your PC is indetectable when surfing the web.

However, when working off line I have found it better to turn off the stealth mode as it can slow things down, but on the net it can actually speed it up.
 
IronWolf, I think we are pretty compatible, though I'm not as tech savvy as you are and depend on my brother to make my Linux do what I want it to. I'm simple and lazy, so my regular machines are Macs. I'd never go back! :) It does my heart good to see someone else who understands how corrupt M$ is and is willing to do what's necessary not to line their greedy freakin pockets. Those 'wipes haven't had a dime of my money in over ten years and I really hope they never get any. But the dearth of spreadsheets in the rest of the world is a problem for me. If Apple doesn't introduce a spreadsheet in June I think I may have to break my resolve and buy Excel. (OO just sucks, I won't use it.) I really cannot live without a decent spreadsheet.

Anyway, I'm grinning ear to ear to find someone in the larger world who's coming from a similar position.
 
Dave, does your Mac run WIndows progs? I need a new computer soon, and have always been intrigued by Macs. I won't, however, re-invest in thousands of bucks of software just to tickle that fancy. I know that at one time they claimed compatibility on some type of dual boot, but have no idea what the current OS is about.

Thanks.
 
Fitzo, mine doesn't but the contemporary ones do. You can dual boot to windose or to OS X, and using Parallels (extra cost third party app, however it's spelled) you can run windose apps in the OS X environment.

For clarity, OS X is based on BSD, a sorta open variant of Unix, with some built-in proprietary licensing. Linux is a fully open 'nix, and all the distros are free for the having.

My sister got her first personal computer running today, and it's a Mac. We have a whole family who eschews M$ in all its forms. Aside from my brother who's a Linux zealot we all run Macs. And never will look back.

How many computers have you ever had that would sit on your desk and run 24/7 for six years until you just got tired of looking at the dang thing and replaced it out of boredom? Never happen with a PC. Common with a Mac.

Macs "just work." Until you've experienced the stability and safety (from the bad guys) of Linux or OS X, you cannot appreciate it. It's one of those things you just have to jump in and find out for yourself.

If you do, IronWolf and I will be your heroes. I promise.
 
Dave, you'll love this then, we are even getting a refund for my wifes laptop!! We are sending back the unused Vista to get a refund. the OEM cost of the unused part of the laptop is around $120 which drops the total price to just over $750, not bad for that little machine. (we read and used the EULA, where it says if you do not agree to these terms do not use the software, send back the unused software for a refund)

Have you looked at Corel? I think they have a Mac version of their WordPerfect office, which has Quattro. Even when I was running M$, I prefered WordPerfect to M$word. I know OpenOffice has its ups and downs...You can also check out Sourceforge.net there might be a good spreadsheet program there for the Mac. I got a really good CAD program for piping there, not to mention a few games :)

Ken
 
My personal arguments against SquishySoft go back to the days of OS/2, DR-DOS, and BE-OS. I originally started college as a Computer science and engineer major. I worked on unix and OS/2 on a regular basis. good stable rock solid platforms. Since neither one supported the intel x86 chips, I had to run MS on my computer, until DR-DOS came out. It was not only more stable, but faster than the M$ version. M$ launched a smear campaign against it, and paid off a number or other companies not to work with DR-DOS. Because of their deep pockets they buried DR-DOS, with only a few die-hards hanging on for a while. I watched them do the same to BE-OS, and they did as much damage to OS/2 as they could when they launched NT. Just because they have money doesn't mean they are better, or that they "deserve" a place in the market.

Ok, got that mini rant out. maybe it is time to make another knife, or play Dawn of War, at least I don't have to run a virus scan instead. :)

Ken
 
Ken that's great, I always get a smile on my face when I hear about someone who's gotten a windose tax refund. :D

Reading the Caldera lawsuit over DR DOS was what opened my eyes about M$. Until then I was just like everyone else, "so what's the big deal?" But reading that I got a true clue about smarm, and ever since I've been likely to go off on long rants myself.

My coworkers get a lot of fun out of baiting me to get me to go off on M$. I'm generally willing to oblige. ;)

Edited to add, And what a great idea about Corel! <slaps forehead> I'll check that out today. Thanks man!
 
Say Ken, do you read Groklaw.net? If not, you might like to check it out. It's a very good blog following the SCO-IBM lawsuit over Linux, and other interesting tidbits.
 
oh yeah, I like Groklaw. I have also been keeping an eye on that series of cases. Funny how a struggling company has the money to keep a lawsuit like that going for over 4 years. (until you realise that M$ has been "buying" stuff it never uses from SCO, to the tune of several million $ over the years)

Linux.org has a timeline for the case.
also check out http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/ (I like this one as the poster does a nice job of showing the Open source views on the documents) or do a Wikipedia search for The Halloween Documents. documents 1 and 2 were leaked memos from M$, some of the others are too, others are write ups about M$ and its attack on linux. Halloween Doc 1 has recently been brought up in Comes vs. M$ a lawsuit in Iowa where consumers are suing M$ for monopolistic tactics, price gouging, and not allowing a consumer to make a choice. (I heard about this case about a month ago, now I am trying to get more info on it)

Ken
 
Yeah, that happened right here in Des Moines. Ended up with a settlement to the tune of about $180 million. Pretty nice one too, consumers can collect up to $200 without a receipt! Tempted as I was to turn it around and rip M$ off for a change, I decided I don't want their ill-gotten cash. Scum money.

Funny how the settlement happened too. The attorney who brought the suit, Roxanne Conlin, said all along there'd be no settlement, which made me really happy. Then during the trial, M$ attorneys noted that all the original plaintiffs were ... Roxanne Conlin's friends and family. A week later they announced the settlement.

You gotta hand it to those shysters working for M$, they're cagey.
 
Thanks for the info, Dave. :thumbup: I'll keep it in mind when I decide on a new computer.
 
If you want to try Linux, there are a number of "live" distros. Full operating systems that run off of a CD or DVD. it is a nice way to see if your hardware can be configured correctly, and a way to try many of the programs without doing anything permanent to your system. the only drawbacks are 1: your DVD drive is in use, so you cannot use it to burn or read a disk(unless you have two drives) 2: unless you have a USB stick, or set up space on your hard drive you cannot save your settings. they can read your data, and some can write to your hard drive (Knoppix is well known as a multi system recovery OS, I think of it as a Swiss army knife for the computer). 3: Everything loads slower, because it has to uncompress on the fly, and DVD drives are slower than a hard drive.

I would suggest Knoppix 5.1.1, Puppy linux, or the latest version of PCLinuxOS, Simply Mepis, SUSE Ubuntu, and red hat linux. Knoppix has the best detection, Puppy is the smallest, and the others have an option of installing from the live CD. If you have a hard time downloading and burning a copy, drop me a line, I'll burn one for you.


Sorry I cannot do the same with Mac OS, but I can get a copy of BSD, which Mac is based on.

Ken
 
I just downloaded Debian it took an hour and a half for the first dvd. Just need to burn it, Ive done that before so I shouldn't have any problems hope my download isn't corrupt. I will let you guys know how it goes.
 
Man this is cool! Ken, you're the best evangelist for Linux I've met yet! Warrior, you're doing my aged heart good, good luck with your new OS.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top