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radiorahim
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posted 16 June 2003 02:53 PM      Profile for radiorahim     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Guess till the folks at Rabble create a tech forum, will post tech stuff in "Earning and Spending". Yes folks...geekstuff is very political!

It seems that the boys in Redmond are up to their old tricks again.

They've just bought out GeCad Software the company that many see as creating the best Linux anti-virus software around.

So buy it up and shut it down...and you can then go around saying that open source software is insecure. (Right Mr. Bill).

PC Advisor magazine article


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Mandos
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posted 16 June 2003 02:57 PM      Profile for Mandos   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I dunno about the forum. I think that Audra might think we have too many fora already. Although I think we would have no shortage of volunteer moderators. I'd be willing, for one thing, since it would likely be a medium traffic forum.
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WingNut
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posted 16 June 2003 03:35 PM      Profile for WingNut   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Three things about this:

1) If Microsoft wants to throw money away trying to beat Linux let them. But the best insurance against any success is continued use of Open Source: http://www.openantivirus.org/

2) Linux, itself, really doesn't need to be too worried about viruses:
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/anti-virus.php3

3) Windows email users need not worry about any viruses if you don't allow them entry in the first place and most mail servers have this function built in.


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Mandos
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posted 16 June 2003 03:41 PM      Profile for Mandos   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
And don't forget, there's always OS/2. It's still alive you know. In fact, if IBM ever smartened up and gave the code away, it could be a moderate-to-serious contender. Or at least if they had done this three years ago.
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DrConway
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posted 16 June 2003 10:17 PM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Color me a volunteer, too. (After all, I make time for babble even in the midst of pressing academic things )

Re: OS/2 and other "orphaned" OSes.

The basic problem with OS/2, BeOS, et cetera, is that precisely because of the sagging level of support for them it's very hard to get them to just "work". I tried BeOS + a network card once, and I was tearing my hair out. Couldn't even get it to work with dialup, can you believe that happy crappy?

OS/2 Warp or OS/2 version 4 might be suitable for older machines in the Pentium II and PPGA Celeron era though, especially as modern memory availability just blows away any silly requirements OS/2 ever had.

32 megs of RAM? Pshaw! Can't get less than 256 these days, nyeeheehee.

[ 16 June 2003: Message edited by: DrConway ]


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