On Tue, 26 May 2009 08:34:19 -0500, above the shrieking, FUDding & whining
of the trolls chrisv was heard to say:
> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>>Well, Nick, it is patently obvious that Microsoft has perverted an entire
>>market, and not just in an economic manner.
>>
>>Microsoft has created a Bizarro world where "security is binary" and
>>"monopoly is normal".
>
> Well, in the M$ world, security "sucks".
With millions of Windows botnets, "M$" & "security" don't go in the same
sentence.
A cracked pirated version of "Windows 7 RC" has already got 27,000 bots &
increasing.
What's even funnier is that in October 2008, M$ patched a critical Windows
Windwoes bug with an emergency fix. But it made things worse, a this was
then used to build a *new* botnet!
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Surely you are not comparing the
non-existent Linux (at that time)
with Windows 98?
Hadron: Message-ID: <npk5rvzafy.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux as a desktop OS is pretty much doomed it would appear.
Too little too late.
Hadron: Message-ID: <fnd3jj$or8$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Google Earth on Linux runs through its own Wine installer. Unless they
have gone "native"
Hadron: Message-ID: <gu1v6l$dmo$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Getting high performance Video cards working is a damn sight
easier on XP because the installers are better.
Debian/Ubuntu are a pain in the hole - you need to recompile the latest
NVidia drivers using a set version of the compiler, for example, when
changing kernels.
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