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acruise wrote:yeah Vista is not so good as XP. I suggest you to use Norton anti-virus and firewall. Some of the anti-virus not support Vista. Make sure to clean up your recent and templates daily.

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acruise

I have used Norton Anti-virus on and off for years. Newer versions are a huge resource hog. We recently removed it from our system in favor of the new free virus protection from Microsoft. I am surprised at how well it works and how much faster my computers are. Jim

Until Norton cleans up it usage of the memory and stop the conflicts with MS OS, then I'll find something that has as good a rating or better than Norton. My computer repair man suggested getting rid of Norton and not to even consider McAfee. He recommended what I am using and have been now for 3 years. After getting it trained, it works very well. Will go do some research on which is better recommended. Will be back in a couple of days with that research.

robinson46176 wrote:After a year or so of growling "I hate Vista" (more colorful words omitted) a dozen times a night I finally switched this laptop (Acer 17" wide screen) to Ubuntu 9.10 a while back... I no longer yell at my laptop.

Farmer, I thought you might enjoy this cartoon:

robinson46176 wrote:My favorite Firefox addition is my woodgrain theme.
After a year or so of growling "I hate Vista" (more colorful words omitted) a dozen times a night I finally switched this laptop (Acer 17" wide screen) to Ubuntu 9.10 a while back... I no longer yell at my laptop.
I just run a regular Linux firewall. I have tried more than a dozen distributions (versions) of linux and really like this Ubuntu. I now have this laptop setup to do all of the jobs I needed to do before but this time everything I have running is totally free.
I had used Zone Alarm as a firewall on all of the Windows computers for years but there was a known compatibility problem with it, Vista and some other program (I forget which one) and I had to dump it. I don't believe the Windows firewall was nearly as good as Zone Alarm. I rarely get on-line with the old iMac and I don't run anything on it.
I do still have #$%& Vista but it is a dual-boot setup and it just sits there "just in case".
I really love the fact that when I am not doing something the hard drive isn't either. Vista was "always" putzing around with something...
I don't run an anti-virus on any Linux box but it will probably be necessary one of these days if it ever becomes more of a target.

Farmer, I've finally made the switch to Linux on my home computer.

I've been a Windows guy for years, but I haven't always been a Windows guy. My first computer was a Commodore 64. From there I went to a PC (8088 with 512K of RAM and no hard drive). I replaced it with an Amiga 600 and became an Amiga fanatic. A couple years later, with Amiga (both the company and my A600) dead, I went back to the PC and have been with it since. I looked at Linux a few times. I tried to learn Red Hat on my own, but just didn't have time. A couple years ago I used Ubuntu (8.??) to set up my main file server at home. Great server OS, but not quite ready for a personal desktop OS.

My switch started with my 10-year-old son. He was interested in Linux, so I installed the newly released 10.04 on his computer as a dual boot option along with Windows XP. He loved it, and I discovered I did too. I also tried to put Windows 7 on his computer, but his computer is too old to run it. But Ubuntu ran great - even all tricked out with Compiz.

I had been running Windows Server 2008 configured as a workstation OS on my desktop. I really liked it, but had been wanting to upgrade to 7. I have 7 at work and really liked it. So I rebuild my computer and set up a dual boot with Win7 and Ubuntu 10.04. That was a couple weeks ago and I think I've booted into Win7 twice. I *really* like Ubuntu!

There have been a few little pains here and there. There are some things I have to relearn and adjust to. But overall, the transition is going great!

I too was a very strong "PC" guy, I built, rebuilt, & beta tested (Win2K,WinXP) for years. I never had a problem with my systems even with all the beta testing.

Then on urges of a friend that I trusted, I tried a Mac. Within 4 months I sold all my PC gear and went Mac.

I occasionally will mess with Windows (I have WinXP & Win7), but soon they get wiped off my drive - the updates & security measures take up more time than I want to spend.

But, I've had a copy of Ubuntu installed in a dual boot on my MacBook Pro for sometime. I could see this becoming mainstream, the latest release installed VERY easily.

I read this tip for PC problems recently:

Place the PC in a bathtub full of warm water, add 2 cups of Epsom Salt. Leave overnight. In the morning to out and buy a Mac.

Good advice.

We spend a lot of money on our woodworking tools, why buy a cheap PC that keeps you from doing what you want to? Spend a little more & get a Mac. Or go the cheap route & go Ubuntu, but not Win7.

My 2 pennies...

The MAC is looking better all the time. Now to get my files converted over to MAC, and I'll be happy not to see some of the trash email that comes with Windows movies and jpg files. Talk of saving time.

swampgator wrote:The MAC is looking better all the time. Now to get my files converted over to MAC, and I'll be happy not to see some of the trash email that comes with Windows movies and jpg files. Talk of saving time.

I'm confused... how does trash email relate to Windows movie and jpg files??

EDIT: Nevermind! I mis-read somehow. I thought you were saying you were saying you got trash email as a result of using Windows movies and jpg files! But you mean spam email that has movies and .jpg files attached. But how does using a Mac change what kind of email you get? Spam filtering would be a function of your email service and/or your email client, not necessarily the operating system.

heathicus wrote:I'm confused... how does trash email relate to Windows movie and jpg files??

EDIT: Nevermind! I mis-read somehow. I thought you were saying you were saying you got trash email as a result of using Windows movies and jpg files! But you mean spam email that has movies and .jpg files attached. But how does using a Mac change what kind of email you get? Spam filtering would be a function of your email service and/or your email client, not necessarily the operating system.

Hopefully they will not have a 'big mac surprise' inside(trojan).

for the security of web browser ....i would like to suggest u http://www.newtonit.co.uk

colday wrote:I too was a very strong "PC" guy, I built, rebuilt, & beta tested (Win2K,WinXP) for years. I never had a problem with my systems even with all the beta testing.

Then on urges of a friend that I trusted, I tried a Mac. Within 4 months I sold all my PC gear and went Mac.

I occasionally will mess with Windows (I have WinXP & Win7), but soon they get wiped off my drive - the updates & security measures take up more time than I want to spend.

But, I've had a copy of Ubuntu installed in a dual boot on my MacBook Pro for sometime. I could see this becoming mainstream, the latest release installed VERY easily.

I read this tip for PC problems recently:

Place the PC in a bathtub full of warm water, add 2 cups of Epsom Salt. Leave overnight. In the morning to out and buy a Mac.

Good advice.

We spend a lot of money on our woodworking tools, why buy a cheap PC that keeps you from doing what you want to? Spend a little more & get a Mac. Or go the cheap route & go Ubuntu, but not Win7.

My 2 pennies...

Linux is a branch off of Unix. Apple's OS is built on Unix. All first cousins.
I just bought another laptop (used) as a backup / throw in the pickup unit. My old throw around laptop is an ancient Dell that while it functions well does not have a CD drive or a USB port either one. It can also be a little hard to read out in bright sun. It still runs Win-95. I need to switch it to Linux but with its very small hard drive (1.44 GB) and no USB or CD it will have to run something like "Damn Small Linux" (its real name) or Puppy etc. It does have 2 PCMCIA slots and infrared. Oh, It also had a floppy drive but you almost have to hunt floppies now.
The one I just bought is an old one but it shows less wear than my one year old one. I don't think it was used very much. Other than a couple of barely visible scuffs on the top it looks like a new one. It is an IBM T22 Thinkpad. It was a very expensive outfit when new ($3251.). I paid $69.99 + shipping. They don't hold value like Shopsmiths.
It has a 900 MHz Pentium III processor, 256 MB ram. The hard drive is small at 20 GB but since it is just a second one for writing I don't need much space. There are a lot of other options for storage space as well. It was sold as having no operating system but when it came it had a clean install of Win-XP Home Pro on it. I did a complete clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 on it first thing. It runs really nice on it. It did not have built in wifi but I already had a PCMCIA wireless card that I had picked up at a yard sale for $3. The card came with a lot of instructions and an install CD but on Linux it was detected and installed with no effort on my part. It all works perfectly with my Verizon wireless wifi.
I'm happy.