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astropin
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Posted - 12/15/2008 : 12:12:16 [Permalink]
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| My uncle got the same virus. We wiped his computer clean and started from scratch. That's another way to handle it. |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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UniConst
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 Posted - 12/15/2008 : 12:16:18 [Permalink]
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Very sad to hear about ur disaster, Trish. Have always used someone else's computer (public ones) as I'm doing now.
Am thinking about buying a computer and accessing Web via WiFi. (Have I said that rite?)
Am planning to wipe the disk clean of Windows and installing either Linux or BSD. Hope I'll still be able to access this and other boards. 
Anyone know a good computer-software advice board? Has anyone here played with Unix rather than using MS Windows? |
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UniConst
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 Posted - 12/15/2008 : 12:23:55 [Permalink]
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"My uncle got the same virus. We wiped his computer clean andstarted from scratch. That's another way to handle it."
Once read about someone who routinely wiped his disk ONCE A WEEK and reinstalled everything.  |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 12/15/2008 : 13:25:45 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by UniConst
Very sad to hear about ur disaster, Trish. Have always used someone else's computer (public ones) as I'm doing now.
Am thinking about buying a computer and accessing Web via WiFi. (Have I said that rite?)
Am planning to wipe the disk clean of Windows and installing either Linux or BSD. Hope I'll still be able to access this and other boards.
Anyone know a good computer-software advice board? Has anyone here played with Unix rather than using MS Windows?
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OSX is built on Unix.
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 12/15/2008 : 15:01:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by UniConst
Am planning to wipe the disk clean of Windows and installing either Linux or BSD. Hope I'll still be able to access this and other boards.
Anyone know a good computer-software advice board? Has anyone here played with Unix rather than using MS Windows?
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I've played with Unix on a Sun system. But I was running Autocad at the time and cad and windows didn't really like each other. I've also played with Linux - the unix version for the every day guy. Works well and is much simpler to boot than Unix.
Randy - always doing well.
Astro- that was the last resort effort if the pros couldn't get this computer clean. Fortunately it didn't go that far - but still lost some info.
Chaloobi - I went away from Norton because it was less effective than McAfee and more cpu intensive. Recently found that Mcafee and norton both are somehow getting bypassed by this virus - Unless they've come up with a fix for the virus problem....recently. But the guys I went to said that Norton and Mcafee users keep them in business because of the viruses that get past. PCTools has a good rating from whatever the computer rag was I used to read all the time. PC something or other I'm sure. |
...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying and vile!"
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
LtGen Thomas Holcomb, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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UniConst
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Posted - 12/17/2008 : 13:10:05 [Permalink]
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From Ricky:
| If you're planning on using a wireless card with a Linux system, be prepared for a nightmare of installing drivers. |
Ran an olde version of Linux several years ago. Partitioned my hard drive and installed it in the new partition. To use "nightmare" as descriptor would be vast UNDERstatement. Could hardely get it to boot--and then it would discombobulate itself on no-notice, at some randome time. UGH. Am really planning on OpenBSD with NO partitioning!  Thanks tho. |
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UniConst
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Posted - 12/17/2008 : 13:14:18 [Permalink]
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From Kil:Never heard of OSX. Any refs? (It couldn't be worse than Windows, tho, could it?)
(I've got both olde Linux and Open BSD on CD Rom; so will probably use one or the other.  ) |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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UniConst
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Posted - 12/17/2008 : 13:37:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by UniConst
Never heard of OSX. Any refs? (It couldn't be worse than Windows, tho, could it?) |
Sure it could!
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Dearest Dave:
Remember looking at Mac when it first came out. A true "Black Box". Asked if you could program it, on it, but was told that took a thing called a Lisa -- which you couldn't buy. My math prof (one each Sheldon Axler) had a Mac and liked it but....
Then went to look at the new IBM machines; but they had NO software whatsoever that ran on them. (But was told that you could program your own software--if u were up to it.) Much as I wanted my very own computer, I decided to skip the chance -- for several years.
(to those who didnt read Dave's ref: OSX is Mac's new Oper Sys. ) |
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UniConst
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Posted - 12/17/2008 : 13:43:33 [Permalink]
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From Trish:| I've played with Unix on a Sun system. But I was running Autocad at the time and cad and windows didn't really like each other. I've also played with Linux - the unix version for the every day guy. Works well and is much simpler to boot than Unix. |
Thanks Trish, but as you might have read above, i've had some serious problems with Linus. Will probably stick with Open BSD. |
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| Edited by - UniConst on 12/17/2008 13:46:05 |
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UniConst
New Member
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 Posted - 12/17/2008 : 13:49:23 [Permalink]
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Errr, ummm:
| Does anyone say "Linux" with a short "i" rather than with a long "i" -- as in "Linus", the first name of the original author of the OS? |
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| Edited by - UniConst on 12/17/2008 13:50:59 |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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UniConst
New Member
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Posted - 12/17/2008 : 15:40:10 [Permalink]
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Ricky:
| I typically say "Lin-ux". But when around people who I'm pretty sure have never heard the term, I sometimes throw in a "Lie-nux" |
Me too. |
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AntivirusXP2008 killed my computer
