| ??? 01/16/07 19:37 Read: times |
#130924 - it's broken Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Richard Erlacher said:
it wouldn't be so difficult to STOP a process. Compared to various flavors of Unix, Windows has a broken process scheduler and it has an even-more-broken concept of users and privileges. Oh, yeah: I never run virus checkers; Norton AntiVirus itself is a resource-sucking monster. Before migrating mail to a Mac, I used Thunderbird as a mail client with all HTML formatting and java and remote images and other crap turned off. I also didn't let the mail client "helpfully" open any attachments automatically when the mail is read. Outlook's default is to basically allow everything and I'd bet this is the reason for the spread of so many viruses. I also use FireFox with AdBlock Plus and FlashBlock extensions installed and I don't allow websites to install anything. And I don't visit those "bad" web sites and nobody else uses my computers (my wife has her own and we don't have kids). I don't install "trialware" or other stupid software; the computers only get useful software installed. And the kicker is that I've NEVER had a virus in the fifteen or so years I've been using Windows boxes. -a |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| doubt about ports | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| and one more doubt | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Programming the PC | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Off Topic | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Wrong forum | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Win ports | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Bad practice... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Bad practice | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| some thoughts | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Do not hard-code adresses! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You need to tell us more ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| MS-DOS | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| why? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Misunderstanding ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not quite so | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| a parallel in '51 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Sharing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| OK, the sad facts | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| MS-DOS will allow and do anything the PC can do | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ...and the reason is ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| If Windows were truly multi-user/multitasking ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| it's broken | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| So much for the "Good Old Days" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Yes, and the ones that worked, worked really well | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
The Right one | 01/01/70 00:00 |