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Posted on 06/09/2015 2:46:44 PM PDT by dayglored
I’ve still got my ‘65 slide rule. Never been hacked, but I can’t remember how to use it!
I've been a RedHat/CentOS fan for 15 years and my only trouble with getting used to Ubuntu has been that they put things in different places and do things in different ways from what I'm used to with RedHat family. But that's more habit than better/worse.
I'll be interested to hear how you like the desktop (assuming they're still using Unity or similar as the default install). I couldn't stand that, and reverted to a Gnome UI. But then, I'm a traditionalist. ;-)
Okay, you guys have me beat -- my first slide rule was in 1968, junior year of high school.
I still have my old Pickett and the K&E I used in college, though, does that count?
Last time I checked (about 5 years ago) my Commodore 64—which I bought in 1984—still worked. It’s back in the original box in my closet, and there’s really been nothing to further break it but time...
I’ve been thinking about playing Impossible Mission again. “Destroy him, my robots!” ZAP, ZAP!
The C-64 was a GREAT little machine! Never had one of my own but I got to play with a few back in the day....
Its up & running. I was thinking about a more windows like desktop for him, but had mixed feelings about that. He is young and adaptable. I might let him choose his own path. I am an old unix guy. Not an SA, but something I always had to do. I’ve used aux, hpux, BSD, SunOS, Solaris, AIX, Redhat and a few others that I forgot. I have android devices too. I use Linux mostly at work and never change much there. Too many rules, standard images and security policies. Other work always needs done and I guess I’m more of a command line kinda guy. Lol!
Yep, me too... my dayjob workstation is CentOS with a Win7 VM for those pesky Windows-only business office apps, but I'm quite familiar with all the variants you mention, save for AIX. NetBSD is my favorite of those flavors, but since my central home machine is a Mac Mini with VMs of everything else, I've gotten pretty comfortable with the BSD under that hood as well. There's usually two xterms up for every GUI window on the desktop... Cygwin saves my sanity every day on Windows.
Hey did you hear that Windows PowerShell is finally going to get native OpenSSh support? It's a miracle!!
Please do let me know how the Ubuntu settles in -- I think you (and your son) will like it.
I still have Windows XP. Am I supposed to avoid watching old movies on YouTube until tomorrow or something?
The thing that really amazes me about those TI calculators, is that they are still selling some models. That's pretty astounding when you think about it.
That's ok, my comment was pretty tongue in cheek anyway. :-)
I have bad news.
As of April 8, 2014 Win XP is no longer supported -- Patch Tuesday no longer carries any updates applicable to XP (or any older versions).
So if the vulnerabilities they patched today apply to XP (and they probably do), you're on your own.
My STRONG suggestion is to either upgrade to Win7 if you can, or else keep your XP machine off the Internet.
Sorry to bear bad news, but XP has fallen off the edge of the Windows world, and the situation will only get worse with more time.
I know, I liked XP a lot too -- I make my Win7 boxes look and act as much like XP as I can. But if you possibly can afford to upgrade to Win7, you'll have support through 2020.
OK—I didn’t get the tongue in cheek part—LOL!
LOL. Yes auto correct. That’s my story and I I’m sticking to it!!!
Really...do we have to do that?....seems to me they come along and all you do is let them do the updates.
It depends on how your Windows AutoUpdate settings are configured.
A lot of home users and some business users leave auto-update enabled, and Microsoft downloads the updates and installs them and reboots the computer for you. The default is to do it at 3:00AM and most people don't notice is, assuming they leave their computer on overnight.
But the rest of us DISABLE the auto-update, because we can't allow it to interrupt important tasks, or we want to pick and choose when and which updates to install, etc. At the company where I'm a System Administrator, most of our administrative office personnel are set to auto-update because they don't have processes running overnight. But our engineering staff machines, and of course our network servers, run critical processes 24x7 and having the machine bog down and then reboot is simply unacceptable.
At home I'm in the habit of manually doing the updates on my own schedule, since I don't leave the computers running all the time -- I'm off the power grid, running on photovoltaic solar power, in cloudy upstate NY, so every electron is sacred. :-)
Thank you...yes I have auto update.
20 years a Microsoft user, and I’ve not once been hacked, cracked, or infected. Blaming the OS for an infection is like blaming a gun for a murder. In the end, it requires an end user to press a button or pull the trigger.
Here? On FR? Surely you jest.
Really?
My HP15C hasn't been hacked in 32 years...
My VIC20 might be longer but that may not count.
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