Posted on 12/16/2013 7:23:42 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Makes obvious prediction -- since it's calling the shots -- that ending support for XP will mean 'more systems will get compromised'
Computerworld - Microsoft today used the hoary practice of predicting next year to drive another nail into Windows XP's coffin.
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I GOT RID OF WINDOWS 7 AND WENT BACK TO XP, 7 IS CRAP
Win 7, I like it.
Exactly
Putting a new Windows on an older computer is not going to work. They normally just did not have the RAM and HDD space to make that possible, or even a good idea.
So, you are saying that a previous XP machine that will install Ubuntu or Mint from a live CD will run OS X Mavericks?
No. Throw that awful crap in the street.
When I started working on that Windows 7 Toshiba I wanted to throw it out of a window. Once the Malware Bytes and other things had done their job and I deleted the enormous windows.old.000 file (more than 20gb) it is purring.
Windows 7 seems pretty cool, but I also love Linux, which doesn’t hog the resources. If my nephew wants to play “Hero Up”, which only works on Win/Mac computers, he has to turn off the Norton - also a resource hog or it won’t run properly. He has also discovered Robolox, which did not take long.
He was going to try and download “Mine craft for free” which is probably malware and viruses while I was at the store. I explained to him that it wasn’t free and the site was probably a scam. Besides he has Minecraft on his XBOX.
Debian, RedHat, ArchLinux, and Slax are ALL well over eleven years old and still supported to this day. Fast, reliable, much more secure from malware than any 'doze version, and FREE. With new updates and versions being released constantly.
You sound like a Mac fanboi, actually.
There are other Linux varieties too, but for a computer like that it would most definitely need one of them.
That is what is known as a "Thin Client". Quite useful, actually. Running a 486DX2-120 over ethernet to another machine with a Sempron 1.8GHz running Mepis as the main server. Simple, one of several hooked up to that server, and each machine has its own custom interface with varying levels of access and write capability to the main machine.
Right, Microsoft. XP is a great OS up until the microsecond before midnight of the last day it’s supported, but one microsecond later it’s the biggest security nightmare known to mankind.
Reminds me of Father Guido Sarducci’s old SNL skit where eating fish one microsecond before midnight on Friday is a sin, but a microsecond later it’s not because the Pope has said eating fish on Friday is OK on all Fridays after that.
No kidding, mate. Still have old copies of D_mn Small Linux, Feather Linux, Peanut and even Puppy Linux that run well on a 486 with as little as 32 megs of memorey. Even a Red Hat that runs much faster (at 800x600) but needs at least 8 megs for the GUI to operate.
It will drop down to the command line if not, but I am not that comfortable with that option since the last time I used strictly command-line displays was when I was running 'DOS 5.0'.
I think it should be possible on the same machine without having to worry about partitions.
I started up the Win 7 machine and it was running an update and stuff and now its been ‘thinking’ for 10 minutes and there aren’t even icons on the desktop.
I might just turn the thing off. Can we do that with Windows without messing it up?
I finally got that Win 7 machine running right and an update is messing it up? I dunno
Ooops! That should be a “486DX4-120”. Then again it could be that one ‘-160’ I was experimenting with... have to open it up and temporarily remove the fan to find out for certain.
bfl
On restart the Win 7 machine is working
Adobe wants to update, like always
I consider Norton to *be* a virus.
I do not have Norton, I have Ubuntu
The other computer does not belong to me
not exactly your normal useage model then.
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