On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 10:47 +0530, Rony wrote:
If people are careful with their critical doze systems and don't use them for entertainment or play, avoid using pen drives and opening mail attachments on the net then the systems run quite smoothly until the hardware itself begins to get unstable. GOSH! such a lot of restrictions for keping an OS "SMOOT".
This is by no means freedom. not ideologically and not practically as well. If such a lot of care is to be taken of a machine then why use such an OS in the first place?
A tip: In case anyone wants to transfer data from a good machine to a suspected one without getting the USB drive infected, use a Data card that has a R/W lock. After filling in the data, lock the card to read only and transfer data to the infected machine without any tension. USB card readers and lockable micro SD cards are very cheap to procure.
-- Regards,
Rony.
GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.
Yes no virus and all that. just practical comfort and complete freedom. I don't know why should people pay the cost of not using their pen drives and above listed restrictions for keeping the machine running smooth? I have every thing on my ubuntu box and do just about a any thing with it. I don't have to take care of all this. And now don't give me that microsoft's cheep "rattu tota " kind of answer "since windows is popular there is virus, when linux will become popular you will hav same problems!"
Happy hacking. Krishnakant.