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[lists] Re: [NMLUG] excuse me (virus)
I've been running SuSE in it's various flavors since 6.1 and even got it
to be our "production" Linux at work. My firewall at home is SuSE 8.2,
my development server is 9.0 and my workstation is 9.0. It's a great
distro for the newbies too. YaST is great and the online patch system
works beautifully - much better than Redhat. I'm hoping to get my hands
on SLES 8 pretty soon to run Oracle 10g at work. A SuSE system will
never be as hardware-optimized as say, building a Gentoo system, but the
trade-offs are worth it when you have to hand the box to a
less-enlightened user.
The big hurdle for completely converting my parents from Windows to
Linux is my Mom. She loves these little cheap shareware programs she
finds for $4.99 and wants me to help her install so she can have
animated mouse cursors and gifs for her email. This is a pain, I've
drawn the line with Mom and told here NO MORE, if she installs that kind
of junk and breaks Windows, she'll have to take it to a computer shop
and pays the hourly rate. I will support dialup, browser, and
email...etc.. This little IBM Thinkpad laptop I'm setting up for them
will hopefully turn the tide.
My wife is a Mac-head running a dual 1.25Ghz G4 - smokin cool hardware
and that damn pretty but proprietary OS. I have to admit that I really
like running the Baghira tweaks to KDE to emulate the Mac OSX GUI but
she's happy paying 2-3x as much for hardware/software just to have a
Mac, so be it, I don't have to support it... hehehe
--
Kelly
Jody Harris wrote:
> My Dad surfs and plays PySol on a SuSE 9.0 box. He still does all of
> his production reports and stuff on Mom's finicky WinXP box. He just
> doesn't want to face the pain of tweaking 20 monster spreadsheets to
> print right from OpenOffice.org.
>
> My sister is running a SuSE 9.0 notebook for her checkbook... and PySol.
> I've got that one configured with the removable drives disabled, and no
> network card. I can't imaging living that way, but she uses a work
> computer for all of her internet stuff.
>
> There's a internet cafe-type-thing in Roswell running mostly SuSE 9.0
> stations that I've set up. I think the last Pentium "Classic" (i586) is
> running Red Hat 8, but we'll soon be replacing it with a faster machine,
> and SuSE 9.x.
>
> I got the parts today for a new box for my Church. It'll also be going
> in with SuSE 9.0. Maybe I'll get a chance to get it put together this
> week with the boys being at home with me on Spring Break.
>
> Oh, yeah, my wife is running a SuSE 8.x box. I don't remember which
> version exactly. She won't let me upgrade it anymore. The upgrades
> from 7.1 to 7.3 to 8.0 to 8.1 broke so many things that she is "quite
> happy with it the way it is!" I risk life and limb even suggesting an
> upgrade. "NO!" Uptime on that box is 59 days. It gets rebooted every
> time we have a major power outage (which isn't infrequent). We were
> spending too much "quality time" together when Win98 was still installed
> on that box. I miss those precious moments of her yelling "FIX IT!" in
> my ear while Windows was running a disk-check operation every night. Ah,
> the memories....
>
> Linux is your friend. SuSE is great for easy installation, and walk
> away. There may be "better distributions" out there, but for slapping
> Linux on a newbie's computer and walking away, SuSE is among the best.
>
> jody
>
> Kelly Wilson wrote:
>
>> Here Here. I'm actually setting up a SuSE 9.0 laptop for my parents
>> so they can "surf and do email". They are notorious for catching
>> viruses and worms on their Windows XP box at home, even with McAfee
>> running on it. I'm pretty sure I can get them to switch to Linux, my
>> dad is fed up with viruses and the like that windows "supports" with
>> it's "helpful" embedded technologies. Anyone else done something
>> similar?
>>
>>
>>
>> James Hamilton wrote:
>>
>>> Or better yet just stop using Windows ;-)
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:43:32AM -0700, Andrea Landaker wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thursday 11 March 2004 09:44, jamesh@swcp.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> do not give up!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Windows users on the list might to ensure that they are not infected
>>>> with the Netsky.c virus, which is what this is. See
>>>> http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=101048
>>>> for details and removal instructions.
>>>>
>>>> While it is possible that the virus got these e-mail addresses from
>>>> someone not on the list (who had merely browsed the list archives or
>>>> something), it is much more likely to be someone on the mailing list.
>>>>
>>>> (Remember, of course, that both the From and the To are spoofed, so
>>>> jamesh may or may not be the real perpetuator of the virus).
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Andrea Landaker
>>>> http://www.icecavern.net/~qirien/
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