On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 07:28 -0700, Joel Kahn wrote: > James P. Kinney III wrote: > > >Yes, a quad core is a nice thing :) A simple Fedora or > >Ubuntu disk can exorcise that vista virus off the drive. > > At the moment, my father-in-law is not prepared to dump > Microsoft completely. I have some liveCDs ready to try > out on his new monster PC when we get to it; we'll see > how they run & how impressed he is. I'm especially > interested in finding out what Damn Small Linux can do > with this hardware: a distro designed for a 486 being > run on a quad-core? Truly blinding speed, perhaps? Most likely not as most of the liveCD stuff does not support SMP machines. So the box will be just a 3GHz single processor system. Best choice is to repartition and setup as a dual-boot (make the Linux side the default, of course). > > >Of course quad core with 3 GB RAM is about the > >minimum needed to have a Vista box run as fast as > >a 5 year old W2K machine :) (or a 10 year old Mac!) > > James is stretching facts, of course, but not nearly > as much as I would like. I helped my father-in-law set > up this new PC, and I noticed how much some functions > really dragged. Good old MS--after all these years, we > can still depend on Bill Gates & company to charge > insane amounts of money for a pain-in-the-behind OS. > > Speaking of Vista. . . . Anyone who hasn't already > seen the following dissection of Microsoft's latest > atrocity should check out the article: > > http://badvista.fsf.org/what-s-wrong-with-microsoft-windows-vista The real reason to wipe the virus off the box is here: http://www.whitedust.net/news/3984/United_States_Government_Online_Watchdogs?_Part_of_the_war_on_terror?.../ > > Joel > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC > -- James P. Kinney III CEO & Director of Engineering Local Net Solutions,LLC 770-493-8244 http://www.localnetsolutions.com GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics) <jkinney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
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