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Re: Download times

From keithr0 <user@account.invalid>
Newsgroups aus.computers
Subject Re: Download times
Date 2017-04-29 16:41 +1000
Message-ID <emiqtlF63blU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References (10 earlier) <emcqojF1acrU1@mid.individual.net> <emfab4Fg6qrU1@mid.individual.net> <slrnog581p.n78.nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> <emfuf8Fjfv6U2@mid.individual.net> <slrnog6dtg.6cf.nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz>

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On 4/28/2017 10:38 PM, Ned Latham wrote:
> keithr0 wrote:
>> Ned Latham wrote:
>>> keithr0 wrote:
>>>> felix wrote:
>>>>> keithr0 wrote:
>>>>>> Murtz wrote:
>>>
>>> ----snip----
>>>
>>>>>>> I have been thinking I may even get an ssd and put XP on it,
>>>>>>> it should go like the clappers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It will still be a steaming heap of insecurity just waiting to
>>>>>> be part of a botnet
>>>
>>> That's a Windows problem, not limited to XP.
>>>
>>>>>>                     (maybe it is already which would explain
>>>>>> your performance problems)
>>>>>
>>>>> even with virus and malware protection and a goof firewall?
>>>>
>>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> Crap. All ypu do is give it a gateway address to a machine that doesn't
>>> do port forwarding. It runs as happily as can be, interacting nicely
>>> with the LAN, and it and the internate can't see each other, so it's
>>> perfectly safe (except for the Windows tendency to trash itself).
>>> Even Microsoft's Trojan can't do anything to it.
>>
>> Of course its fine as long as you don't let it near the internet that is
>> so obvious that even felix may understand it..
>>
>> Jeeze Linux fanbois are as dreary as Mac fanbois.
>
> Actually it's the Windows morons who are the big bore. So few of them
> recognise that their worst problem is between their ears. My multiboot
> desktop runs Linux and two Windows systems, and has done so for about
> sixteen years without problems; first because I never let Windows see
> the internet; second because I never leave Windows running when it's
> not in use; third because I never let Windows go through its shutdown
> procedure; and fourth because I use the system restore facility when
> Windows tries to trash itself.

I don't understand fanbois of any colour. Operating systems are just 
tools, you use the one that meets your needs. In in 40 odd years as an 
IT professional, I've used all of them and a few that you've probably 
not encountered, they all had their place. No professional that I have 
ever worked with was a fanboi, that is the province of the ignorant and 
the amateur.

> Linux can be configured to access the internet safely; Microsoft and
> Apple systems cannot.

I have been using windows on the internet for 20 years or more and have 
yet to have a security problem

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  Re: Download times F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-04-25 19:55 +1000
    Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-04-25 13:21 +0000
      Re: Download times F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-04-25 23:36 +1000
        Re: Download times F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-04-25 15:53 +0000
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            Re: Download times F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-04-26 01:49 +1000
              Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-04-26 03:45 +0000
                Re: Download times F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-04-26 17:56 +1000
                Re: Download times keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-04-26 20:36 +1000
                Re: Download times F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-04-26 14:30 +1000
                Re: Download times F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-04-26 14:40 +1000
                Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-04-26 16:27 +0000
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                Re: Download times keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-04-28 08:40 +1000
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                Re: Download times "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-04-29 19:36 +1000
                Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-04-28 01:51 +0000
                Re: Download times keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-04-28 14:24 +1000
                Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-04-28 12:38 +0000
                Re: Download times keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-04-29 16:41 +1000
                Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-04-29 15:48 +0000
                Re: Download times felix <felix@real_felix.invalid> - 2017-04-30 09:05 +1000
                Re: Download times Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2017-04-30 10:01 +0000
                Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-02 09:28 +0000
                Re: Download times keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-05-01 19:35 +1000
                Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-02 09:36 +0000
                Re: Download times keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-05-02 21:34 +1000
                Re: Download times "SG1" <lost@the.races.com> - 2017-05-02 22:00 +1000
                Re: Download times Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-05-02 22:13 +1000
                Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-02 12:54 +0000
                Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-02 21:07 +0000
                Re: Download times Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-05-03 19:12 +1000
                Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-02 12:49 +0000
                Re: Download times keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-05-04 12:43 +1000
                Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-04 13:02 +0000
                Re: Download times Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2017-04-29 19:15 +0000
                Re: Download times felix <felix@real_felix.invalid> - 2017-04-29 09:29 +1000
                Re: Download times keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-04-29 16:32 +1000
                Re: Download times felix <felix@real_felix.invalid> - 2017-04-30 08:59 +1000
                Re: Download times keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-05-01 19:45 +1000
                Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-02 09:51 +0000
                Re: Download times felix <felix@real_felix.invalid> - 2017-04-29 08:09 +1000
                Re: Download times keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-04-29 16:30 +1000
                Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-04-26 16:20 +0000
                Re: Download times felix <felix@real_felix.invalid> - 2017-04-27 10:05 +1000
          Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-04-25 21:40 +0000
            Re: Download times F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-04-26 01:52 +1000
              Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-04-26 04:06 +0000
                Re: Download times F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-04-27 10:14 +1000
                Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-04-27 14:22 +0000
    Re: Download times "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 07:44 +1000
  Re: Download times "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 07:38 +1000
    Re: Download times F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-04-26 01:55 +1000
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    Re: Download times Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-04-26 04:09 +0000

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