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Comment Re:Weren't the earlier betas much faster? (Score 1) 821

XP does run on much older hardware than you might expect at least would as my former work laptop could not update to SP1 (specs PIII 650, 6GB HD, 256 ram "yes that was max ram")its fan died and I did notknow till it was to late (cooked). However I do have a have another machine for programming PLCs other than my work laptop and it runs SP1 (specs PIII 400, 6GB HD, 1.3gig Ram). Know it well as I just got done moving keys from laptop to the other machine and a usb drive. LOL Froze the laptop overnight just for that purpose.. Any way on the Win 7 front I have just ordered a new drive for my win XP daily driver to install 7 on. As I don't cotton up to Windows all that much I have had to fall back to it since my husbands PC went south (Slackware) and I turned over my main machine to him (Slackware). It is better for him to have such a machine OS as the sites he likes to visit during his private time is a bit 'risque' for a Windows box.. My XPs are tweaked way out and trimmed with all the possible goodies one might expect from a geekette. As a matter of fact it has many of the same tools as my Slackware box in their win flavors... AND remember to support the open source software. If you use it - DONATE!! It is that simple.. Now if they would just make windows as easy to configure as Linux we would be good to go.. Did I say that???

Comment Re:this doesn't make any sense... (Score 1) 147

Hear hear.. However I think you are speaking to a mute crowd since it seems 99% who posted here stuck a hand out for the GOV hand out and slashdotters no doubt!! It is not the governments issue for all Americans to get digital.. NON-ISSUE.. Should not have existed to begin with.. Go digital - if you cannot see your tube - get box or new tube.. Real easy here folks. me I am digital, self made antenna - no cable or sat - hooked to the net for everything I want to see. NOTE: streaming WHAT you wish to see is a whole lot CHEAPER than paying for 500 channels full of non-interesting crap..

Comment Re:How is this measured.. My experience (Score 1) 424

I have seen the same thing. Sometimes it is almost "instant". As soon as the computer is recognized, within a minute, attacks begin. As indicated usually does not require any interaction at all.. Gee gives PnP a new meaning. I would give an educated guess that your connection has a lot to do with it.. Static vs Dynamic, known services running on the same IP.. It is fun to build a machine, install a windows flavor and DMZ it just to see what happens. It is also a great "show and tell" tool for the virtue of a Linux distro over windows.. "Watch this"

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