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Comment I like Gnome, I really do! (Score 1) 378

I guess I am the only one, but I like Gnome 3. I prefer it over Gnome Classic and Unity. It's not slow, it looks good, I got all the features I want.

Gnome 3 has become better for every release, and I like it! And every Ubuntu-install I do to friends and family, ie no-tech people, have no problems with it. I just have to learn the to use the Windows-button on the keyboard.

Comment What about Mikrotik? (Score 2) 398

If you _must_ have OpenWRT, you can stop reading.

If not, consider Mikrotik. I used OpenWRT, DD-WRT and the rest, but none of them was as good as Mikrotik. It's simply an incredible list of features the box and OS gives you, and you can easily configure it via WinBox (Wine or Windows) or simply via SSH. They have a range of products from 10/100 routers to a 9-port 10/100/1000 router/switch (see link below), where you can attached up to three wireless-cards.

See http://www.mikrotik.com/ and http://www.roc-noc.com/mikrotik/routerboard/rb493g-complete.html

(I do not live in the US, so I do not know the prices, but it's defiantly a big bang for the buck :-))

Comment Re:I dont use... (Score 2, Informative) 896

I do work with network security (that is, I monitor clients traffic on a network, looking for suspicious traffic) and I can tell you that Bittorrent is not the way people get virus/malware today. Neither is it via the network (a worm), and seldom via e-mail.

It is by visiting a website, which contains malware via Flash, Iframes and/or Ads. A so-called drive-by. This usually happens either by someone linking to a "dangerous" website in Facebook, Twitter or a public forum and saying it's a funny video of some kind. Or a popular website has gotten an Ad from a 3rd party where the Ad contains some dangerous Flash-code.

As long as you do not run the latest version of Firefox/IE/Adobe Flash/Adobe Acrobat Reader and you are at the wrong site at the wrong time, you get infected! And sometimes the latest version of that software is exploitable too.

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