Eldmannen

Yes, as always with beta software it have not been tested very much yet, so it can be unstable or operate in unexpected ways. Business companies often avoid betas. But I am confident in Firefox, I don't worry. Sometimes the last release candidate is the same as the final release. Example, RC3 of OpenOffice.org was the same as the final release of OpenOffice.org, they just removed the RC3 part.

mps69_1999 , I forgot to mention, of course there are also many proprietary antivirus software on Linux. Such as; Central Command Vexira? Antivirus for Linux? Kaspersky NOD32 Panda Antivirus for Linux F-Prot Antivirus for Linux Workstations etc, etc. I never runned any antivirus on Linux though, as I never felt it was necessary.

It is basically 2x Core 2 Duos on one chip. In some scenarios it perform same as a Conroe, in other scenarios, it can perform about twice as good. Due to it being in the Core 2 Extreme series, it will probably cost too. The TDP value of the Kentsfield (Core 2 Quadro), is pretty high. Atm, AMD has nothing, but later this year, they will move down to 65nm too, which means that production will be cheaper for them than it was before. AMD is also coming with their K8L architecture, and a true quadcore processor (not two dualcores on one chip). But its still 6-9 months until it. Don't know the performance or TDP value of it though. Intel's Core Duo architecture is very good...

Yes, my say that too. Yeah, it didn't automatically come up for me either, I clicked on Help -> Check for Updates... and surprise there it was. RC1 is release candidate. RC is what is before the final release. Mozilla Firefox 2.0 is a major release, and it is important that it works very well, thats why it needs release candidates and betas. During the release candidate stage, software usually go into a "feature freeze" which means no new features are added, just bug fixes. Difference from RC1 and beta 2 is that the theme is improved, and some bugs are fixed. Oh, and it's not crap. Firefox rules!

ROTFL! I can understand he want todo a burglary. But why in a thong? And why videotape it? LOL!

Yes, get a program like memtest86 to verify the RAM. If no problem with the RAM, then you could try to unplug the floppy, try boot, if still problem, unplug the CD/DVD, if still problem, then unplug the HDD, until find problem. If still not solved, you could try to unplug sound card, network card, etc. If still not solved, you could try to reset the CMOS via a jumper on the motherboard, the motherboard manual should tell you how todo this.

Sounds like bulls**t. Sounds like she was dumb and clicked wrong, or regretted herself, then blamed it on her kid. A 3 year old kid, doesn't even know what a password is.

It seems Mozilla Firefox RC1 is out. I don't see it on the Mozilla page, but my 2.0 beta 2 updated to RC1. The new theme introduced in beta 2 is a little bit changed.

Funky!

It shouldn't be harder to find firmware for OEM version. Though, I never heard of anyone that flashed their disk with a new firmware. I heard about motherboard BIOS, graphics cards, DVD-ROM, but never hard disks. As far as I know, XP can't install itself on SATA disks without SATA device drivers, maybe if you slipped stream a CD with SP2 and SATA device drivers, I don't know. But SATA came after XP. Vista most likely will be able to be installed without need any SATA device drivers. I wont touch Vista though.

You can search on Google for PDF files only using the filetype: thing. Tolkien filetype:pdf

You don't need to run CCleaner every 15 minutes. Once a day is enough. Even once a week is enough.

Sometimes with OEM you get a floppy with Serial ATA drivers, since Windows XP cant install itself on SATA disks without SATA device drivers. Sometimes you can also get a floppy or CD with S.M.A.R.T tools for monitoring the health of your hard disk. Often tools, device drivers, manuals can be gotten from the manufacturers website. As far as I know, most hard disk manufacturers have a warranty for 2-3 years. As far as I know, only Seagate provides 5 years warranty.

Just wanted to point out, in case you weren't aware, that Mozilla Thunderbird handles Newsgroups too, and is much more safe/secure than Microsoft Outlook which is a favourite target among virus and worms writers due to its poor security.

LOL!

When you buy retail, you get it packaged in a nice colorful branded box with information and perhaps manual and stuff. When you buy OEM, you just get the disk wrapped in bubble wrap, no papers, manuals, or anything. $90 cheaper is heavily cheaper though. =/ Don't know about warranty.

Yes, the US runs the ECHELON to intercept Internet, telephone, fax, email, SMS traffic. It can on a phone call, identify persons speaking, such as Male 1, Male 2, Female 1, Female 2, etc and store it in a text log conversation. It can handle many languages, such as English, Arabic, etc. The NSA used equipment from Narus for their warantless wiretapping when they spied on US citizens. Too bad you cant Google using HTTPS.

Yes, you can determine which antivirus software is the best. There are coming new threats all the time. Of course no antivirus always detects everything. But by running a bunch of antivirus software against 147184 viruses you can see which one detects the most of them, hence is the best. You can also test a bunch of antivirus software against thousand of viruses "not in the wild", to determine which antivirus software has the best heuristics.

Oh nono, that is just one of the reasons. Norton products are notorious for being troublesome to uninstall, the uninstaller rarerly works, and you have to goto the Norton website and download an uninstaller utility which does an poor job at uninstalling Norton products. Getting rid of Norton products have been described as more difficult than getting rid of viruses.

All modern computers should be able to boot from USB, even if its old, unless it really is very old. A 5 year old computer probably can boot from USB. But maybe your computer is way past its best-before-date. In Linux you don't need firewall and antivirus so much. Virus are almost non-existent, most people who use Linux know a thing or two about security, so viruses on Linux is really really rare. However, of course there is antivirus software for Linux, such as ClamAV (there are GUI front-ends for it such as ClamTk and KlamAV), while running Linux, I don't worry about viruses though. On a desktop server, you don't really need any services, and you can close ALL tcp/udp ports in Linux. You could live without a firewall, however when I run Linux, I use firewall. Linux has very very powerful firewall (iptables) that makes any Windows firewall look like a silly toy. It is very configurable and it can be configured to great extent. I absolutely Love it. iptables is command-line, I write a script myself to configure it, but people might think its a little difficult if they're not used to a real firewall. There are GUI front-ends for it such as NuFW, Firewall Builder, dwall, Firestarter, Solsoft, NetfilterOne, KMyFirewall, etc. If you got nothing on the disk, you can remove all the partitions and recreate the partitions and filesystems, maybe that would solve it. Ubuntu is also possible to run via a Live CD (though it take sometime to boot). When there is a "kernel panic" there is nothing you can do but restart the computer. What does the kernel panic say? Often it contains useful information about the cause.

I guess the article forgot to mention that China censors the Internet. ("The great firewall of China" ) IPv6 could very well be needed in China, because there is so many people in that country. IPv6 is not new, it has existed for quite a while, its not well-deployed yet though. Linux and *BSD have had IPv6 support for quite a while. Windows 2000, I think had some basic IPv6 support, but no IPv6 related tools by default, though they could be installed. Windows XP came with IPv6 support, and IPv6 tools such as ping6, tracert6, etc though the IPv6 driver is disabled by default, but can be enabled. Windows Vista, I think will come with the IPv6 driver enabled.

Nothing piss me off as much as demo products, that will only show what's recoverable and not recover it.

Yeah, I also recieved those phishing email for PayPal, Western Union, and other banks. <a href="http://123.123.123.123/bank/">http://www.some-bank-website.com/account/login/</a> It can also use JavaScript to change the statusbar text to make it hide the real address and show another address.

If the whole system crashes, I guess there is nothing you can do. If only a application becomes unresponsibe, you open a console such as xterm/rxvt/konsole/eterm/aterm or any other console to enter those commands. Why wouldn't it boot? Maybe some bootloader related problem? Dillo is a light-weight minimalstic browser, good for old machines. On a good computer, you might want Firefox. An ISO image is like an CD in a file. You can use a CD to make an ISO, then use that ISO image to burn to a CD and the CD will be a replica. It is different from just copy the files from a CD to the disk, then burn to a CD. With ISO image, if the CD is bootable, then the CD you burn the ISO to will be bootable too. ISO is the most popular file format for this, similar stuff is BIN/CUE files. The BIOS is very very old. Though, it is possible to boot from a USB thumbdrive. If the computer isnt configured to boot from USB, then you can just change the boot order in the BIOS, this is usually done by pressing the "DEL" key after you turn the power on, when you start the computer the computer performs a procedure called POST (Power-on-self-test). Don't mess around with stuff you don't know though, changing settings can result in system instability, etc.

Yes, tooltips are good!