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Re: [OM] Cyber Combat

Subject: Re: [OM] Cyber Combat
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:02:45 -0800
On 1/29/2013 6:56 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
> At this point, I have had it up to here with Microsoft using my computers as 
> virtual combat zones. That being the 
> case, I'm open to listening to anyone who can speak intelligently from 
> first-hand knowledge about Linux. Chris 

It seems to me that you are misattributing the source of your problem. I have 
three computers here, running three MS 
OSs, XT, Vista and Win7. Real Player is installed on all three. The only 
'problem' I have ever had with it is that RP 
installs stuff I don't need/want in Firefox.

Whether it is a virus, a virus prevention program or some other cause, 
intentional malicious acts by MS are not out to 
keep you from installing/running RP on your primary drive.

I run a LOT of software of many kinds, so I've had my share of mysterious 
difficulties and conflicts. Never have I found 
that they were a result of MS setting up unnecessary barriers, let alone active 
resistance, to the installation or 
operation of any legitimate program. If anything, their OS is so loose that it 
allows not only malware (which could be 
your problem), but well intentioned, but poorly behaved, non MS programs to 
cause trouble.

PS starts behaving slowly and oddly after extended use, especially with large 
files. But that's Adobe's software, which 
has memory leaks and doesn't clean up its trash. Defrag memory, recovering 
5-10%, and all is well again. It's not always 
the OS.

One irony not lost on me is that, right from the beginning, iTunes, from the 
House of Total Control, has been one of the 
slowest, clumsiest, most troublesome programs I've used on a PC.

No Paranoia Moose

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