https://it.slashdot.org/it/07/10/13/1110258.shtml

“What happens to the activation servers long after the products (ie 2000 and XP) are out of extended support?”

- Well, extended support for XP ends in 2014. Considering all of 2008,2009,2010,2011,2012 and 2013 will be the year of the Linux desktop, I highly doubt anyone will still be using XP by then.

- Microsoft is apparently counting on the fact that nobody will even be here after 2012 [wikipedia.org],.

“XP sucks. It simply sucks less than Vista.”

“”Despite Microsoft releasing Windows Vista more than nine months ago the adoption rate has not been as Microsoft hoped. Bowing further to pressure from OEMs and consumers, Microsoft has extended the life of Windows XP, which was due to end sale by OEMs on January 1 next year, to a new date of June 30.”

https://slashdot.org/articles/0.....2223.shtml

Slashdotters are funny. The ask if the extension period is really 6 months?

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Jan 1 -> June 30? Isn’t that 6 months?

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Jan 1 -> June 30? Isn’t that 6 months?

Jan 1 -> July 1 is 6 months.

Jan 1 -> June 30 is, truncated to an integer number of months, 5 months.

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Nope - count it out… January, February, March, April, May, June. That’s 5.

* I used Excel to do this math, and checked it with a virtual slide rule.

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Women and Linux can co-exist together in the company of men

Choice a tam alom. Depending on your hardware.

For example - antix

“antiX is a fast, lightweight and easy to install linux live CD distribution based on MEPIS for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems. antiX offers users the “Magic of Mepis” in an environment suitable for old computers.”

https://antix.mepis.org/index.p.....bout_antiX

Vista chu office laptop-ah hian ka hmang a, ka hman hunah ka paih ang, Ngatan mah ka ti lo tunah hrih chuan.

A topic khi ka thlawp a, ka thlawp dan erawh a dang deuh. XP hi ‘Ripped Bone Editon’ a nih loh pawn ‘Tiny XP’ ka hmang. In lamah erawh Media Center ka hmang.

Config mamawh sang lo tih hi chu ka pawm lo. kei chu ‘resource hungry OS’ ka ti. tuna ka khawl hian a zo tha dawn lo ltk a hman tumna pawh ka nei lo, pawisa ka neih hunah computer thar te ka nei ve thei a nih chuan ka la in ngaihtuah ang. Ben, Linux distro thar ho pawh hian config a mamawh sang ltk.

Kei leh ka chhungte erawh hi zawngin XP kan la hmang hrih dawn.

“Secure” a rawn tia. Tih na chhan sawi chiang tur a hre - hmun danga “secure” tih an sawi bak chu.

Annoying thing with Vista it it keeps telling me too many warnings before doing some task. Also it has come up with “User Account Control (UAC)”: “User Account Control (UAC) is a new security feature of Microsoft Windows Vista that enables users to perform common tasks as non-Administrators.” so you can avoid using admin account.

This has been available long ago in the *nix in he form of sudo and su. A similar task was also possible in XP in the form of “Run As” - If I login as user B, I could start application using user C’s previleges. I am not sure what’s new with UAC.

Also real securty is with the user:

1) Do don’t run/install what you dont know and don’t know
2) Do open what you don’t know and don’t need.

Another good approach which no other OS, including Linux distros dont do is what OpenBSD does - turn off all services on installation. If the admin needs it, he will turn it on. Microsoft started turning some services off on installation only from Win2003 (IIRC) onwards. Most Linux distros give you an option (which one to turn on/off ) during install.

The impact of this is - If service A has bug which can be exploited and is turned on on install by default, the machine is vulnerable to attack from the it’s 1st boot.

Windows Vista recommended system requirements
https://www.microsoft.com/windo.....ments.mspx

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Home Basic Home Premium / Business / Ultimate

* 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
* 512 MB of system memory
* 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
* Support for DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphics memory
* DVD-ROM drive
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Home Premium / Business / Ultimate:

* 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
* 1 GB of system memory
* 40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
* Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:
o WDDM Driver
o 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)
o Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware
o 32 bits per pixel
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“A tha khawp mai security lamah”

- Eng tin nge i test?