Re: spyware
Demonen wrote:
> On 5/11/05, Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
>
>>On Tuesday May 10 2005 10:12 pm, Ernst Doubt wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is it really a personal problem if I only really boot into windows
>>>regularly to update spyware, anti-vir and windows updates (so that
>>>I'll always have a working windows environment in the uncommon case
>>>that an XP vmware instance isn't sufficient)?
>>
>>Yeah, but honestly, how often does that happen?
Not that often, but if i need to use a usb device (that only has a
windows application maybe? okay, so it hasn't happened yet, but it
could, right?) or certainly a SD memory card for instance, it does make
sense.
Why waste the drive
>>space on an OS better left to the history books and emulators anyway?
because i'm better at not "wasting" the space in windows (because i
don't use it)
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 35G 32G 2.8G 93% /
tmpfs 1014M 4.0K 1014M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 15G 14G 1.2G 93% /mnt/xp
/dev/hda5 4.9G 2.6G 2.4G 53% /mnt/winswap
hda3 is xfs (not readable when i'm booted into XP
hda1 is ro ntfs when booted into linux (cause i'm chicken)
hda2 is writeable from both (and coincidentally is dvd sized, so i can
back stuff up easily)
what i can't figure out is why i can't free up 15Gigs of space or so
(admittedly i'm often guilty of installing anything remotely
interesting, but 30+ gigs seems excessive even for a fully loaded
machine (full gnome and full kde running sid)
hmm, looks like i lied (currently the windows partition doesn't have
more free space than the linux partition)-- and here's another dirty
little secret that makes my open-source "street-cred" nonexistent (or
negative?)
it's less effort to burn dvds in windows (not much, but...)
probably it would work in linux, i just haven't tried it
/me skulks away in shame at the lameness of that fact
>>
>>Anything that doesn't run natively I can just run in Cedega instead
>>(sometimes more smoothly than the same program does running natively
>>in Windows on the same hardware[1]). What doesn't run is either 1)
>>Microsoft's invention and probably shouldn't run under Windows (but
>>does anyway, like PowerPoint and Outlook),
the SD card port doesn't quite fall into this category does it?
2) foolishly depends on a
>>Windows-specific bug that would be a bad idea to reproduce, or (most
>>rarely)
maybe this is where the SD card issue belongs though
3) depends on Windows features not yet implemented in Cedega.
>>
>>My only real peeve with Cedega is that Transgaming is acting
>>*extremely* selfishly towards the Wine project. Without Wine,
>>Transgaming wouldn't have a leg to stand on today. Though this is
>>fairly consistent with the pompous, self-righteous
>>God's-gift-to-mankind attitude the CEO has in his writings on the
>>company website...
before I read more on cedega (so far, i've just scanned the first couple
google results), is it usefull for aught than gaming? (i'm not a gamer
and have no desire to pick up that habit -- getting the machine to do
something productive is all the game i need)
and with my employer purchasing me a copy of VMware I haven't felt the
need to ever investigate wine
i suppose the guilt of not using totally free software should get to me,
but since it's in pursuit of a goal to be able to provide help to
windows users over the phone on occasion, i don't actually feel
particularly bad (were i more a zealot, i suppose i would just encourage
all those people to use linux vehemently, but i do have to grant people
the right to make decisions that I disagree with)
and I actually find it pretty useful to be able to install linux
instances via vmware too (though that particular trick can be done via
vservers or umls by people slightly more diligent (or much more
unhypocritical in their refusal to use non-free software) than myself).
>>
>>[1] The only reason I know this is because I built my machine and a
>>week later my roommate came and bothered me at work at my last job to
>>have a machine identical to mine put together (I ended up building
>>his machine, too).
if the consensus is that cedega is useful for a non-gamer (who already
has a working licensed copy of vmware) then i'll definitely check it out
>>
>>--
>>Paul Johnson
>>Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): baloo@ursine.ca
>>http://ursine.ca/~baloo/
>>
>>
>>
>
> I feel so left out!
> All my friends get spyware and viruses all the time, yet my woman and
> I get left out.
>
> We should revive the linux spyware project to get The Gator to run
> under Wine or Cedega!
>
that's actually one of the advantages of vmware (or dual-booting) -- i
can experience first hand some of the spyware that all of the users i'm
supporting are fighting with :-\
be well,
~c
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