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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 04 2013 @ 04:27 AM EDT |
Just turn off the updates on the MS OSs.
Especially on XP, I would expect patches to break more stuff than they fix at
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 04 2013 @ 09:21 AM EDT |
Linux newbe!
Stick around and you will learn what update hell really is.
In fact to stop update hell with Linux I moved to Scientific Linux a
distribution that is always years our of date but stable enough for mushroom
clouds.
Then I really wised up, principally do to Gorklaw and realized that no Linux
distribution would ever be usable in running Autocad or Street Smart so it was
back to Windows where at least my programs will run.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 04 2013 @ 04:32 PM EDT |
Windows certainly has it's issues, though I always boot into it semi-frequently
it still drives me insane somtimes... and has been known to make me hard-boot my
computer to avoid wasting time updating. But linux isn't always perfect, as an
example I've managed to get my arch-linux distro completely stuck update wise
when they elected to move /lib from one package to another, and I updated when
neither package had /lib in it so I couldn't do anything, to fix this I made a
new /lib. And no pacman won't update because it would be overwriting /lib (it
has no force option for some reason, at least that I'm aware of), and I can't
delete /lib then run pacman because you need /lib to run pacman (or most
anything). Of course this is arch-linux not linux mint or some such distro which
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Authored by: globularity on Friday, April 05 2013 @ 07:39 AM EDT |
A windows oscilloscope, I have one of them a picoscope running on an XP VM
under virtual box (RHEL rack mount machine), no display, virtual box's rdp is
used to share the display with as many machines as desired. Much better than a
physical machine because the windows box is isolated from the world except for
the UI pass though and the oscilloscope's USB.
The best thing is the picoscope has outlasted one pc already and this avoids the
problems of having to reinstall windows when the pc dies.
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Windows vista, a marriage between operating system and trojan horse.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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