Norton Anti-virus

I did it that way for awhile too-and you are correct.There are safe ways to surf but it's just getting too hard to keep it clean . The spyware can be picked up anywhere. I have Norton total package plus Spyware Detector running and I don't hang out in the porn sites but I do like to check out a few women from time to time-Maybe once a month but I also am on a few other clean family type forums-I pick up the problems in the music downloads.I like music so I pay the price with bugs sometimes-I just went through complete hell trying to get rid of a fake spyware elimanator program calling itself SPYWARE LOCKED-You do not want to get this one-I tried every scan possible and it defeated them all-Its written to look like a legitimate program and I ran Avast and then Norton and about 4 other spyware remover programs and AV programs-it would not go away!-If you Google this one' you'll see what I'm talking about-It's got a history of getting in and not leaving the system-I finally gave up and re-installed XP-it needed a good cleaning anyway-That garbage should be illegal-They slip it past all the protection software and won't go away till ya pay em-Thats called pc exstortion-It kinda reminded me of my ex wife-!lol-Check it out and pray ya never get it!---O-And for everyone saying how hard it is to remove Norton completely-not anymore-Norton has a free removal tool-it took me 20 seconds and it took every bit of Norton out-

 

i dont have any spyware or viruses or anything. me and my girlfriend both go to porn sites and download music and video all the time. not one single problem here.

oh... yeah. i use linux though, that free operating system. try it for rizzle.

 

Adderall-The guy that invented linux lives about 10 miles from me over in Portland-They had a story about him on tv a while back-He moved up from silicone valley and does all his work in the basement of his house. That system is pretty popular in Portland .There's a group of linux people that have a huge bulilding in the city-It stretches a whole block long-They are trying to get everyone to switch from Windows-They have free classes and will actually GIVE you a free used computer if ya want one but it has linux on it-so ya need to take the free classes first-It's all completely free to learn and free hardware!-Now; Bill Gates lives about 150 miles North and I really don't think you'll be seein Uncle Bill givin away anything anytime soon!-If you want the name of that linux group I'll try to find it again-

 

Adderall-The guy that invented linux lives about 10 miles from me over in Portland-They had a story about him on tv a while back-He moved up from silicone valley and does all his work in the basement of his house. That system is pretty popular in Portland .There's a group of linux people that have a huge bulilding in the city-It stretches a whole block long-They are trying to get everyone to switch from Windows-They have free classes and will actually GIVE you a free used computer if ya want one but it has linux on it-so ya need to take the free classes first-It's all completely free to learn and free hardware!-Now; Bill Gates lives about 150 miles North and I really don't think you'll be seein Uncle Bill givin away anything anytime soon!-If you want the name of that linux group I'll try to find it again-

 

Industry leaders sponsor nonprofit Linux development lab

By Dan Neel
January 23, 2001 3:50 pm PT

THE OPEN-SOURCE LINUX community was awarded a fairly sophisticated workshop on Wednesday with the opening of the industry's first independent, nonprofit developer's lab.


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Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), an 11,000-square-foot complex in Portland, Ore., is backed by more than $24 million in funding from industry sponsors including Intel, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and NEC.

According to OSDL director Tim Witham, "anybody developing under an open-source license can use the lab on a first come, first served basis."

"The purpose of the lab is to provide to the open-source development community the large-scale system resources it has been lacking up to now," Witham said. "Up to now, to work on this large a scale, you had to go to an HP or an IBM, and there you couldn't share information between those companies. [OSDL] offers a neutral, open environment for people working on open projects to get access to this equipment." Witham added.

Fifty 2-way servers, six 4-way severs, an 8-way server, and over 5TBs of available storage make up just some of the equipment developers will have access to at OSDL, Witham said.

One of the first projects OSDL programmers will tackle will be to successfully scale a 16-way, 64-bit open-source computer, Witham said.

Witham, a former Intel employee, said that although Intel is a founding sponsor of the OSDL, the lab's maiden 64-bit open-source project is not targeted at Intel's up-coming 64-bit Itanium processor.

"The goal [of the 64-bit project] doesn't specify any instruction set. The results will work on Itanium when the system comes out, but I can tell you that 98 percent of the work is processor-independent," Witham said.

Computer Associates, Fujitsu, and Hitachi each joined as sponsors of OSDL on the lab's first day.

Each of OSDL's sponsors have their own Linux and open-source product offerings. And Witham said that other companies "participating in open source should give something back [to the open-source community]" by becoming an OSDL sponsor.


Dan Neel is an InfoWorld senior writer.

 

cool. it is good to see this OSDL isnt biased towards its sponsors. it is also good to see OSDL is maintaining the portability idea. portability makes it easy to have a certain program work on many different types of computers. for example, the Itanium from intel is different than the normal PC.