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Reply #18 Posted on: September 10, 2009, 12:39:55 pm |
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It's probably Microsoft saying NOPE NOPE NOPE, APPLE IS BAD TO EMULATE.
It's probably Apple saying NOPE NOPE NOPE, I JUST DETECTED EMULATION HARDWARE AND I WANT YOU TO BUY OUR DAMN COMPUTERS. After all, Apple is much worse at this DRM thing than Microsoft, and it really wouldn't surprise me if they had implemented VM detection. Also... Microsoft aren't all that bad. Sure, they make their OS for computer-illiterates and make a few huge mistakes, but Apple are worse. Apple are the ones that stop you from using your legally-bought songs on a new computer, and don't allow you to play them on anything but the computer it was bought on or an iPod. This is why iTunes should die. Also, unimaginative naming much? iTunes, iPod, iPhone... if you removed the i, it becomes nothing. "I'm just going to download a song from Tunes and put it on this awesome thing called a Phone". ...no.
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Reply #22 Posted on: September 11, 2009, 12:12:54 pm |
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Also... Microsoft aren't all that bad
I was going to make a new topic on this, but since it's relevant: http://www.overclock.net/windows/569458-microsoft-attack-linux-retail-level-probably.html
That does make my blood boil a little, but you do have to remember that most of it is true for the complete tech-illiterate, which Microsoft OSs are targeted at. The comment about fixing bugs was a pure lie, though. Microsoft is over 9000 times worse at that. Windows XP still has a well known privilege escalation bug that has been present since the initial release. Most distros of linux have software updates more than once per week.
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Reply #23 Posted on: September 12, 2009, 04:56:06 pm |
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Ubuntu has one hourly <_<" Unlike Windows, though, Ubuntu's don't require restart, save three times.
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Reply #24 Posted on: September 12, 2009, 08:00:40 pm |
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That's because Windows won't let you modify system files while Windows is running, whereas Linux doesn't care. Of course, some things are stored in RAM at startup and require a restart to be re-loaded.
Ubuntu has thousands of updates monthly, whereas Microsoft waits before they find tons of bugs and release an update compilation, to make it look like Windows doesn't have many bugs when it has as many as Ubuntu might.
O'course, they could have easily made it exaggerated and much more accurate with reasons Linux hardcoreists wouldn't be able to argue.
Windows is more physically secure. Windows 7 Ultimate has BitLocker, the first actual way to protect your hard drive and be secure since normally you could just insert a live CD of Ubuntu or something and view the hard drive. Linux is more virtually secure, meaning you can't get viruses and stuff.
They could have just made screenshots showing off Aero and then a screen-capture of a slackware terminal or something saying "THIS IS WINDOWS" "THIS IS LINUX". There are tons of ways they could have made it look better, but I lol at this.
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Reply #26 Posted on: September 13, 2009, 05:27:34 am |
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Windows is more physically secure. Windows 7 Ultimate has BitLocker, the first actual way to protect your hard drive and be secure since normally you could just insert a live CD of Ubuntu or something and view the hard drive. Linux is more virtually secure, meaning you can't get viruses and stuff.
There are a number of free disk encryption tools for Linux. There are no tools that will make Windows as 'virtually' secure as Linux though, at least not without crippling the OS's functionality. And if you buy Ultimate just for Bitlocker then Bitlocker is costing you $120.
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Reply #27 Posted on: September 13, 2009, 09:24:33 am |
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There are a number of free disk encryption tools for Linux.
The one I use (cross-platform, can use virtual disks, whole disks, partitions, and can encrypt the MBR) is TrueCrypt. http://www.truecrypt.org/I wonder if BitLocker has as many features as TrueCrypt... (Note: I don't have Win7, I can't see for myself)
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