On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Chris Miller <lordsauronthegr...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > A Window PC is a horse of a different colour. If Windows were a girl, > she'd get raped by the chairs when you leave her in the waiting room > all alone without SWAT backup. It's darn suicidal to run Windows > without some form of firewall and virus/malware protection. > Even for a horse of different color, it's still a horse :). And the security perspective is still the same. One gets complacent, one deserves pwning :). > Because there isn't such a massive library of nasties for Mac/Linux, > you can generally ignore security concerns for small home networks. > Keep a good hardware firewall on your router, and you should be fine. Not that massive because not much have been published (do I hear '0day' bells ringing?). That's bad. Ignoring security because you're at a small home network is bad. How many people do you think got their SSNs pwned? That's on Windows alone. Not to mention XSS being done nowadays which is pretty much OS-agnostic. Well, you get the idea :) > Heh, I graduated high school using Ubuntu 7.10. I still have that > laptop... IBM X40. Good times, good times. Completely lacked a good > minesweeper clone though. Congratulations. Unlike you, I graduated high school (in the 90's) without a computer of my own because I come from a poor family. I think that also woke me up early to safeguard my data early on, considering that I frequently use other people's computer at that time. When I got my own computer, I still keep that attitude of protecting my data whenever I can, how I can. To the original poster, sorry for this thread hijack. However, I do agree with Chris regarding the application. Hobby code is great, however, some people wanna try the app without delving to the innards directly and some people (like me for instance) wouldn't be bothered doing a build (and installing all the required environment) just to test an app out. Otherwise, I'm glad to see that your Linux journey is progressing, and don't let these comments dampen your resolve to churn up apps on Linux. Maybe later on, you can release a nifty little app that I can use for daily work? :) Regards! -- ------------------------------------------------------------- "Penguin, penguin, and more penguin !" www.madforubuntu.com baudizm.blogsome.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to linuxusersgroup@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to linuxusersgroup-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
