Comments on: Hiding Dirty Stuff: Windows vs. Linux

By: corny22

corny22 — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:09:04 +0000

i found a whole linux os hiding on 4 gigs of my hard drive, it avoided detection by partition commander10, stompsoft,, suse 8.1 and suse 10 installation disks, etc. everything i tried to install went around that partition because it would boot (without detection) and send everything to the rest of the hard drive.

By: kworx

kworx — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:16:14 +0000

hahaha… So true! ;DD Thumbs up!

By: Lelord

Lelord — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:41:29 +0000

http://www.facebink.com the facebook porn

By: Dade

Dade — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:32:10 +0000

Truecrypt trumps all… why bother with anything else?

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By: Axis

Axis — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:28:24 +0000

Hide it on the desktop. Or, if in Windows, in “My Documents”. Like all the people whose computers I fixed. I think they thought that was private/secure enough.

By: Cedric

Cedric — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:17:36 +0000

Oh and for god’s sake, just trash your porn and watch it directly online, on youporn or megarotic.

No os war, just looove, good fun, dirty keyboard, everyone’s happy, even Mr N00b

Now THAT is some kind of cross platform solution

By: Cedric

Cedric — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:11:46 +0000

lowkey, that was my strategy too, but after a short while, they started complaining a bit, for example, and i know it’s a shame, but two of them where unhappy with the lack of whateversmileysystem there is in messenger that you don’t get in pidgin, the other one had troubles with his excell 6 files, and didn’t quite like OOo as much as office ( the UI i mean ).

And the suse was turned down everytime because of the menu that doesn’t seem to make many people happy.

The only one that still has linux on her laptop is my mother in law, but then she’s buying a macbook as soon as the new line comes up. And she said she uses less her laptop since the switch ( don’t really know why yet, i don’t like getting to see her so much :p )

Now, my only advice to people is “buy a mac and you’ll get unlimited help, or sorry i have no time for this”, that proved quite efficient for 3 people already with a 4th ( mother in law ) coming soon.

Now for the command line problem, i’ll say that yeah it quite comes from me, i mean the graphical use of linux proved annoying to me ( less stable than my mac, so why bothering ? ) so, as they only are servers, i just love to use them only in command line. And each time they prove to be fantastic!
My media system in the house is linux based, i do some electronics, again linux based, all the server softwares are too.

What i meant was more “Linux’s biggest strenght is it’s command line usability” but then i guess the ubuntu guy only surfing isn’t all excited by my theory right

Yet again, i think the os war is something a bit strange, like making a war between suvs, coupés, saloons, it’s not quite the same, atlhought they still are cars.

What should be the subject is : why the hell are you using a suv to race on a track ? or something of the sort

By: lowkey

lowkey — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:11:01 +0000

Quote from Cedric: The thing is that i have failed making those average users using a ubuntu or suse ( the only two i’ve tried ) on their laptop instead of xp or vista, so linux isn’t really the answer (some have hapilly switched to mac, the others still use windows )

Well I’ve had good luck converting windows users if I first start with their applications. Generally I start with replacing Outlook with Thunderbird. Then Internet Explorer with Firefox. The MS Office with Open Office.

Then you change the OS under the applications. Since they still have the apps they use, the conversion is much less traumatic or scary. So far when I take it slow I have 100% success rate.

As for all the comments about needing to use the command line in Linux, well if you want to stay in 1999 forever go ahead. Plenty of distros have reached the point where you don’t need to know any command line. Just look at the all the success the Walmart PC and the Asus EEE had delivering a simple to use Linux to the masses. It will continue to grow. Mostly because people are cheap and free is good.