[TOOLS] Motherboard and CPU

[Kevin McLauchlan]

Poshedly, Ken [mailto:PoshedlyK at polysius.com]

had generally sound advice, but missed the obvious...

Install Linux, man!     :-)

I went Linux-only, at home, several years ago, but I 
did find it inconvenient sometimes, so I reverted to 
dual-boot (with XP) for the past couple of years.

I don't really want to invest in Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, 
anti-this, anti-that software for something that I use 
only every other week or ten.

So, I normally use Linux for everyday stuff, and 
when I really need to fire up Windows, I just unplug 
the ethernet cable for a while. 

All mailing and browsing are done in Linux. I never open 
an executable. If I receive a file that's compressed and 
gawd-forbid self-extracting, I unpack it with gunzip or 
other Linux tools, and just save the nekkid extracted file 
to a shared partition. Then reboot into Windows to invoke 
whatever app.

It's been a workable solution so far.
I haven't tried FrameMaker with Wine recently... maybe I 
don't even need to boot Win anymore...  hmm.   :-0

My wife uses ACT! (a contact database program that's popular 
with sales reps) and also does our taxes in Windows-only 
software, so she does spend a bit more time in Windows, 
and she HAS spent ongoing bucks and aggravation to keep 
the virus, spy-ware and other protection current on her system.

I'm happily uninvolved with all that crap.

Cheers,

Kevin

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