re: Energizer, Inc. installs a trojan along with its battery charger software
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Arminius
(334 messages posted)
Linux certainly sounds as though it has less tar and nicotine than Windows. I wonder
what would happen if Windows use were to decline and linux develops critical mass
on the internet to the point where it becomes an attractive tarket for hackers and
other mischief makers. And I guess the Energizer people are blameless too.
This weekend I played around with a Pentium 4 box I recently acquired for nought.
An IBM NetVista 6826-KMK with an Intel 845GV chipset and 2.66GHz P4 CPU.
98SE really flies with 256MB of DDR RAM. I have never seen 98 so fast and responsive
when compared to my old P3 boxes.
Gewg mentioned how "awesome" Linux Mint was a while back I thought to myself. I was
able to get ISOs of Mint 6.0 and Mint 7.0 off of magazine cover discs and saved myself
the download.
I replaced the single 256MB stick of DDR RAM with two 512MB sticks.
Next I inserted the freshly burned Mint 6.0 CD and when the CD fully loaded I had
a black screen with a white mouse pointer in the center of it. I repeated the process
a few more times with the same result. It was an "awesome" bad first impression of
Linux Mint.
The Mint 6.0 CD worked on another computer but why it didn't work with the IBM is
surprising. It wasn't as though I had an exotic combination of hardware.
I tried the Mint 7.0 CD next and this time it worked like a charm. I went ahead and
installed it on the 80GB hard drive. I poked around for a while looking and this
and that. It comes bundled with a nice collection of apps. The annoying thing was
that everytime I chlicked "help" to get more info on this or that Linux Mint wanted
to connect to the internet so I felt I wasn't getting anywhere.
I also felt that despite the specs the performance was quite sluggish as though it
had to think about whether it wanted to let me do this or that before it actually
let me. I put the sluggishness down to the measely 8MB of graphics memory of the
mobo and figured Linux Mint is better suited to the lastest hardware.
By contrast, WinXP ran faster on a box with only half the specs of the one I installed
Linux Mint on. I once tried XP with SP2 on an i810e mobo with only 4MB of graphics
memory and 512 MB of RAM and it ran faster than Mint 7.0 on the rig above.
Another annoyance with Mint 7.0 was that after the computer booted, the CPU fan would
shut off and the CPU would begin to overheat. I had the same problem while running
DOS based Killdisk. That didn't happen with 98SE.
In the end I decided to wipe the hard drive clean and install Win2000. It also boots
and runs nice and fast, and the CPU fan keeps running too.
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