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Skriven 2006-10-15 01:30:00 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ALAN ZISMAN
Ärende: Vista anti-piracy
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Hello Alan - 

AZ>>> Some software, however, is beginning to require Win2000
AZ>>> or later-- Google Earth and Apple iTunes come to mind,
AZ>>> and there are others. 

AZ>>> Google Earth is a potential 'killer app' in education, in
AZ>>> my opinion. 

CA>> I'm not impressed by Google Earth. I would prefer to have
CA>> the database of graphics burned to a DVD and run it
CA>> locally. Longitude and latitude could pinpoint my location
CA>> or any others who cared to send their L&L to me to type in. 

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AZ> I don't have any real information of the size of the
AZ> graphics database used by Google Earth, but I'd suspect
AZ> it's too large to be burned to DVD... 

Yes, at certain "zoom levels" it would be: 

http://tinyurl.com/ydr4vk 

AZ> I know I have an old CD-ROM disk created (around 1997 or
AZ> so) from a University of BC geography department project
AZ> that took aerial photos of the greater Vancouver region--
AZ> quality was on a par with Google Earth's, but for a much
AZ> smaller area... since the contents of about 7 CDs fit on a
AZ> DVD, a DVD would hold only a small fraction of the images
AZ> needed. 

Someone (I forget who) is manufacturing combo HD and Blu-ray
DVD drives which puts one DVD up to 52 gigs. We'll get there.
:-) 

AZ> I agree that a Linux distribution set up with an interface
AZ> that would appeal to a non-techie Windows user would
AZ> require the same level of RAM, hard drive, and processor
AZ> support as an equivalently-functioning Win2000 system... 

AZ> Comparing Win2000 and Linux, however, gets more complex--
AZ> Win2000 will be immediately familiar to more users and be
AZ> able to run the wide range of Windows software and
AZ> peripherals without a lot of fussing... Linux, however,
AZ> wouldn't have the same vulnerabilities to Windows viruses
AZ> and other malware and so wouldn't require the same level of
AZ> care and fussing to remain malware-safe. 

The "security by obscurity" status of linux is changing as we
type. 

AZ> Which to install depends on situation... while I keep a
AZ> single system running Edubuntu, the K-12 varient of Ubuntu,
AZ> around my school as a demonstration, when we got 32 P4
AZ> systems this year, I chose to install Win2000 on them. 

A wise decision. ;-) 

AZ> When I was setting up an older, second-hand laptop to leave
AZ> for guests at my summer place, I chose to install Ubuntu
AZ> Linux-- everyone who has tried it was able to access the
AZ> Web, check their webmail, open a word processor and print
AZ> any needed documents, and connect their digital cameras and
AZ> view stored photos without problem-- even though Ubuntu was
AZ> unfamiliar to most of them. And there are far fewer
AZ> security issues leaving this computer there. 

Maximum security is to pull the plug. Everything after the
machine is plugged in and turned on is insecure in some
fashion. I would've installed W2K with instructions for copying
an image backup to the C: partition for anyone experiencing
problems with the setup. 

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