*bumps last post off AT*

-X

Yea, Its a good one thats for sure ;)

Also: Joost, an internet tv program thingymawhatsit, has gone public.
http://www.joost.com/

I've been playing around with it for about a week. Its pretty cool. And has some stuff that is actually worth watching. Other stuff that isn't, of course, but there ya go.

-X

Genisis X wrote:

Also: Joost, an internet tv program thingymawhatsit, has gone public.
http://www.joost.com/

Despite Joost being based partly on Mozilla-technology, being headquartered in my home-city, and employing several people I know, I highly recommend anyone interested in online television to skip straight past Joost and on to Miro.
Where Joost is a closed platform full of DRM and lock-in (being everything the big content providers want them to be), Miro is completely open and has way more content available to it. (Full comparison here.)

(Note, I don't bother with moving images overly much myself, and haven't watched TV in 6+ years, so I don't have personal experience with either program. I just know that I always want the open vision to win out, because in the long run, that's how this world gets better.)

Help wanted!

I need a new virus scanner/firewall. Most of my computers have McAfee, but I'm starting to dislike it. Not to mention that with five computers we can't registered McAfee on all of them apparently.

So what do you all have? (And is it Open Source?)

I use AVG too, though it's gone a little downhill lately.
It's not open source though.
I don't think there is any open source windows desktop anti-virus.
ClamWin would be the closest, but it doesn't have an on-access scanner - you have to either do a full scan, or manually check a suspect file.

I don't use any firewall software out of principle.  I have connected my computers to a network because they are network devices  I don't need some stupid piece if software popping up a confirmation dialogue every time I use a network application.
All software firewalls are crap anyway - I'd just use the Windows one if I had to use something, it's no worse than the rest.
I won't ever go near ZoneAlarm again - we had their enterprise product - ZoneAlarm Integrity - as a requirement for using our VPN, and it universally broke anyone's computer that installed it.

Of course, these days the computers I use most of the time, both at work and at home, have no virus protection or firewall whatsoever. But that's because I only use Windows for music now.

well, there aren't any significant viruses for it.
There's been one or two worms in the past, but only really one or two.
I don't truly believe it's fundamentally more secure - but I think that it's different enough to Windows that some of the approaches used by virus and trojan writers there just don't tend to work, even if they were to target the platform.

Good, I've already downloaded Free AVG. I thought I remembered my colleagues mentioning something like that. We've also turned on the Windows Firewall.

Thanks for the tips.

Hello, yes it's me, long time no post but a friend has asked for some help with Windows Vista and I haven't ever use it so here goes.

Can you assign a different desktop with shortcuts specific to that person's account?

Are you all well by the way?

Please resist the temptation to simply wonder why anyone is still using Vista

Stuart

Last edited by Stuart (2010-09-22 02:36:57)

Stuart! *pouncyhuggles*

Like Gen said, your desktop is stored under your profile, so if you create another user, they will have another desktop too.

Another silly question.

I want to do a usability assessment of a control panel.  It has a 3 position rotary switch, a single push button and 9 indicators that have up to 3 colour states and can flash?

Any idea if there is simulator software that I can easily use to create an image of the control panel with working switches and logic that can be programmed to make the indications work as they would in the real world?

Stuart