Alternatives to easily-infected OSes
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 10:35 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4059 messages posted)
was: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98
|I have checked a number of programming language references,
|including Dbase 7.5 and GW-Basic,
|and I am unable to locate an entry for "yada yada yada".
| Alan Masterman
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Though it has been in use for a LONG time,
it became even more popular when used as a theme for a 1990s American sitcom:
http://www.google.com/search?q=yada-yada-yada+Seinfeld
|Please try to use correct, informative, and professional terminology
|when replying to posts.
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Do you complain when people here use the phrase "and so on"
even though it's not in a tech glossary?
...and I'm pretty sure the OP knows the term.
|Are you sure you have the right forum?
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Let's see:
A forum for a payware operating system
that is past the end of its support cycle by its vendor
and reaching the end of its support cycle by 3rd-party app vendors.[1]
To replace it, people mentioning yet another easily-infected payware product[3]
--a product that is NOT the subject of *this* forum.
People mentioning that their hardware won't support that latest payware product.
Yeah. I'd say I'm as on-topic as the OP.
Those who read my ENTIRE post will see I also provided an answer to the AV query.
[1] I'll go on to mention that the Free Software OS offerings
INCLUDE the ancillary utilities need to do routine tasks
and those utils that don't come on the distro CD are available from repositories
(searchable using the OS's tools--making these kinds of questions unnecessary)
and those ancillary programs (like the OS) are FREE.
If you can't find a Free Software app to do your task
or you don't like the way the current crop handle, you have other options:
Since the "source code"[2] for those apps is available,
you (or a programmer you hire) can MODIFY the app to do what you would like.
(Try THAT with the vast majority of Windoze-compatible apps.)
...or you can seek out a payware app, much the same way Windoze users do.
[2] Think of "source code" as the recipe or blueprints for the product.
Imagine every product you buy coming with full instructions about how it is made.
THAT is what "Free Software" (e.g. Linux) is about.
("Free" means more than just "Gratis".)
[3] In addition, white box vendors are no longer *officially* able to offer XP.
That is, to get XP pre-installed these days
you must pay for TWO M$ operating systems (XP AND Vista)
--an abuse of a monopoly to the extreme.
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