[65402] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vivien M.)
Tue Nov 25 11:49:19 2003
From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
To: "'Brian Bruns'" <bruns@2mbit.com>,
"'Daniel Karrenberg'" <daniel.karrenberg@ripe.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:45:32 -0500
In-Reply-To: <009401c3b367$aeb1d800$2380b93f@2mbit.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On=20
> Behalf Of Brian Bruns
> Sent: November 25, 2003 10:21 AM
> To: Vivien M.; 'Daniel Karrenberg'
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????
>=20
> I know full well about the resource limits. Its a PITA, but=20
> as long as you run a decent set of apps that don't suffer=20
> from resource leaks (Mozilla without a GDI patch does this=20
> for example) that eventually use up all GDI/USER memory,=20
> you'll be fine. I use Win98SE here all day with only one=20
> reboot needed most days, and I run WinAMP, Putty, K-Meleon,=20
> Outlook Express, Cygwin, mIRC, Xnews (which has a bad habit=20
> of crashing the whole system at times), as well as AIM,=20
> Miranda IM, SST, Yahoo Messenger, and various other tools. =20
> Thats all at once, multitasking. I know, I could reduce the=20
> clutter by letting Miranda IM do AIM and Yahoo, but thats not=20
> the point. :-)
>=20
> Many times, resource suckage comes from those ugly faceless=20
> background programs that run at startup. Kill as many icons=20
> as you can on the desktop and the task bar, and clean out=20
> your startup list, and you'll free up alot of GDI resources.
You've just conceded that you reboot every day, and honestly, to do what =
do
with Win98 SE, that's what's required. You've also conceded that how you =
use
your system is chosen based around those resource limitations: if =
$BROWSER_1
uses less resources than $BROWSER_2, that's what you'll use. If Win98 SE =
was
the only game in town, well, you could do that and curse Redmond every =
time
you reboot. However, it is NOT the only game in town. A reasonable OS
(Win2K/XP, Linux, etc) will let you run all the things you're running, =
and
will stay up for weeks unless your hardware really sucks.
Vivien
--=20
Vivien M.
vivienm@dyndns.org
Assistant System Administrator
Dynamic DNS Network Services
http://www.dyndns.org/=20
