[Coco] 512K upgrade

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 08 March 2014 10:29:38 Bill did opine:

> What should they run?
> 
What a novel question, linux of course.  The coco, running os9, is a great 
teacher, it teaches you how a computer should be usable.  From os9 to 
nitros9, to amigados to linux, all multi-user, multitasking systems, and 
you never have to put up with the windows tax, or encounter its false, you 
can't do that controls.

I have bought one (1) legit copy of windows in my life, instantly installed 
what is now mageia linux on it because I was going out of town for an 
extended period and needed something to keep my sanity and use for email 
while I was out of town.  A laptop, but you could not buy an assembled 
machine without windows on it.  I reinstalled another linux on it a couple 
months after I got home with it, that time wiping the xp partition which I 
had previously kept because of the wonders drivers for the BCM4318 radio in 
it.  They didn't work any better that the linux drivers for that chip, and 
10 years later they still don't. So I use a usb dongle.  Now its battery is 
long since toast and it serves as a terminal in the shop that I use to log 
into one of the machines out there with an ssh -Y machinename, and write 
gcode to run those machines in relative comfort.

I never caught the virus called windows, and I am not about to start now.
The rest of these machines scattered about my local network, were all 
bought and assembled by me, so no further encroachments of windows has even 
been allowed on the property unless I m fixing somebody else's machine.  
And as I approach my 80th birthday, I no longer encourage an infected 
windows box to be brought to me. Most are better off if you don't save 
"your data" because you are probably saving infected files that will self 
reinstall their keyloggers and such, just wipe 'em clean and and format the 
drive(s) and reinstall.  But why should you do that?  Why not use linux, 
using a good firewall providing router with DD-WRT installed on it, and 
keep your data?  My corpus of email here for selected lists reaches back 
almost 15 years, as this list is not expired, ever.  Can any windows user 
claim that?

Doubtful.  One gets the security he pays for. Most windows people connect 
their machines direct to the modem their service provider supplies. And 
because for that direct connection, the average windows machine is owned 10 
minutes after you plug in that cat5 cable.  Get pro-active about security 
people, if you insist on running windows, at least get a router that can be 
reflashed to DD-WRT, it will prolong the reinstall cycle to get rid of the 
viri from the black hats that want your banks login data so they can spend 
your money in Sebastapol. Or NK for that matter. Or the muzzy countries are 
getting good at that too.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
> On Behalf Of Steven Hirsch
> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2014 8:53 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] 512K upgrade
> 
> Exhibit A for why friends don't let friends run Windows.
> 
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Cheers, Gene
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