Building/Upgrading a PC for TS2
jrd:
You were told mostly right.
Win95 was not designed for TCP/IP networking, and it was patched in. XP and 2k carried across internet explorer and the entire MSHTML engine, which dated back to early '95 kluges. That's why MSIE is to this date an insecure piece of crap. And since MS has made the entire OS run on it, so is Windows.
If Microsoft would separate MSIE from the Windows shell, Windows would be infinitely more secure.
witch:
I had a lovely little util for win 98 that seperated out MSIE from the shell - Win98 Lite - by somebody in Oz I think. I haven't seen anything like that for WinXP, MSIE is probably too tightly integrated now.
Still, hopefully Vista starts off by shutting the gates.
jrd:
There's LitePC (http://www.litepc.com/), but this just disables MSIE by ripping it out of the shell and replacing it with custom hooks.
Microsoft knows it cannot afford to let another browser win, so it has made sure you cannot remove MSIE without also removing Windows 2k/xp/2003.
For '98 you could always go back to the non-infested '95a or '95b shell.
dizzy:
Quote from: katenigma on 2006 December 11, 20:19:20
And "more secure" is Microsoft Lies and Propaganda. XP will be more secure than Vista for years to come because they started completely over with Vista.
XP is about as secure as Mac OS 6. You'd have to be nuts to prefer it to Vista. Where do you think all the bots and spammers come from? They are mostly fueled by clueless XP users. Same deal whether you run Windows XP base or SP1/2 or even Windows 98. It's as good as saying "pw3n m333!"
I'm no M$ fanboi here. I run Ubuntu. But if you've already made the decision to turn your box into Windows TV, you may as well not be part of the spamming/DDoS problem.
witch:
Quote from: dizzy on 2006 December 15, 09:58:07
I run Ubuntu.
How do you run the sims? I thought it still didn't run on Linux because of the Direct X issues?
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