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Author Topic: Homebody Handy Hints  (Read 6620 times)

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Re: Homebody Handy Hints
« Reply #45 on: April 25, 2017, 01:50:39 pm »
Intel i5-7xxx are quad core, but then they probably use too much power to be run fanless, so this is likely something new.
There are plenty of Intel boards with quad core on them, and if you open it up to all AliExpress, there must be thousands.
Anyway, quad core isn't THAT important until you want to run VirtualBox, then the cores and the RAM have to be shared out.

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As far as those prebuilt Micros are concerned, what do you think would be adequate configuration? 

For doing what?

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the i5/4010U.  How does that processor stack up overall IYHO?

No idea.

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8 Gigs RAM/128 Gigs SSD.

If you've got that much data to store I'd be surprised.

Do these things come with Linux pre-installed?  What Linux?  If not, then you are going to have to learn how to install stuff.  That's not "pro" stuff.  Diagnosing problems and fixing software is pro stuff.

Forget I ever asked.  Your expertiese is not proving very helpful here.

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Yup.  :coffee:

RE, Palloy's instructions for the Virtualbox running of Linux inside windows are okay but they lack something important. I researched all this a couple of years back and got reliable instructions from Ask Leo on how to do this. The problem is that defending Linux from hacking in general and malware in particular can be tricky. Norton does that, of course, but, at least according to Ask Leo, retail security software is NOT rock solid on Linux but is extremely reliable on Windows. Since I have (reluctantly) been forced into windows10 with my i3 new Dell Inspiron machine, I received the unexpected pleasant surprise of not being a target of the NSA malware recently being used to hack windows versions  :emthup: :icon_sunny:  (Palloy posted here on it recently - It's an article in the Intercept).

At any rate, security is NUMERO UNO for me. And I don't want to even try to keep up with the hackers out there. So, I pay Norton about $84 a year to do the heavy lifting while I continue to use CFS in dealing with e-mails and suspicious web sites. Norton has been good to me. They have saved my arse on several occasions over the last DECADE.  :emthup:

Linux has a lot of attraction for me but I never got around to that Virtualbox testing of it. Maybe someday.

When I had a total disk failure two computers ago, I was able to run Ubuntu from a CD to shop for a new computer with a dial up backup I still had. I no longer have dial up (I save $19.95 a month by not having it  :icon_mrgreen:) so that is no longer an option.

The last time my hard disk failed, I was STUCK without a computer to shop for a computer so I had to do it by phone (UGH!).  :P

Yeah, I should have a backup hard disk with an image of my operating system to avoid that, but I haven't gotten around to that yet. Hopefully, I'll get one this summer.


Hope this helps you, RE.  :icon_sunny: I'm certain Palloy will, of course, not be impressed AT ALL.  ::)

Well, I'm impressed with your commitment to security.   :emthup:

Norton (now Symantec) AntiVirus does run on Linux, but since they charge for it and it's not open source, Ubuntu doesn't make it available, and nobody would use it.  ClamAV is the recommended free and open source solution.  Symantec SAV has to be a complete re-write of the Windows version, because the arrangement of the file system on Linux is completely different from Windows (no C:\  at the top of the hierarchy of directories, no Registry, etc).  99% of all viruses are written to target Windows machines, and won't run at all on Linux. 

Even if someone were to write a virus specifically for Linux, and sneak the file into the file system somehow, it could only run under your user's account, and so would only have access to that part of the file system that you own - /home/palloy/  (being equivalent to C:\Users\palloy\ ).  So it could trash your files, but it couldn't trash other users' files, or the OS itself, which belongs to "root". 

And you DO have a backup of your files, don't you? - yes, of course I do, every day at 01:00 am.

Suffice to say that in 5 years of Linux, on what is now 5 machines, I have never even been warned about a virus, let alone been infected by one.   :icon_sunny:

6 machines if you count my Android smartphone, but I rarely switch it on, and NEVER let it talk to the other computers on the home network, because I don't trust Android and because the Android version is no longer supported.  :(

Ubuntu is owned by Canonical, who I suppose make their money by providing paid technical support.  However the Linux community experts provide free support at places like AskUbuntu, StackExchange, etc.


Well, I haven't gotten around to total image backups although I think that would be ideal. What I do, since I'm too cheap to get another hard disk or even a solid state USB disk on a stick to put a recovery thing on, I take my CDs and copy my NEW document and picture files, current screenshot of desktop with programs list, favorites list, names of latest program additions and new sketchup graphic files I've doodled in my spare time to it in compressed form once a month.

If the hard disk dies before I make my recovery thing, I'll just have to wing it.  :P

Having a tiny forum also provides me with a second backup to my pictures and screeds that won't perish with my hard disk. I do not trust the cloud and will never store zip on it. Yes, I know the gooberment, microsofty, my server and the NSA knows every keystroke I have ever made and has stored all my activity since I was born (on the internets), but they don't like to admit that.  :evil4:

So, I do what I can.   8)
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt 10:37

 

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