Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:39:46 +1030 From: Brian Astill <bastill@adam.com.au> To: David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au> Cc: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au Subject: Re: Protecting Windows Message-ID: <200602092239.46155.bastill@adam.com.au> In-Reply-To: <43EB0E00.6030503@rebel.net.au> References: <200602091432.44622.bastill@adam.com.au> <43EB0E00.6030503@rebel.net.au>
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On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 08:10 pm, David Newall wrote: > Brian Astill wrote: > > program runs on Windows 2000/XP only. Why would anyone in their > > right mind NOT port a program as sensible as this to a SECURE OS? > > I should say that Windows XP is not intrinsically insecure. You > can secure it, and I don't mean trivially by removing the network > connection, but by shutting down unneeded services, replacing > iexplorer.exe with firefox where possible, and so on. Yes - that does seem to be a useful possibility. > I have heard > that Dragon Naturally Speaking is very good, and that seems like a > good reason to run Windows. Interesting. The "spiel" on the Nuance website gave me that impression, too. However the Royal Society for the Blind in Adelaide tried v 7 (current is 8) and were VERY unimpressed. -- Regards, Brian
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