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Originally Posted by Skybird
Since I have both Windows and Linux on one system, I think it is a good idea to have some kind of security to safeguard against Linux hosting some nasties that may not damage itself, but Windows (which is the big problem with Linux, itself it seems to be quite immune, but it spreads a lot of anti-Windows stuff via servers, and windows and Linux data on one rig also is a problem (some say that this even is what speaks against using something like Wine). - Any ideas, Robbins?
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In 10 years of running Linux beside Windows XP and 7 I haven't had any cross-fertilization of malware from my Linux to my Windows installation. I can't say that there is no way that it can happen, just that it hasn't. Of course my Windows is reasonably protected. But my feeling on the matter is that Linux is such a small target that the malware producers don't see any money in pursuing it.
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Originally Posted by Skybird
As a short thanks for your feedback the past days, just this few minutes of beauty, since you seem to be interested in astronomy, too. You probably heard of it already, but this is one of the videos where it really shines in all its glory:
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I installed it and my first inclination was "Wow!" And where dynamically generated fictitious worlds go, I still say that. But just like Stellarium, knowing too much kills the experience as you find that stuff is just made up of whole cloth and often doesn't agree at all with reality.
I took a journey to some galaxies I know well and found that they were often a completely different type than they really are. Nebulae in the Milky Way are not correct at all, but just a generic artistic representation of a nebulous blob. The Orion Nebula (M 42) is a travesty. Venus has no surface. NGC 4631, an irregular spiral is just a weird nebula when you get there. M 81 is the wrong kind of galaxy at the wrong angle in relation to the Milky Way, it is supposed to be a perfect face on spiral. M-51, probably one of the most distictive double nucleus spiral galaxies is just a generic spiral.
It would be much better as a Spore-like fictitious universe and then I would appreciate it rather than pick it apart so badly, but it really is out of its league when representing the real universe. Beautiful though, although that too comes from fiction, like Stellarium's sky, very artistic, not real at all.
In Stellarium, for one example, looking between the horns of Taurus with the clusters M35, M36, M37 and M38 in view you can see shown brightly, in color no less, faint nebulae that you'll never see in any amateur telescope, while the magnicent star clusters above, naked eye objects, are shown very indistinctly, faintly and if you don't know exactly where to look you'll never find them at all in Stellarium. Its sky is art, not objectivity. It is an illusion made irritation by knowledge.