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question about operating systems.. please answer the following questions

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1. What is the best operating system for personal desktops: OS X, Windows XP, or Linux? why?

2. How does Windows know what DLLs are installed?

3. Is standard e-mail transfer secure? Why not? How would you make it secure?

4. Which private address space is better, 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x? Why?
 
1. What do you plan to do with the system?

3. Standard email sends credentials unencrypted. Use SSL.

4. For a home network it doesn't matter.
 
Originally posted by: fritolays
1. What is the best operating system for personal desktops: OS X, Windows XP, or Linux? why?
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You're asking for a religious debate here. I vote Windows myself. Despite it's shakey 9x past Windows is now a stable and secure OS with unmatched backwards compatibility, broad 3rd party application and device support and very easy to use.

2. How does Windows know what DLLs are installed?
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Installed OS DLLs are recorded in the registry. Search on RegSvr32.exe for more info. For some applications it's not necessary for Windows to know. The app can make calls into them by knowing the location where its installer placed the file.

3. Is standard e-mail transfer secure? Why not? How would you make it secure?
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Not in the slightest. It's unencrypted data going across a public network making multiple hops. To make it more secure either use a private email system (say corporate exchange environment) or encrypt the contents of the email (say PGP). Best way would be not to use it.

4. Which private address space is better, 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x? Why?
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Not enough info to answer this question. However, those address spaces were dished out when classful addressing was being used. With subnetting the 10.x is a bit more flexible for a private address space. 192.x might be ever so slightly easier to use for say a home LAN user. Flip a coin.


Did I just do your homework for you?

 
Originally posted by: fritolays
1. What is the best operating system for personal desktops: OS X, Windows XP, or Linux? why?

2. How does Windows know what DLLs are installed?

3. Is standard e-mail transfer secure? Why not? How would you make it secure?

4. Which private address space is better, 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x? Why?
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Do your own HW buddy.
 
Originally posted by: DarkThinker
Originally posted by: fritolays
1. What is the best operating system for personal desktops: OS X, Windows XP, or Linux? why?

2. How does Windows know what DLLs are installed?

3. Is standard e-mail transfer secure? Why not? How would you make it secure?

4. Which private address space is better, 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x? Why?
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Do your own HW buddy.
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These are clearly homework or test prep questions. As such, go learn the info yourself.


 
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