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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Is M$ safer than UN*X(-LIKE)?? Post 302210333 by Texasone on Monday 30th of June 2008 04:22:37 PM

06-30-2008

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Is M$ safer than UN*X(-LIKE)??

I know that you already know the answer to the question. It just springed in my mind after what happened yesterday. I was getting some books off of Amazon.com, since they are cheeper than bookstore, and my mother said something that made me laugh 'till I couldn't breathe. I have a Debian Lenny box while my parents have an XP box. My mom still doesn't understand the difference so she thinks that because I don't have antivirus or antispyware like she does, that my box is less safe Smilie

I tried to explain it again but she still can't grasp M$ virus vs PC virus. So she says that we must do it on an M$ box since it is more secure. So, basically, this is a question for all you UN*X users out there, and maybe you Mac fans: Has a Windows user ever told you that your machine wasn't safe from all those nasty viruses and trojens [that only affect Windows I might add Smilie

] since you don't have anti virus or anti anything?

P.S. She also told me that that Norton 360 was safer than Linux. Smilie

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glutdialsfunc

glutDialsFunc(3GLUT)						       GLUT						      glutDialsFunc(3GLUT)

NAME

       glutDialsFunc - sets the dial & button box dials callback for the current window.

SYNTAX

       void glutDialsFunc(void (*func)(int dial, int value));

ARGUMENTS

       func	 The new dials callback function.

DESCRIPTION

       glutDialsFunc sets the dial & button box dials callback for the current window. The dial & button box dials callback for a window is called
       when the window has dial & button box input focus (normally, when the mouse is in the window) and the user generates dial & button box dial
       changes.  The  dial  parameter will be the dial number (starting at one). The number of available dial & button box dials can be determined
       with glutDeviceGet(GLUT_NUM_DIALS). The value measures the absolute rotation in degrees. Dial values do not ``roll over''  with	each  com-
       plete rotation but continue to accumulate degrees (until the int dial value overflows).

       Registering  a  dial  & button box dials callback when a dial & button box device is not available is ineffectual and not an error. In this
       case, no dial & button box dials callbacks will be generated.

       Passing NULL to glutDialsFunc disables the generation of dial & button box dials callbacks. When a new window is created, no dial &  button
       box dials callback is initially registered.

SEE ALSO

       glutButtonBoxFunc, glutDeviceGet

AUTHOR

       Mark J. Kilgard (mjk@nvidia.com)

GLUT
									3.7						      glutDialsFunc(3GLUT)