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if you insist on nitpicking, here is a funny read: https://www.dedoimedo.com/phys...
Bananas are not more radioactive than "most things".
We usually say "something is radioactive" when the level is concerning.
If you only want to nitpick about potassium, you are right.

It doesn't have systemd, that's why you don't like it.

I'm not sure what's dumber the fact that you're stalking me to the point you think I love systemd or the fact that while doing so you completely miss the fact I'm a huge fan of the Surface devices and own 2 myself.

Here is some bedtime reading for you: https://www.dedoimedo.com/life...

http://www.dedoimedo.com/life/...

You can: http://www.dedoimedo.com/compu...

More to the point you can set colours with Classic Theme Restorer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

And the rest: http://www.dedoimedo.com/compu...

That and a few other things: http://www.dedoimedo.com/compu...

This one works: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

This is worth a read to get Firefox back to sane: http://www.dedoimedo.com/compu...

Apparently, you know how to force the system to boot to 3.8.0-32. You just don't know how to edit the grub boot menu. So, look up the solution now, and put it onto some media that the remote computer without internet access can read. Or, put it onto your pad or phone, so that you can read it as you work on the ailing computer. Or, just print it out an tree flesh, and carry it along with you.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html

The following two articles will (attempt to) remove your religious notion about UEFI being "evil" or "Satan". Please read them, they contain far more valuable information that the insane FUD you read about UEFI and Secure Boot on /.

The 30-year-long Reign of BIOS is Over: Why UEFI Will Rock Your IT and Enough with the UEFI drama already

Please remember, disregarding exceptions like me, the signal to noise ratio on /. is extremely low, the religious nutcases are a huge majority and the number of people who post with knowledge about what they are posting about is very close to zero. Thankfully for you, a lemming who just follows what the religious nuts on /. is hysterical about from day to day, there are people like me to inform and educate.

I thought I could improve Apache, so I did. Patch accepted.

Dude - you are the King of Everything!!!
(Looks confused)
Wait... how can there be *two* Kings of Everything?

I would be more than happy to see a new approach taken. I just would like to see that approach done from a perspective of increasing productivity rather than decreasing it. I know I'm an oddball but to me my PC is a tool to you know actually get things done. GNOME 3 is simply not designed with this in mind, in fact it's focus is the opposite. Yes there are a number of things they do that I like but I think this article http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gnome-3.html and especially the section titled "Your computer is not a smartphone" sums up my experiences.

Someone wake me when a new desktop wants to make things MORE productive. And yes there are numerous ways to do it. A couple off the top of my head would be:
- A task centric design that quickly lets you spawn new desktops with layouts you predesign (like firing up a browser, terminal and gedit in a particular configuration)
- Screen space saving approaches like moving the title bar to a vertical tab like protrusion on the side with the min, max and close buttons or autohiding the title bar
- A search bar like in gnome 3 the allows you to choose the app to launch the results in (default web browser if searching the web, file manager if searching files, network browser if searching shares, etc)

All of these can look good AND increase productivity but there seems little interest in that. Instead lets make more smartphone interfaces for desktops, THAT will increase productivity for those of us still trying to do work.

You must work for Microsoft TechNet; while your answer is technically correct, it is also useless for the person who asks.

Ah, an ad hominem as the very first thing. It's kind of hard to offer support (which I wasn't trying to do) without knowing which VM and I would suggest a forum dedicated to that VM would be a more appropriate place rather than /. especially as there are conflicting comments about 3D working/not working under OS X depending on the exact VM and OS X. Perhaps some combinations are simply a no-go.

Neither VMware nor VBox support 3D acceleration for remote or shared images.

3D Acceleration has been available in VBox since around version 2.1, they're now on 4.1.6. One does need to have the guest additions installed
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#guestadd-video

As to VMWare, one of the things that kept me on VMWare Workstation for so long as the fact that it did 3D accelerations whilst VBox did not. It seems that even Server offers 3D acceleration (I have not tried it myself) although server hardware is not usually known for its killer graphics card.
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/virtualization-3d-support-vmware.html

You are quite correct on remote/shared images. Whilst the server might be able to do the acceleration and the guest set-up to run the acceleration, it simply will not work/appear on the remote client. There may be some help in getting that to work, but I'm afraid I don't have the time to look into it just now
http://blogs.oracle.com/vizsun/entry/hardware_accelerated_remote_3d_windows

I have run Mint 12 and Fedora 16 (Gnome 3 Shell) and Arch (KDE) amongst others without issue (not as a remote, obviously). All with full transparencies, eye candy etc. One can even run 3D games in these virtualised environments without issue (as a quick test, "Extreme Tux Racer" at 60fps, Saurebraten [high settings] at 20fps in a Mint 12 guest).
XPsp3 (checked via dxdiag) had failures for DirectX 7 and 8, but the test for 9 worked perfectly.

The acceleration offered isn't as good as native hardware acceleration and one doesn't get all the latest features due to the nature of the virtualised hardware exposed to the guest.
Hardware: Dell Dimension 9200, 4GB with a NVidia GT240, Ubuntu 10.10 (proprietary NVidia drivers installed); not cutting edge by any means.

That aside Gecko is faster and supports HTML5. On the whole I think Firefox 6 is better, but I think you can safely wait until Firefox 7 is out before upgrading.

It's a little baroque, but i've had really good success with GLC ( http://nullkey.ath.cx/projects/glc/ ). It only works with OpenGL games though, so non-GL based 2D games won't work with it.

I love GLC! Here's a tutorial of it that I found, for those of you wanting to try it: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/glc.html.

And a video I made with it a little while ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNNY6cGNpgc

I just use Linux for most of my surfing, but light VMs are very easy to set up and worth doing for the education.

I like Portable VirtualBox for Windows use because I can make a self-extracting .rar of the complete program with VMs for backup:

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/portable-virtualbox.html

Grab a light Linux distro like DSL (small download, speedy performance), and install to VM from the .iso:

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

You can then play with MANY operating systems, and if they screw up, delete their VM. If you have bigger problems, reload by extracting the backup. :)

"I don't understand; how does theming your window manager help against this? "

It doesn't.

If Windows users cared about avoiding these things, they'd browse using a virtual browser appliance, or browse using a second OS in a VM.

Portable VirtualBox allows fun things like .rar'ing a backup copy of a complete VM plus the software to run it, so if your VM is compromised you can simply delete it and extract a fresh copy.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/portable-virtualbox.html

It seems absolutly counter intuitive to say that a user running a Windows OS shouldn't use an anti-virus program. Yet, some of the comments in this thread, and many articles at dedoimedo.com are saying that their use is uncalled for. That's hard to believe. The malware writers aren't passivly waiting for users to visit their sites or download infected software. A review of honeypot statistics will verify this.

But why? Stating that "You don't need an anti-virus in Windows" is intreging. But, statements like this need to be backed up. Otherwise, its just an opinion without foundation.

I would love to run my XP system without the use of an AV program. I'd uninstall the one I have now if:

• I can get solid reasons why it's not needed.

• Be given alternatives which, at least, equally secure my system against attack.

• Have these assertions backed up with verifiable facts.

SuRun is a great little utility. Effectively brings 'sudo' to windows. They weren't the first people to have the idea, they just did it better than everyone else. Not a shill, just a pleased customer (like anywhere, we have some really 'computer-dumb' people working here...)

Interesting...

http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/VirtualBox-3.0-No-More-Booting-Windows

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/virtualization-3d-support-vmware.html

3D acceleration using DirectX in VMs isn't nearly as mature as you suggest, but VMs running games on par with PCs is a lot closer than I realized. Overall I don't see it being any more convenient than dual booting but it could be very useful for making virtual "retro boxes" for playing older games, and "portable" gaming machines (custom Linux LiveCD with VM host + Windows VM stored on flash drive).

So in case any average consumer reads this, let's put an end to that myth. For instance, I'll compare the Starter Win7 disabled list in TFA with Puppy Linux:

• Aero Glass - well, Puppy has Compiz-Fusion.
• Personalization features - Yes.
• User switching - I couldn't find Puppy specifically, but most Linux can.
• Multi-monitor support - Yes, although spreading windows across more than one screen at once is iffier.
• DVD playback - probably; but might have to install VLC Media Player or something (which you can).
• Windows Media Center - well, not Windows, but definitely media.
• Remote Media Streaming - If Linux can, Puppy can with VLC. You can definitely stream from a Windows machine to Puppy.
• Domain support - Yes, with Puppy 4.1.
• XP Mode - well, no, but installing Wine may give compatibility similar to Windows 7! :P