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> Practically every poll shows KDE has far more users[...]

I thought I'd do a quick test of this. I went to Google, and put in Gnome vs. KDE Poll. The first result was this poll.

I also found This Poll.

And then there's a recent OSNews Poll.

Two of these three showed Gnome winning.

Yes, I know this is not scientific, and doesn't prove that one desktop is better than the other, it's just the result of some random Googling.

But, I do think it is clear that there is NOT a clear winner in the Linux Desktop space right now, therefore the statement that "obviously most prefer KDE" is false.

I believe it's actually called Wowexec.exe (a bit redundant if you ask me), at least on Windows XP.

Well, now that Macromedia have decided to fuck their customers, that's one less thing to worry about. Now, we just need to get all the graphics formats to force you to install WildTangent before you can view anything, and the way will be paved for handheld-compliant websites

Thankfully, Acrobat is not a monolithic piece of crap. All the stuff that takes so long to run is extra plugins, and they can be disabled. There are even programs to do it automatically, but this is something that I would trust doing manually over some program. I mean, if I somehow mess up Acrobat removing some plugins, I reinstall Acrobat. If the program messes up the system, is loaded with spyware or whatever, then the whole OS might have to go.

Well if Microsoft is doing anything to help against spyware it has got to be of some use.

There is a new extreme piece of spyware which seems to have surfaced in the last month.
http://forum.iamnotageek.com/t-78554-1.html
is the start of a very interesting thread concerning what seems to be the latest generation of spyware.
some of the things that it does include generating randomly named dll's
restarting processes that have been killed, runs IE even in safe mode, drags in a whole raft of other spyware to confuse things and leaves the PC it infects after unsuccessful removal unable to connect to the internet.

This thing is really nasty.

I am pretty sure I was dealing with a case of this yesterday. When adaware was installed and ran on a pc with XP service pack2 It triggered a Reboot due to a failure in dcom with a 1 minute countdown. The worst part was after cleaning with adaware the Pc was unable to connect to the internet unable to get an address from the router.

Manually configuring a network address and setting 192.168.2.1 as the gateway got the network working to the lan pc's.
The router could be pinged successfully but it wasn't possible to reach 192.168.2.1 through firefox netscape or IE to check the router status.
and after several hours of trying this pc refused to connect to the internet.

After banging my head against this brickwall over a period of about 12 hours the only solution was to reinstall XP.

This is the worst spyware I have ever seen, according to the thread the initial attack seems to have occured after a search for the song "over and over" by nelly although a precise location of the source of this infection isn't known.

If you have to deal with spyware on a regular basis check this thread out because you are not going to solve this one just by running adaware and spybot S&D.

http://forum.iamnotageek.com/t-78554-3.html

This latest spyware really should be submitted as a story on slashdot it is very new, very nasty and it is going to infect a lot of Pc's.

Please mod this up or investigate this yourself and Post about it.
because this is going to be a major disruption to Pc users everywhere, especially with it's defence of blocking the Pc's internet connection when you attempt to remove it.

Well if Microsoft is doing anything to help against spyware it has got to be of some use.

There is a new extreme piece of spyware which seems to have surfaced in the last month.
http://forum.iamnotageek.com/t-78554-1.html
is the start of a very interesting thread concerning what seems to be the latest generation of spyware.
some of the things that it does include generating randomly named dll's
restarting processes that have been killed, runs IE even in safe mode, drags in a whole raft of other spyware to confuse things and leaves the PC it infects after unsuccessful removal unable to connect to the internet.

This thing is really nasty.

I am pretty sure I was dealing with a case of this yesterday. When adaware was installed and ran on a pc with XP service pack2 It triggered a Reboot due to a failure in dcom with a 1 minute countdown. The worst part was after cleaning with adaware the Pc was unable to connect to the internet unable to get an address from the router.

Manually configuring a network address and setting 192.168.2.1 as the gateway got the network working to the lan pc's.
The router could be pinged successfully but it wasn't possible to reach 192.168.2.1 through firefox netscape or IE to check the router status.
and after several hours of trying this pc refused to connect to the internet.

After banging my head against this brickwall over a period of about 12 hours the only solution was to reinstall XP.

This is the worst spyware I have ever seen, according to the thread the initial attack seems to have occured after a search for the song "over and over" by nelly although a precise location of the source of this infection isn't known.

If you have to deal with spyware on a regular basis check this thread out because you are not going to solve this one just by running adaware and spybot S&D.

http://forum.iamnotageek.com/t-78554-3.html

This latest spyware really should be submitted as a story on slashdot it is very new, very nasty and it is going to infect a lot of Pc's.

Please mod this up or investigate this yourself and Post about it.
because this is going to be a major disruption to Pc users everywhere, especially with it's defence of blocking the Pc's internet connection when you attempt to remove it.

http://www.iamnotageek.com/attachment.php?s=486635 5da1a45f5c2ae01a6640b89a03&attachmentid=18191

I don't think it's that they didn't allow them, it's that the thunderbirds used different signalling than the original Athlons. Motherboards based on the AMD-750 (Irongate) chipset did work reliably with thunderbirds, but it was hit or miss with the Via KX133 (an otherwise better, faster chipset). There is some info on that here,

I don't know if the rest of the pinout was compatible enough to allow it either.

as theres is no Service Pack 2 XP Cd out

There is no official XP SP2 CDs out.

But don't let that stop you...

The only 1Ghz VIA based motherboard i know of is the Epia M10000.. (as reviewed by Hexus, DansData and IANAG). Anyway heres the specs lifted from via's site...

Processor - VIA C3/EDEN EBGA Processor
Chipset - VIA CLE266 North Bridge - VT8235 South Bridge
System Memory - 1 DDR266 DIMM socket - Up to 1GB memory size
Graphics - Integrated VIA Unichrome AGP Graphics with MPEG-2 decoder
Expansion Slots - 1 PCI
Onboard IDE - 2 X UltraDMA 133/100/66 Connector
Onboard Floppy - 1 x FDD Connector
Onboard LAN - VIA VT6103 10/100 Base-T Ethernet PHY
Onboard Audio - VIA VT1616 6 channel AC'97 Codec
Onboard TV Out - VIA VT1622 TV out
Onboard 1394 - VIA VT6307S IEEE 1394 Firewire

hope this helps

I'm getting one this week to try it out.