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NYTimes Reports on Firefox
Soldrinero writes "Just three days after running a community-sponsored two-page ad, the New York Times is now running a news story on Mozilla Firefox. Our favorite browser is presented in a very favorable light, and there's a good discussion on both Firefox's useability-enhancing features and its security merits. Being fair, they also present Microsoft's solution to security problems: 'Microsoft does have one suggestion for those who cannot use the latest patches in Service Pack 2: buy a new personal computer'"
The analogy comes straight from Mr. Schare. "It's like buying a car," he said. "If you want to get the latest safety features, you have to buy the latest model."
Bullshit......
Only an absolute retard would buy that line of crap.
My dad had nothing but total hell with a M$ box, BSOD's constantly, spyware, virus, trojans, etc..
I told him "Dad, time to end the stupidity. I'm going to install Linux for you".. End of problem. Same exact hardware, 100% rock solid, totally stable, totally trouble free.
OTOH, being that I work on all sorts of systems for people, I have an XP box, (behind a Linux based firewall), I keep it so I can help M$ people and just the other day it informed me new updates were available and asked if I wanted to download them. I told it NO, do not download them. Later, when I went to power down that box, it came up with a warning, telling me that it was downloading patches and installing them and DO NOT POWER DOWN or risk damage to the system. So I had to sit and wait 20 minutes while this thing did something that I did NOT authorize it to do.
I have no idea on earth WTF it even downloaded.
That's bullshit. I only fire that box up when I have to provide support for someone and walk them through something. And it does have Firefox on it, I'll NEVER use IE on it, ever.
If you want security you don't replace the computer, you dump M$.. The idiot that made the stupid comment should be run out of town on a rail...
So?
They are known and they are fixed. A few clicks of the mouse and you are up-to-date.
M$ is unfixable. It's a defective product that can not ever be repaired. Broken straight out of the box...
Which distro bundles OO.o pre-2.x? No wait, none, because OO.o pre-2.x came out just two days ago.
Download the 2.0 PR.
"Linux 95M | Win 78M" doesn't help if you're on NetZero dial-up. Lots of ISPs kick the user off after about 2 hours of being connected (long enough to download 30 MB if you're lucky), and lots of people don't know Wget exists, let alone how to use it.