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Sneaky Microsoft Add-On Put Firefox Users At Risk
CWmike writes to mention that the "Windows Presentation Foundation" plugin that Microsoft slipped into Firefox last February apparently left the popular browser open to attack. This was among the many things recently addressed in the massive Tuesday patch. "What was particularly galling to users was that once installed, the .NET add-on was virtually impossible to remove from Firefox. The usual 'Disable' and 'Uninstall' buttons in Firefox's add-on list were grayed out on all versions of Windows except Windows 7, leaving most users no alternative other than to root through the Windows registry, a potentially dangerous chore, since a misstep could cripple the PC. Several sites posted complicated directions on how to scrub the .NET add-on from Firefox, including Annoyances.org."
Congratulations on your purchase of a brand new nigger! If handled properly, your apeman will give years of valuable, if reluctant, service.
INSTALLING YOUR NIGGER.
You should install your nigger differently according to whether you have purchased the field or house model. Field niggers work best in a serial configuration, i.e. chained together. Chain your nigger to another nigger immediately after unpacking it, and don't even think about taking that chain off, ever. Many niggers start singing as soon as you put a chain on them. This habit can usually be thrashed out of them if nipped in the bud. House niggers work best as standalone units, but should be hobbled or hamstrung to prevent attempts at escape. At this stage, your nigger can also be given a name. Most owners use the same names over and over, since niggers become confused by too much data. Rufus, Rastus, Remus, Toby, Carslisle, Carlton, Hey-You!-Yes-you!, Yeller, Blackstar, and Sambo are all effective names for your new buck nigger. If your nigger is a ho, it should be called Latrelle, L'Tanya, or Jemima. Some owners call their nigger hoes Latrine for a joke. Pearl, Blossom, and Ivory are also righteous names for nigger hoes. These names go straight over your nigger's head, by the way.
CONFIGURING YOUR NIGGER
Owing to a design error, your nigger comes equipped with a tongue and vocal chords. Most niggers can master only a few basic human phrases with this apparatus - "muh dick" being the most popular. However, others make barking, yelping, yapping noises and appear to be in some pain, so you should probably call a vet and have him remove your nigger's tongue. Once de-tongued your nigger will be a lot happier - at least, you won't hear it complaining anywhere near as much. Niggers have nothing interesting to say, anyway. Many owners also castrate their niggers for health reasons (yours, mine, and that of women, not the nigger's). This is strongly recommended, and frankly, it's a mystery why this is not done on the boat
HOUSING YOUR NIGGER.
Your nigger can be accommodated in cages with stout iron bars. Make sure, however, that the bars are wide enough to push pieces of nigger food through. The rule of thumb is, four niggers per square yard of cage. So a fifteen foot by thirty foot nigger cage can accommodate two hundred niggers. You can site a nigger cage anywhere, even on soft ground. Don't worry about your nigger fashioning makeshift shovels out of odd pieces of wood and digging an escape tunnel under the bars of the cage. Niggers never invented the shovel before and they're not about to now. In any case, your nigger is certainly too lazy to attempt escape. As long as the free food holds out, your nigger is living better than it did in Africa, so it will stay put. Buck niggers and hoe niggers can be safely accommodated in the same cage, as bucks never attempt sex with black hoes.
FEEDING YOUR NIGGER.
Your Nigger likes fried chicken, corn bread, and watermelon. You should therefore give it none of these things because its lazy ass almost certainly doesn't deserve it. Instead, feed it on porridge with salt, and creek water. Your nigger will supplement its diet with whatever it finds in the fields, other niggers, etc. Experienced nigger owners sometimes push watermelon slices through the bars of the nigger cage at the end of the day as a treat, but only if all niggers have worked well and nothing has been stolen that day. Mike of the Old Ranch Plantation reports that this last one is a killer, since all niggers steal something almost every single day of their lives. He reports he doesn't have to spend much on free watermelon for his niggers as a result. You should never allow your nigger meal breaks while at work, since if it stops work for more than ten minutes it will need to be retrained. You would be surprised how long it takes to teach a nigger to pick cotton. You really would. Coffee beans? Don't ask. You have no idea.
MAKING YOUR NIGGER WORK.
Niggers are very, very averse to work of any kind. The nigger's most
Ubuntu is the Linux equivalent of Windows i.e it sucks.
No more so (and probably far less so) than the maze of rc scripts in your average Linux or BSD.
I don't know if you're an accidental or intentional troll, but there you go.
The Windows "search" feature by default will not search all the files to find by content, in fact it ignores a considerable number of file types. Linux (or cygwin) will happily -- and very quickly -- find portions of a config quite easily. The Windows registry is significantly more difficult to use, has significantly more entries, and you can prevent the machine from booting all too easily.
If the relatively simple rc files confuse you, and you don't understand the differences in complexity between the Windows registry and a few simple text files, you should probably find another line of work. The more difficult concepts will be far beyond you.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm actually typing this from XP X64, been running it for a year now. The only thing I had to do was ensure that the motherboard had XP X64 drivers, which was as simple as looking under "supported Operating Systems" on Tigerdirect. Everything else? It all "just worked" with the exception of a 16bit disc catalog software from 1997 that I had been using. Switched to a nice Open XML based one and things were just gravy.
Compare that to Linux-will this motherboard work? Will ALL of the hardware on this new laptop function? What about the stuff on sale at Walmart this week? This is what is killing Linux on the desktop more than anything else. Because YOU don't know that answers to those questions, I don't know them either, and the poor kid making minimum wage working the counter sure as hell don't know the answer. With Windows it is as easy as looking for an X64 sticker, Mac is as easy as looking for the "OSX 10.x" logo, but Linux? Enjoy having to study just to buy some fricking hardware. And God help you if the "sure it works!" you find on a forum was written for firmware b and they are up to firmware g, because guess what? they don't label which rev it is on the box!!! Fun huh?
I repeat ANY Windows on its WORST day, be it 32 or 64bit, does not bring the pain in any way shape or form like Linux does. Sure Linux supports old crap, but when was the last time you saw old crap being sold at Best Buy? I got closets FULL of old crap that testifies that folks don't WANT old and busted, they want the new hotness. And by the time Linux supports the new hotness it is in the old and busted category. Until the "source code or nothing!" brigade dies in a fire so that manufacturers can just slap a driver on the CD and a penguin on the box expect Linux to stay its teeny tiny niche.
That ain't being mean, or trying to piss anybody off, it is just simple human behavior. Folks want to just walk into a store and put stuff in a basket WITHOUT having to "study" first. With Windows that is taking 2 seconds to look at the "Windows x" logo, with Mac the Apple logo, with Linux? Yeah Joe Average has no desire to spend hours dealing with CLI speak on some forum trying to figure out which piece of hardware to buy, especially when rev b might work and rev f might not. Until Linux is as easy to shop for as Windows and Mac then it is gonna be No Sale.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
What the hell are you talking about? I've had 75 year old hotel desk clerks (customers using our software) using regedit, if you can't explain how to use regedit, you''re just incapable of writing detailed instructions.
Alternatively, you can just send them a file, a .reg, that will remove the key, Google is your friend:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310516
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They don't touch the firefox directory you moron. They add a single registry key. Firefox doesn't even need to be installed, installing it later and having the plugin work is another reason why it works this way. Likewise you can rm -rf the firefox and install it again later and the plugin will work. Please don't talk about what you don't have the slightest understanding of. Just because its related to MS doesn't mean they are out to eat your babies and share your wife with dingos and Steve Erwin. Please get a grip on reality, MS isn't out to get you, regardless of how many times Stallman screams it.
Can you be any more complete ignorant of whats going on and still talk like you have a clue? You don't even know what the right utility is on OS X, you're looking for 'defaults' not plutil.
Why is it that slashdot mods seem to think the more retarded a statement is, the higher rating it needs whenever MS involved. You want to bitch about MS, fine, but have a clue and know what the hell you are talking about, prevents you from being made out like a douchebag when everyone else pipes up to call you out on your ignorance.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager