Ubuntu has a nice feature where you click the user-switcher and select "Guest Session". It automatically creates a clean guest session, then logs into it. All things done in that session and deleted when you log out of it.
Or do what I do. Make your machine super-efficient but very hard to learn. Using my machine is sort of a keyboard-mouse hybrid of vi!
Use "scale" for app switching, bind it to a hot-corner and disable your taskbar.
bind another corner to "show desktop"
bind another corner to "expo"
launch ALL your applications from gnome-do (using docky in hidden mode).
put your last remaining panel on the side (vertical)
After a couple days, the shortcuts (especially the hot-corners, trust me) will speed up your efficiency. At the same time, others will be baffled as to what the hell happened when they touched the mouse!
Hint: For fast desktop-switching, you can set it so when you "click" on the left/right of the screen, it rotates.
Note: hot-corners do not need to be clicked, just mouse-over, this makes them very fast and easy to use, but also easy for a newby to hit by accident;)
Now I know this is all compiz stuff, but MacOSX has some features that are pretty much exactly the same, I know it has hot-corner activated "scale".
I don't actually live in any of the countries affected by this (I'm in Canada), but I believe it is mostly a problem in China a few other Asian countries.
After re-reading my post, it kind of gives the impression I'm talking about Europe. Europe is definitely not what I meant (though it may have sounded such). Sorry for any confusion.
I'm having trouble telling if you are serious or not...
The web standards were well underfoot when IE6 was built and input was gathered from MANY sources in the industry. Microsoft CHOSE to ignore the standards body and blatantly flaunt their own "standard".
You're probably one of the guys that stands behind OOXML aren't you?
How was that flamebait? It is exactly what they do. They broke websites when they bastardised IE, they broke app support when they changed.net. Just because I said it in the form of a joke does not make it flamebait.
Gnome works exactly the same. The problem is not my lack of media buttons. The buttons (volume, pause, next, etc) all work perfectly fine during web browsing, full screen movies, etc. It's only fullscreen games that mess it up. For some reason the games like to "steal" the buttons, preventing them from even firing off the event in the first place.
Personally, I do wish IE would just die. But the big problem is that it is the ONLY browser series to mockingly flaunt standards to the point where websites need to be specially coded just to work with it. If IE had a low market share, companies would not be pressured to code for it and would then code to standard (that's what the standards are for, right?). If IE would obey the already long-established standards, there wouldn't be a problem.
If you are looking for a really nice replacement shell, check out litestep. It's actually the only thing I miss from windows (I now use ubuntu). Well, that and being able to adjust my volume during a full-screen game...
Come back after you've spent a week making a really nice, easy to use, easy on the eyes website to standards, then spent another week making it work in IE7, then another 3 weeks making it work in IE6 (yes lots of people still use that P.OS.)!
Once you've done that, go to a country back east where ALL the banks got suckered into using ActiveX for their online transactions.
THEN you can come back here and ask how bundling IE with windows hurt anyone.
only those with something to hide have something to fear!
That's actually true. Most people just don't realise how much they are hiding until it is plastered on a billboard for family, friends, co-workers and potential employers to see.
How about child porn servers? Many of these hacked computers are being used to store just that kind of material. Sure the server may not be causing the damage to the children, but it's the same as working at a photo-booth that processes the negatives.
I definitely agree with the complaint idea. This is how most other systems of law work, and it works quite well. If you have a dog that barks constantly for 3 hours every night and your neighbour complains, you get a warning. Enough warnings and the dog can be taken from you.
The same should be possible with spamming. ISP's who supply email service (pretty much all of them) should have an address where you can forward spam you have received. The spam they get there should have headers examined to determine origin, then a warning sent to that person's ISP.
Spam may not cover all the malicious, but it is where the money comes from. Ask any police officer and they will tell you that the best way to hurt a crime organisation is to hit them in the wallet. Take a pot dealer's pot, and he grows more. Take his money, and he has a shit-load of work to do to recover it.
If the car's ABS warning light has been on for 2 years and you haven't bothered to fix it, the owner of the tree can sue YOU!
However, a much clover analogy would be this. If you have a broken window in your car and leave the keys in the ignition, who is responsible when your vehicle is used for a drive-by?
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Ubuntu has a nice feature where you click the user-switcher and select "Guest Session". It automatically creates a clean guest session, then logs into it. All things done in that session and deleted when you log out of it.
with mittens.
*ducks*
After a couple days, the shortcuts (especially the hot-corners, trust me) will speed up your efficiency. At the same time, others will be baffled as to what the hell happened when they touched the mouse!
;)
Hint: For fast desktop-switching, you can set it so when you "click" on the left/right of the screen, it rotates.
Note: hot-corners do not need to be clicked, just mouse-over, this makes them very fast and easy to use, but also easy for a newby to hit by accident
Now I know this is all compiz stuff, but MacOSX has some features that are pretty much exactly the same, I know it has hot-corner activated "scale".
I don't actually live in any of the countries affected by this (I'm in Canada), but I believe it is mostly a problem in China a few other Asian countries.
After re-reading my post, it kind of gives the impression I'm talking about Europe. Europe is definitely not what I meant (though it may have sounded such). Sorry for any confusion.
I'm having trouble telling if you are serious or not...
The web standards were well underfoot when IE6 was built and input was gathered from MANY sources in the industry. Microsoft CHOSE to ignore the standards body and blatantly flaunt their own "standard".
You're probably one of the guys that stands behind OOXML aren't you?
Removing it is a trivial task for anyone who knows enough to care.
Tell that to the poor IT guy that has to remove it from 1000+ machine in 10+ buildings spread over a city block!.
Umm, Oracle was number 10 in the article...
ahh good old
if(regex(document, "^Dear( [A-Z][a-z]+){1-3},\r\n\r\n\t"))
How was that flamebait? It is exactly what they do. They broke websites when they bastardised IE, they broke app support when they changed .net. Just because I said it in the form of a joke does not make it flamebait.
Gnome works exactly the same. The problem is not my lack of media buttons. The buttons (volume, pause, next, etc) all work perfectly fine during web browsing, full screen movies, etc. It's only fullscreen games that mess it up. For some reason the games like to "steal" the buttons, preventing them from even firing off the event in the first place.
Personally, I do wish IE would just die. But the big problem is that it is the ONLY browser series to mockingly flaunt standards to the point where websites need to be specially coded just to work with it. If IE had a low market share, companies would not be pressured to code for it and would then code to standard (that's what the standards are for, right?). If IE would obey the already long-established standards, there wouldn't be a problem.
my girlfriend
I think you just proved yourself wrong...
Then have the website eventually redirect to a cruise-missile following santa!
If you have said you "Gimped" your relatives, we would have questioned a lot more than your sanity...
Since most flash devices cycle the sectors to reduce wear, would this really work very well?
I'm also wondering if "dd if=/dev/zero of=(usb sticks)" could be trusted...
Breaking their existing applications is something Microsoft is extremely reluctant - often to a fault - to do.
There, fixed that for you
If you are looking for a really nice replacement shell, check out litestep. It's actually the only thing I miss from windows (I now use ubuntu). Well, that and being able to adjust my volume during a full-screen game...
He never said there was a chance in hell of it happening. He just said it SHOULD happen.
Not everything that is, should be. Not everything that should be, is.
Come back after you've spent a week making a really nice, easy to use, easy on the eyes website to standards, then spent another week making it work in IE7, then another 3 weeks making it work in IE6 (yes lots of people still use that P.OS.)!
Once you've done that, go to a country back east where ALL the banks got suckered into using ActiveX for their online transactions.
THEN you can come back here and ask how bundling IE with windows hurt anyone.
only those with something to hide have something to fear!
That's actually true. Most people just don't realise how much they are hiding until it is plastered on a billboard for family, friends, co-workers and potential employers to see.
Usually there is a reason for it...
How about child porn servers? Many of these hacked computers are being used to store just that kind of material. Sure the server may not be causing the damage to the children, but it's the same as working at a photo-booth that processes the negatives.
I definitely agree with the complaint idea. This is how most other systems of law work, and it works quite well. If you have a dog that barks constantly for 3 hours every night and your neighbour complains, you get a warning. Enough warnings and the dog can be taken from you.
The same should be possible with spamming. ISP's who supply email service (pretty much all of them) should have an address where you can forward spam you have received. The spam they get there should have headers examined to determine origin, then a warning sent to that person's ISP.
Spam may not cover all the malicious, but it is where the money comes from. Ask any police officer and they will tell you that the best way to hurt a crime organisation is to hit them in the wallet. Take a pot dealer's pot, and he grows more. Take his money, and he has a shit-load of work to do to recover it.
If the car's ABS warning light has been on for 2 years and you haven't bothered to fix it, the owner of the tree can sue YOU!
However, a much clover analogy would be this. If you have a broken window in your car and leave the keys in the ignition, who is responsible when your vehicle is used for a drive-by?
Don't want your stupid college actions preserved forever? Don't do stupid things!