the https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/433/flashblock extension for firefox seems to get rid of the biggest (only?) offender in wasting cpu time, and makes it easy to enable a flash you actually want. now if only there was an extension to identify and block "seizure gifs", i would never need another extension for dealing with ads
even today video is hardware accelerated. set windows media player to use all available hardware acceleration (the default i believe), then play a movie, pause it, take a screenshot, and paste it into mspaint, now start the movie again and alt-tab back to paint for a surprise.
if anecdotal evidence of six year old operating systems is the standard
I see your point (it was probably a little unfair of me to compare the latest ubuntu to win2k), but win2k is pretty much the latest version of windows that will run reasonably on less than 512MB RAM, so it sees a lot more use (relatively) than any specific old release of a particular distro. My point is that more and more Linux distros tend to "just work" on common hardware, and that if a few more key applications existed/worked better, then Linux would be just as desktop-friendly as windows.
Once again it must be said (and why is this so hard for Linux advocates to understand?): People use applications, not operating systems, and Linux absolutely sucks compared to Windows or even Macs when it comes to normal user applications by nearly any metric you name (choices, ease of use, ease of installation, consistency of operation, etc, etc, etc).
i have to disagree with you here, i recently (as in days ago) installed ubuntu (dapper) and win2k on my computer, and ubuntu was much easier to install, and after it did install, i was pretty much done. When I installed windows, i had to go through the pain of trying to download video card drivers at 800x600 (or was it even that?) and 8-bit color. Synaptic makes it easy for most people to get the apps they need (the only thing lacking is i graphical editor for/etc/apt/sources.lst, but I think they are adding it in the next release).
I do agree though that there are definitely applications that Linux needs before it is widely adopted, but people need to stop acting like it still takes a day of staring at the command line before you have a usable system.
How is this different from how people normally get spyware?
With the default configuration of your browser you go to some website that you (probably wrongly) trust, and something is installed on your computer without your knowledge. In this case, it's the default configuration of windows, and the "website" is Microsoft. You could argue all you want that you should have turned of ActiveX/not installed flash/used firefox instead of IE, but that doesn't prevent it from being spyware, so how does the fact that this is windows update change anything?
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Wait, thats a bad password?!? I have to go change the password on my luggage
dapper drake uses the http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/base/linux-image -3862.6.15.xx kernel so it wouldn't be affected
How is this different from a regular slashdot summary?
the https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/433/flashblock extension for firefox seems to get rid of the biggest (only?) offender in wasting cpu time, and makes it easy to enable a flash you actually want. now if only there was an extension to identify and block "seizure gifs", i would never need another extension for dealing with ads
even today video is hardware accelerated. set windows media player to use all available hardware acceleration (the default i believe), then play a movie, pause it, take a screenshot, and paste it into mspaint, now start the movie again and alt-tab back to paint for a surprise.
To complete your application of the brakes, you will have to restart your engine. Would you like to restart now?
doom 3 perhaps?
oops, i meant C-\ not tab
i was about to comment on how key combinations like that are why i use emacs, then i realize...
C-Space C-c } Tab
How is this different from how people normally get spyware? With the default configuration of your browser you go to some website that you (probably wrongly) trust, and something is installed on your computer without your knowledge. In this case, it's the default configuration of windows, and the "website" is Microsoft. You could argue all you want that you should have turned of ActiveX/not installed flash/used firefox instead of IE, but that doesn't prevent it from being spyware, so how does the fact that this is windows update change anything?