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Stay away from my Firefox
06-03-2009, 01:51 AM
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
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This is why I don't let Automatic Update mess around with my computer's settings.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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So, Microsoft is giving the competition their flaws now? That's oddly hilarious.
CattyNebulart
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This is one of the reasons why I don't use windows anymore. Microsoft has pulled stunts like this before and so has apple (installing saffari as a security
update for iTunes iIRC).
Unfortunately open source is not immune to this phenomenon, witness the feud between no-script and adblock.
It makes me want to cry.
At least the unremovable extension that Ubuntu installs makes sense. it is only installed if you install firefox through apt, and makes apt and firefox play
nicely together so that you can install and update extensions through apt, but finding information about what is does is unreasonably difficult (or at least
was, maybe the documentation is better now.). If you don't want it you can just install firefox from the installer provided by mozilla rather than the
ubuntu package and it won't be installed.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
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I would do the same, but I have far too many games to even try to leave the grip of M$. I do block all updates (and occasionally go through and selectively
authorize the ones I want), so I haven't had that many problems with XP.
Still, if Wine ever hits 100% compatibility and Linux ever becomes user-friendly enough, I'll drop Windows like a hot potato.
(I'd much rather do something than relearn how to do it, so I don't experiment with Linux much. Why spend 20 minutes hunting down all the libraries I
need and pounding on a command line, when I can install a game in a minute flat, and spend the next 19 minutes playing it?)
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
CattyNebulart
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Meh, the only game i miss is Galactic Civilisations 2.
Considering the pain I had to go through to get some software for my parents to work on windows I'd say library trouble are worse on windows, and I have spent days before trying to get experimental libraries to work on linux to get a game working.
Some linux game resources for the interested; this is just a small fraction of the available games.
http://www.happypenguin.org/]%[link=http://www.happypenguin.org/]http://www.happypenguin.org/]
http://help.ubuntu.com/community/Games]%[link=http://help.ubuntu.com/community/Games]http://help.ubuntu.com/community/Games]
Note the games which can be installed through apt-get which is even less hassle than going through an installer, at least if you like any of the 50 or so available package managers.
I don't recommend Kubuntu (which I am currently using) if you plan to switch soon, KDE 4 is nice looking but way too unstable.
However I don't understand the people who don't like the command line, it makes so many things so much easier.
and migration between versions is much less painfull under linux. pretty much all your settings are remembered. anyway we have drifted way off topic, sorry about that.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
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Unfortunately for me, Ubuntu doesn't work too well with my machine. I had to go with Mandriva instead and there's still some pretty buggy driver issues
there where X sessions are involved.
I've been trying out Windows 7 lately, and I must say that I am impressed. It is surprisingly quick and responsive, and the drivers it came with worked
right from the word, 'Go.'
From what I understand, this add-on is not really a security flaw - the opposite really. The issue is that people at MS were careless enough not to include a
blurb about what that plug-in is, what it does, and give you the choice of installing it or not. Then again, they probably did think about it and came to the
decision that about 75% of the people buying computers these days don't know a USB port from a floppy drive, and thus figured that something like that
would simply confuse most of their customers.
Search your feelings: you know them to be true. 
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Complaint: Why does anything involving MS and Windows in this forum devolve into the usual anti-MS-pro-Linux ranting? Actually, not just this forum, it's
all over the web. It's tiresome.
I play games. A lot. That means Windows for me.
And allow me to counter Catty's websites with my own:
www.steampowered.com
www.stardock.com
www.gamersgate.com
www.gog.com
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I love the zealots on both sides of the fence, Jpub. They're so deliciously stupid, it makes me smile.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
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That's the thing. I just don't care. To me, whatever OS I had would still be a pain in the ass to deal with, and I really don't give a damn about
this whole anti-establishment thing a lot of the zealots harp on.
I want my computer to work. I want to play games on it. If PC gaming suddenly died, I'd drop my desktop, get a Bluetooth keyboard for a smartphone, and be
done with it, because really, I don't need a computer for web browsing and email.
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I know how you feel, Jpub. I've used both Windows and Linux and they both have their infuriating quirks, but they both have their good points as well.
It's why I like to partition my drive and have the option of booting into whichever I feel like/need to use at the time. And if I can ever get a working
ISO of iDeneb, I'm gonna be adding OS X Leopard to the mix.
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