On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:18:42 -0600, the infamous Ignoramus5886 scrawled the following:
But do you trust it?
-- There is no such thing as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder. -- Ronald Reagan
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:11:58 -0800, the infamous "Steve B" scrawled the following:
DO NOT TRY TO UNINSTALL ANY MICRO$OFT BROWSER, EVER!
If you get the occasional IE8 popup, go into the Windows Explorer, click the menu item Tools/Folder Options/File Types and look for links to IE8 in there. Some things are IE8 only, so leave 'em. But for HTM and HTML and URL types, you can safely change them.
FF is my default browser and IE8 only comes up when _I_ want it to.
-- There is no such thing as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder. -- Ronald Reagan
I do.
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Unless you're ditching windows. Then just wipe the disk and have at it. I have windows for Alibre Design and Corel Draw. Don't have another reason, now that I'm retired.
Pete Keillor
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:36:46 -0600, the infamous Pete Keillor scrawled the following:
Are you dual-booting now, Pete?
-- There is no such thing as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder. -- Ronald Reagan
Nope, I run a couple windows machines and one Ubuntu. I also have Ubuntu on one of my sons' machines. I also wipe the hard drive, install ubuntu, and post a note with account and username info when I set one curbside to "recycle". Usually they're gone in less than an hour.
Pete
On what OS (he asks as if he doesn't know)?
Maybe someone needs to show Microsoft how to build actual preemptive multitasking systems.
I went through this (Firefox using 100% CPU).
The typical culprit, as I found out, is Flash ads and animations.
The same happens with Chrome too if you stumble on those Flash elements.
I now use adblock and flashblock on both browsers and the problem went away.
Chrome is nice because it runs every window in a separate process, and you can know which windows use how much CPU, and just close those.
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:25:41 -0600, the infamous Pete Keillor scrawled the following:
Why no dual-boots? And with multiple machines, do they network easily?
...and everybody's happy!
-- There is no such thing as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder. -- Ronald Reagan
It's been my experience that Ubuntu coexists pretty well with Windows - reads files from a Windows home network server , loads and plays my music and video files , etc . Windows , however , won't even recognize the existence of the hard drive that Ubuntu is loaded on . And I never loads two OS's on one hard drive , even in different partitions . In all the dual-boot machines I've played with , Ubuntu has become the priority OS on an unattended reboot . Not sure if I like that , but then the critical machines in my intranet are all loaded with XP Pro ...
Yes, no problem. They all used the wireless printer first try.
Pete
DON'T try Kernel Ex, once I installed it, then ran FF 3, the system would down load files, then say they were corrupt, then going back to FF 2, win98 said page fault, re-install FF, remove kernel Ex, no luck making this work again, something got corrupted. So now I went and installed win 2000, frick, now my computer is always sending data somewhere, any time the dial up is connected, with out any browser active, did I enable a virus that could not run on 98? But does on 2000. This upload consumes 90% of the modem bandwidth, so it takes for ever to down load anything. I checked this upload both with the terminal connection icon in the system tray, and with tool that shows data up/down load graphically (DU meter), and it's indicating 3KB/sec upload. I hate windows, takes hours to fix anything, and it's still broke. ignator
WinME
Thanks for the heads-up. I'm going to enjoy another year of service out of Win98, then move to Linux.
I saw an article a few days ago about the low level formatting on new hard drives changing from 512 byte units to 4k byte. Supposed to happen beginning of next year, with all drive manufacturers. Windows older than Vista won't recognize the new drives without some added software to map the new old format to the new, which will also decrease performance around 10%. The software may not even run on anything older than XP.
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