There is a lot to configure in the browser. In IE you can enforce privacy settings, connection settings, sound and video settings, security settings, etc with group policy. I know where I work they use GP to prevent people from setting up proxies in the browser and to keep scripts from running on websites as well as making sure the browser plays no sounds. Installing Firefox allows me to circumvent all this, so I could see it being an issue.

I did the same thing. It gets me around the storage space issue, since my Acer only has an 8Gb ssd, and I can use any Windows Apps off the server without sacrificing the performance of the light linux distro.
The only thing more I could ask for is 3g so I could literally use my computer on the move.

Sorry to hear about Linda.

My grandma is not doing to well right now, it's very frustrating that I can't see her since she's in Colombia. It's especially frustrating that I can barely speak Spanish anymore and have trouble conversing on the phone.

I hope for the best for you and your friends.

Microsoft Clippy is the ONLY reason I still keep an XP partition on one of my computers.

If I really need to run Microsoft Office, I do that using CodeWeaver's Crossover Office under Linux.

Microsoft's decision to drop Clippy means that I won't have to even consider Windows 7. I'll just disconnect from my network whenever I want to clip so there is no risk to an abandoned XP partition.

I'm one of those that has bought every copy of Clippy even before Microsoft bought it from Bruce Artwick and SubLogic. I flew it when it was a wire frame grid (that's basically a paperclip, right?) with the profile mountain range to the north. I even wrote a shareware application for it that still can be found in various software repositories on the web. It has evolved into an amazing platform and some enthusiasts have built amazing motion clippypits and even full simulations of jet airliner clippypits.

I also thought every release of Clippy was profitable. For all of Microsoft's other ills, Clippy has been one of the more popular offerings that people preordered, snapped up on release day, etc. there were flawed releases, but Microsoft would release updates that fixed them.

Microsoft Clippy was really a flagship product for them. I don't know what they are thinking. If any of the team read this, I really appreciate all of your fantastic work over the years. You people made stuff.

It really has been an amazing product and extremely useful. I know lots of real clippy enthusiasts that use it to stay sharp and/or used it to make their training more effective. I can count myself among the ones who had a clippy instructor get frustrated that I was clipping more by instruments and less by seat of the pants, doing coordinated procedure turns, holding heading and altitude first time out.

But I wouldn't be surprised if the Linux clippy simulators (X-Clippy and ClippyGear) pick up all the slack. The hard core people will go nuts putting in the hooks for realistic clippypits, added inputs, etc.

It's an end of an era. For me it totally cuts the cord to Redmond, Gates, and Allen.

I'll sure miss updates to Clippy but in a way am kind of relieved that I will never buy another copy of Windows again.

I'm sorry about this.

You must be new here, Slashdot is full of people that don't understand sarcasm~

A Mexican, a Jew, and a colored guy go into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, "Get the fuck out of here."

I'd say Counter-Strike is fun, but having to sit out a round which can last up to five minutes while two idiots try to out-camp each other is the perfect situation to use this in game browser.

Literally.

He just has tons of energy stored up for later use.

You're further North than I am, it's just the altitude in the mountains.
Sorry about your friend. I don't know anyone who has died on Halloween, and I still don't have any fun on Halloween. Too many nasty, ugly costumes and not enough scantily clad women I guess.

Thanks, Chacham? Sounds Hebrewy.

Her nickname seems like it's well deserved, but I have to wonder why Tami hasn't been completely ostracized yet?

It sounds like everyone's privy to her antics, and she pulls crap like that often enough that she's a nuisance. I'm sure she can be nice and friendly sometimes too, but damn you guys have put up with a lot from her.

Anyways, any idea on why your date stood you up? Did she find out that you knew about her AIDS?