Surprising, not posted by Kdawson.

I'm convinced it's the same dumb ass, or a group of them. Even making a valid complaint about moderation receives punishment. Fuck em'

Everything on Linux is weighed down by the X server. Desktop composition does little to help.

I disagree. Have any other embedded video techniques made it any easier? Was it easier to rip video files embedded with Real Player, Windows Media Player, or Quickslime? In almost all cases, the videos are cached to the hard drive with an FLV extension. On occasion I've ripped videos simply by coping them out Opera's cache without even needed to look at the page source. For the less savvy users there are a variety of freeware and commercial tools available from websites like Snapfiles. There are even extensions for Firefox made for a similar purpose.

I suspect you are using Linux, where CPU usage while displaying flash video is much higher, somehow running counter to the claim that everything Linux does is faster and more efficient than any other operating system.

Most users of this website are FOSStards or Linux zealots. Most of those given mod points are idiots who abuse the moderation system. Coincidence?

Why is it that the ones (still) screaming the loudest about ME fail to deliver any real technical details other than, "OMG HORRIBLE!!!". Weak, very weak. I ran ME on 3 machines, one of which I used for nearly 3 years on a single install. Granted, I disabled system restore and removed a few components like WMI, but on the whole the system was more stable than Windows 98, which as I recall had a problem with mysteriously missing drivers cropping up after a reboot.

My point being, you can't for the life of you produce one technical fact as the WHY Windows ME was giving you problems, assuming you even used it at all and aren't just riding the hate bandwagon.

Ahh, former employee I see.

Ignorant people, who also happen to be ignorant enough to download and run any executable or installation without question.

You sir, knocked my socks clean off. I had previously flagged you as a foe because I thought you were a world class prick, but you actually stood up and called "bullshit" for what it was. I'd like to add to your fine observations.

Everyone take an extra look at the submission. Specifically, David Gerard. Notice the spin he adds by using "hideously encumbered". Sleazy, huh? Wonder where he learned that trick? Turns out David is good friends with Roy Schestowitz and Twitter, all of whom regularly contribue to everyone's favorite flame-bait website, BoycottNovell. Fine, honest folks there. What's worse, when David isn't advertising his websites on Slashdot with wanna-be Onion News articles, he's a regular editor on Wikipedia.

Both running in VirtualBox. Both have been tweaked to start with as little as possible without special hardware tools.

Win XP:

30 second boot time

88.9 Megs Loaded from HD

16 processes

95.5 Megs Ram Used

HD footprint: 6.23gig

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Ubuntu 9.04:

42 second boot time

137.4 Megs Loaded from HD

106 processes

93 Megs Ram Used

HD Footprint: 2.80gig

Of course, you can compile your own stripped down kernel and use a desktop environment that rivals Windows 3.1 for "XP beating" speed, but it's amazing how wrong people's assumptions about Linux really are.

Can we get a summary without 'spin'?

Bullshit, and you know it. Ignorance is ignorance. No matter if it's not noticing the file is named "Sales_Report.doc.exe" or surfing for porn and accepting that "video player software update" that you are prompted to install. Your link is a real gem though. So, you have an unpatched machine (never wise) on an open Internet connection with no firewall (not very smart), and you say the machine is at risk? Your talents and insight are truly wasted here on Slashdot.

The secret to Malware is suckering people into installing what they "think" is legitimate software. It's easier than you think it is and it doesn't matter which OS you are using, but since Windows has the largest market share it's the optimum target. It is not that Linux can't run Malware, it can, but to write such software for such a small target is not worth the effort. Nice troll though.