I haven't tried it in a while as I'm on Fedora right now and otherwise use Arch, but I think deb is as bad as rpm/yum for local files. I occasionally download a rpm and do

$ su -c 'yum localinstall some.rpm'

I would like that built into a gui package manager. If not for me than for people I recommend linux to. How do you locally install a deb file that isn't in a repo?

I do have to say that yum uninstalls rpms better and more consistently than windows does for msi's

That's what I'd expect as a winxp sysadmin. Worst I have to do is delete a profile. But I can't resist since one of my laptops is the same hardware:

T60 Arch Linux rolling upgrade pacman -Syu
T60 Arch Linux rolling upgrade pacman -Syu
T60 Arch Linux rolling upgrade pacman -Syu
T60 Arch Linux rolling upgrade pacman -Syu
T60 Arch Linux rolling upgrade pacman -Syu

(ok, I obviously haven't had my T60 since 2005 but the point is that Arch doesn't have releases just continuous upgrades. That's a smooth upgrade experience.)

Exactly. I have a sales background and think this is funny. They're implying that win7 vs linux is a reasonable choice. They're talking about built-in support for devices which people might remember having to install a cd to run. If people even know what Linux is I'm sure it was from someone (probably more knowledgable) saying Linux is more secure even if it was followed up by a critique of Linux. My friend that I work with as a sysadmin is very pro ms but wouldn't buy half the stuff in these slides.

It's important to realize that boycotts aren't meant to put a company out of business (at least usually aren't). The goal is to force them to change their behaviour. Focus on, for instance, Bravia TVs. If a significant dent was made in sales to the point that it didn't look like statistical noise then that might start at dialog between two sony divisions something like, "Hey people don't want to watch DRM encumbered crap from an anti-consumer corporation on a sony TV. They know who we are and are choosing more consumer-friendly brands."

Actually though I'd ignore most sony divisions (like the PS3 or technical engineering that invents and creates CDs) and focus on the relevant ones like sony pictures and sony bmg. That would make it a little more obvious where the lost profits went and why.

firefox.exe -profilemanager

I actually have 3 profiles at home and 4 at work, keeping not just history but also extensions and saved tab sessions separate. But if you use it for porn don't name it that!

Did we read the same article? I can't find where they say this.

"I'm not upper class. Currently lower, probably."
However the OP had the foresight to say "identify with" and not just assume you were rich. In arguments like this the rich don't even need to hurl the class warfare accusations, too many people anticipate their own wealth.

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I'm sorry I don't know the technical reasons. xml parsers are faster than html parsers. I imagine it's due to supporting fewer tags. There are difficulties serving the pages as application/xhtml+xml that don't exist for text/html though.

From my perspective I'd like to support this as much as I can because I look forward to a day when the web is mostly xml documents with css layouts. I can dream.