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Comment Re:This was not very good, Ubuntu (Score 1) 271

Thinkpad T43, daily use.  I've had the laptop at least 3.5 years, but this is my second hard drive.

SmartCTL shows his drive is at 727231.  I didn't renew my warranty after three years.  My first replacement was covered.

Unlike vista, Win7 is actually pretty snappy on this machine, but I'm more comfortable here back in Ubuntu.

Comment Even simple HTML can crash IE8 (Score 5, Informative) 271

This simple HTML still crashes Beta2.  It will probably still crash the RTM.  This was a trick I found back in 2002.  I had reported it somewhere, but obviously nowhere important.

<table>
<tr>
<td><div style="width:100%;height:100%"/></td>
<td>
<div>
<span style="height:100%;width:50%">></td>
<span style="height:100%;width:50%">></td>
</div>
</td>
<td><div style="width:100%;height:100%"/></td>
</tr>
</table>

Comment CLAMWIN is NOT Antivirus Software (Score 1) 294

Seriously, people.

Clamwin is NOT antivirus software.

As others have stated, Clamwin is not an On Access Scanner. So, as the virus enters and infects your computer, Clamwin sits idly by in your taskbar waiting to either update its database or perform a scheduled scan, but most certainly not warn you or block you from getting infected.

Clamwin is a Virus Scanner, and I seem to remember that the default behavior is to just Report problems, not delete or quarantine.

After you've already been infected and the damage has been done, Clamwin might be able to tell you that you have a virus, and it might not even clean the virus for you.

I know a couple people who install clamwin for their family members - telling them that Clamwin will keep you safe. Clamwin is not protection.

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