Journal mcgrew's Journal: I Hate Windows #FF69A71B6403[stack overfl 4
I have GOT to get off my lazy ass and install Linux on that notebook. Fucking Microsoft. Does that company hate its users? Sure seems like they do.
Yesterday must have been Patch Tuesday. Adobe's been nagging me to restart the damned thing for a week now. Every time I take it out of hibernate. Yesterday the stupid balloon... at least it's better than Clippy, but not much. At least unlike my work computer it doesn't keep coming up telling me I have unused icons on my desktop. What in the hell does it care if I'm using those icons or not?
Jesus H. Christ, are all Windows users idiots, or does Microsoft just think they are?
Um, I digress. I was saying that yesterday that stupid balloon (hey, kindergarten kiddies, this OS is for you!) came up saying that there were a bunch of security fixes, so I applied them. Uh, there were more for IE than Windows, and I don't even use that shitty browser! WTF?
Then adding insult to injury, Linux pulled a Windows and allowed Adobe Flash to lock the damned thing up tight as a drum. Experience tells me if I'd just gone to the bars for a few beers it would be working fine when I got back, with a sad faced lego block telling me it crashed and asking me to send yet another bug report. Um, didn't you assholes look at the previous nine million reports from when I clicked it? Screw Adobe, just reload the page.
Anyway, I had to yank the power cord since I didn't want to wait an hour for Adobe to give me my computer back. As expected, it came back with Aramok and K3B and the file manager and FireFox open, with FireFox apologizing profusely.
So I decide to check my email at lunch and got the notebook out (the big computer's keyboard usually sits on a shelf; I only get it down on the rare occasion I need to type on the HP. Adobe nagged me to reboot, then Windows nagged me to reboot. Screw it, I rebooted and sat it on the shelf and put a CD in the HP to rip.
Windows wasn't shutting down; FireFox didn't want to shut down. I told it to force a reboot and it warned me that FireFox might lose data... yeah, uh huh.
And of course it annoyed me that I had to reboot, since it was Windows. Rebooting Linux is no problem. It comes up exactly how you shut it down, even if you shut it down by pulling its plug. Windows comes up blank.
Neither FireFox nor BitTorrent were in the tray any more. So I go to open FireFix from the start menu -- and it wasn't there, either! God DAMN Microsoft. Motherfucking dickweeds!
It was buried two menus down in the start menu. I put it back in the tray and repinned it to the start menu... HEY DOJ, they're up to their old tricks again, the shit-eating bastards! How about another antitrust investigation? Just to give them a taste of the hassle they put their users through.
So FireFox opens with the message that there are critical updates to FireFox...
Pesky Windows and RAM hog Firefox (Score:2)
Firefox takes a while to shut down if you have a shit-ton of tabs open. I have the same problem on my Linux laptop, you can see the RAM usage drop from nearly 90% to the usual 10-20% as it closes, it takes about 5 seconds. However I've disabled disk caching (part of preventing Evercookies) and rely on the RAM cache entirely.
On my gaming PC I've had my Firefox button come unpinned once but I've done many other upgrades where it stayed :-\
Are you running the latest Flash on the Linux laptop? I haven't had any
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Are you running the latest Flash on the Linux laptop?
The laptop's Win 7, the "desktop" sitting on the floor's kubuntu; that's the one Flash crashed. I'ts pretty recent, I just upgraded to kubuntu 10.04 last fall (DLed 10.10 last night, havent upgraded it yet). I'll tell you, though, that the upgrade to 10.04 from 9.something was astounding. in 9.x the video stuttered in YouTube in tiny-window mode and crashed if I tried to run it full screen. Now it will run videos full screen with no stutter at all. I cred
Also, sweet HTPC controller (Score:2)
Bit offtopic but I just found an awesome HTPC controller, I know you have a setup similar to mine:
http://www.geekalerts.com/cideko-air-keyboard-conqueror/ [geekalerts.com]
Just as functional as the DS3+chatpad combo but much cheaper, no need to charge the controller and keyboard separately, and evil Sony won't get any of your money. The only possible negative is that it uses a proprietary dongle instead of BT, but the upside of that is that you should be able to use this thing in the PC's BIOS and boot menus.
Desktop cleanup on your work computer (Score:1)
Turn it off in the display settings under the desktop tab...