Firefox picking up steam

[CrazyOne]

I just got three emails with a "postcard.gif.exe" virus attack... the site being spoofed suggests you get Firefox so the virus won't hurt you. So I d/l it, and I'm trying it out right now.

[Xolotl]

LOL.. that's my desktop wallpaper. Linux has been my main OS for a while now. A couple of months ago I put XP back on and hated it so much because of the constant need to update and get rid of viruses (also, explorer can be ridiculously slow at times). So I said screw it, made a small Windows 98 par ion for my games with all network, IE, explorer, and HTML engine files removed (with litestep as the interface), and then built a 2.6.8-based linux with SSP (stack smashing protection to kill buffer overflow attacks), PaX stack and heap overflow protection, position independent executables, and blowfish passwords. It's still fast as , and I'm not too worried about the 2% or so dropoff in performance with it since my most taxing application (games) are all on the windows par ion.

That is a good idea to par ion Windows in a small little space, and dual boot it with Linux. I was thinking about just getting 2 HD's and putting Windows on one Linux on the other. The only thing that stopping me is I have no clue how to use Linux. But, I need to start soon, or else it will never happen.

[baseline bum]

Linux has a pretty steep learning curve from windows, because everything is customizable. I think Slackware is probably the best distribution to start from. It doesn't try to hold your hand through everything like RedHat/Fedora, Suse, or Lindows, and it's not so ridiculously bloated like those four are. Yet, it doesn't give you so much rope to hang yourself like Gentoo does.

One of my favorite things about UNIX os's is the choice of filesystems. For example, reiserfs ensures that you're not running a long, time-consuming scandisk if something gets corrupted (ie, power failure, crash, etc). Plus, it can store 3 or 4 more percent data than can something like ext2, fat, or ntfs by embedding tails of files and small files into the filesystem data.... ie, like a filing cabinet where you can jot little notes onto the folders themselves instead of wasting a sheet of paper and space in the folder with your note.

[1369]

LOL.. that's my desktop wallpaper. Linux has been my main OS for a while now. A couple of months ago I put XP back on and hated it so much because of the constant need to update and get rid of viruses (also, explorer can be ridiculously slow at times). So I said screw it, made a small Windows 98 par ion for my games with all network, IE, explorer, and HTML engine files removed (with litestep as the interface), and then built a 2.6.10-based linux with SSP (stack smashing protection to kill buffer overflow attacks), PaX stack and heap overflow protection, position independent executables, and blowfish passwords. It's still fast as , and I'm not too worried about the 2% or so dropoff in performance with it since my most taxing application (games) are all on the windows par ion.

When did they start teaching Esperanto in schools?

[CrazyOne]

Question for you Mozilla folks... one little thing I noticed on this site with Firefox is that the Offline/Online marker under each post's avatar doesn't seem to work in Firefox. Is there some setting I can adjust to get that to show again?