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Comment on Epiphany is my new web browser, goodbye Firefox! by 206bruce

206bruce — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:58:53 +0000

I have a slow solid state disk and as long as there is no writing to disk, Ubuntu functions just fine. However I can’t say that for Firefox even with no add-ons. It’s unsuable for me because it pauses and it’s window dims as it’s waiting to write to disk. Not sure why as I set it to cache to a virtual ram drive. Epiphany(2.26) works with no issue whatsoever. Super fast and initially it took a little getting use to with the limited add-ons, but I’ve learn to live with just Ad-block as that’s all I really need.

I do have an issue after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 with Epiphany 2.28 (web-kit). I’m stuck with Flashplayer 9 and no sound. I don’t have this problem on a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10. Feel free to comment or email me with suggestions.

Comment on Best Buy gives in to Microsoft anti-Linux FUD, has seen it’s last dollar from me already though. by guest

guest — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:32:20 +0000

and some people are forced to buy this crap because they have to telecommute using windows box through VPN client that only works with malware caled Internet Explorer.

God help us! Make Microsoft go bankrupt ASAP so people can finally do their work.

Comment on Microsoft, Windows 7, cable television, and the so-called “PlayReady” DRM scam by Gabriel Saldana (gabrielsaldana) 's status on Tuesday, 27-Oct-09 22:34:19 UTC - Identi.ca

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:34:23 +0000

[...] Microsoft, Windows 7, cable television, and the so-called “PlayReady” DRM scam … a few seconds ago from emacs-identicamode in context [...]

Comment on Microsoft, Windows 7, cable television, and the so-called “PlayReady” DRM scam by John Sullivan (johnsu01) 's status on Tuesday, 27-Oct-09 22:25:37 UTC - Identi.ca

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:25:40 +0000

[...] Microsoft, Windows 7, cable television, and the so-called “PlayReady” DRM scam … a few seconds ago from xmpp [...]

Comment on “Call ‘em out” The Indiana state website is using Microsoft crap and screwing over standards-compliant browsers by Microsoft Bypasses the Law and Breaks the Web for Opera and GNU/Linux Users, Again | Boycott Novell

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:22:21 +0000

[...] a Boycott Novell regular, complains that Microsoft’s software technology continues to exclude and to punish Opera users (even on Windows). Not every ASS.NET page breaks in Opera, but nearly every page that does break in Opera is built [...]

Comment on Microsoft promotes Windows 7 with a bunch of giant Whoppers by Vista 7 Launch Said to Have Failed | Boycott Novell

Vista 7 Launch Said to Have Failed | Boycott Novell — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:22:54 +0000

[...] Microsoft promotes Windows 7 with a bunch of giant Whoppers Now some Asian dude is going to drop dead from eating enough cholesterol to kill anything that’s [...]

Comment on “Call ‘em out” The Indiana state website is using Microsoft crap and screwing over standards-compliant browsers by Calvin

Calvin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:26:52 +0000

I do agree ASP.net is a turd, but it can usually design standards compliant websites that work in Opera as long as cavemen aren’t using it, which Indiana inconveniently is. PHP is a god-awful language neverless and ASP.net is more usable than that pile of feces.

Comment on More Comcast kerfuffle; The return of the DNS hijacker; Random dropped connections; no HD channels by anon

anon — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:46:02 +0000

Sorry for the double post, accidentally hit Sumbit. Anyways, Rogers is pretty much the Canadian version of Comcast – idiots think it’d awesome, but they throttle torrents and DNS hijack regularly.

Comment on More Comcast kerfuffle; The return of the DNS hijacker; Random dropped connections; no HD channels by anon

anon — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:44:52 +0000

^— HOLY CRAP, THEY CARE?

Comment on More Comcast kerfuffle; The return of the DNS hijacker; Random dropped connections; no HD channels by Comcast Cares? Really?

Comcast Cares? Really? — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:12:55 +0000

I know what you mean about Comcast’s shoddy service (which I also dealt with (in Michigan) before migrating to Europe). From 2000-2006 it worked well. Then, for whatever reason, it was going out all-the-damn-time. I’d call, they’d send someone out that would do something on the pole and the service would be back to normal for a few weeks…then it went to shit again. The wonderful now it works/not it doesn’t service was $45/month with a cap of around 386kbit. Nowadays there’s the 250GB limit. Back then, there was no such limit.

…but here in Northern Europe, I pay 33€/month ($48USD with the crappy exchange rate) for DSL with no download caps, and my pipe is 10Mbit in each direction.

$45USD with Comcast gave me the lopsided 8Mbit down with 386Kbit upsteam.

When will American ISPs stop raping their customers and start providing good speeds at a fair cost with stable connections?

Always on *MY ASS*!