The relative ease of tasks under ______
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 9:13 am
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Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
sekirt wrote:
|I got the lyrics though! Yay!
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Here's how I get lyrics:
http://google.com/search?q=Lyrics+"Walk.Of.Life"&num=100
Middle-click[1] on the Cached link to get the results in a new tab.
If your connection is slow and/or your reaction time is fast,
you can use the Stop button or Esc key to interrupt the retrieval;
append &strip=1 to the URL and hit Enter.
(If you didn't interupt before the page started displaying,
hit Ctrl+Enter and that will give you a fresh tab (again: [1]).)
Now you get the page without graphics[2] and WITHOUT SCRIPTS.
I note that Google _used_ to also include page sizes in their listings
(which were a lot more useful than those stupid Similar links that they kept).
In addition, routinely using a NoScript extension would avoid a lot of nasties.
The one for Mozilla/Gecko browsers is exceptionally useful as it can whitelist;
there are several (lesser efforts) floating around for Internet Exploder as well.
...and pages that won't do squat without scripts running, I can do without.
gewg_ wrote:
||http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1196
|"10 Windows features I would like to see in Linux"
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|At least the guy is fair.
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Well, on Item 10 he missed mentioning the 3rd-party SysInfo utilities for Windoze
--but, yeah--he did back up his opinions with hard facts at every turn.
It's difficult to find a point at which Linux isn't superior in the way it does things.
"Windoze does things the way I'm used to"
is NOT the same as "Windoze is easier".
Old addage: "The only intuitive interface is the nipple; everything else is learned."
...and with Linux, learning new tricks not only makes things easier,
you can often do things that aren't even possible
with systems running M$'s junk (with the GUI-centric ecosystem).
Where Linux REALLY shines relative to M$'s skimpy offerings
is getting it to do stuff that doesn't come with the base install.
Vetted repositories of software are SO cool
and Linux package managers just leave Windoze users with their jaws agape.[3]
OTOH, with Windoze, you do A LOT of searching for 3rd-party stuff
and have to go to a lot of potentially dodgy sites to get those.
Add in a browser that is infection-friendly and a naive user
--or just an unlucky user--and you have a recipe for disaster.
In short: The antithesis of Linux.
[1] I'm ASSuMEing a Mozilla/Gecko browser. YMMV.
[2] Background images excepted--unless you have an extension to handle those.
[3] Being able to actually USE the computer during an update/install process
just blows the minds of Windoze users. No reboots is very cool as well.
- Written in response to:
- re: "Ridiculous" (sekirt: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 11:50 pm)
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