WINDOWS USER: My computer’s slower…

ME: It sounds like adware/spyware/malware.

WINDOWS USER: I have (Insert Famous Windows Anti-Virus Protection software!

ME: Do you have Ad-Aware? You can get it for free from htt://www.download.com. It’s the best.

This conversation usually results in a happier, more effective Windows User. This doesn’t solve the problem, or even begin to discuss it here, as it’s simpler, and, at the same time, much more complex than you’d expect.

What’s matters is that Ad-Aware rocks! It’s free from http://www.download.com. And both sites should pay me for writing this and for the literally 1000s I’ve told face to face. You may send said compensation to lhasa.jack@gmail.com via PayPal. Thank you, in advance.

-Loki

Also, in response to a lot of Windows bitches lately, Just copy off what you need and do a clean install of ubuntu. It’d make you happier. Those of you that doesn’t really want a computer for gaming, but more for computing, ubuntu is the answer. (Canonical may use the same PayPal address for royalties.)

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Tags: windows, os, anti-virus, download.com, ad-aware, spyware, adware, malware, protection, ubuntu

You have been my browser of choice for several years now, but it is time we part ways.  Sure, you’ve got IE beat down so bad it doesn’t even seem like a browser anymore.  You’ve got extensions for everything to make my web browsing easier, you’ve got a lot.

BUT you are not Flock.  Flock makes browsing fun again.  Tabs.  Everything carried over from my mozilla settings.  Sidebars for damned near everything.  Works with Firefox extensions.  Flock even looks good.  Really good.  Check the screenshot.

Media Streams are freaking awesome.  Flock automatically finds all the media on a page and will display it in a slide bar at the top if you wish.  Makes going through flickr or photobucket a thousand times easier. 

Auto find feeds for the integrated feed reader.  Which is excellent.  I’ve gotten rid of Anothr all together because of this. 

Syncs up with my livejournal, wordpress, flickr, youtube, del.icio.us, photobucket, and twitter. You can post to any of these from anywhere in the browser.  Also supports drag and drop file sharing and uploads.  Inegrated blogging interface for most sites(which I am using right now.)

Flock can be a little tricky to install on ubuntu, check out this article for help.

It’s been fun Mozilla, but we just can’t see each other anymore.

-Loki
ubuntu, phase 10

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Tags: mozilla, ubuntu, flock, computers, linux, open source, internet, browser

[edit - 11/02/07 - Added Digg This link and corrected some typos]

Here’s a pretty good article from someone who made the switch from Mac to ubuntu. Anyone have any experience going from Windows to ubuntu?

I’ve got a second computer that I’ve already installed ubuntu 7.04 on. I’ve been playing with it a bit, but I’m still pretty undecided. All comments would be appreciated.

-Loki.

(Ubuntu, phase 1)