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IE8 was really slow on both computers I put it on so I dumped it. I've never liked operas browser but now I don't like the company either. They will be blamed for the screwed up version of Windows 7 that Europe will be getting. Its supposedly not going to have IE in it. I cant wait for the outrage... HOW DO I GET TO GOOGLE? AHHH WHERE IS THE INTERNET. I hope MS decides to preinstall Firefox just to spite them.

I agree 100%. If your going to use IE though use IE7 because 8 isn't so hot(on xp anyway). You may also want to consider that sometimes stuff is used the least because its not as good as the alternatives... Sorry opera users. I prefer firefox because of its extensions and interface, the difference between the two is just personal preference.

Opera is on windows and linux so its not really a "linux program". The safety of linux comes from the OS itself, its less popular so no one is really bothering to write malware for it and on top of that it requires a password to alter system files(similar to why mac osx is considered pretty safe).

Here is a good topic on linux security if your interested: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=510812 You don't need linux antiviruses unless your concerned about passing viruses on over to windows machines. Windows viruses do not work on linux and there are not any real viruses in the wild for linux. The biggest problem your likely to face with linux is getting all your hardware working. (graphics cards, wifi, ect) its gotten better and I can get ubuntu installed on most of my computers but some of them take a lot of work.

Huh? I'm not kidding... your sentence is all over the place. I hope your kidding.... This just means your lazy or bad at math. I think this topic is some sort of strange spam thing anyway. Why would someone come here looking for school advice? If your serious get them a tutor and tested for learning disabilities.

Mine for now. I like it.

One important thing I forgot to say... Openoffice is compatible with microsoft's native formats (.doc, .ppt, ect) so you can use it to create/edit documents that ms office can use. Office 2007 sp2 actually ads support for opendocument(the default format for openoffice) so it can read openoffice's native formats as well. I think its only for text documents though. I've found openoffice to work really well with basic text documents(things like school reports, ect) but its powerpoint/excel compatibility can be pretty screwed up sometimes.

Openoffice is compatible with vista. It includes alternatives to word, powerpoint, excell and a few other programs as well. http://why.openoffice.org/why_great.html I still use openoffice a lot when I use linux, I really think its the best ms alternative around. However if you got the cash for office, I really think you should consider buying it, office 07 is just in another league then anything else right now.(even my mac user friends acknowledge that its better than anything on that platform. )

I uninstall MS works on computers pretty frequently without any problems. I always put openoffice on there instead as works is about useless.

That is the script thats in Icedrakes link. If you click install thats what you get. I installed it like you do adsweep and the cntrl+b thing works, but there is no filters in the script initially...

Unless I'm missing something this script doesn't have any blocked sites in it. I get the manual thing, but why call it adblock plus if it doesn't use the filters? // ==UserScript==// @name AdBlock+// @author Lex1// @version 1.0.8// @run-at document-start// @include *// @description AdBlock+ for Chrome. Press Alt+B for blocking ads. Press Alt+E for editing styles.// @namespace http://lexi.ucoz.ru/index/0-4// ==/UserScript==(function(){var getValue = function(name){ var nameEQ = name + '='; var ca = document.cookie.split(';'); for(var i = 0, c; c = ca[i]; i++){ while(c.charAt(0) == ' ')c = c.substring(1, c.length); if(c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0)return unescape(c.substring(nameEQ.length, c.length)); }; return '';};var setValue = function(name, value, days){ var date = new Date(); date.setTime(date.getTime()+((days || 10*365)*24*60*60*1000)); if(document.cookie.split(';').length < 20 && document.cookie.length-escape(getValue(name)).length+escape(value).length < 4000){ document.cookie = name+'='+escape(value)+'; expires='+date.toGMTString()+'; path=/'; } else{ alert('Cookies is full!'); }};var addStyle = function(css){ var s = document.createElement('style'); s.setAttribute('type', 'text/css'); s.setAttribute('style', 'display: none !important;'); s.appendChild(document.createTextNode(css)); return (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.documentElement).appendChild(s);};// Set style at loading pagevar style; if(document.documentElement instanceof HTMLHtmlElement && (style = getValue('ujs_adblock'))){ setTimeout(function(){addStyle(style + '{ display: none !important }')}, 1);};// Hotkeysdocument.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){ // Edit styles with Alt+E if(e.keyCode == 69 && !e.shiftKey && !e.ctrlKey && e.altKey){ var rez = prompt('Please, edit styles:', getValue('ujs_adblock')); if(rez != null){setValue('ujs_adblock', rez); location.reload(false)}; }; // Block elements with Alt+B if(e.keyCode == 66 && !e.shiftKey && !e.ctrlKey && e.altKey){ if(window.navigator.ujs_AdBlock)return; else window.navigator.ujs_AdBlock = true; var ele = '', outline = '', border = '', bgColor = '', title = '', altPressed = false, reObjects = /^(iframe|object|embed)$/i; var clearCss = function(css){ var a = css.split(','); for(var i = a.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){ var rule = a[i] + '>'; for(var j = a.length - 1; j >= 0; j--){ if(a[j].indexOf(rule) == 0)a.splice(j, 1); } }; return a.join(','); }; var getAtt = function(el, tags){ var rez = ''; if(el.attributes){ var r = new RegExp('^('+tags+')$'); for(var i = 0, a; a = el.attributes[i]; i++){ var n = a.nodeName.toLowerCase(); if(r.test(n))rez += '['+n+'=\x22'+a.nodeValue+'\x22]'; }; }; return rez; }; var getNth = function(el){ if(altPressed || /^(html|body|iframe|embed|img|a)$/i.test(el.nodeName))return ''; var nth, n = 0; var p = el.parentNode; for(var i = 0, c; c = p.childNodes[i]; i++){if(c.nodeType == 1){n++; if(c == el)nth = n}}; return (!nth || n < 2) ? '' : ':nth-child('+nth+')'; }; var block = function(el){ var css = getAtt(el, 'src|href|id'); if(css){ css = el.nodeName+css; } else{ var rez = []; while(el){if(el.nodeType == 1)rez.unshift(el.nodeName+getAtt(el, 'src|href|id|class|height|width|color')+getNth(el)); el = el.parentNode}; css = rez.join('>'); }; var tmpCss = addStyle(css+'{background-color: #FF5555 !important; outline: 1px solid #FF1111 !important; opacity: 0.7 !important;}'); css = prompt('Block this element(s)?', css); if(css){ addStyle(css + '{display: none !important;}'); var oldCss = getValue('ujs_adblock'); setValue('ujs_adblock', (oldCss ? clearCss(oldCss+ ',' + css) : css)); }; tmpCss.parentNode.removeChild(tmpCss); }; var remove = function(){ document.removeEventListener('mouseover', over, false); document.removeEventListener('mouseout', out, false); document.removeEventListener('click', click, false); document.removeEventListener('keyup', press, false); delete window.navigator.ujs_AdBlock; }; var over = function(ev){ ele = ev.target; title = ele.title; ele.title = 'Tag: '+ele.tagName+(ele.id ? ', ID: '+ele.id : '')+(ele.className ? ', Class: '+ele.className : ''); if(reObjects.test(ele.nodeName)){ border = ele.style.border; ele.style.border = '2px solid #306EFF'; } else{ outline = ele.style.outline; ele.style.outline = '1px solid #306EFF'; bgColor = ele.style.backgroundColor; ele.style.backgroundColor = '#C6DEFF'; } }; var out = function(){ if(ele){ ele.title = title; if(reObjects.test(ele.nodeName)){ ele.style.border = border; } else{ ele.style.outline = outline; ele.style.backgroundColor = bgColor; } } }; var click = function(ev){ if(ele){ altPressed = ev.altKey; ev.preventDefault(); out(); remove(); block(ele); } }; var press = function(ev){ if(ev.keyCode == 27){ out(); remove(); } }; document.addEventListener('mouseover', over, false); document.addEventListener('mouseout', out, false); document.addEventListener('click', click, false); document.addEventListener('keyup', press, false); }}, false);})();

I skipped vista on all of my current computers so I will be buying a win 7 computer, I haven't decided if I want to build it or buy it from dell/hp/ect. Just depends on the mood I'm in at the time. I will not be upgrading any of my current computers though. They all are capable of running 7 but xp is still rock solid and I cant think of any reason to abandon it right now(as long as MS still updates it).

He was such a creepy guy, but he was/is as big as any other artist to ever walk the planet. Thriller sold like 40-50million or something... he definitely isn't going to be forgotten.

http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/mse_beta.asp This is an interesting article about the upcoming free microsoft AV. Should be interesting to see what this thing will actually like. If it works great, if not at least its available? Oh and it comes out June 23.

I just downloaded RC2. There is no reason why any firefox user would all of a sudden not like this one. The new icon is kind of lame... but its not that hard to change it. Aside from a few graphical changes(new tab button, history mangement in options, ect) There aren't any noticeable differences to me. I dont notice any speed differences while browsing and it isn't any more or less responsive. ram usage is exactly the same as it was. I'm picky and this one has no complaints from me.(and I'm pretty sure its not changing much from rc2 to final).

Compared to chrome its slow and clunky but more feature complete. Still Firefox all the way for me.

I really like this search engine but I will still never use it. I still really like google. Plus I wouldn't know about obscure holiday's like tetris day if it wasn't for google changing their image.

I cant trust any site that comes to the conclusion that mcafee is anything but junk.

Bittorrent is one of the most easily tracked P2P protocols. You can hit "peers" or something similar and see everyones IP address who is using it. Does this mean your going to get busted if you use it? Maybe. I only use it to get linux distros to try out. Its way faster than their crappy bandwidth. The only downside to bittorent is that sometimes their are a lot of downloaders and few seeders(people with the file sending it to everyone else)

Are you in college? If so its time for your mom to cut the umbilical cord... If your still in high school then tough luck.

Yeah... I dont think you will see him back anytime soon.

I just tried google chrome for the first time since the original release. I'm actually pretty surprised how fast it is. Its still very limited but its not too bad. Maybe it will be good once it gets more feature complete.

The fact that you had to download firefox in safe mode to get it to work means that something on your pc isn't right. Are you getting corrupted downloads a lot in normal mode? Now to firefox: AVG should work fine with firefox. Go to tools>add ons and see if you see avg listed as disabled in there. If not you may have to ask on the avg forum how to get it to work, or just do a reinstall. Siteadvisor works fine with firefox you just have to download it again from their site. Spybots immunize works with all browsers. Spyware Terminator is junky and I would dump it for a real time scanner like Malware Bytes or Superantispyware. (you already are covered from spyware by avg)

Thats the right avast. Yes install all the updates that microsoft wants you too. As long as your copy of windows is legit you shouldn't have any problems. XP to XP SP3 is a huge update in so many ways. (security, performance, ect). If your on broadband then just go to windows update and let it do its thing.

SP2 is a must have at the minimum but you might as well do SP3, (because its just more security updates). Updating windows is the number 1 most important thing you can do to secure your computer. http://www.filehippo.com/download_avast_antivirus/