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General Software Discussion / Re: Have the option of getting Zone Alarm full suite. what should i do?
« on: April 28, 2008, 10:05 PM »
If you care about your computer, do not install the ZA suite. It's like playing Russian roulette with your operating system...

Yes, I've had bad experiences with it in the past and even when it worked, it was invasive to the point where it felt almost as bad as the things it's supposed to protect against.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Uninstallers - do any of them work?
« on: April 25, 2008, 12:18 PM »
Heh, I will just say any developer that makes an uninstaller that cleans out *anything* from AppData without asking (or having a checkbox to do so marked by default) should be shot on sight. The rest of the argument I agree with, but personal data should never be cleared automatically.

To argue my POV I'm taking WinAMP as an example. When I was still using it from time to time I liked to check out different plugins, and a selected few of these plugins could mess up my WinAMP installation. No problem right? Just uninstall WinAMP and make sure that the program folder was cleared, then reinstall would surely get me right back up and running again. Not really because what now happens is that the WA developers in their infinite wisdom has decided that uninstalling also means that they should delete my music database from AppData, including MusicIP/Gracenote generated information for all my mp3's (and this means for the thousands of files that it took hours to generate said information for). Good idea? I think not...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista Aero vs. Linux Compiz
« on: April 25, 2008, 12:03 PM »
Edvard: try maintaining an Arch linux setup for a while - eventually, the speed of "pacman" (lovely name for a package manager ;)) slows to a crawl... because of fragmentation.
-f0dder (April 25, 2008, 11:25 AM)
pacman -Sc; pacman-optimize; sync
-Dirhael (April 25, 2008, 11:44 AM)
...which wouldn't be necessary if the claims about "fragmentation isn't an issue" were true.
-f0dder (April 25, 2008, 11:59 AM)

I'm not going to argue that, I was merely pointing out how to resolve the issue you referred to in your previous post.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista Aero vs. Linux Compiz
« on: April 25, 2008, 11:44 AM »
Edvard: try maintaining an Arch linux setup for a while - eventually, the speed of "pacman" (lovely name for a package manager ;)) slows to a crawl... because of fragmentation.
-f0dder (April 25, 2008, 11:25 AM)

pacman -Sc; pacman-optimize; sync

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General Software Discussion / Re: What’s this "Linux" thing and why should i try it?
« on: March 27, 2008, 09:20 AM »
dirhael: iirc Wubi uses NTFS root FS.
-f0dder (March 27, 2008, 09:03 AM)

Indeed it does, but the problem still remains that some programs and utilities will still probably not work as intended due to file permissions and other things that are handled different by the various file systems. Also, I don't really understand why anyone would want to take the performance hit.

In any case, if you're just playing around and testing linux I think you would be better off just running it in a virtual machine seeing as there are several completely free alternatives out there today :)

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