I was just going through the visitor stats for this blog and I realised that about 80% of my visitors are using MS Internet Explorer.
Guys, what are you upto? MS IE is bad, awful, unstable and unreliable. IE is pakistan of Internet, breeding ground for new worms, viruses, trojans. Just get rid of Internet Explorer and go for Firefox.
Do you know, if you are using firefox, you dont need any other software to do the following,
1. FTP uploads are possible from firefox
2. You can visit restricted websites through firefox.
3. You can send twitter updates from within firefox.
4. You can download torrents from firefox.
5. Blog directly from Firefox.
List is virtuallly endless. Go, get firefox and explore for yourself.
Getting rid of windows is easier than you think. Support Open Source Software. Get Ubuntu. This is how my Desktop looks with ubuntu
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1. Acrobat : In ubuntu, there is absolutely no alternative to adobe acrobat. Pdfedit is trying to emulate acrobats functionalities but they are too far from realising the goal.
2. Microsoft OneNote : Lets face it, one note is simply the most outstanding piece of software created by microsoft in recent times. There is no alternative to Onenote in windows, so hoping for a viable alternative in ubuntu is a bit unfair.
3.Games : there are not enough games. I miss Rise of nations, Cricket, Age of empires, Civilization, Simcity.
4. iTunes : I miss itunes because in ubuntu, there is no media player which has got music management capabilities of iTunes. Banshee, Amarok and Exaile do come close but they just dont have it. To give credit to these softwares, they do offer some features which are lacking in iTunes.
5.Microsoft Money : gnuCash is an alternative but somehow I am not very comfortable with the interface as yet.
But, are these reasons enough for me to miss Windows? Naah!! Ubuntu/Linux is just too classy. On second thoughts there is one app which makes me miss windows Virusscans.Too bad, you dont need them on ubuntu.
winrar, a popular compression software, is not available on linux.Although, a command line variant is available, but, if you are as lazy as i am then you would not like to type 5 commands to unrar a file. fortunately, there is a workaround, which is as simple as 123
1. Download winrar from rarlabs website. Uncompress the downloaded file
2. Install xArchiver from Synaptic Package Manager
3. log in as root and run this command
cp /location of unzipped files/rar /usr/bin/
cp /location of unzipped files/unrar /usr/bin/
Yipee!
if you are in linux, chances are your answer will be affirmative.
Wine is an application which runs in linux and fools around with all those stupid windows msi's. It gives them a native windows environment, so that you can install some really 'cant do without' windows apps.Moreover, wine helps you use same emule and utorrent settings in windows and ubuntu.
i am so happy. i am finally steering myself away from microsoft monopoly. yipee!!!
Techno, now you know this is mine
thats sanskrit and in english it roughly means from darkness to light. I recently moved from xp to ubuntu and trust me everything is so great eversince i have shifted. no bsod, no viruses and above all user supported software. its been great.
http://www.ubuntu.com if you wanna try to.. give it a shot and you will never regret it.
