Re: [dylug] Merry Christmas - (Firefox/linux really worth the switch ?)

Hmmm... now that's one pretty long fire(fox)y thread... after the long
meg(h)a bash reunion thread [double pun fully intended ;] and the
other open source thingy ;)

(I'm catching all the action a little late here... was away last week :)

My expert comments are inline ;)

varun wrote:

> Now days even hotmail are offering 250mb space (for those of u who just got
> up hotmail has upgraded) 

Hey... my teensy weensy Hotmail account is still a measly 2MB ... :( 

For all those of you who have Hotmail accounts... is your mailbox
still 2mb? I'm beginning to wonder... ever since Sabeer Bhatia sold
Hotmail to MS, i think MS has been snooping in my mailbox and reading
all the MS hate mails... Damn!! I knew it!! That's why i still have a
2MB mailbox!! :(

> U know may be firefox tweaks the system for best performance so as long as
> you are just opening gmail or 1-2 more sites its good but when u really put
> load on it, it simply does not work. Why don't you give it a short ... 

A *short*? What on earth is that?!
I don't know what that is, but I don't plan to give my Firefox a
*short* whatever-it-means :D


> Something you must have noticed is when u click on the link to open firefox
> the window appears after a long delay while ie6 comes up almost immediately.

IE? What the @#c% is that? Ignoramus eDiot?

Oops... sorry.... PJ overload that...
Here's a more technoid why:

IE shares a *hell* lot of DLL's with the core Windows OS -- so they
don't need to be reloaded everytime IE runs, and saves loading time
for IE. So IE is largely in a way *preloaded* before you actually run
it. That holds true for MS Office as well. Good thinking of MS's part.
I don't see anything wrong with it. Only that no one would want to see
any other browser any longer. Seen the Matrix? :) Some of us on this
earth decided to go the Neo way...

Mozilla (the *suite* as opposed to firefox -- which is standalone)
does have a feature which allows key slow components to be "preloaded"
in a way -- it sits in your taskbar.


> Ok and about linux, i very much agree with you on tweaking. Everyone knows
> about and uses MSCONFIG, but i feel certain things about linux (even after
> tweaking) ultimately overloads the system. 

Hmmm.... "certain things about Linux"... Yep. Bingo, dude! "Certain
things about Linux" can and sure will overload your system!!


> Yes i am 100% with u, linux is a programmers Paradise and no second thoughts
> to it. 

Hmmm.... *Paradise*... Utopia... The Garden of Eden... interesting...
BTW, come to think of it, who's Adam and Eve?!


> I just feel when ever a new s/w comes every1 goes ga-ga over it ... but tell
> me something how many days does it really takes till we are back on windows
> with ie and outlook. (Now debu might be a exception to this) 


No I'm not! 
I still play some of my games on Windows :) 
I'm a gamer ya know ;) Yeah, big time gamer me ;)


> "Anything that is difficult to get or hipped about becomes popular even
> though it might not be really worth". 

Bingo!! Things that Win aren't always worth it ya know.


> and users do turn back to their old trusted ones ... i know so many people
> who have used gmail and returned to yahoo ... 

Hmmm... elaborate please!! I'd like to know why! 
Man... damn those ya-hoo(ligans)!


> Ok another mail becoming tooo long 

Okie.... now I'm kinda getting an inkling about what "giving it a
*short*" would mean... hmmm...

> Hope u had a nice time on christmas 

Yep, took a nice long break from work :)

> Cheers

Wish you all a great new year ahead!! ;)

luv
Debajit ;)

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