Will shared swap bite me?

[NiftyFedora Mitch]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 09:53:09AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>> Chuck Anderson wrote:
>>
>>>> I've been running pure 64-bit Fedora and SL5 with no problems that
>>>> concerned me: I don't know what, if any, browser plugins work, and
>>>> don't  really care. I don't like flash!
>
>>>
>>
>> I just don't like flash. The most popular use for it is ads that animate
>>  (and while I can turn animated GIFs off, I can't stop flash), flicker
>> and generally distract me from what I want to see.
>>
>> I dislike it less when I'm running adblocker+, but I use so many
>> different computers/OSes setting filters becomes a chore.
>
> Yup, 99 percent of the time, it's a waste of resources.  Citibank's
> citicards site has a problem with Linux and Flash. I wrote them with the
> workaround and they just wrote back that they don't support Linux. If I
> were having their financial difficulties, I'd have treated it
> differently, but oh well.

Remind them that they should be supporting their customers
not supporting some product vendor.   It is easy to test for a plugin
and if absent provide useful images....   Flash is cool but way overused.


MS is promoting a new set of tools under the general heading of Silverfish
or something like that.  Yet another way to "capture" market by establishing
an exclusionary standard tool set....


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