By the time I've installed functional versions of:
- firewall
- anti-virus/anti-malware
- text editor
- graphics editor
- telnet/ssh/scp/ftp clients
- cd ripper/burner
- media player
- registry editor
- debugging tools
...ad nauseum... all after 469 reboots for critical post-SP2 MS updates...
Firefox is gravy. Very tasty gravy. Really, it doesn't even need to be installed. Just drag copy one of the read-only versions, add your links for del.icio.us, and have at 'em.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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