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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Yeah, I saw that in "Ubuntu Unleashed." I look forward to experimenting with it.
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The main difference between symlinks and hard links are the ability to span filesystems, and the fact that a symlink can become broken if you delete the file it points to. In use, the visible behavior is pretty much identical, and you likely want to use symlinks in normal practice.
Curiously, NTFS5 under Windows supports symlinks and hardlinks, but the functionality isn't exposed by default. I use William Schinagl's freeware
Link Shell Extension to provide GUI entries for creating them.
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Not that I ask great questions (I don't) but I've come to appreciate streamlined questions. And, I must say, streamlined answers.
The people answering questions make two mistakes. (not you, of course!)
1) They assume you know a lot. (Even when you tell them you're a total noob.)
2) They leave a step (or two) out.
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I try to provide directions people can follow, and may Look Stuff Up and test to be sure my directions work as given.
The folks who annoy me post questions so ill-formed, I don't know what the
question is, let alone what the answer ought to be. (And these are generally English speakers, not folks for whom English is a second language, who can be excused for infelicities with the language.)
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I have uBlock Origin and think it's awesome. I had NoScript but it ended up taking so much time to figure out what to allow and what not to allow, and then it seemed to lock up sites, I got rid of it.
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Figuring out what to block does require experimentation. In general, stuff I block will be ad servers, but those are generally identifiable by their names. And NoScript remembers settings, so it's a "get it right and forget it" operation for sites.
(NoScript keeps its config in the master prefs.js file Firefox uses to store preferences. Mine is about 600KB in size. I have thousands of bookmarks, so about 550KB of that is NoScript whitelist...
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uBlock Origin is
not a NoScript replacement. uBlock blocks
sites. NoScript blocks
scripting used on sites. You may want to visit a site but not allow various things it links to to execute scripts.
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As a next best option I got the Firefox add-on BitDefender Traffic Light, which gives a little green icon next to sites on Google search. However I just recently was recently re-directed to a porno site while searching 'what do do about a stiff back' on Google (and the site was green-lighted). So I'm not thrilled with the Bit Defender Traffic Light trustworthiness.
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Haven't tried it, but not surprised. I believe what it tries to block are various potential exploits. It is
not a content filter, and will not block a porn site just because it's a porn site. It's on you to be aware of what sites are and choose whether to go there.
(Years back, I was searching for an obscure Windows shell extension that would let the registry appear in My Computer and be searched like it was a drive. One link was to a hard-core gay porn site, where "extension" has a different meaning than the one I was using. My elderly gay neighbor down the hall was amused. So was I.
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Dennis