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August 1st, 2008 at 10:29 pm

Removing Moonlight

I needed to see a video recommended by my cousin but it required Silverlight. I should have booted into Vista and downloaded Siverlight, but without thinking I found the equivalent for Linux, Moonlight, and installed it.
Big mistake.
It all ran smoothly, however, thanks to instructions from Tim’s Moonlight Installation Page and those who want Moonlight have reason to be grateful. Tim recommends that you

sit back and relax as Moonlight is installed.

It took half the night to install what appears to have been a couple of gig of diskspace.
Now I want to get rid of it.

Out, damned spot!

But I can’t.

All suggestions welcome.

For the record, the video was Muhammed Yunus speaking at the Microsoft Partners Conference and it was well worth the trouble. However, for those of you without Silverlight/Moonlight, check out this great Nobel Prize-winner here. There are several videos of him at this site but I recommend his talk on Social Business to the Commonwealth Club San Francisco, CA.

 

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