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but it works for Zeke...
i for one... ah, you know the drill

In fact, we still do not know any OS X virus

I know two [1|2]

But there is a reason why there is not that many OS X viruses.

But I thought Macs were supposed to be virus-proof?

They were, but then somebody gave a shit about Mac.

Since when was it news that most software on pirated sites contain malware.

It's news because it's Mac malware and Apple needs all the publicity they can get.

Ok people, I'll keep this short. Stop blaming everything else for the upbringing of your children and look directly at the lack of parenting.

Videogames didn't cause it, Movies didn't cause it, that crazy hip hop music that the kids are listening to today didn't cause it. The lack of a parent not disciplining their kid did.

This comic is to a Mr Jack Thompson who's now been disbarred but is for every dirt bag out there that wants to blame something else other than himself for when his kid screws up:
http://cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20051012
It's also sad that the most relevant line comes from the Southpark movie but here it is:

We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!

I noticed you didn't comment on my main point. Anything after 'By the way' was from a personal point of view.

"Personal" meaning for yourself, for fun or generally for a non-serious purpose.

I work from home. Most of my personal projects also launch into commercial products. Linux and open source software is all I use for daily and work related use. Yes, I develop for Windows and I can tell you the difference is staggering in ease of use (I suppose that is biased as I've been using Linux longer than Windows)
Needless to say my small company rakes in more in one month than you probably make in a year.

On the other hand, as I sit here idly working away at a contract assignment on my Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 install...

'contract assignment' == you work at some dickheaded day job pushing papers. "Yes, boss. No, boss. Sure, I'll suck your cock for a raise, boss."

Honestly you say "Gentoo Linux 2008.0" like you're bragging, not about the fact you are using Linux, but about specifically running the 2008.0 Gentoo install. What? You want a pat on the back or something?

Every distribution is different. It was actually the equivalent of saying 'I use Microsoft Windows Vista' (microsoft=gentoo, windows=linux, vista=2008.0).
Linux is only a kernel. Saying "I use linux" does not have any meaning at all. I could probably name 30+ different flavours/distros off the top of my head that are "Linux".
Thus, stating the distro and version is not out of the ordinary... especially when compared to the MS equivalent.

In case you haven't been following, Photoshop CS2 isn't just old, it's very old. Two generations behind in fact. I also love how you have to qualify that you "own" these products for some reason.

Not really, no. I've used CS3 and there was nothing new and exciting that said "Buy Me! I contain great value over CS2". CS4 has a few features I'd like, but there are other open source programs that accomplish the few things I would want if ever needed. So far I don't need it.

Only about 1700 items in that "huge" database are rated as Platinum, which means they work as they should, and most of them look like insignificant and unknown freeware utilities.

Really? I was not aware that the following were insignificant freeware programs:
- Guild Wars (All Versions)
- Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
- Dreamweaver CS3
- 3DMark2000
- Xara X & Xara 3D
- Microsoft Office 200 & 2003 (2007 is currently Gold Status)

Well, I just spent a few hours working in Cubase and Fruity Loops. Now I am about to fire up Dead Space and play it a little. Nice to know you're doing these things better under Linux though.

Ah, but both run under Linux with minor tweaks. I'll give Dead Space until Xmas before it is at least silver status.

And don't forget the Ten Commandments of gaming.

Comix:
Ctrl-Alt-Del http://www.cad-comic.com/
Diesel Sweeties http://dieselsweeties.com/
Questionable Content http://www.questionablecontent.net/
Penny Arcade http://www.penny-arcade.com/
xkcd http://xkcd.com/

Blogs:
Warren Ellis http://www.warrenellis.com/
Thighs Wide Shut http://thighswideshut.org/
Kids with Guns http://patrickben.livejournal.com/

Geeky Blogs/Mags:
Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/
Cool Hunting
365 Tomorrows
Grinding.be http://grinding.be/
io9 http://io9.com/
Lifehacker http://lifehacker.com/
Slashdot
Wired http://www.wired.com/rss/index.xml
AppleInsider http://www.appleinsider.com/
Macenstein http://macenstein.com/default
The Unofficial Apple Weblog http://www.tuaw.com/
Macworld http://www.macworld.com/

Dirty Stuff:
Fleshbot http://fleshbot.com/tag/straight
FlickrBabes http://flickrbabes.com/
UseMyComputer http://usemycomputer.com/
Homocidal Insomniac http://homicidalinsomniac.blogspot.com/

News:
Salon http://www.salon.com/

*BASH Cures Cancer
--Great tips & ideas for anyone who regularly scripts in BASH. If you use the shell, give it a look.

And then the usual stuff:
*BBC News
*Various Economist Feeds;
*Hack-A-Day;
*The Register;
*Tranny Farm;
*xkcd, webcomic;
*Penny Arcade, webcomic;
*Ctrl-Alt-Del, webcomic;

I can't be bothered with Dilbert, since it's gone Flash.

Here are the ones I read, and I see no reason to be ashamed of any of them. If you don't like them, no one is forcing you to read them.

• Questionable Content
• Penny Arcade
• Ctrl Alt Del
• PvP Online
• VG Cats
• XKCD
• Cyanide & Happiness

*Ctrl-Alt-Delete
http://www.cad-comic.com/rss/rss.xml
Stupid webcomic
*Looking for Group
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LookingForGroup?format=xml
Webcomic.
*Least I Could Do
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LICD?format=xml
Webcomic.
*Linux Kernel
http://www.kernel.org/kdist/rss.xml
(no explanation)
*NationStates
http://69.60.14.82/cgi-bin/rss.cgi?nation=windhelm
A sort of game where you have to govern a nation. I develops based on the laws you vote.
*Questionable Content
http://www.questionablecontent.net/QCRSS.xml
Webcomic
*The Book of Biff
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheBookOfBiff
Webcomic
*The Perry Bible Fellowship
http://pbfcomics.com/feed/feed.xml
Webcomic (not updated i a looong time)
*VG Cats
http://www.vgcats.com/vgcats.rdf.xml
Stupid and bad webcomic
*xkcd
http://www.xkcd.com/rss.xml
FANTASTIC webcomic
*Linux Journal
http://feeds.feedburner.com/linuxjournalcom
I dunno why it's in there. I like the articles
*Slashdot
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot
I guess that's about it. I'm going to delete a couple of webcomics though. Some are just too awful.

So grinding works?

I've got to say, when I first started to see all the marketing crud they are doing for Halo 3 I thought it was pathetic. The "game fuel" thing really clenched it for me.

I think Ctrl+Alt+Del captured it.

Careful, penguins can be very lethal.

I still think this is the funniest portrayal of South Korea's reaction to Starcraft II.

You mean like this?

Just be careful what you use them for...

I beleive Ctrl-Alt-Delete gives the best response to this. http://cad-comic.com/comics/20060513.jpg No one gives a shit.

What we need is the chuch of gaming!

This, I mean. Next time, I need to turn on html the first time I post. Also, this.

This, I mean. Next time, I need to turn on html the first time I post. Also, this.

May I direct your attention this way?

Hawt Botnet on Botnet Action!

Don't bother with Vista at the moment. Let some other muppet sort out the pain.

This says it all: http://www.cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20061011

Well, if the ones hitting on you with swords stop to try and hit on you with bad pick-up lines, abuse the chance.
Note: I am a male in and out of games, so I don't take this particular chance at exploiting an opponent, but when I get any chance, I take it.

PC ain't dead. There's a small valve keeping it alive. :D

That given, the consoles have a long life in them yet. Wii60 is the way forward; power and innovation, hand in hand.

Go me... pressed the submit button by accident. Anyways, was trying to link to: http://www.cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20040521

Tim Buckley of the Ctrl-Alt-Del webcomic made a blocklist available to prevent gold farming sites showing up in google ads.

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/news.php?i=1011

" A few days ago I talked a bunch about gold farming and its adverse effect on MMO's. This caused the google ads on our page to specifically display the gold selling ads in their inventory, so we could effectively block them.

We've now compiled the list we're using it and made it available to you. If you run a website that used google ads, feel free to use this list to help block these gold farmers. If you frequent a website that uses google ads, email them this list and ask them to use it to block gold farmers.

Like I said, I doubt gold farming will ever disappear, but every one less customer makes the business less profitable for them."

I found this rather helpful.

well....
http://cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20031117

One thing that I love about our company is that there is no 'quit' in this company.

Translation: We're gonna throw money at this market until we have it sewn up, just like we're doing with the console market. Turn a profit? We're Sony! Fuck profit!

I'm not saying shut down all the media, I'm saying shut down the media ego. Yes, thank you for playing the game long before I can. Yes, thank you for telling me the quality of the graphics and sound. No, thank you, I'd rather not read a fourteen page blowout of Halo 2/DOA Ultimate/Fable. No, thank you, I don't need you to fill half the rag with opionions from editors about what it was like to be at E3. And so on...

http://www.cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20050914

web comics have been around for years. Comics like PennyArcade and Ctrl+Alt+Del are pretty successful and have strong followings. I would have to say that the New York Times is running this is story several years to late.

And that' one thing I change (well, try to anyway) when I sell a machine. I inform people of things that most people are completely oblivious of. Differences between AMD and Intel chips, exactly WHY they should get their spyware removed instead of just buying a new box, that numbers don't govern the entire performance of the machine, etc. Although the market where I work is pretty much comprised of rednecks, hicks, and people with 5-10 year old boxes who know absolutely nothing about computers. A great example is in this webcomic (which feels like 7/10 of my sales and the sales of my companions) http://cad-comic.com/?t=archives&date=2003-10-10 Anyway, I'm trying to change the views of SOME people that whats emblazoned on the front of the box is not at all what governs your performance. Example: Recently we got a few new Pentium D systems in the store, one of which being a large Sony VAIO that comes with a big Logitech 5.1 surround system. People see that it's clocked at 2.8, so they automatically think it's inferior to a 3.2 P4 system. Then I explain that the computer has two processor cores, gets things done more efficiently, and such, quoting a personal example I had while setting up such a machine NEXT to an AMD64 system, it multitasked much better and got the "complete setup" including anti-virus, antispyware, Windows update, and such done in 15 minutes where the AMD64 system hung when I tried to do the WinUpdate and a Norton Trial removal at the same time. Took that one half an hour. People were impressed and said that they would look into things other than numbers in the future.

has it all....C A D

has it all....C A D

has it all....C A D

Put Commentary In It

Let's say a comic wouldn't make sense without a news post, just have Gabe or Tycho write a little bit of commentary in a bubble somewhere on the page. I particularly enjoy Absath's commentary in his book. Let me in on the little details that go along with a web comic and its story.