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"Didn't know microsoft was so dumb that they not only ran their services overpowered; but had them designed to work in limited accounts." - by bluefoxlucid (723572) on Friday June 01, @12:47PM (#19353495)

Well, yes... that is what I stated in my post that you replied to! I also put up a URL that shows you how to secure them, step-by-step, & with what tools as well.

" There should be a hardening tool that adjusts these." - by bluefoxlucid (723572) on Friday June 01, @12:47PM (#19353495)

Well, yes, there is though -> SERVICES.MSC (bit manual, but doable easily, in a services properties (you have to test them though, which is WHY I did the list I did in the URL below, to save others time & pain in such testings)).

Later on in this reply, I post the reason I THINK why Microsoft did most all services running as the SYSTEM entity, read on:

MS sets services running as SYSTEM, for MOST services, in NT/2000/XP (iirc, it has been a LONG while since I ran any of these, let alone WITHOUT their service packs installed, which MAY have corrected much of this - I know this happened on Windows Server 2003, the current OS version I use), prior to any service packs @ least!

They defaulted services (most all, if NOT ALL), as running as the "all-powerful" SYSTEM entity iirc, & it has backfired when certain services/daemons showed say, buffer-overflow (or, other) vulnerabilities. Running as SYSTEM on said exploitable services allows interlopers/hackers/crackers (whatever you may call them) to leverage ALL OF ITS ABILITIES (near unlimited).

This has changed though, (& not only per the URL I noted above where I showed others what I have been doing for years now on NT-based OS' (like NT/2000/XP/Server 2003)) in both VISTA &/or Server 2003 (the latter iirc, only after Service Pack #1, iirc... I could be wrong here, but I am fairly certain I am not).

Anyhow, as far as securing them in this manner (running service programs as lesser entities with lesser priveleges than system)?

Well, I have been doing that for years beforehand (prior to the URL I posted again below for everyone's reference here) to secure my NT-based OS setups... mainly, because of the complaints noted by the person (yourself, iirc?) I replied to is WHY I posted the method here & that it IS POSSIBLE TO SECURE THIS, YOURSELF, EASILY - simply by using:

SERVICES.MSC ... & it works for the MOST part, uniformly across 2000/XP/Server 2003 & probably VISTA! It certainly does on Windows Server 2003, thru its base initial oem shipped model, into SP #1, & yes, on the current SP #2 (probably on RC2 as well, but I do not have it to test on).

So, as per which ones (from the url below, & it's 1st page list I posted in my last reply you have responded to) you can find out which ones can be run as lesser logon entities for services like NETWORK SERVICE, & LOCAL SERVICE (rather than SYSTEM)). Not just native/oem Microsoft services either, but also those from 3rd party programs that utilize services (windows daemons basically).

Anyhow - It's my belief that INITIALLY, MS just made most all services run as SYSTEM, so there would be no screwups/compatibility issues on mass deployments of the OS on say, a corporate network, & no problems with other programs...

This WAS probably initially @ least, necessary.

Now, as you can see? It is unnecessary, & the posting here (again, for your reference) proves it & not only on Windows Server 2003, but on XP/2000 also:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=916 0e1b0e6f80af7b033fabdc5f2a71d&t=16097

APK

P.S.-> Enjoy, & I hope yourself + others here, find it useful... apk

"because, yes, OS services run with high privileges" - by bluefoxlucid (723572) on Friday June 01, @03:10AM (#19348579)

FIRST OF ALL - You would be surprised how many services you can do without (depending on what you want to do), & gain back CPU time + other forms of I/O those services perform in RAM & possibly to disk, first of all if needed (it's a good thing to do for BOTH performance AND security mind you).

SECONDLY, you CAN lower the logon entity privileges of MANY services, & they STILL WORK PERFECTLY (lessening them from the default of SYSTEM, to lesser ones like NETWORK SERVICE or LOCAL SERVICE).

Proof? See this list (I did so, years ago & it works):

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=916 0e1b0e6f80af7b033fabdc5f2a71d&t=16097

Enjoy!

APK

"Most apps under windows can run on 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista!" - by durin (72931) on Sunday May 27, @08:49AM (#19291319)

True on that account, & here is a specific example:

APK Registry Cleaning Engine 2002++ SR-7:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

SCREENSHOT:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/screenshots/3 89.jpg

(I wrote it back in 1997, finished it in 2002, & she runs perfectly across Win9x/NT/2000/XP/Server 2003/VISTA, & I have not had to do a "complete rewrite" for any particular Win32 OS version since then, even for VISTA recently!)

APK

P.S.=> Multithreaded design & the ABSOLUTELY SAFEST registry cleaning program there is (mainly because I filter out the ability to remove ActiveX/OLEServer Class Identifiers are valid candidates for removal by users in the publicly shipping model (my personal model DOES allow for it, but I am familiar with how CLSID's work is why, so I allow myself this 'personal luxury' & diff. personal model), which other registry cleaners DO allow, & this causes problems because of other apps' having dependencies on them), bar-none!

I know: "BOLD CLAIM", right?

NOT REALLY - I had it tested by MANY users on all Win32 platforms noted above (native OS platforms, not emulated, but iirc, it even ran under Linux's WINE) using their OWN registry data unaltered by test-rigging .reg file inserts, vs. many other competitors noted on its downloads page!

(Rigjobs for tests like that I just mentioned, are ones such as Juoni Vuorio tried to pull while 'testing' his registry cleaner vs. mine & those of others, pretty lame trick imo for him to try to pull - he must think people are stupid or something, & they would not realize that, lol)...

Enjoy it if you try it, it IS the best of its kind & an example of which you speak of... apk

"Most apps under windows can run on 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista!" - by durin (72931) on Sunday May 27, @08:49AM (#19291319)

True on that account, & here is a specific example:

APK Registry Cleaning Engine 2002++ SR-7:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

SCREENSHOT:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/screenshots/3 89.jpg

(I wrote it back in 1997, finished it in 2002, & she runs perfectly across Win9x/NT/2000/XP/Server 2003/VISTA, & I have not had to do a "complete rewrite" for any particular Win32 OS version since then, even for VISTA recently!)

APK

P.S.=> Multithreaded design & the ABSOLUTELY SAFEST registry cleaning program there is (mainly because I filter out the ability to remove ActiveX/OLEServer Class Identifiers are valid candidates for removal by users in the publicly shipping model (my personal model DOES allow for it, but I am familiar with how CLSID's work is why, so I allow myself this 'personal luxury' & diff. personal model), which other registry cleaners DO allow, & this causes problems because of other apps' having dependencies on them), bar-none!

I know: "BOLD CLAIM", right?

NOT REALLY - I had it tested by MANY users on all Win32 platforms noted above (native OS platforms, not emulated, but iirc, it even ran under Linux's WINE) using their OWN registry data unaltered by test-rigging .reg file inserts, vs. many other competitors noted on its downloads page!

(Rigjobs for tests like that I just mentioned, are ones such as Juoni Vuorio tried to pull while 'testing' his registry cleaner vs. mine & those of others, pretty lame trick imo for him to try to pull - he must think people are stupid or something, & they would not realize that, lol)...

Enjoy it if you try it, it IS the best of its kind & an example of which you speak of... apk

I do! In fact, it displaced VB as my primary tool of choice back in 1997, for technical reasons (mainly, performance, & yet it is as readable as VB is imo, as well).

Delphi 2.0 swept the floor with BOTH MSVC++ & MSVB (of all places), in "VB Programmer's Journal" October 1997 issue entitled "INSIDE THE VB5 COMPILER ENGINE"!

That's where Delphi absolutely blew away VB in ALL of the tests (except ActiveX form loads, which VB even took MSVC++ out in), & took C++ out on 8 of 10 of the tests!

Most importantly, by HUGE margins (especially in math & strings work, which EVERY program does).

Where Delphi did lose to MSVC++ (only 2 of 10 tests) it was by VERY SMALL MARGINS, far less than where it blew away MSVC++....

It was enough for me to see that developing shareware @ least, Delphi rules. I like it a lot, & used it to create this tool (runs essentially unaltered since its birthdate in 1997 to this day, across ALL Win32 platforms):

APK Registry Cleaning Engine 2002++ SR-7:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

That IS the safest & most comprehensive/thorough registry cleaning program there is, bar-none, to this day, even 5 years after I quit developing it, to this day. Enjoy it, if you try it.

(Anyhow/anyway - In shareware/freeware I have done on the side is where I solely control the tools I use, unlike @ work locations, where mgt. calls the shots on tools used & today they follow "He who has the money, wins" because "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" (replace IBM today, with Microsoft)).

Mgt., even though I showed them such results, was like "Well, can't argue the fact that Delphi IS the superior tool for performance AND rapid application development, but... Microsoft has the ca$h, & will be here tomorrow: WILL BORLAND BE?"

You can't win there, not really, not on a technical superiority level. Much like VHS vs. BetaMax, the 'best man for the job' does NOT always win.

APK

"What you and other posters have mentioned about port control (the port filtering control panel, ipsec rules, application level firewalls, ACLs on transport devices), plus the "Routing and Remote Access" service in server versions, cover everything I can think of." - by Foolhardy (664051) on Wednesday May 23, @07:29PM (#19246287)

Excellent, because imo, you DO know what you are about in this field (based on your replies and work in SDEdit in fact)... I find it good to know the methods I extolled can be used to control ports via GUI methods (which is what TheRaven64 was asking about, in addition to RESERVED PORTS in Windows 2000-2003-VISTA).

They're all good stuff, & work concurrently/simultaneously w/ one another, which is good (even with hardware NAT firewalls etc.), no hassles, & provide layered security & PORTS ACCESS CONTROL (to some extent, but not really @ an ACL level though). Still, the results are there & do work, & I am glad to see you "2nd my motions" on this account.

(Also - Perhaps I missed it, but, I didn't see anybody else mention the material on port filters, or IPSec (the "poor man's firewalls"), & this is why I did that 'big writeup' on them & how to use them (as well as download of the AnalogX prebuilt IP Security Policy - which is VERY good, strong, and flexible (but, does cause hassles with tools for filesharing (emule, etc.)))).

That is one case where (filesharing programs) where IP Port Filtering is actually superior for port access control, vs. IP Security Policies in fact.

Now, I did note your comments on ACL's on the TDI interfaces & one other persons (while speaking of managing this IN SOURCECODE for an application), & it was "kick ass", informative, & possibly useful to me at some point (developer here too).

The points you & the other fellow brought up are not ones I was NOT aware of, but it is good to know!

"This is a white paper on TCP implementation notes and parameters you might find interesting." - by Foolhardy (664051) on Wednesday May 23, @07:29PM (#19246287)

Yes, I have read up on that one when it issued (big fan of the MS daily downloads pages here is why -> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/Results.aspx?Di splayLang=en&nr=50&sortCriteria=date )

They made even MORE alterations, for the good mind you, in the SERVICE PACK #2 release (see the material on it regarding TcpChimney settings, which iirc, allow offloading of various tasks from the System CPU to the processors on NICS that support it).

Well, since your tool is excellent, I can only offer up a "tit-for-tat" trade/return to you, with an application I wrote years ago that still survives in the Shareware/Freeware circuit (and runs unmodified all the way thru ALL Win32 OS, even 9x-VISTA & all iterations in between):

APK Registry Cleaning Engine 2002++ SR-7:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

Enjoy it, it IS the safest & most thorough registry cleaner there is, bar-none!

APK

I mean, I've been checking out the reviews out there... For example, http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39580/ http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39603/ http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39605/ http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39635/ http://it-review.net/index.php?option=com_content& task=view&id=1335&Itemid=1/ http://it-review.net/index.php?option=com_content& task=view&id=1325&Itemid=1/ http://it-review.net/index.php?option=com_content& task=view&id=1336&Itemid=1/ http://it-review.net/index.php?option=com_content& task=view&id=1337&Itemid=1/ http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/r60 0-architecture.html/ http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2988 / http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/HD_2900_XT/ I see that everyone came to pretty much same results. I'm not sure this "HD2900XT" thing will be repairable. I think that perhaps AMD's announcement that they're targeting best-buy in high-end is more valid. Although that one might have been said in pure desparation....

Actually, it seems as though IT-review.net actually did the whole shabbang of testing on various platforms, check these: http://it-review.net/index.php?option=com_content& task=view&id=1335&Itemid=1 http://it-review.net/index.php?option=com_content& task=view&id=1325&Itemid=1 http://it-review.net/index.php?option=com_content& task=view&id=1336&Itemid=1 http://it-review.net/index.php?option=com_content& task=view&id=1337&Itemid=1 Also included, some links to other big websites with pretty much the same results: http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39580 http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39603 http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39605 http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39635 http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/r60 0-architecture.html http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2988 http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/HD_2900_XT/

"Most people moved from Windows 98 to XP. They gained a much more secure system in that move and moved to the proven NT kernel from the 95/98/ME codebase. The move to Vista? I see little gain but eye candy" - by LWATCDR (28044) on Wednesday May 16, @11:45AM (#19146299)

Ok, then quantify it, for yourself, by running these tests: Run the CIS Tool 1.0, OR, Belarc Advisor (both are security benchmarks, the former moreso than the latter) from here:

CIS Tool 1.0

http://www.cisecurity.org/bench_windows.html

&/or

Belarc Advisor

http://www.belarc.com/

Over Windows 2000 or Windows XP first (in their stock configuration), and then Windows Server 2003. Then, fully patch them even, and see your results. Mind you, you CAN score higher if you take the time to hand-harden them, ALL of them, for better security (via various settings and registry hacks).

Windows 2000 and Windows XP (and yes, even Windows Server 2003) won't score as secure as does VISTA out of the box on that test, no questions asked.

(I know this, because I ran such a test @ techpowerup.com forums using a FULLY CUSTOM HAND-TUNED/TWEAKED SECURED Windows Server 2003 SP #1 & SP #2 vs. VISTA (yes, I did better than VISTA did "out-of-the-box" using its predecessor and direct ancestor in Windows Server 2003 SP #1 & SP #2 than VISTA did, but NOT OUT OF THE BOX!))

See these URL's for my test results prior to you running your own tests using these tools for security analysis:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=74b 140c83efbebf0895ce198e8d33125&t=25428&highlight=CI S+Tool

and

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=268 18

VISTA was far more secure, as-is/out of the box, than any of them (Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003) did initially (w/ out hand tweaking via registry hacks & more) for security.

APK

P.S.=> My current score using a hand-tuned/tweaked hardened build of Windows Server 2003 SP #2 scores an 84.735 on CIS Tool 1.0... apk

"Most people moved from Windows 98 to XP. They gained a much more secure system in that move and moved to the proven NT kernel from the 95/98/ME codebase. The move to Vista? I see little gain but eye candy" - by LWATCDR (28044) on Wednesday May 16, @11:45AM (#19146299)

Ok, then quantify it, for yourself, by running these tests: Run the CIS Tool 1.0, OR, Belarc Advisor (both are security benchmarks, the former moreso than the latter) from here:

CIS Tool 1.0

http://www.cisecurity.org/bench_windows.html

&/or

Belarc Advisor

http://www.belarc.com/

Over Windows 2000 or Windows XP first (in their stock configuration), and then Windows Server 2003. Then, fully patch them even, and see your results. Mind you, you CAN score higher if you take the time to hand-harden them, ALL of them, for better security (via various settings and registry hacks).

Windows 2000 and Windows XP (and yes, even Windows Server 2003) won't score as secure as does VISTA out of the box on that test, no questions asked.

(I know this, because I ran such a test @ techpowerup.com forums using a FULLY CUSTOM HAND-TUNED/TWEAKED SECURED Windows Server 2003 SP #1 & SP #2 vs. VISTA (yes, I did better than VISTA did "out-of-the-box" using its predecessor and direct ancestor in Windows Server 2003 SP #1 & SP #2 than VISTA did, but NOT OUT OF THE BOX!))

See these URL's for my test results prior to you running your own tests using these tools for security analysis:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=74b 140c83efbebf0895ce198e8d33125&t=25428&highlight=CI S+Tool

and

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=268 18

VISTA was far more secure, as-is/out of the box, than any of them (Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003) did initially (w/ out hand tweaking via registry hacks & more) for security.

APK

P.S.=> My current score using a hand-tuned/tweaked hardened build of Windows Server 2003 SP #2 scores an 84.735 on CIS Tool 1.0... apk

As usual Anandtech is extremely thorough: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2988 &p=26

[H]ardocp's take: http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTM 0MSwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

techPowerUp (Warning, streaming video at the start >.>): http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/HD_2900_XT/

The Inquirers expected vapid coverage: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39 580

I think I'll wait for more ATI drivers and some DX10 games before calling this one... Looks a little underwhelming at the moment though. I'm not regreting my 8800GTX purchase yet. ;)

another review: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/HD_2900_XT/ has the video of the new ruby demo as well

"I've been a Usability Specialist for a few years now and before that I spent a lot of time in Customer Support. Customers have been complaining for years, upon years, upon years. The real fault lies at the heart of the problem, the people who make software don't listen to their users - for whatever reasons." - by typidemon (729497) on Monday May 07, @10:21PM (#19031011)

I find that interesting, because you are a usability specialist, and for years now!

THIS SOFTWARE:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

Was developed by myself, as far back as Windows 98SE, and has run essentially unmodified (as far as its base engine/algorithm) since then, all the way up thru successive builds of Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, and now, VISTA, "bulletproof & bugfree"...

(And, it IS the product of listening to years & years of user input/feedback as to its useability and interface design - I have found end-users incredibly useful in this regard, & they get what they want: EXACTLY what they want & request)

The main thing is, that I follow & use this concept into my job as a database programmer/MIS/IT/IS coder as well, and users do truly like that: P

Putting in their ideas for design in the user interface.

(Fact is, many end-users over time during my career have commended me on that in fact, because as you stated? Many coders DO NOT LISTEN TO THEIR END USERS (they ARE the process experts, not the coders) & I have even heard some call end-users "stupid", and that is just ignorance!)

It is fully error trapped vs. abend/crashes of itself as well (a mark of any good program, because making the OS have to counter for an application's misbehavior is what I call "putting a bandaid on a bulletwound", and the wrong thing to have to do. The application itself should be constructed in this manner - handling its own mishaps, correctly, saving any data & exiting gracefully after doing so).

Try it out, because I think you are somebody who has enough saavy @ this level to make commentary as to its useability and featureset!

(The latter being the BEST there is, bar-none! In fact, in regard to my statement there, the program has been tested vs. other programs like it from Microsoft, Symantec, JV RegCleaner, & more AND with user's own registry data unmodified (unlike others who had users insert a fake test dataset to "rig" a test, as Juoni Vuorio did for 'testing' his JV RegClean vs. my own & others like it (lame, that is rigging a test)).

APK

Well, in a 1/2 hour's worth of time? You can make Windows as secure as ANY OS out there, period!

In fact, so you can verify it yourselves?

The CIS Tool 1.0 (center for internet security) which even has a Linux, & BSD (and other UNIX variants) versions as well, which you can test your non-Win32 OS against if you wish, here is its download linkage:

http://www.cisecurity.org/bench.html#bench_tools

I have scored an 84.735 score on this test currently after custom hardening my machine & looking for decent analysis tools that are NOT Microsoft ones!

I am pursuing a higher score via discussions with a Mr. Dave Shackleford of the center for internet security (as well as having discussions in this regard with the author of BELARC ADVISOR, which also offers a similar set of security analysis features), currently.

BOTTOM-LINE:

This has helped or will help either identify possible "bugs" or potential needed improvements in their wares for the analysis of securing ANY OS (in the case of CIS tool, not BELARC ADVISOR (Win32 only, afaik)).

NMap is another tool one can use to analyse your system via this commandline for it:

%windir%\system32\nmap.exe -P0 -sT -F -O -A (insert your IP address here)

At least on Win32 OS' that is the commandline for it (NMap ported to Win32 from UNIX).

The main point here being that Windows security IS improveable, with a tiny amount of effort for personal users, and yes, for those in networked corporate environs (via policies or logon script .reg file merges for example).

Microsoft tends to ship their OS in a VERY 'wide open' configuration (security-wise) prior to VISTA (and this falls far short of what IS possible) because of fear that their systems IF setup securely, would make certain applications not function properly in secured situations (e.g.-> Turning off javascript or active scripting in browsers, as well as activeX control usage (IE) by default for example OR, limiting ports that are remote in nature off the bat, as BSD's do, leaving opening them up to the users, or admins).

You have to "reach into the guts" sometimes, if you want more security, even on UNIXES (why is there an SELinux for example if Linux is "so secure", and why do BSD's cut off ports by default)...

In the case of MS above? They leave it open intentionally, and up to the end users to secure them as they see fit based on the needs of the application mix they use. This is possibly quite necessary, but I know for a fact, MS can ship it even MORE SECURE, via some very simple .reg file hacks, or, using IP filtering (or even IPSec & security policies).

There is also the widely accepted fact that Microsoft's OS' run on more OS, with more peripheral softwares for it for various purposes (with holes in said apps themselves at times no less) than any other, presenting a 'wider target' for those involved in illegal activity in cracking OS & such as well.

APK

P.S.=> I can tell you 1 thing though, & based on tests/research: VISTA is far more secure than XP is out of the box, per tests myself and users ran here (along with the developer of BELARC ADVISOR in our discussions with myself & he here):

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?p=277 810#post277810

VISTA is an improvement, but security is often based on your app mix and those app's needs, so being "perfect out of the box" in all situations & software mixes? Impossible, at least w/ out custom tuning-tweaking for better security... From the example above? One can see just how much so even VISTA falls short of a Windows Server 2003 SP #2 custom security hardened build, that only took myself 1/2 hour's worth of work merging .reg files, using security policies, and port restrictions (above & beyond std. firewall/antivirus/antispyware tools)... apk

"It also involves wanting to help others out, or make something better for themselves." - by jimstapleton (999106) on Monday May 07, @09:29AM (#19019901)

OR, to improve one's self, & skillsets as a coder.

Speaking as a shareware/freeware developer who has been featured in many magazines, newspapers, & books in this field (above & beyond website articles or ratings of softwares) since 1997-1998 up to around 2004 (2004 is around/about when I stopped doing freewares/sharewares, due to lack of energy and time to do so anymore as well as need to do so (in that that apps I have done are finished, per user tests/critiques long ago, & they work "perfectly" (purely relative term imo) all the way from Windows 9.x - VISTA currently as of this writing, & this is the prime example thereof: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html ))?

Shareware/Freeware helped me to understand more than just what I do for a job/livelyhood in this field (which is MIS/IS/IT database coding mostly), primarily, as to bettering myself in this field of endeavor.

Shareware/Freeware construction basically truly helped me to improve my skillset as a coder, no questions asked: Practice HELPS make you perfect!

(Perfect? Ah, there is no such thing especially considering "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", especially in software development, without user critique & feedback that is - nobody can 'spot it all' as to useability issues or bugs, w/ out help imo & experience - you cannot please everyone however, this IS "the rub").

Doing shareware/freeware has also aided my resume to some extent (because some of my wares went into commercial products for Microsoft partners, which ended up being bought from myself) and also got my name around this field as well, in written publication (as well as on websites).

Personally? I never considered doing shareware/freeware a "waste of my time"!

To myself, it amounted to time spent improving myself on more fronts coding (other than databasing work) & doing so aided in my understanding of how Operating Systems work as well as improving myself on how to use, for instance, the Win32 API & also custom 3rd party controls (mostly .dll, .ocx, and .vcl addons).

It has paid off (literally AND figureatively) in many ways.

Idle hands are the "devil's workshop", but I personally would not call software development of ANY kind, idle hands. If anything, it is far better than blogging or writing articles only for example, because it improves you and is basically on-the-job-training of a sort you are doing independently.

This is what I gained by this, personally, in the doing of freeware/shareware over time the past decade or more (as of this writing of this post).

Additionally: How many products over time have come from the "freeware/shareware" area, which I consider the "farm teams" semi-pro leagues of software development? Quite a few:

Example: Norton GHOST's origins? Freeware/Shareware, iirc.

There are far more, but that is a "classic case-in-point/example"...

APK

P.S.=> And, as far as larger projects (other than shareware/freeware utilities such as I have done)? Look @ LINUX: The damn thing's pretty awesome (though I am truly a Win32 person mostly), especially considering it was created at the expense of MANY contributor's personal time - Linux is a construct based on freely given time mostly, and it is a socio-cultural/technological phenomenon that proves people CAN & WILL do great things, for free, voluntarily on occasion (without being paid), that is impressive in & of itself... apk

Speaking as a shareware/freeware developer who has been featured in many magazines, newspapers, & books in this field (above & beyond website articles or ratings of softwares) since 1997-1998 up to around 2004?

(2004 is around/about when I stopped doing freewares/sharewares, due to lack of energy and time to do so anymore as well as need to do so (in that that apps I have done are finished, per user tests/critiques long ago, & they work "perfectly" (purely relative term imo) all the way from Windows 9.x - VISTA currently as of this writing, & this is the prime example thereof: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html ))?

Shareware/Freeware helped me to understand more than just what I do for a job/livelyhood in this field (which is MIS/IS/IT database coding mostly), primarily, as to bettering myself in this field of endeavor.

Shareware/Freeware construction basically truly helped me to improve my skillset as a coder, no questions asked: Practice HELPS make you perfect!

(Perfect? Ah, there is no such thing especially considering "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", especially in software development, without user critique & feedback that is - nobody can 'spot it all' as to useability issues or bugs, w/ out help imo & experience - you cannot please everyone however, this IS "the rub").

Doing shareware/freeware has also aided my resume to some extent (because some of my wares went into commercial products for Microsoft partners) and also got my name around this field as well, in written publication (as well as on websites).

Personally? I never considered doing shareware/freeware a "waste of my time"!

To myself, it amounted to time spent improving myself on more fronts coding (other than databasing work) & doing so aided in my understanding of how Operating Systems work as well as improving myself on how to use, for instance, the Win32 API & also custom 3rd party controls (mostly .dll, .ocx, and .vcl addons).

It has paid off (literally AND figureatively) in many ways.

Idle hands are the "devil's workshop", but I personally would not call software development of ANY kind, idle hands. If anything, it is far better than blogging or writing articles only for example, because it improves you and is basically on-the-job-training of a sort you are doing independently.

This is what I gained by this, personally, in the doing of freeware/shareware over time the past decade or more (as of this writing of this post).

Additionally: How many products over time have come from the "freeware/shareware" area, which I consider the "farm teams" semi-pro leagues of software development? Quite a few:

Example: Norton GHOST's origins? Freeware/Shareware, iirc.

There are far more, but that is a "classic case-in-point/example"...

APK

P.S.=> And, as far as larger projects (other than shareware/freeware utilities such as I have done)? Look @ LINUX: The damn thing's pretty awesome (though I am truly a Win32 person mostly), especially considering it was created at the expense of MANY contributor's personal time - Linux is a construct based on freely given time mostly, and it is a socio-cultural/technological phenomenon that proves people CAN & WILL do great things, for free, voluntarily on occasion (without being paid), that is impressive in & of itself... apk

"See you later! This is my last reply to you." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 30, @02:48AM (#18924587)

I hope for once you are being honest, instead of how you were blatantly dishonest and caught lying here and on other websites as you were psycho cyberstalking apk at this site, techpowerup.com, windowsitpro.com, and who knows how many others:

"Also, I never said I was from Staten Island. You did. I never said I was the girl in that picture either, you did." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Thursday March 29, @06:16PM (#18536049)

You are from Staten Island Jarett, originally, and apparently are a student at Notre Dame, and no one ever said you were a girl - YOU did, lol! Here is the posting where you did:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227475&cid=184 94155

"Hey, dipshit: how do you know I'm MALE? Maybe I SHOULD be acting like a woman because I AM one." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday March 26, @06:16PM (#18494155)

And, when caught in his lie, only then did he admit to it here:

"I am quite male." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 02, @08:18PM (#18581257)

You cannot be trusted, and you have stalked apk online over at techpowerup.com under a false name of "JTD" here as well, and you have already admitted to it:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=0ee 4a8885bccf56db1b561a3563e5629&t=20143&highlight=JT D

You have definitely been 'cyberstalking' apk. At this point, there is no question of that. What is wrong with you and the rest of your arstechnica forums friends?

You even went over to windowsitpro.com recently to stalk and bother him there:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?art icleid=41095&cpage=193#feedbackAnchor

Where your friends Jeremy Reimer and Jay Little did, and were caught email harassing apk (Jeremy Reimer) by their ISP's, then had their websites removed by their hosting providers for libel and death threats to apk (Reimer and Little) as well as impersonating apk on them (Reimer)

"Let's see what happens, shall we? I'll even give you a little grace period for a post right after this one." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 30, @02:48AM (#18924587)

Unfortunately, how can anybody believe you, per the above from your own words and deeds?

You are dishonorable and a liar.

(I hope you are for once, being honest with others. Your history above of cyberstalking apk is proof of anything but honesty or honorable behaviours. This is all anyone wanted you to do: Leave apk and others you cyberstalk, alone!)

"YOU linked me to the page where Jeremy posted, nimrod." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 30, @02:25AM (#18924451)

No he did not, the first link here next (this post is getting to starkruzr, lol, he is slipping badly caught lying, losing in technical debate, and now on his ability to keep track in posts here, lol, of url's posted) is about you "JTD"/Jarrett DeAngelis/Starkruzr, and same as was on last page:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=001 6013edb2dd0ee3b91a0f02c8b8338&t=20143&page=5

Something on that page upset you? Quaking with "RaGe" and "GeEk AnGsT", or something? LOL...

(After all, I see JTD there in that url above, and you are he admittedly from your own mouth here already)

"Take your meds, Alex" - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 30, @02:25AM (#18924451)

Once more, for the 100th time, I am not "ALEX". You need the meds, and in your case, I would suggest like straight 110% heroin. Might chill you out enough to not make so many technical mistakes on computer stuff you spout and screwup on, and also so you not get caught in so many outrageous lies online.

Years from now? Things like this are going to haunt you professionally. This is the internet and if you stay in the tech field, putting down someone like apk who you know has done well in it, and you get outright schooled by him as your arstechnica friends blatantly were here:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?art icleid=41095&cpage=193#feedbackAnchor

And now yourself following and harassing apk there, as you did as "JTD" over at techpowerup.com forums (where you now masquerade as starkruzr, as you do here and at arstechnica on their forums), and many other sites online?

TAKE YOUR MEDS INTERNET CYBER-PSYCHO STALKER!

"That account existed solely because of your insane ramblings on WindowsITPro, a site you are still flooding with lunacy 3 years after the article in question (By Dr. Mark Russinovich) was posted." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Sunday April 29, @11:34PM (#18923687)

Did anyone ASK you to show up there, and start your lunacy calling folks insane etc.? No, everyone SHUNNED you and cut you down:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=001 6013edb2dd0ee3b91a0f02c8b8338&t=20143&page=5

Why don't you learn to tell the truth?

Additionally, Your friend Jeremy Reimer posted here on 04/18/2007 (a week ago) and apk replied, and then YOU showed up, suddenly and mention Reimer's name no less:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?art icleid=41095&cpage=193#feedbackAnchor

Who do you think you are fooling?

Like usual, like most arstechnicans who start trouble? You have no way out of your own words and actions at this point.

Insanity is not considering the outcomes of your actions, and you have the nerve to call ME or APK insane as you have here and at windowsitpro.com? Where is your Phd in psychiatry? Oh, that's right - you don't have one.

"None of the details of this matter. The point is, I have stopped, and you have continued, because of your insane need to "finish" everything." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Sunday April 29, @11:34PM (#18923687)

No, just you arstechnica people harassing apk and others online, that is what needs finishing. No other way now, apparently, other than legal means. Also, do I have to quote where you gloat over others here, claiming "wins" and more?

Please. This is the same crap you tried to close your old argument with apk and myself as well, the first of 2 along with this one

That's when you thought I would not be made aware of them which you started here with me, as you have here in this one below, along with others:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161862&cid=135 32123

Who are you trying to fool? Because honestly, you've "bullshitted yourself" only.

"I've stopped commenting back to you repeatedly and you've kept it up over and over." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Sunday April 29, @03:12PM (#18920239)

Oh, really? Techpowerup.com and "JTD" ring a bell? How about your two attacks on apk here, and you started them (all of this is below, and the links work)!

Keep it up, just because you made an UTTER FOOL out of yourself here:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=232589&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=18920309

The "mighty doctoral candidate" (in business administration, right?))

and, have started up with apk here twice at slashdot, for no reasons, here in both of these urls:

"No one listen to this guy. He spent several months on Ars Technica trying to convince everyone he was some kind of super programmer, but it fell apart pretty fast when it became clear that he actually didn't know his *** from his elbow." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Sunday September 11, @12:42PM (#13532123)

Where apk was modded up +4, and you got a lol, -1 for trolling & flaming (which means you are a dick basically)!

That is where, surprise surprise, you the arstechnican started up with apk for no reason, the first time I know of here @ slashdot, ontop of here again later & recently as of the date of this post:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227563&cid= 18435701

"But I wonder how long it will be before "APK" aka "AlecStaar" comes out of his rathole to talk about how Mark is a witless academic who can't possibly know more than he does, since he's the author of ZDNet-approved APKTools 2007+++++++ 99.8.10101022 SR6." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Wednesday March 21, @06:17PM (#18435701)

Also, saying:

"I think it's HILARIOUS to harass YOU online. Just you. Only you." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Friday March 30, @12:21AM (#18539431)

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=232585&cid=189 19031

As well as techpowerup.com forums here as "JTD" (Jarrett DeAngelis, you):

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=001 6013edb2dd0ee3b91a0f02c8b8338&t=20143&page=5

This is almost all apk would need, including you showing up here:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?art icleid=41095&cpage=193#feedbackAnchor

Which you have, harassing myself here, and apk there, further!

(You are creating your own problem, not I, online harassing, libelling, or otherwise following apk and others around to do so!)

And here at slashdot, where tests and tools you were invited to try, proved you UTTERLY wrong as well on the RegFlushKey API call above:

"The Registry is NOT searched through every time Windows needs information from it. Instead, it is read from the file once, at boot, and loaded into memory into a static data structure which is a hybrid of a tree and an array" - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 23, @07:43PM (#18847517)

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=230833&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=18880177

On how the registry itself, works, and it is NOT 'static/unchanging' once loaded into RAM from disk, changes occur (reads and writes) to data there, this is marked in a dirty array/buffer as to where, and then the default is config

"jtd" was never banned, as you can see here: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=270 65&page=29

Apparently there was some database weirdness, because although we know it had more than 1 post, it shows 0, and shows a registration date of only a couple months ago. So something odd happened. Maybe they had to rebuild their user tables or something, I don't know. But that account was not banned, largely because I never let it get that far.

More entertaining chartreuse, and truth, unlike starkruzr is telling you. Read here, his own words evidence it:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=232589&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=18914179

chartreuse, you read, you judge. Knowing starkruzr, I hope chartreuse is not starkruzr under another name. He uses many at techpowerup.com forums!

JTD here as one of his guises there he bothered me under and was only NOT banned under THAT guise, because I ask he not be (first post of his was to bug me there in fact, see for yourself):

http://forums.techpowerup.com/member.php?s=ea18d30 286ee553550bcf87742c110fd&u=33654

and Starkruzr, there now, as he is here:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/member.php?s=ea18d30 286ee553550bcf87742c110fd&u=37836

They are the SAME person, both are starkruzr/jtd/Jarrett DeAngelis! chartreuse, if you are not he, my apologies, but it is NOT above starkruzr lying or using other deceptions (he is not much of a coder, nor much of a human being, period).

See for yourself. He lied to you, and now to everyone else here. Disgusting, a "not man".

More entertaining chartreuse, and truth, unlike starkruzr is telling you. Read here, his own words evidence it:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=232589&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=18914179

chartreuse, you read, you judge. Knowing starkruzr, I hope chartreuse is not starkruzr under another name. He uses many at techpowerup.com forums!

JTD here as one of his guises there he bothered me under and was only NOT banned under THAT guise, because I ask he not be (first post of his was to bug me there in fact, see for yourself):

http://forums.techpowerup.com/member.php?s=ea18d30 286ee553550bcf87742c110fd&u=33654

and Starkruzr, there now, as he is here:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/member.php?s=ea18d30 286ee553550bcf87742c110fd&u=37836

They are the SAME person, both are starkruzr/jtd/Jarrett DeAngelis! chartreuse, if you are not he, my apologies, but it is NOT above starkruzr lying or using other deceptions (he is not much of a coder, nor much of a human being, period).

See for yourself. He lied to you, and now to everyone else here. Disgusting, a "not man".

Sec. 2. (a) A person who, with intent to harass, annoy, or alarm another person but with no intent of legitimate communication

I've stopped commenting back to you repeatedly and you've kept it up over and over.

Good thing for you I don't intend to press charges, Tinkerbell.

JTD = Jarrett DeAngelis = starkruzr.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/search.php?s=6b0dd96 98b1626d665c836c568235767&searchid=588020

That link doesn't work. Yet another failure from the magnificent APK. And what the hell is Spoke.com?

Neither of my two Slashdot comments count as "cyberstalking." Why don't you marshal your army of interweb lawyers (much like you did with Jeremy) and then get back to me?

(Just so you know -- you'd have to STOP COMMUNICATION, and I would have to initiate it again, sending you threatening/harassing messages, repeatedly, over and over and over, in order for it to count. But, you know. Ask your lawyers, none of whom, I am certain, will be JEWS -- does the word send shivers down your spine, APK? -- and then let me know.)

Poor Alex. Caught in the grip of his paranoid delusions. It's okay, sweetie. Just take a deep breath.

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?art icleid=41095&cpage=193#feedbackAnchor

All anyone needs to read about yourself starkruzr, and your arstechnica friends like Jeremy Reimer (whom you admit to being friends with here, at slashdot) and Jay Little who were both kicked from their hosting providers for their websites, were caught email harassing apk, and also libelling him at windowsitpro.com and their own websites (hence the removal for "APK MUST DIE" and such), as well as impersonating apk on their forums (both arstechnica and osy, Reimer's website).

Keep 'trolling apk' as you are and have been doing here at slashdot, and at techpowerup.com forums, evidenced with you posting as "JTD" (JTD = Jarrett DeAngelis):

http://forums.techpowerup.com/search.php?s=ee37149 78d2e4ac4bfdbc601bb72b146&searchid=588454

and as starkruzr at techpowerup.com forums (proving you like your masquerading as others as your friend Jeremy Reimer did impersonating apk on his OSY forums):

Lastly, you settle on posting as starkruzr here, and at techpowerup.com, which you post at windowsitpro.com forums as now, per the above URL!

Everywhere you posted is archived, as both starkruzr, and jtd, at techpowerup.com forums, and here.

So removing posts is not a thing to try now starkruzr.

You'll see what happens, and you rather unintelligently brought this back to life, and provide proof you and your arstechnica pals are indeed, continually online stalking, harassing, and otherwise attempting to ruin someone's reputation online with.

Like your lousy attempted cut down of apk's program here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

Where others tore you apart, Mr. GradSchool/Doctoral candidate, with your ERRONEOUS 'evaluation' of it, and where you went wrong on it, noted here:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=230833&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=18880177

Poor job, because you stated the registry is static in nature (it is not, it is quite dynamic, since programs read AND WRITE TO IT, all day long, changing values and adding them even (installers add usually), and the configuration manager writing .log files and mirroring changed entries back to disk prove that, as well as possible RegFlushKey Win32 API calls usage allowing a program immediate flushes back to disk hives or .log files, and the configuration manager does the rest).

Even poorer trolling others, which you will regret, legally.

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?art icleid=41095&cpage=193#feedbackAnchor

All anyone needs to read about yourself starkruzr, and your arstechnica friends like Jeremy Reimer (whom you admit to being friends with here, at slashdot) and Jay Little who were both kicked from their hosting providers for their websites, were caught email harassing apk, and also libelling him at windowsitpro.com and their own websites (hence the removal for "APK MUST DIE" and such), as well as impersonating apk on their forums (both arstechnica and osy, Reimer's website).

Keep 'trolling apk' as you are and have been doing here at slashdot, and at techpowerup.com forums, evidenced with you posting as "JTD" (JTD = Jarrett DeAngelis):

http://forums.techpowerup.com/search.php?s=ee37149 78d2e4ac4bfdbc601bb72b146&searchid=588454

and as starkruzr at techpowerup.com forums (proving you like your masquerading as others as your friend Jeremy Reimer did impersonating apk on his OSY forums):

Lastly, you settle on posting as starkruzr here, and at techpowerup.com, which you post at windowsitpro.com forums as now, per the above URL!

Everywhere you posted is archived, as both starkruzr, and jtd, at techpowerup.com forums, and here.

So removing posts is not a thing to try now starkruzr.

You'll see what happens, and you rather unintelligently brought this back to life, and provide proof you and your arstechnica pals are indeed, continually online stalking, harassing, and otherwise attempting to ruin someone's reputation online with.

Like your lousy attempted cut down of apk's program here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

Where others tore you apart, Mr. GradSchool/Doctoral candidate, with your ERRONEOUS 'evaluation' of it, and where you went wrong on it, noted here:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=230833&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=18880177

Poor job, because you stated the registry is static in nature (it is not, it is quite dynamic, since programs read AND WRITE TO IT, all day long, changing values and adding them even (installers add usually), and the configuration manager writing .log files and mirroring changed entries back to disk prove that, as well as possible RegFlushKey Win32 API calls usage allowing a program immediate flushes back to disk hives or .log files, and the configuration manager does the rest).

Even poorer trolling others, which you will regret, legally.

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?art icleid=41095&cpage=193

That explains it all about starkruzr, AND his arstechnica friends like Jeremy Reimer and Jay Little, continually harassing & cyberstalking, email harassing, and outright libelling apk since 2001 to today presently:

StarKruzr started it here at slashdot (and techpowerup.com stalking apk there from here), and the evidence of that is plain from both slashdot and techpowerup.com as well as windowsitpro.com, (more below too) where he continues his internet stalking of apk.

Read on, this gets a LOT better:

Starkruzr is registered at techpowerup.com as JTD and Starkruzr, and as starkruzr at the windowsitpro forums, his real name is Jarrett DeAngelis.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/search.php?s=6b0dd96 98b1626d665c836c568235767&searchid=588020

and he came to harass apk there, see his first post in that list, besides doing that here as well continuing it (evidences are below and in his first post in that list there in fact).

This is just more evidence thereof because starkruzr has tried to trash apk here twice, and elsewhere online, and apk never did once to starkruzr, first, and 2-3x now at this site and others (windowsitpro.com, techpowerup.com, and yes, slashdot.org):

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161862&cid=135 32123

"No one listen to this guy. He spent several months on Ars Technica trying to convince everyone he was some kind of super programmer, but it fell apart pretty fast when it became clear that he actually didn't know his *** from his elbow." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Sunday September 11, @12:42PM (#13532123)

Where apk was modded up +4, and starkruzr got a -1 for trolling & flaming (which means he is a dick basically)!

That is where, surprise surprise, you the arstechnican started up with apk for no reason, the first time I know of here @ slashdot, ontop of here again later & recently as of the date of this post:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227563&cid= 18435701

"But I wonder how long it will be before "APK" aka "AlecStaar" comes out of his rathole to talk about how Mark is a witless academic who can't possibly know more than he does, since he's the author of ZDNet-approved APKTools 2007+++++++ 99.8.10101022 SR6." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Wednesday March 21, @06:17PM (#18435701)

Where starkruzr was shown things in that exchange that proved he was this rat coming out of the rathole, there, and the witless academic here:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=230833&cid=188 81049

When starkruzr attempted to shoot down apk's program, and made HUGE errors, especially in his saying this (run this by Dr. Russinovich in fact, vs. you being shot down and see who was correct)

"The Registry is NOT searched through every time Windows needs information from it. Instead, it is read from the file once, at boot, and loaded into memory into a static data structure which is a hybrid of a tree and an array" - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 23, @07:43PM (#18847517)

First of all, an array of structures (or even a directory structure on disk really) is a better description, and secondly, the registry is written to, every 5 seconds iirc, by the kernel component, and is a dynamically changing structure!

The CONFIGURATION MANAGER first of all, writes it back to disk, & secondly it CAN be done by using the RegFlushKey Win32 API call, if needed

You've been very useful Jarrett!

(and why bother ask you what you stated? You evaded that question you now want others to ask you, constantly along with what you have accomplished in computer sciences in publication in this field in print! You never gave us here a simple yes, or no, from yourself in regard to any of those questions, when you were asked it. Why should anyone ask you a question you have evaded to no end here?)

However, now you have been truly useful & instrumental in helping determine some things for an ongoing matter regarding internet stalking and harassment arstechnicans are directing apk's way since 2001-2002 to today, presently.

"I think it's HILARIOUS to harass YOU online. Just you. Only you." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Friday March 30, @12:21AM (#18539431)

Stalking apk, as you have here at slashdot and also at techpowerup.com:

JTD = Jarrett DeAngelis = starkruzr.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/search.php?s=6b0dd96 98b1626d665c836c568235767&searchid=588020

This all makes sense now and provides yet more continued proof you and your arstechnica friends are stalking apk online. Bad move. Still, do take a look at this before you keep it up:

What Is Cyberstalking?

The term is used in this report to refer to the use of the Internet, e-mail, or other electronic communications devices to stalk another person. Stalking generally involves harassing or threatening behavior that an individual engages in repeatedly, such as following a person, appearing at a person's home or place of business, making harassing phone calls, leaving written messages or objects, or vandalizing a person's property.

Since you are student at Notre Dame, in South Bend Indiana, this applies:

Indiana

IC 35-45-2-2
Sec. 2. (a) A person who, with intent to harass, annoy, or alarm another person but with no intent of legitimate communication.

Since you are from Staten Island N.Y. originally, this applies:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A05376 [state.ny.us]

BILL NUMBER: A5376 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the penal law, in
relation to cyberstalking on a computer network in the first degree
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL : Creates the crime of cyberstalking
making it a class E felony.

Your friend Jeremy Reimer and Jay Little were already caught in email harassment and libel (as well as being kicked from their hosting providers for their websites for death threats saying "APK MUST DIE" etc.) AND FALSELY IMPERSONATING APK ON THEIR WEBSITES (both arstechnica and Jeremy Reimer's OSY forums) and that much per the windowsitpro magazine thread here evidences that easily:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?art icleid=41095&cpage=193#feedbackAnchor

Between the techpowerup connection to yourself and your posts here about apk (when he never posted anything about yourself here no less even once prior to you ever doing so about he first, and not even after afaik) and the arstechnica forums members harassing him at windowsitpro.com, 2cpu.com, ntcompatible.com, majorgeeks.com, 3dfiles.com, and more since 2001 or thereabouts, especially now that you are definitely connected with Jeremy Reimer per your own words here at slashdot, and Jay Little via arstechnica as well (which you are and admitted to it here on slashdot) you are part of this all now.

Additionally, your personal honesty and ethics are in question here (not your motivations though at this point) and you will not help your friends on that account either since you stated you were a woman, and when caught, a man.

"YOU were the one who originally suggested I might be female, I just went alo

You have never even held a job!

http://www.spoke.com/public/pages/A/person/001/320 /258

0 jobs, eh, Jarrett DeAngelis? I mean, lol, that page shows you as never having even held a job! Job History = 0 jobs.

ROTFLMAO.

JTD = Jarrett DeAngelis = starkruzr. You are the fool that tried to bother apk and the rest of us at the techpowerup.com forums here:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=5ac 93f70614141960248bf289b2d091f&t=20143 [techpowerup.com]

This makes sense now. You got your ass handed to you there as well when you tried to bust on apk, and everyone drove you out of there for your bullshit at techpowerup.com also and yet you stated you never were banned.

Another starkruzr lie is thus exposed:

JTD your 'alter ego' at techpowerup.com forums shows otherwise. The only reason you did not get banned was apk asking you not get banned at that time, but iirc, you got banned anyhow.

You've made a big mistake in stalking apk though.

If you keep stalking apk as you have here at slashdot and techpowerup.com and are connected with Jeremy Reimer and Jay Little (which you are and admitted to it here on slashdot), take a look at this before you keep it up:

What Is Cyberstalking?

the term is used in this report to refer to the use of the Internet, e-mail, or other electronic communications devices to stalk another person. Stalking generally involves harassing or threatening behavior that an individual engages in repeatedly, such as following a person, appearing at a person's home or place of business, making harassing phone calls, leaving written messages or objects, or vandalizing a person's property.

And, there are laws against that starluzr. You instigated it here with apk, and you are digging your own hole.

Pending Legislation

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A05376

BILL NUMBER: A5376 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the penal law, in
relation to cyberstalking on a computer network in the first degree
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL : Creates the crime of cyberstalking
making it a class E felony.

Indiana

IC 35-45-2-2
Sec. 2. (a) A person who, with intent to harass, annoy, or alarm another person but with no intent of legitimate communication

Nothing boring about proving you dead wrong, in fact, it was too easy. A tool from Microsoft shows you are way, WAY off and incorrect.

"The Registry is NOT searched through every time Windows needs information from it. Instead, it is read from the file once, at boot, and loaded into memory into a static data structure which is a hybrid of a tree and an array" - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 23, @07:43PM (#18847517)

vs. my finding the registry is constantly accessed all during a computer's operation by tracing it with a registry monitoring tool from Microsoft for 1 minute and seeing over 500,000 accesses to the registry, in 1 minute only!

That is way contrary to your erroneous and laughable statement quoted above, we see your single point about apk's program here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

and in general about it, according to a test above, you are totally wrong.

Combine that with the fact you missed his program also clears out things uninstallers miss, and also removal of non-legitimate and invalid registry entries, you are definitely not a computer science student. No way do I believe that now, and you were already shown an outright liar when you said you are a woman, and later you had to admit to being a male when caught in the lie.

Apk is right about you big talkers from arstechnica. You talk a lot but when facts are put down vs. the garbage you stated quoted above.

Programs that run on Windows and Windows itself, access the registry all day long. In memory and to disk (see how the Configuration Manager section of the kernel subsystems works, for your sake, using deferred writes to disk for the registry, and direct writes to the registry/non-cached are possible as well in programs mind you)

So, are you jewish or not?

"Now, let's get out of the realm of the theoretical and get into real life." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 23, @07:43PM (#18847517)

Lol, yea, lets get into real life and do a test. I decided to. Here is what I found, and it is not as you stated, but rather as you opponents did quoted below after your quote below.

Starkruzer, you said this:

"The Registry is NOT searched through every time Windows needs information from it. Instead, it is read from the file once, at boot, and loaded into memory into a static data structure which is a hybrid of a tree and an array" - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 23, @07:43PM (#18847517)

Somebody mentioned here using regmon and also the new process monitor tool from Microsoft, so I did, and over a 1 minute period, the registry was read/written over 500,000 events/times while I was reading emails, unzipping some downloads, and opening up webpages and doing a post here for instance (light work only reading emails and webpages in the browser and email programs).

This showed me nearly constant registry access. Not as you said only 1 time at Windows startup.

At this point, I have to assume you are lying again, since you were shown to do that saying you are a woman, and then a man, and that you do not have this degree you state you have, nor are you a graduate student in computer science if you did not realize this.

This program, by removing unneeded or invalid registry entries, can save clocks cycles in that tiny timeframe then over the course of a day, a week, a month, a year, or a decade ad infinitum, it is saving people computing power.

A lot of it more than just potentially. Up to 360,000,000 reads in a day could work faster, and multiplying that over weeks, months, years, or decades adds up to helping performance if there are less entries to read thru.

If the entries found are in the set it cleans out, which is pretty much almost any section since all are scanned, it means less to read thru in those areas to get to the ones that are needed and still valid!

If there are 720 minutes in a day, and 1/2 million registry accesses a day? That is a big possible savings in their being less to read thru.

So, I agree with the person who said to test it and how they recommend doing it, and now quote them:

"This took the cake. I suggest you pull out your hero Dr. Russinovich's program (whom apk had to tell him how to fix his pagedefrag program, and where and how, due to his ROOKIE hardcoding usages of C:\ drive as the location of the pagefile.sys (this can be moved for better performance and apk originated that in fact since 1997 and his article at ntcompatible.com) in his program no less and he took apk's advice, and still has the same type of errs in hardcodes for the eventlog locations, which can also be moved for more performance), regmon and use it."

That all said, you really did do a poor job of trying to put down the program here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

And it does have benefits in removing your tracks from things for security as well as helping remove remnants of no longer legitimate items on disk, above and beyond saving computational power that is wasted on them being in the registry for nothing that can use them other than for tracking/history purposes.

"Are you for real? This has nothing to do with anything. The fact that you even brought it up makes no sense whatsoever. I'm not going to answer your question because it's irrelevant and you are a tool." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Wednesday April 25, @03:05AM (#18867061)

I am asking now. I am curious if you are jewish or not. A yes, or no answer, will do.

I am not apk even though you think everyone asking here is and I suggest you get professional help for that obsession of yours regarding this apk guy.

You seem to think you know

"Are you for real? This has nothing to do with anything. The fact that you even brought it up makes no sense whatsoever. I'm not going to answer your question because it's irrelevant and you are a tool." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Wednesday April 25, @03:05AM (#18867061)

I am asking now. I am curious if you are jewish or not. A yes, or no answer, will do.

I am not apk even though you think everyone asking here is and I suggest you get professional help for that obsession of yours regarding this apk guy.

You seem to think you know everyone posting is this apk person by their writing style. Have you like extensively stalked apk online to determine his writing style? Have you noted that many people write in the style he does?

I am not he, but I am curious on whetever you are jewish or not.

"As you have committed the final step in your own self-degradation and abasement, I have nothing left to say to you, having successfully exposed you as human filth. " - by StarKruzr (74642) on Wednesday April 25, @03:05AM (#18867061)

It seems this exposed any * human filth * with this, and in their own words regarding their own view of outsiders/non-jews:

#1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim (Gentiles) is like killing a wild
animal."

#2. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be
violated."

#3. Yebamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted
if she is three years of age."

#4. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."

#5. Yebamoth 98a: "All gentile children are animals."

#6. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of
the world are not human beings but beasts."

He did not write that, apk himself did not write that either, and in fact jews themselves did, and asking if you are jewish matters to me at this point. You avoiding it and the questions about what you thought about those views is quite interesting to see indeed. Why avoid answering?

"Now, let's get out of the realm of the theoretical and get into real life. The Registry is NOT searched through every time Windows needs information from it. Instead, it is read from the file once, at boot, and loaded into memory into a static data structure which is a hybrid of a tree and an array" - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 23, @07:43PM (#18847517)

I also tested the fact somebody mentioned here using regmon and also the new process explorer tool from Microsoft, and over a 10 second period, the registry was read/written over 1,000 times. If this program can save clocks cycles in that timeframe then over the course of a day, a week, a month, a year, or a decade ad infinitum, it is saving people computing power.

I agree with them, and now quote them:

"This took the cake. I suggest you pull out your hero Dr. Russinovich's program (whom apk had to tell him how to fix his pagedefrag program, and where and how, due to his ROOKIE hardcoding usages of C:\ drive as the location of the pagefile.sys (this can be moved for better performance and apk originated that in fact since 1997 and his article at ntcompatible.com) in his program no less and he took apk's advice, and still has the same type of errs in hardcodes for the eventlog locations, which can also be moved for more performance), regmon and use it."

You did a poor job of trying to put down the program here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

And it does have benefits in removing your tracks from things for security as well as helping remove remnants of no longer legitimate items on disk, above and beyond saving computational power that is wasted on them being in the registry for nothing that can use them other than for tracking/history purposes.

"Do you know what the word "negligible" means? That is the kind of improvement your program produces. It is not at all noticeable by the user. There is no change in responsiveness or boot time. Everything is exactly as fast as it was before, for all intents and purposes." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Tuesday April 24, @06:57PM (#18863023)

An improvement, is an improvement. A gain, however small, is a gain. Nuff said on that account and thanks for seconding it along with its other users noted on its downloads page here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

Have you created ANY programs that even yield a tiny speed/performance gain, ever, that any of us reading here can see or try? No?? Typical arstechnica talk a lot of trash, but nothing to their credit types that are rampant on your forums (not all of you, but the majority like yourself).

All you've shown us here @ slashdot is evasions (you wont even answer if you are jewish or not, I wonder why that is. Also, you evaded putting out anything in computer science in publication that may have been to your credit, vs. 15 times apk appeared in print in this science. You have zero is why), your lies shown below, and b.s.!

"I'm kind of sad you didn't try anything else to justify the existence of your stupidly-designed, horribly-written application, because it would have been fun to shoot it down, too." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Tuesday April 24, @06:57PM (#18863023)

For a horribly designed application, it seems to have done the job better than any other program out there like it and had tests done over time to prove that statement vs. competition from JV RegClean, Microsoft, & others and did not need a redesign from the time it was created in 1997.

You've only shot yourself down, repeatedly here, with your lies saying you are a woman and only telling the truth once you were caught.

Are these not your words:

"I never said I was the girl in that picture either, you did." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Thursday March 29, @06:16PM (#18536049)

Nobody said you were a girl other than yourself, lol! Here is the posting where you did:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227475&cid=184 94155

Once you were caught in the act lying, you flipped the script, to this:

"Okay, seriously. Let's drop the act. Okay? Yes? Let's quit pretending. I am quite male. I only said I was female to mess with your head." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 02, @08:18PM (#18581257)

Well? Your credibility is zero, liar. End of story. Oh, and are you jewish?

"Now. Let me educate you a little bit on why your "Registry Cleaning Engine" is what we in the computer science industry like to call "fucking worthless."" - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 23, @07:43PM (#18847517)

Pinochio (starloser) first of all, at this stage? Nobody is listening to you, or believing you, because you are a liar and confuse what you state is an improvement, with it NOT being an improvement:

"This means that it reduced search time by log(300something). This is maybe a couple clock cycles. MAYBE." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 23, @07:43PM (#18847517)

Is this a savings/improvement, or not? Yes it is. There are also other gains you totally overlooked as to what this program does for you, so, so much for your "analysis" and thanks for pointing out this program makes performance gains for a user of it!

Thanks!

Now - Can you gain anybody that much in a program you wrote that needed NO ALTERATION TO RUN ON Windows 9.x, Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003, all the way since the date of its birth back as far as 1997??

No, you cannot. You haven't done shit for anyone in fact, or yourself. Just a lot of arstechnica hot-air, blowhard-ness, as usual, and wrong as usual. Love arguing with you idiots from ars, too easy to use your own words against you, everytime. No wonder apk makes mincemeat of you fools.

"Now, let's get out of the realm of the theoretical and get into real life. The Registry is NOT searched through every time Windows needs information from it. Instead, it is read from the file once, at boot, and loaded into memory into a static data structure which is a hybrid of a tree and an array" - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 23, @07:43PM (#18847517)

What about applications that read or WRITE the registry, besides windows itself which you mention gains initially (even if only by a small margin which you noted yourself though you attempt to put the gain down as worthless - funny, but the last time I checked, a gain was a gain)?

Also, it seems apk's work was tested and found more entries that were invalid than any other product like it out there, including Microsoft's own Registry Cleaner!

See, like yourself, I have long ago tried apk's program and it is a good one:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

I have also noted it is ALSO VERY GOOD FOR SECURITY PURPOSES!

(In that it cleans up tracks of apps and installers that should not have been left behind and were after uninstalls or programs I used to use and still do, leaving entries of things they accessed that no longer exist on disk - another benefit it offers, albeit in security AND ONE BENEFIT YOU MISSED TOTALLY (so much for your analysis, alleged student)).

AND, I have noted apk's registry cleaner is safer that others like it/competitors, because it does not adversely affect OLE server entries as others expose? It is just better than its competition, even Microsoft's version of such a tool/program.

As usual, You just can't tell the truth, can you, Pinochio? That, or you just do not know better. As usual, you lose, via your own words.

Too easy!

"lol absence of evidence is not evidence of absence lol" - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 23, @07:43PM (#18847517)

We definitely have evidence you lied, your own words say it below, lol!

And, it appears to be to anybody with any sense, that having proofs and evidence help an argument, which is why you lose yours. You have zero on any account, except that you lie.

Apk has many evidences of things that do good things for computers, noted in publication around 15 times or so since 1996, and you do not. Not a single thing to your credit in fact, and when you were challenged to show the same, you had zero.

In fact, and I felt this was the most impressive of an impressiv

"You probably recall that a couple weeks ago I said "goodbye" and you stopped posting in response to me, yes? It could have been finished there, but you chose to resume your silly comments a week later." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Saturday April 21, @03:56PM (#18825903)

If you never did things like this:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161862&cid=135 32123

"No one listen to this guy. He spent several months on Ars Technica trying to convince everyone he was some kind of super programmer, but it fell apart pretty fast when it became clear that he actually didn't know his ass from his elbow." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Sunday September 11, @12:42PM (#13532123)

Where apk was modded up +4, and you got a lol, -1 for trolling & flaming (which means you are a dick basically) where, surprise surprise, you the arstechnican started up with apk for no reason, the first time I know of here @ slashdot, ontop of here again later & recently as of the date of this post:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227563&cid= 18435701

"But I wonder how long it will be before "APK" aka "AlecStaar" comes out of his rathole to talk about how Mark is a witless academic who can't possibly know more than he does, since he's the author of ZDNet-approved APKTools 2007+++++++ 99.8.10101022 SR6." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Wednesday March 21, @06:17PM (#18435701)

Where you were shown things in that exchange where you later saw a list of things he had done and you had nothing like it you had done yourself in computers when asked if you had. That alone proved you to be nothing more than just another big talking, no production arstechnica blowhard in & of itself.

"Clearly you have some talent in IT, though you haven't been able to demonstrate anything you've done recently." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Tuesday April 03, @08:24PM (#18597513)

It seems that apk has this program out there now (and it is good). Also, since you state that he is idle (from you the 'alleged grad school student', who lies lol and cannot be trusted)) and it runs on VISTA even, unmodified from its original design which worked since Windows 9.x thru Server 2003, as well as VISTA now:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html [techpowerup.com]

I find it quite odd you say that above about apk, especially after you said this here about him in the url below, kicking off this trouble you are having with he and his friends where he was modded up +4 for his comments about computer science curricula vs. you being modded down to -1 here:

Are you sure you know your ass from your elbow? Can you make up your mind?? Evidently not, and you defintely cannot tell truths either. I mean, you're a known liar, first of all and in your own words here:

Then, you show you are nothing more than a liar here:

"Also, I never said I was from Staten Island. You did. I never said I was the girl in that picture either, you did." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Thursday March 29, @06:16PM (#18536049)

I never said you were a girl, YOU did, lol! Here is the posting where you did:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227475&cid=184 94155

"Okay, seriously. Let's drop the act. Okay? Yes? Let's quit pretending. I am quite male. I only said I was female to mess with your head." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 02, @08:18PM (#18581257)

You are such a liar, starLOSER, who's been caught no less in it a few times here with other reprehensible behavior, and the arstechnica member trend and typical pattern continues, lol, BUSTED as a liar.

Are you proud

Everyone posting is not apk, can you prove otherwise? No! In fact, when you tried to give apk steam behind his back here as you arstechnica no accomplishments of note do online, I posted things he had done and you said first this, starting this all up:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161862&cid=135 32123

"No one listen to this guy. He spent several months on Ars Technica trying to convince everyone he was some kind of super programmer, but it fell apart pretty fast when it became clear that he actually didn't know his ass from his elbow." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Sunday September 11, @12:42PM (#13532123)

If anyone didn't know their ass from their elbows, it was arstechnicans here vs. apk:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?art icleid=41095&cpage=190#feedbackAnchor

This type of things has to be your arstechnica psycho stalkers online single reason you arstechnicans go after him online at numerous sites. Often behind his back as you do coward.

Still, apk got the better of you so many times and each time you fools do start it pursuing him to sites like 3dfiles.com, majorgeeks.com, ntcompatible.com, windowsitpro.com, slashdot.com, 2cpu.com and more, and not just that one above though that is one of the better ones?

You expect people not to notice your arstechnica antics and lol, massive defeats in technical or other types of debates, or apk not to defend himself vs. you (and he has everytime and overcome you arstechnicans so badly you keep coming to your own detriment online everytime)?

LOL, & later, you stated this during our exchanges here in reply to myself and others who berated you for your reprehensible behaviours (after you had seen just some of what he has done in this field over a decade ago and up to 2003 in 12 respected publications in this field, in print, not just online, or so):

"Clearly you have some talent in IT, though you haven't been able to demonstrate anything you've done recently." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Tuesday April 03, @08:24PM (#18597513)

It seems that apk has this program out there now (and it is good). Also, since you state that he is idle (from you the 'alleged grad school student', who lies lol and cannot be trusted)) and it runs on VISTA even, unmodified from its original design which worked since Windows 9.x thru Server 2003, as well as VISTA now:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

Are you sure you know your ass from your elbow? Can you make up your mind?? Evidently not, and you defintely cannot tell truths either. I mean, you're a known liar, first of all and in your own words above in the first set of quotes I put up from you.

Above all else? You like to "troll" others as you call it, but when faced with a little bit of what you personally dish out to others like apk and myspace.com here at slashdot?? You cry like a child: Grow up. An eye for an eye is all you are getting. A dose of your own medicine, for your own good, and being exposed as yet another arstechnica liar. Lots of statements, no proofs of them as is usual from arstechnica.

"I am sure there are many small application makers out there who are really struggling to get the mess of Vista Security sorted out. I guess these guys are too small to even register on M$ radar but I try to support them when they have the sort of app I use regularly." - by RotateLeftByte (797477) on Sunday April 15, @01:15PM (#18742377)

Ha! I recently went thru that which you speak of in that quote of your words above myself & with an app I designed back from the Win9x days, that functioned as it was designed on 9x & just fine, on all iterations of the NT-based OS series by MS!

(NT 4.0 -> 2000 -> XP -> Server 2003, & thru each of their services packs, application security protection notwithstanding (Data Execution Prevention for ALL files, vs. ONLY protecting key Windows processes only, etc. et al))

It happened on VISTA recently with this app:

"APK REGISTRY CLEANING ENGINE 2002++ SR-7"

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

Like "Wayne & Garth" said (UNIX book in garth's hand iirc) in their film? "WE FEAR CHANGE!" & I don't know about other coders, but @ times, I actually do. It means learning time & turn-around time as well as new toolsets & api calls. Iirc, VISTA has like 7000 new APIs in total sum to master... I may be off on the number, but the point's there!

(See, I quit developing shareware/freeware over 4 years now, nearly 5, moving solely to dedicating my time to work related tasks, & learning more about this field. Freeware/Shareware was a good route to learning, but not exactly the way to monies we need to survive in & of itself... the doing of it was for me, to learn more than IS/IT/MIS info. systems doing database app type work & scripting coding (as you doubtless know, used in networking mostly on the latter).

Anyhow, I was NOT looking forward to having to load Delphi 7.0 again (love it, great stuff, same designer as .NET & Visual Studio in Mr. Anders Heijelsberg now of MS, formerly of Borland in fact), because nowadays I am concentrating solely on .NET (VB.NET &/or ASP.NET solely because "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" & today, replace IBM with Microsoft imo & experience thusfar in this field (since 1994 as a pro)).

Turns out that MS has tools built into the OS to make it work just fine, and I needed NO recompile for VISTA, great news to me!

Anyways, in summation in regard to your words I quoted?

Believe it or not, Microsoft HAD "little ole' me" me on their "radar" for this app, since I had Windows in the name and as part of a suite of freewares I did no less, not even shareware when they hassled me on it...

(and I am not a major name in this field, just a journeyman coder really, trying to keep up & learning all the time really & I think I can 'get the job done' but at times it IS a struggle for me, I am NOT a 'natural' @ this field as I feel others I know are)

ALL in all? I was a BIT surprised, but it was no big deal, because I like MS and admire what they have accomplished is why (a baby hercules of an OS in the NT-based family is out there raising hell on UNIX's & its derivants, as well as BigIron IBM stuff like Os400 & z-OS series too, & I admire that greatly, since this OS family only has 1/3'rd the time & refinement those have had roughly iirc).

Ms gave me a toolset to learn on, to earn with, so how the heck could I get angry about it? They changed my life, for the better largely (except that I am a major workaholic & learnaholic... you have to be to compete & stay current nowadays I feel & especially in this field (computer sciences)).

APK

You haven't been able to demonstrate anything you have done in the arena of computer sciences, your entire life fool, lol, yet tell others "do more for us lately"!

You also always lack proofs of your statements starloser, yet make all sorts of bold lies.

Do you realize what an ass you are, starloser? See here:

"Clearly you have some talent in IT, though you haven't been able to demonstrate anything you've done recently." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Tuesday April 03, @08:24PM (#18597513)

That is strange, apk has this program out there now (and it is good, since he is so idle,(from you the 'alleged grad school student', who lies lol and cannot be trusted)):

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

I find it quite odd you say that above about apk, especially after you said this here about him in the url below, kicking off this trouble you are having with he and his friends where he was modded up +4 for his comments about computer science curricula vs. you being modded down to -1 here:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161862&cid=135 32123

"No one listen to this guy. He spent several months on Ars Technica trying to convince everyone he was some kind of super programmer, but it fell apart pretty fast when it became clear that he actually didn't know his ass from his elbow." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Sunday September 11, @12:42PM (#13532123)

Are you sure you know your ass from your elbow? Can you make up your mind?? Evidently not, and you defintely cannot tell truths either. I mean, you're a known liar, first of all and in your own words here:

"Also, I never said I was from Staten Island. You did. I never said I was the girl in that picture either, you did." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Thursday March 29, @06:16PM (#18536049)

I never said you were a girl, YOU did, lol! Here is the posting where you did:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227475&cid=184 94155

"Okay, seriously. Let's drop the act. Okay? Yes? Let's quit pretending. I am quite male. I only said I was female to mess with your head." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 02, @08:18PM (#18581257)

Nobody can trust you at all here or elsewhere starloser.

You are toast as far as your believability as a person, and credibility in the area of computer science also, because you have not done anything like the list below though you cut that person down as you did above!

All of this, you only did to yourself, here on these forums, shooting yourself down via lies. You keep saying apk lives in his father's home, but do you have proof of this? No. Just more lies is all you can come up with, lol.

You truly are just like Jeremy "no degree, cert., or professional hands on years of experience in software engineering or network engineering" Reimer did here:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?art icleid=41095&cpage=190#feedbackAnchor

That is where documented evidence about Jeremy Reimer and Jay Little exists online (unlike you since you have zero, along w/ your accusations) were both caught email harassing apk and others, and had their websites removed by their hosting providers as well. Ah, the price paid, lol! They tried that on apk first, and instead, ahahaha, it backfired on them, and happened to them.

Hilarious arstechnica clowns, with no visible accomplishments in this field of any worth or note, like yourself. Lying, lazy, and big talking birds of a feather, do flock together: At arstechnica, hehehe!

Also, since you say he i

"Clearly you have some talent in IT, though you haven't been able to demonstrate anything you've done recently." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Tuesday April 03, @08:24PM (#18597513)

That is strange, he has this program (and it is good):

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

I find it rather odd you say that above about apk, especially after you said this here about him kicking off this trouble you are having with he and his friends where he was modded up +4 for his comments about computer science curricula vs. you being modded down to -1 here:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161862&cid=135 32123

"No one listen to this guy. He spent several months on Ars Technica trying to convince everyone he was some kind of super programmer, but it fell apart pretty fast when it became clear that he actually didn't know his ass from his elbow." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Sunday September 11, @12:42PM (#13532123)

Are you sure you know your ass from your elbow? I mean, you're a known liar, first of all and in your own words here:

"Also, I never said I was from Staten Island. You did. I never said I was the girl in that picture either, you did." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Thursday March 29, @06:16PM (#18536049)

I never said you were a girl, YOU did, lol! Here is the posting where you did:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227475&cid=184 94155

"Okay, seriously. Let's drop the act. Okay? Yes? Let's quit pretending. I am quite male. I only said I was female to mess with your head." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 02, @08:18PM (#18581257)

Nobody can trust you at all here or elsewhere starloser.

You are toast as far as your believability as a person, and credibility in the area of computer science also, because you have not done anything like the list below though you cut that person down as you did above!

All of this, you only did to yourself, here on these forums, shooting yourself down via lies.

You truly are just like Jeremy "no degree, cert., or professional hands on years of experience in software engineering or network engineering" Reimer did here:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?art icleid=41095&cpage=190#feedbackAnchor

Considering apk's done this list, vs. yourself with nothing to show for it, though you try to cut down apk, myspace.com, & others:

A QUOTE APK FROM THIS URL:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=03e 21eb2b15e283d8688ff3338144957&t=25617&page=3&highl ight=aufrusten

WINDOWS NT-Magazine (forerunner of today's .NET magazine) 1997 (iirc, Oct. issue pg. 83) issue review by Mr. John Enck, a technical editor of theirs for SuperCache & SuperDisk by EEC Systems (now SuperSpeed.com - first part was writing up an article featured on their corp. website alongside Mr. Enck no less, about the technical effective uses of Ramdisks, & the latter was on PAID CONTRACT to improve the mathematics & algorithm for tuning their SuperCache product w/ a programmatic addon they shipped w/ their product, & now is incorporated into the main program itself (Mr. Eric Dickman is their CEO iirc, & offered me a job w/ them back in 2003, but life took me to NYC instead of BOSTON) -

SuperSpeed.com ARE A CERTIFIED Microsoft Partner you know, by the by, star

"Clearly you have some talent in IT, though you haven't been able to demonstrate anything you've done recently." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Tuesday April 03, @08:24PM (#18597513)

That is strange, he has this program (and it is good):

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

I find it rather odd you say that above about apk, especially after you said this here about him kicking off this trouble you are having with he and his friends where he was modded up +4 for his comments about computer science curricula vs. you being modded down to -1 here:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161862&cid=135 32123

"No one listen to this guy. He spent several months on Ars Technica trying to convince everyone he was some kind of super programmer, but it fell apart pretty fast when it became clear that he actually didn't know his ass from his elbow." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Sunday September 11, @12:42PM (#13532123)

Are you sure you know your ass from your elbow? I mean, you're a known liar, first of all and in your own words here:

"Also, I never said I was from Staten Island. You did. I never said I was the girl in that picture either, you did." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Thursday March 29, @06:16PM (#18536049)

I never said you were a girl, YOU did, lol! Here is the posting where you did:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227475&cid=184 94155

"Okay, seriously. Let's drop the act. Okay? Yes? Let's quit pretending. I am quite male. I only said I was female to mess with your head." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 02, @08:18PM (#18581257)

Nobody can trust you at all here or elsewhere starloser.

You are toast as far as your believability as a person, and credibility in the area of computer science also, because you have not done anything like the list below though you cut that person down as you did above!

All of this, you only did to yourself, here on these forums, shooting yourself down via lies.

You truly are just like Jeremy "no degree, cert., or professional hands on years of experience in software engineering or network engineering" Reimer did here:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?art icleid=41095&cpage=190#feedbackAnchor

Considering apk's done this list, vs. yourself with nothing to show for it, though you try to cut down apk, myspace.com, & others:

A QUOTE APK FROM THIS URL:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=03e 21eb2b15e283d8688ff3338144957&t=25617&page=3&highl ight=aufrusten

WINDOWS NT-Magazine (forerunner of today's .NET magazine) 1997 (iirc, Oct. issue pg. 83) issue review by Mr. John Enck, a technical editor of theirs for SuperCache & SuperDisk by EEC Systems (now SuperSpeed.com - first part was writing up an article featured on their corp. website alongside Mr. Enck no less, about the technical effective uses of Ramdisks, & the latter was on PAID CONTRACT to improve the mathematics & algorithm for tuning their SuperCache product w/ a programmatic addon they shipped w/ their product, & now is incorporated into the main program itself (Mr. Eric Dickman is their CEO iirc, & offered me a job w/ them back in 2003, but life took me to NYC instead of BOSTON) -

SuperSpeed.com ARE A CERTIFIED Microsoft Partner you know, by the by, star

"Clearly you have some talent in IT, though you haven't been able to demonstrate anything you've done recently." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Tuesday April 03, @08:24PM (#18597513)

APK is no longer actively a shareware/freeware author, and has not been since 2003 (or so he told us at techpowerup.com forums). And, what is this? You think he has talent??

He can and has demonstrated some of what he has done, list is below: SO, we ask YOU again - what have you ever done we can see for comparison's sake? Nothing.

Also, StarLoser the arstechnican, why are you such a liar? See here:

"Also, I never said I was from Staten Island. You did. I never said I was the girl in that picture either, you did." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Thursday March 29, @06:16PM (#18536049)

I never said you were a girl, YOU did, lol! Here is the posting where you did:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227475&cid=184 94155

"Okay, seriously. Let's drop the act. Okay? Yes? Let's quit pretending. I am quite male. I only said I was female to mess with your head." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 02, @08:18PM (#18581257)

You have another think coming. ROTFLMAO, and you called others mentally troubled here, and yet YOU starloser, said that? LOL!

"I continue to troll you because it amuses me. You are an incomplete person, and it is fascinating to me to figure out what makes you tick. I enjoy watching you vary your responses, and seeing the incredibly limited creativity you have utterly fail you as you attempt to outsmart me." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Tuesday April 03, @08:24PM (#18597513)

Where is your Phd in psychology or psychiatry? Do you have one to make assessments like that?? No, you do not.

And, since all you can do is troll others (since you think this makes you something special in this area, computer sciences), has anyone ever told you that you are a sick puppy??

As far as "limited creativity", you are the one unable to show anything you have done of worth in this field anyone here can verify or test. You are full of it, and are the limited one, prove otherwise, show us things you've done that are better than the list provided here:

QUOTE APK FROM THIS URL:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=03e 21eb2b15e283d8688ff3338144957&t=25617&page=3&highl ight=aufrusten

WINDOWS NT-Magazine (forerunner of today's .NET magazine) 1997 (iirc, Oct. issue pg. 83) issue review by Mr. John Enck, a technical editor of theirs for SuperCache & SuperDisk by EEC Systems (now SuperSpeed.com - first part was writing up an article featured on their corp. website alongside Mr. Enck no less, about the technical effective uses of Ramdisks, & the latter was on PAID CONTRACT to improve the mathematics & algorithm for tuning their SuperCache product w/ a programmatic addon they shipped w/ their product, & now is incorporated into the main program itself (Mr. Eric Dickman is their CEO iirc, & offered me a job w/ them back in 2003, but life took me to NYC instead of BOSTON) -

SuperSpeed.com ARE A CERTIFIED Microsoft Partner you know, by the by, starloser.

This same set of work years later also landed apk a spot for SuperDisk/SuperVolume being a finalist in the Tech-Ed 2002 show, in its hardest category:

Boosting SQLServer Performance, the toughest category there is at tech-ed.

The work done for wares that took ideas on ramdisks to a finalist with EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com in the HARDEST category there was, SQLServer performance enhancement, as well as doing work to boost their SuperCache II product to up to 40% better than its stock performance on a paid contract in commercial wares

"Now all of Slashdot and the entire Internet know PROOF POSITIVE that you make up people to "support" you and speak about yourself in the third person ALL THE TIME to make it appear that eeeeverybody in the world backs up good ol' Alex!" - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 02, @02:58PM (#18577507)

I posted that about apk as to which publications he has appeared in within this field, from here where I found it, and I simply forgot to edit portions of them it seems, oh well:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=7a4 bac8c2ce71c0e7210cd17af534813&t=25617&page=3&highl ight=aufrusten

(He wrote that list up when he was asked to by somebody bothering others @ the forums I go to regularly in techpowerup.com):

Also iirc, apk travels for a living contracting on jobs, and he doesn't have a steady home. He uses his father's home as a central mailing area, instead of a P.O. Box. What is wrong with that? Makes sense to myself as well. Many people today do not have their own homes, and many live in the same manner today to survive.

Didn't you read the links from windowsitpro.com? He mentioned that there as well iirc.

How stupid do you feel now, starloser?

"I've also noticed that your "registry engine" is no longer available for download. Wonder why that is? Probably because of all the drama you stir up around your "software." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Sunday April 01, @10:09PM (#18570019)

It is here and that person kept posting it http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html , and doing fairly well there and other places online. Why don't you learn to read? urls are posted for it contrary to your already known bull you spout (like you are a girl and you are not) You started this drama up as you call it, here:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227563&cid= 18435701

And you were moderated down to -1 for it as well. So much for accusing others of starting drama. You are one deluded fool starkruzr. I would also like to see what you have done better than apk has in that program. Of course, I never will. You have nothing.

Comparing automobiles in a drag race is often done to see who built the superior machine. The same is done on computers via benchmark test results. What is it about this you do not undertand?

"Why is it required for me to own a car in order to know that your car is a piece of garbage?" - by StarKruzr (74642) on Sunday April 01, @10:09PM (#18570019)

This is not about cars, moron. That was a simple analogy. On cars, iirc, apk has a really nice one (150mph top end capable Tiburon GT V6 as of last year's end). Do you even own an automobile? I am curious now, not that it matters.

The point here is, that if you are going to say somebody's wares are not any good as you did below:

"I never said my software was better than yours. I said yours was objectively bad." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Sunday April 01, @10:09PM (#18570019)

What software is it that you have done we can compare to apk's here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

We would all like to see what you have done better since you cut other's work done. You are clearly unable to show anything. Typical arstechnica talk a lot, and have nothing better to show by way of comparison.

I also found a list of apk's appearances in trade magazines in this field (partial list only) for wares he has done or articles he has written that appeared in publication, and professional reviews as well of his work (professional and shareware/freeware):

WINDOWS NT-Magazine (forerunner of today's .NET magazine) 1997 (iirc, Oct. issue pg. 83) issue review by Mr. John Enck, a technical editor of theirs for SuperCache & SuperDisk by EEC Systems (now SuperSpeed.com - first part was writing up an article featured on their corp. website alongside Mr. Enck no less, about the technical effective uses of Ramdisks, & the latter was on PAID CONTRACT to improve the mathematics & algorithm for tuning their SuperCache product w/ a programmatic addon they shipped w/ their product, & now is incorporated into the main program itself - they ARE A CERTIFIED Microsoft Partner no less.

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (apk's work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, apk's work is featured there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, apk's work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, apk's work is there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, apk's work is again, there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" apk's work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), apk's work is there, first one featured, yet again

To name and show only some.

So again: What publications in this field have you been featured in? How about your hero Jeremy Reimer??

(And, I would like to see for what in his case, since he has no degree in the field of computer science, not even an A+ certification (let alone an MCSE), or years of professional hands-on experience in the trenches as a software engineer or network engineer).

If he has been, I will write them warning them, just as this person stated about him:

"As for Reimers credibility, I would never cite his article in a paper"

a quote about Reimer's credibility (only 1 of many nowadays online) that was taken from here

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/node/933

Thus, he brought about his own end, attacking apk, because apk is the one who discovered Reimer is nothing but a poseur, here:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?art icleid=41095&cpage=190#feedbackAnchor

The price charl

Ah, look at that reaction! Now, I am starting to get to you, and this is good!

"Now you will never be able to stop posting, because you always have to have the last word." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 02, @03:19AM (#18571041)

Good Lord this fool thinks I am apk, haha. Guess again.

You'll just stop yourself, by your lies evidenced below (by becoming a laughing stock here):

"Also, I never said I was from Staten Island. You did. I never said I was the girl in that picture either, you did." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Thursday March 29, @06:16PM (#18536049)

I never said you were a girl, YOU did, lol! Here is the posting where you did:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227475&cid=184 94155

You are a guy, or look like one, sorry to tell you, lol... NOT A WOMAN, even though you said you were, lol! You surely act like one, rotflmao.

"Consider the default state of my existence to be "laughing at APK and calling him a lying, good-for-nothing, narcissistic fool" - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 02, @03:19AM (#18571041)

I'd say your default existence here at slashdot is becoming that of a liar who has been exposed, rotflmao.

As to being a liar? Well, are you a girl or boy?? You either lied above, or you just don't know, which indicates somekind of problem in any event, lol!

apk is also a decent contributor to this field in many capacities. Are you? No. You were asked that repeatedly and you had zero to show for it, lol. If anyone has grounds to be proud of themselves vs. he or yourself here? He does. You don't. Myself and others asked what you had done better than he had, vs. this single piece of what he wrote:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

and you had nothing, rotflmao. Sounds like another jealous no good for nothing arstechnican, just like Jeremy "no degree in computer science, no certification (not even an A+, let alone an MCSE), and no years of professional hands-on experience in the trenches as a network engineer, or software engineer" Reimer. Another fake in starLOSER, just another Jeremy Reimer clone, lol.

Excellent posting vivaoporto, & dead-on accurate!

I agree on all counts, and wasn't aware of a couple you made in fact, in Delphi outselling Ms compilers.

Borland Delphi was not only outselling MS compilers (which I have used on my own for freeware/shareware development, but also professionally since 1995 (mostly VB3-VB.NET in Visual Studio 2005 currently though)) but also outrunning & outgunning MS' stuff.

Did you know, Borland had Delphi.NET out before Microsoft did for .NET RAD development? Pretty ironic imo.

Personally, I've used Delphi since 1995 in 16-bit version 1.0, all the way up to 7.0 in 32-bit environs on Win32 (and even Linux via Kylix, the Delphi for Linux), and it kicks butt!

The FASTEST compiler (in terms of compilations speed, unmatchable) & in terms of code it produces, & how fast IT operates.

PROOF?

In (of all places) Visual Basic Programmer's Journal (forerunner of, iirc, today's .NET magazine) October 1997 issue entitled "Inside the VB5 Compiler", Delphi so soundly beat BOTH VB5 and MSVC5&6, it was amazing.

Borland Delphi 2.0 swept the floor with both MSVB5 & MSVC5-6, almost taking EVERY test, & only losing OCX form loads to VB5, & form repaint speed to MSVC++, but the other 8 tests it blew them BOTH out of the water in!

Especially in Math & String processing speeds, which is, as you know, something EVERY program does a lot of.

It is the "WHY" of why I selected to write this program in it (because it heavily uses math & strings!

I wanted an INSTANT performance advantage out of the box is why! Delphi per the results I saw in the VBPJ mag I told you about earlier gave me that. In fact, I turned from using VB & MSVC++ in 1997 because of it, going more to Delphi until around 2003. Ms does get more following and for 'mgt. reasons', not technical excellence. "Microsoft will be here tomorrow, they have the cash: Will Borland?" being the reason.

Funny, but I can write up code in Delphi 2.0 & 3.0 that runs FINE on today's Win32 OS & hardware... idiots @ the wheel controlling things & being bean-counters types only, & not coders, should NOT be leading IS/IT/MIS dept.'s but as you know, it is largely this way, unfortunately.

Anyhow, using Delphi does yield higher performance code than VB & VC++. To go past that, I then I tuned it above compiler options (inline assembler code & multiple thread design usage) & manual profiling later (registering hi-res multimedia timers & ticking off how much time each routine took & worked on the longer ones etc.) homemade, & oldschool, but, I AM, lol, old!):

APK REGISTRY CLEANING ENGINE 2002++ SR-7:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

Thanks for these tips, & enjoy the program above should you try it!

(It is the ONLY registry cleaner that works from a SINGLE CODEBASE on Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/Server 2003/VISTA w/ out modification, and beats any other out there, via tests done on 3 diff. forums during 1998-2002)

"When Borland (then Inprise, then Borland again, then Codegear(?) ) stopped making sober RADs and decided to take a chance on expensive toys for code management, they lost in both fronts. The Turbo Series (Pascal, C and Assembler) and Delphi (the odd versions, 1, 3, 5 and 7) seriously competed against Microsoft products (Microsoft C, Assembler, Visual Series), even outselling them in a lot of places in the world (Brazil, for instance)." - by vivaoporto (1064484) on Wednesday March 28, @08:04AM (#18513581)

I started out on PC programming using Borland Turbo Pascal 5.0, & then lastly Object Pascal 7.0, in collegiate academia settings back circa 1991-1992 for DOS. Good stuff for its day, but a HELL of a lot better in Delphi 1.0 - 3.0 even (5.0 - 7.0 were king/tops as you felt,

Got a Phd in psychology or psychiatry, since you like to make assessments of others' mental states? No, you don't.

Just like how you try to cut down others for things they have done which are quite good such as apk's software here (which I use on VISTA no less and it is perfect, this is a fact since you asked for those):

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

and myspace.com as you have this week. Do you raise a finger to help them or correct their errors? Apk has with the people from FireFox before. If he is less than you, how come he has accomplished things you most likely never will in this field?

Face it: For all your misplaced ego? You either don't have the skills, or are too lazy (which is what you said about the people @ myspace.com).

More b.s. out of you, and complaints, and zero positive results, twisto, is all we have seen from you online.

I can understand your mind being 'off', since it has been from birth. You're an admitted lesbian, and that says to me you have issues period, and that your mind is NOT right @ all from the get-go.

If you intend to give somebody a hard time regarding this field? Piece of advice: Make sure you have accomplished as much as they have, first. Until then, all anyone will say to you is this: ROTFLMAO, @ you, you are nothing but a miserable, twisted, mental aberration and genetic freak.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227475&cid=184 94155

Are you a woman or a man starkruzr? Or is that just another lie of yours?? If you are a man, you are one of those little nerds who couldn't accomplish anything with his wasted life, that much we have established, lol!

1.) You put down the people at myspace and called them lazy

2.) You tried to put down apk's work here (which I tried and it is good quality software which even works on VISTA perfectly unlike other registry cleaning programs):

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

(And, yet starLOSER, you had nothing to show that you did yourself of as good or better quality).

ROTFLMAO!

If you are a woman like you said in that first url link above? I recall you told us all you had a girlfriend you just lost (who could blame her with a jerk like you), and that makes you a twisted freak of nature as a lesbian: A genetic error, an aberration, lol!

Either way? You can't win, not in this life. After all, either way, you're a freak, a loser, and a cowardly piece of crap that talks behind others' backs, and wastes your own time bothering others online instead of doing something useful.

Doesn't matter though. You're SO simple to take down with your lousy logic, I actually feel sorry for you in a way, because your mind is probably a mass of conflicting impulses being a man's mind trapped in a woman's body... lol!

Most folks call people like that windbags, perverted freaks, and judging by your screwed up behaviour bothering others for no reason online, miserable losers.

I agree, you are each of those "twisto".

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227563&thre shold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=18435701

I see you started up trouble there with this person, and he shot you down hard. You didn't have anything better than he did in the way of quality work out here online, or better than Dr. Mark Russinovich, or the folks at myspace you put down as well. You talk a good game, but, everyone knows you are just a student with no actual real world experience in the field of computer sciences. Give up on trying anyone there you child, and do something with yourself to look more credible. You claim to like starting up trouble with others no less, and you seem to be the one posting here trying to get the last word. It was never established this apk person who did this program:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

ever even posted here to begin with. A bit paranoid are we starloser? Do you have a doctorate in English or professional forensic analysis as regards who is writing what here or anyplace, and for making psychiatric evaluations, do you have a PHD in that field or a related one?? No, as is usual for you, you do not. Why should I or anyone listen to you then??? I note you also toss many names while you froth at the mouth, haha, but the main point is, that you have no standing or rather less standing, than those you put down such as this apk bloke and myspace's website and development teams. I tried his program from that url by the way, it is nice and a keeper. Can you show me something you have coded that is better for this job???? No, again, you cannot. Another windbag critic wanna be online, in our very own starloser. Also, why should I register to post where little idiots like you start up trouble with others - so I can be just as trackable as yourself?? Sorry to disappoint you, but not everybody is as stupid as you apparently are, causing your own trouble and expecting no retaliation from others you give a hard time to. Spoiled little boy that you are.

I actually did lookup this ongoing argument you had started with this apk person from your posts here. You only caught what you deserved when he asked you "what have you done that we can all see or use better than this?":

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/foowhatev ermakesgooglehappy.html

I have tried the program. It's a keeper. Supposedly he (apk) stated you had put him down, starting up your own trouble. I actually checked on that, and you did startup with him for no good reason in the Mark Russinovich of Microsoft thread, and took some sick joy in it in fact. apk only asked you show that you had done better. You also put down the website myspace.com saying they were lazy and their site stunk. This is all fact, and I am going to ask you the same question then, seeing as how you can't say anything nice and complain endlessly (especially since you are nothing but a student in this field still, and have yet to be out in the real world, doing real professional tasks in the field of computer sciences): What have you done better than that program above that we can try? Nothing, correct?? So easy to be a critic, quite another to be the cook, right??? Grow up starkruzr, and quit trying to practice so many psychological evaluations. It's giving away the keys to your own weaknesses and the fact you probably have been thru quite a few psycho assessments and evaluations, and this I can see about you. The fact you have to say things like 'people love me' is another key to your weak mind as well. So additionally like this apk character asked you about the ability to assess others' sanity on your part to they? Where is your license to practice psychology or psychiatry?? Oh, I see: You don't have one, lol!