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The Most Annoying Software Out There
superglaze writes "ZDNet UK has a very entertaining round-up of the most annoying software out there, and everything from RealPlayer and Adobe Reader to Java and Norton Antivirus gets a kicking. 'The internet has brought us many joys. It's rewritten the rules of business and pleasure. And pain. For it allows what may have seemed like bright ideas at the time ('let's use it to make sure our customers have the latest software', for example) to turn into a stinking pit of misery — usually, but by no means always, after marketing gets its fangs in.'"
How about web articles that are split across a dozen pages, for no good reason other than to interrupt your reading a dozen times so that you can twiddle your thumbs while one measly paragraph of text downloads, framed by dozens of bloated, intrusive animated ads for ZDNet?
I find those pretty annoying.
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last time i had any norton shit on my gaming windows partition it got me fragged in a quake 3 game.
never again.
since then, this is what i do when i need windows for gaming:
download all drivers and AVG free before install;
install windows, install drivers, install AVG;
configure windows auto-update to manual operation;
disable windows firewall;
do not install anything other than games;
run behind a linux/openBSD firewall;
minimal system, minimal headaches.
What ? Me, worry ?