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On Dell's Web site, the XPS series is marketed directly to gamers and high-performance power users. The XPS series is under the gaming tag, and they claim right on the front page of the Dell.com site that, "We take your gaming experience as seriously as you do."
The next line: "XPS show just how serious we are" is more telling. If the Dimension XPS400 is any indication, Dell considers computer gamers a joke.
Harsh, yes. But we think it's accurate.
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f you've read our [H] Consumer evaluation of Dell's XPS 400, you'll remember that "value-added" software got in the way of our everyday use of the machine.
Well, I've recently been made aware of a third party's attempt to remedy this situation for those of you that may not want to mess around with uninstalling unnecessary software yourself, or would rather have an unattended way of completing the job.
It's a sad state of affairs when you buy a new computer these days and it comes pre-loaded with a ton of garbage software that brings your new machine to a crawl. If anyone's bought a Dell PC in the last few years, you probably know what I'm talking about.
~~~
linking to stories on Salon.com with their force history channel ad to read the story is also a problem.
I have generally been able to reuse my old computer stuff...as I upgrade my main pc i move old computers to new tasks...(my old PC is now the Domain Controller for my home network) my 2nd oldest PC is now my media server....etc.
additonally this or that parts I no longer needed have been given/sold to other people for reuse.
I did have a really old computer that i really had no valid use for...I took it to a recycling facility (along with some dead items broken monitor/printers..etc..) I guess hopefully they are more ethical than some of the companies in the story.
yeah... I don't know, usually when i'm travelling and i'm trying to get online i'm trying to connect to my VPN, or check my email...etc..not trying to look up what the capital of Georga is?.. plus how many people have a spare 80GB's on their laptop?????? (NOT ME)
plus i don't know where they are staying but the hotels we use have free HS Internet in the rooms?
I don't have **knocks on wood** problems with mal / spyware.
I have a m0n0wall Perimeter firewall.... w/ the windows boxes behind this..... the perimeter firewall is your first and one of the best ways to keep the windows boxen protected.
i have spywareware blaster installed and updated on all the windows machines, in addition to current updated antivirus (F-secure) or (AVG). blah blah blah m$ antispy, and spybotsearch and destroy.
for the computers using wifi i have VPN over wifi using monowalls VPN capabilities in conjuction with RADIUS authentification from my domain controller.
I don't use IE, Firefox is used as the browswer on all the computers
hmmm let see what else.. software firewalls on each pc kerio or sygatePF
and of course brain power not clicking on stupid things not opening strange email attachments.
It is a little bit of work setting everything up, monitoring, updating...etc. but it is alot easier to keep this crapola off your pc's then deal with the aftermath.
I just had to help my dad and a couple other relatives work out some malware issues.... and really honestly after looking at the situations... the reformat options really seemed like the best... I certainly could have spent the time, running this and that malware scan and/or some online scanners then looking at hijackthis logs and maybe if i was really lucky more time digging about with something like system internals process explorer....
but really it seemed much more Expedient to backup their documents and just start over....and at least i could be sure that all the nasty crap was gone when i was done also.
however really the best option is keeping the junk off the network to begin with if at all possible.
PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal PUFF,
and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.
OH PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail
Jackie kept a lookout perched on PUFF's gigantic tail,
Noble kings and princes would bow whenever they came,
Pirate ships would lower their flag when PUFF roared out his name
OH, PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
A dragon lives forever but not so little boys
Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys.
One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more
And PUFF that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.
PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain,
PUFF no longer went to play along the cherry lane.
Without his life-long friend, PUFF could not be brave,
So PUFF that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave.
Oh! PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee
now i remember why i hate april fool's day so much.... kthnxbye
all this bandwidth may windup being moot if the people that want to end network Neutrality and or switch to bandwidth used pricing models have their way.
why is it people in korea have like 20000000000Mbs connections for $10 a month (ok maybe i exaggerated slightly)
and in the US we will be lucky to keep only paying $50 a month of 3.0Mbs connections.
We in the US are getting Screwed on data pricing and speed.
~~~~
Curry says. Her team will now focus on clarifying the mechanisms at work in the North Atlantic by separating out the 75-year natural cycle and climate change. "The last peak was in 1950, the next is in 2025," she adds. "We're only halfway up [the cycle] and we're already 50 percent worse [in terms of storms]. To me, that's a compelling issue that needs to be confronted."
~~~
as i'm reading this they are saying the storms now are 50% worse than the storms in 1950 (which should have been the high point of storm activity based on natural cycle)... and that the natural cycle would point to natural warming for next 20~years........
I'm honestly starting to wonder if humanity even has time left to get our stuff together or if we've already taken things to far, with our climate impacting activities.
I was reading the other day about artic wild life...seals..etc that were moving further north.. leaving local indiginous people that had lived in the areas affected for well..... a LONG ASS TIME. for the first time w/out the food recourses to survive as they have for centuries...
human caused global warming is close enough to completely proved for me.
why couldn't we just bypass the cellular guys altogether (skipping 3G, GPRS and Edge). and instead focus on creating a new VoIP based service in conjunction w/ WiMAX?)
Slashdot Mirror
fair enough /makes mental note
checks holster snap to ensure colt45 auto is secure.
http://action.freepress.net/campaign/savethenet
not sure how much it will do now...but worth a shot?
all i need is an external processor on my desk.... it already drives me knutz enough when my cat gets do close to my LCD....
BAD KITTY STOP BATTING MY EXTERNAL PROCESSOR AROUND..... THAT'S A BAD KITTY.
http://consumer.hardocp.com/article.html?art=OTI0L DgsLGhjb25zdW1lcg==
y aWwgICAgLDIwMDYsaG5ld3M=
~~~~ On Dell's Web site, the XPS series is marketed directly to gamers and high-performance power users. The XPS series is under the gaming tag, and they claim right on the front page of the Dell.com site that, "We take your gaming experience as seriously as you do." The next line: "XPS show just how serious we are" is more telling. If the Dimension XPS400 is any indication, Dell considers computer gamers a joke. Harsh, yes. But we think it's accurate. ~~~~
http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MTgxNTgsQXB
~~~~~ f you've read our [H] Consumer evaluation of Dell's XPS 400, you'll remember that "value-added" software got in the way of our everyday use of the machine. Well, I've recently been made aware of a third party's attempt to remedy this situation for those of you that may not want to mess around with uninstalling unnecessary software yourself, or would rather have an unattended way of completing the job. It's a sad state of affairs when you buy a new computer these days and it comes pre-loaded with a ton of garbage software that brings your new machine to a crawl. If anyone's bought a Dell PC in the last few years, you probably know what I'm talking about. ~~~
linking to stories on Salon.com with their force history channel ad to read the story is also a problem.
I have generally been able to reuse my old computer stuff...as I upgrade my main pc i move old computers to new tasks...(my old PC is now the Domain Controller for my home network) my 2nd oldest PC is now my media server....etc.
additonally this or that parts I no longer needed have been given/sold to other people for reuse.
I did have a really old computer that i really had no valid use for...I took it to a recycling facility (along with some dead items broken monitor/printers..etc..) I guess hopefully they are more ethical than some of the companies in the story.
yeah... I don't know, usually when i'm travelling and i'm trying to get online i'm trying to connect to my VPN, or check my email...etc..not trying to look up what the capital of Georga is?.. plus how many people have a spare 80GB's on their laptop?????? (NOT ME)
plus i don't know where they are staying but the hotels we use have free HS Internet in the rooms?
WORST PLANET NAME EVER....
seriously did nobody think of this when they name Uranus??????
$700 for a system to self park a car they size of a postage stamp.....bah....if you can't parallel park a prius you shouldn't be allowed to drive.
that they failed to increase both penis length and girth.
I don't have **knocks on wood** problems with mal / spyware.
I have a m0n0wall Perimeter firewall.... w/ the windows boxes behind this..... the perimeter firewall is your first and one of the best ways to keep the windows boxen protected.
i have spywareware blaster installed and updated on all the windows machines, in addition to current updated antivirus (F-secure) or (AVG). blah blah blah m$ antispy, and spybotsearch and destroy.
for the computers using wifi i have VPN over wifi using monowalls VPN capabilities in conjuction with RADIUS authentification from my domain controller.
I don't use IE, Firefox is used as the browswer on all the computers
hmmm let see what else.. software firewalls on each pc kerio or sygatePF
and of course brain power not clicking on stupid things not opening strange email attachments.
It is a little bit of work setting everything up, monitoring, updating...etc. but it is alot easier to keep this crapola off your pc's then deal with the aftermath.
I just had to help my dad and a couple other relatives work out some malware issues.... and really honestly after looking at the situations... the reformat options really seemed like the best... I certainly could have spent the time, running this and that malware scan and/or some online scanners then looking at hijackthis logs and maybe if i was really lucky more time digging about with something like system internals process explorer....
but really it seemed much more Expedient to backup their documents and just start over....and at least i could be sure that all the nasty crap was gone when i was done also.
however really the best option is keeping the junk off the network to begin with if at all possible.
oh crap i misread the parent... sorry dude...
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/sushi-usb-flash-dr ives-023561.php
/.'d but (sushi flash drives exist).....
the freaking link in the story is
you forget the japanese are freaks, and make all kinda whacky stuff.
I salute researchers working on this age old problem of how can a Paralyzed monkey still huck poo.
personally i'm working on a robotic couch shredder for disabled cats
PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee, Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal PUFF, and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.
OH PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee, PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail Jackie kept a lookout perched on PUFF's gigantic tail, Noble kings and princes would bow whenever they came, Pirate ships would lower their flag when PUFF roared out his name
OH, PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee, PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
A dragon lives forever but not so little boys Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys. One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more And PUFF that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.
PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee, PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain, PUFF no longer went to play along the cherry lane. Without his life-long friend, PUFF could not be brave, So PUFF that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave.
Oh! PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee, PUFF, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee
now i remember why i hate april fool's day so much.... kthnxbye
all this bandwidth may windup being moot if the people that want to end network Neutrality and or switch to bandwidth used pricing models have their way.
why is it people in korea have like 20000000000Mbs connections for $10 a month (ok maybe i exaggerated slightly)
and in the US we will be lucky to keep only paying $50 a month of 3.0Mbs connections.
We in the US are getting Screwed on data pricing and speed.
classic line..
I mean realistically the reason we have all these 3rd party tools is because of the rather piss poor job m$ did on security to start with.
i could be suprised i guess.... but it's all hype till it ships.
could this mean M$ windows for windows is on the horizon??
... that was the best joke you've read in the last .5 seconds????
ok admit it
http://www.cybernetnews.com/?p=411
since the alpha appears to have unistall "Issues" i would strongly suggest using the portable build if you wanna try it out.
let's get the dev tools upto speed for disabled users...
and then they can damn well make the rest accessible
I actually do commute via bicycle frequently... i also use the train to get to work regularly...
..... step the fuck off, I'm doing pretty much as much as i reasonably can to reduce my energy consumption.
the car my g/f and i have is fuel efficent~ish (we're looking at getting a hybrid.... we use energy saving light bulbs and appliances in our house...
in short
~~~~ Curry says. Her team will now focus on clarifying the mechanisms at work in the North Atlantic by separating out the 75-year natural cycle and climate change. "The last peak was in 1950, the next is in 2025," she adds. "We're only halfway up [the cycle] and we're already 50 percent worse [in terms of storms]. To me, that's a compelling issue that needs to be confronted." ~~~
..etc that were moving further north.. leaving local indiginous people that had lived in the areas affected for well..... a LONG ASS TIME. for the first time w/out the food recourses to survive as they have for centuries...
as i'm reading this they are saying the storms now are 50% worse than the storms in 1950 (which should have been the high point of storm activity based on natural cycle)... and that the natural cycle would point to natural warming for next 20~years........
I'm honestly starting to wonder if humanity even has time left to get our stuff together or if we've already taken things to far, with our climate impacting activities.
I was reading the other day about artic wild life...seals
human caused global warming is close enough to completely proved for me.
while($UK = support Iraq) $fly = true $crashPlane = false endwhile
Where is the best place to get write-only media?
fair enough... but aren't handoff issues already being worked for wiFi/wiMax? http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/ 16/1727225&tid=193&tid=215&tid=218
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/04/iss ue/synopsis_info.asp?p=3
why couldn't we just bypass the cellular guys altogether (skipping 3G, GPRS and Edge). and instead focus on creating a new VoIP based service in conjunction w/ WiMAX?)