It is really very very simple. My Win XP machine has been totally 100% protected from virii, et al.
I will let my secret out, which I have withheld from the whole world for years, and unlike the software companies selling protection software and services, I am going to give the solution away for free!
Here goes... I NEVER LET MY WINTEL BOX ON THE INTERNET!
I didn't have to listenup much to understand early on that my Mac did all the internet work I needed without the constant worry and hassle of the MS OS problems.
Life is so simple this way.
Just wait until we get GM grass (like ground cover), but instead of maybe canabis, the wild and wooly geneticist causes the grass to grow morphine or cocaine!
Ohh. As a matter of fact, they have already genetically modified the opium poppy and tobbacco leaf plants for various industrial and medical products with desirable properties.
100% = CDs I owned when I bought the iPod, and 100% of the additional music from CDs I've bought since then.
I'ld rather listen to YoYo Ma over Mr. Hype Ballmer any day.
Bo
Like XTreemly XSasperating XPlicitly to give you reasons to pull your hair out.
My Inspiron and M60 hum along just fine thank you, with no down time. Of course I don't allow them on any open network and never on the web. That is reserved for my lowly Macs.
Had a similar Earthlink problem, & it WAS ELink's problem, and they LOST!
Responses from the Hindu accented Tech Support:
"We will have your DSL line reconnected in 5-7 days".
"We will have your DSL line reconnected in 7-10 days".
"We will have your DSL line reconnected in 28 days".
"You wil have to contact your Phone Company".
Their foreign TS crew is cluelesss on what to do, don't document it, and will plainly lie, just to get a customer off their back, and U.S. management doesn't have a clue as to what goes on.
When I got mad and accused ELink TS of not knowing what to do and not being willing to give me to someone who could fix 'Their Problem' (how to keep their revenue stream coming in from me), there was silence.
Technical incompetence is at the heart of Tech Service problems. It could be on the side of users, but I sure hear a lot of BS, in the very few times I call.
The one place I do NOT get B.S. with Tech. Support on software is SolidWorks, but then I pay nearly $2000/yr for upgrades and phone support...out of Utah, in my case.
So I cancelled my ELink service & asked to release the Elink hold on my Ph# and that resulted in "That will take 7-10 business days." which saved me $20/month.
But, I had to cancel my existing phone # and get a new one, because Earthlink Tech Support couldn't execute for a customer that wants to leave their grasp.
Earthlink is going to lose subscribers with the inept offshore Tech Suport. I doubt the Elink manager of TS has any clue of what is going on, as I doubt he shops his own system pretending to be a customer like me. JD Powers reports judging customer satisfaction in the first 60 days of owning a new car or an ISP service is a joke.
Earthlink will also have no clue that I will no longer recommend them, which over time can have a large effect when "Word of Mouth" goes against you.
And you are probably the ONLY person who is going to protect your rights if push comes to shove.
I had a manager friend who was not computer literate, who had her IT manager come and get her laptop and computer for an "upgrade" one day and return them with, hmm...shall we say, no significant data files on the hard drive, of all her planning project work over the prior year.
Then, suprise, surprise, she was ahhh...let go the next day.
Forewarnded is armed.
A freely elected Government actually is the people, and that is the difference between dictatorships & one party systems.
If the President & Congress did nothing after 911, you would see many of them voted out by the people in the following elections.
My observation of people who worry about having to show drivers licenses (for beer, cigs, traffic stop, 3am walks in the park, and travel tickets), is that they have a permanently upset stomach.
Microsoft's only long term hope is to provide a superior user interface that is so intuitive, stable, easy and logical that special training is rarely needed for the casual end user.
That is what reduces total system cost. The companies that deliver the lowest system cost for the intended work will win out over time.
You can't force people to stay with inexpensive mechanical car brakes when EXPENSIVE hydraulic brakes work better!
Conversely, I won't buy a $600 Treo 'cellphone', just because its got every feature known to man...(to confuse all but the geekiest user).
That is why I use my PowerBook instead of my Dell M60 whenever possible.
Bo
Wait a minute...
Government funding means this is just another inefficient government boonydongle using MY taxes...and yours, too!
And the Government will really, really be cool about knowing where to throw my dollars around...Areas where private companies just suck...Things like wireless phones and home security and databases...so it can keep track of those who pay for the government's inefficient programs.
And there are those government minions in the management pay brackets just waiting to latch on to a new pig tit...er program director's job...which will never ever be defunded, no matter how many of my dollars are wasted.
Cutting edge is almost always proprietary, copyrighted, trade secret or patented if possible.
5-10 years later other techniques evolve to do similar work.
Let the consumer decide what they want with their wallets.
If Microsoft can do such a damn good job and show how truely excellent and overbearingly productive their software is, then the customers will buy.
If Linux & the likes of Open Office can do the same thing, then again, I say let the consumer decide where to spend his money.
Government will only muck it up and accept the Microsoft dollars (like the $80m to SCO) to advance its personal positions to benefit itself.
There is plenty of worldwide competition in providing software of all types and the Government doesn't need to promote that competition.
Faults in software are like faults in cars. Have many people noticed that Toyota has overtaken Ford? I've not owned a Ford since the 60s, and now own a Toyota. No government had to tell me which cars were the most reliable or the most bang for my buck for my intended use. Only I can figure that out. And when enough people do that, some companies will die.
Consumers will make the choices as to who lives and who dies. Governments can only prolong the life support to those who can't compete because of a failure to ultimately satisfy the consumer in consumer products.
I do not deny that governments can choose to buy under contracts that demand guarantees, but then suppliers don't have to sell to governments if they don't want to do so.
Enough Already - This was known decades ago.
Ahem....Crummy Design I would say, which was then followed by crummy code debugging and finally by crummy testing.
Got to be at least 3 levels of failure in the development process.
If GGGpa were alive he'ld be interested in surfaces, substrates and substances described and builtup from the atomic and molecular level.
NFC is a prime example. Near Frictionless Carbon is a plasma or similar deposition coating which is very hard and dramatically lower in friction than Teflon. The applications for this exist in tens of thousands of products eventually, from hard drive bearings to diesel engines and hardware in space.
Good is Dumb...
Which is why hackers driving in the car behind you could be listening on your discussion of your family matters, father's probate, or your next business deal.
Goodbye OnSpy.
How about a rules change for the Internet:
1. Each account gets to send up to 100 emails a day free.
2. 101-1000 emails a day =.02/email
3. >1001 emails a day =.05/email
I wouldn't care if I paid $.02/email
The day will come when a bored researcher puts the active gene for your favorite chemical mood modifier into say bermuda grass or even one cell algae.
Poof...end of drug cartels.
Poof...end of ability to keep drugs out of the hands of any citizen who wants to get zipped.
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It is really very very simple. My Win XP machine has been totally 100% protected from virii, et al. I will let my secret out, which I have withheld from the whole world for years, and unlike the software companies selling protection software and services, I am going to give the solution away for free! Here goes... I NEVER LET MY WINTEL BOX ON THE INTERNET! I didn't have to listenup much to understand early on that my Mac did all the internet work I needed without the constant worry and hassle of the MS OS problems. Life is so simple this way.
Hey I've got some miniature drill bits to get those extra 100 holes in your head! Got some novacaine around somewhere.
Just wait until we get GM grass (like ground cover), but instead of maybe canabis, the wild and wooly geneticist causes the grass to grow morphine or cocaine! Ohh. As a matter of fact, they have already genetically modified the opium poppy and tobbacco leaf plants for various industrial and medical products with desirable properties.
100% = CDs I owned when I bought the iPod, and 100% of the additional music from CDs I've bought since then. I'ld rather listen to YoYo Ma over Mr. Hype Ballmer any day. Bo
For a G5 laptop, it is only a question of how much the heat transfer system COSTS. It is not whether it can be done.
Like XTreemly XSasperating XPlicitly to give you reasons to pull your hair out. My Inspiron and M60 hum along just fine thank you, with no down time. Of course I don't allow them on any open network and never on the web. That is reserved for my lowly Macs.
Had a similar Earthlink problem, & it WAS ELink's problem, and they LOST! Responses from the Hindu accented Tech Support: "We will have your DSL line reconnected in 5-7 days". "We will have your DSL line reconnected in 7-10 days". "We will have your DSL line reconnected in 28 days". "You wil have to contact your Phone Company". Their foreign TS crew is cluelesss on what to do, don't document it, and will plainly lie, just to get a customer off their back, and U.S. management doesn't have a clue as to what goes on. When I got mad and accused ELink TS of not knowing what to do and not being willing to give me to someone who could fix 'Their Problem' (how to keep their revenue stream coming in from me), there was silence. Technical incompetence is at the heart of Tech Service problems. It could be on the side of users, but I sure hear a lot of BS, in the very few times I call. The one place I do NOT get B.S. with Tech. Support on software is SolidWorks, but then I pay nearly $2000/yr for upgrades and phone support...out of Utah, in my case. So I cancelled my ELink service & asked to release the Elink hold on my Ph# and that resulted in "That will take 7-10 business days." which saved me $20/month. But, I had to cancel my existing phone # and get a new one, because Earthlink Tech Support couldn't execute for a customer that wants to leave their grasp. Earthlink is going to lose subscribers with the inept offshore Tech Suport. I doubt the Elink manager of TS has any clue of what is going on, as I doubt he shops his own system pretending to be a customer like me. JD Powers reports judging customer satisfaction in the first 60 days of owning a new car or an ISP service is a joke. Earthlink will also have no clue that I will no longer recommend them, which over time can have a large effect when "Word of Mouth" goes against you.
And you are probably the ONLY person who is going to protect your rights if push comes to shove. I had a manager friend who was not computer literate, who had her IT manager come and get her laptop and computer for an "upgrade" one day and return them with, hmm...shall we say, no significant data files on the hard drive, of all her planning project work over the prior year. Then, suprise, surprise, she was ahhh...let go the next day. Forewarnded is armed.
A freely elected Government actually is the people, and that is the difference between dictatorships & one party systems. If the President & Congress did nothing after 911, you would see many of them voted out by the people in the following elections. My observation of people who worry about having to show drivers licenses (for beer, cigs, traffic stop, 3am walks in the park, and travel tickets), is that they have a permanently upset stomach.
Microsoft's only long term hope is to provide a superior user interface that is so intuitive, stable, easy and logical that special training is rarely needed for the casual end user. That is what reduces total system cost. The companies that deliver the lowest system cost for the intended work will win out over time. You can't force people to stay with inexpensive mechanical car brakes when EXPENSIVE hydraulic brakes work better! Conversely, I won't buy a $600 Treo 'cellphone', just because its got every feature known to man...(to confuse all but the geekiest user). That is why I use my PowerBook instead of my Dell M60 whenever possible. Bo
Wait a minute... Government funding means this is just another inefficient government boonydongle using MY taxes...and yours, too! And the Government will really, really be cool about knowing where to throw my dollars around...Areas where private companies just suck...Things like wireless phones and home security and databases...so it can keep track of those who pay for the government's inefficient programs. And there are those government minions in the management pay brackets just waiting to latch on to a new pig tit...er program director's job...which will never ever be defunded, no matter how many of my dollars are wasted.
I don't have any problems with Windows XP at all...zero, zip, none. None with IE either. Never done any updates either. Perfectly safe in fact...
My PowerBooks are the only thing that go online.
Sometimes the obvious takes longer.
Cutting edge is almost always proprietary, copyrighted, trade secret or patented if possible. 5-10 years later other techniques evolve to do similar work. Let the consumer decide what they want with their wallets. If Microsoft can do such a damn good job and show how truely excellent and overbearingly productive their software is, then the customers will buy. If Linux & the likes of Open Office can do the same thing, then again, I say let the consumer decide where to spend his money. Government will only muck it up and accept the Microsoft dollars (like the $80m to SCO) to advance its personal positions to benefit itself. There is plenty of worldwide competition in providing software of all types and the Government doesn't need to promote that competition. Faults in software are like faults in cars. Have many people noticed that Toyota has overtaken Ford? I've not owned a Ford since the 60s, and now own a Toyota. No government had to tell me which cars were the most reliable or the most bang for my buck for my intended use. Only I can figure that out. And when enough people do that, some companies will die. Consumers will make the choices as to who lives and who dies. Governments can only prolong the life support to those who can't compete because of a failure to ultimately satisfy the consumer in consumer products. I do not deny that governments can choose to buy under contracts that demand guarantees, but then suppliers don't have to sell to governments if they don't want to do so. Enough Already - This was known decades ago.
Ahem....Crummy Design I would say, which was then followed by crummy code debugging and finally by crummy testing. Got to be at least 3 levels of failure in the development process.
If GGGpa were alive he'ld be interested in surfaces, substrates and substances described and builtup from the atomic and molecular level. NFC is a prime example. Near Frictionless Carbon is a plasma or similar deposition coating which is very hard and dramatically lower in friction than Teflon. The applications for this exist in tens of thousands of products eventually, from hard drive bearings to diesel engines and hardware in space.
Looks like to me that this is a full employment opportunity for hackers who want to turn white hat.
Good is Dumb... Which is why hackers driving in the car behind you could be listening on your discussion of your family matters, father's probate, or your next business deal. Goodbye OnSpy.
How about a rules change for the Internet: 1. Each account gets to send up to 100 emails a day free. 2. 101-1000 emails a day = .02/email
3. >1001 emails a day = .05/email
I wouldn't care if I paid $.02/email
The day will come when a bored researcher puts the active gene for your favorite chemical mood modifier into say bermuda grass or even one cell algae. Poof...end of drug cartels. Poof...end of ability to keep drugs out of the hands of any citizen who wants to get zipped.