Adaware has become a bloated mess that I've avoided for several years now. That and its horrid detection rating at anything besides advertising cookies.
Bloatware seems to be the trend in all anti-malware software the longer it's out. I'm impressed with MSE so far, and it is my current software of choice for my residential customers. Time will tell if it goes the same way as all the others.
Just signed up for pinboard myself. Was up to $8.12 and in the short time I signed up went up another 2 cents when I went back to look again. They've got a heavy traffic notice on their site as well. So looks like one company's failure may be this company's boon! Seems like they did everything Delicious did for me before and little more. Thanks for the suggestion!
I got a GV number to replace a second line I bought for my business. Just have it forward to my existing cell number and don't have to spend that extra money anymore. Worked great even before I got an Android phone and now it works even better with it nearly fully integrated into the phone.
If you're that good at doing, you could also try starting your own business on the side doing it. It's extremely easy to start up a small LLC and keep yourself protected with a legitimate business.
That's what I did. It's amazing how quickly you stopped getting pestered to do things when you charge for it. Either the person corrects their actions or they find another sucker. Either way, you're getting paid for your time or no longer having your time wasted.
Like almost all fee-based malware products marketed to home users, Adaware now-a-days is just bloatware crap that seems to cause as many problems as it tries to solve. The performance degradation of its background service is almost worse than what some malware causes. Avoid like the plague.
I advise all my home user customers to never pay for ANY antivirus/antispyware software. None of it prevents anything anymore and isn't worth spending money on. All it's good for anymore is notifying you after the fact when you get an infection and then most people have to pay to have it cleaned anyway. Install Firefox & set it as the default browser then install AVG/Avast/Spybot/etc (anything as long as its free) to provide infection notifications.
Hell, I'd probably buy anything they've got in the works right now if they offered service on anything but ONE phone with T-Mobile here in the US.
I've been hearing nothing but delay after delay after delay from other carriers since early last year when they started promising phones by the end of 2008.
I hadn't even realized it until I was bored one time when I was checking my voicemail. I went through the other options to see what was available and one of them was to turn off these pre-recorded caller instructions that he's complaining about.
Maybe people just need to check what options their voicemail provides them instead of jumping to drastic measures like this? Wait... I forgot who I'm talking to here...
Seriously... lots of geeks I've met love action packed martial arts movies. Why not go learn some of that stuff yourself? Martial arts schools are great social environments, get you in really good shape, and build a tremendous amount of self confidence & coordination. Those last two are the big things socially awkward geeks are usually lacking. What better place to gain them?
Like I said, I service home users. I tell my users the limits to the free use and explicitly state on my website where I have links to download this software that it is free ONLY for personal home use.
And for an example where I advise Clamwin for home use is mostly for gaming systems or situations where they need more performance from their computer than a typical user. Most people that are in that class of user are very receptive to additional advice and I set them up with Firefox. I install the plugins Adblock Plus and the Download Status Bar which lets you configure Clamwin to scan all downloads from the web. I also set Clamwin to run a full scan and tell them when then scan will run.
The nice thing about running a small home service business is that I get to be very up close and personal with my customers.:)
I run my own home computer repair company (but don't have enough bandwidth to post my URL here). I give all my customers the free versions of AVG, Avast, or Clamwin, depending on their needs/preferences. Usually throw on Spybot and show them how to use the Immunize feature as well. My advice to them is to never, EVER pay for Antivirus/Antispyware software ever again. It's doesn't prevent infections and they end up just having to pay someone to fix it for them anyway. The free stuff is plenty good enough for notifying them when an infection has occurred. My customers thank me for my honesty, for saving them money, and I get plenty more business than I ever would shelling out subscriptions to crap like this.
If you're not experiencing the issue described in the article, you're right, you'll see the OpenDNS error page.
If you're experiencing what the article is describing, you will not see the OpenDNS error page, but whatever Comcast redirects you to.
Anyone else reminded of the prison planet from Chronicles of Riddick?
Generous Author
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Friend of mine got a copy of this book roughly a year ago back when he wrote/published it under his pseudonym (Leinad Zeraus) and let me borrow it on the condition I'd send a review back to them. I did so very enthusiastically, thanking him for a great novel!
About a month ago I finally got a response back directly from the author thanking me for supporting his early work. He asked for my address so he could send me a thank you. Last friday I received a package that contained signed copies of both the original and now mass market hard cover!:)
How about the editors actually read the article and correct glaring mistakes for a change? Even before this made it out of the Firehose, there were responses that it was DNS failures and not 404 messages.
Slashdot Mirror
You missed a token ceremony of them handing out the last IPv4 pools to the RIRs. That's it. It was like a cheesy award ceremony
Adaware has become a bloated mess that I've avoided for several years now. That and its horrid detection rating at anything besides advertising cookies. Bloatware seems to be the trend in all anti-malware software the longer it's out. I'm impressed with MSE so far, and it is my current software of choice for my residential customers. Time will tell if it goes the same way as all the others.
If it doesn't do what you need to do, don't pay and move along.
Just signed up for pinboard myself. Was up to $8.12 and in the short time I signed up went up another 2 cents when I went back to look again. They've got a heavy traffic notice on their site as well. So looks like one company's failure may be this company's boon! Seems like they did everything Delicious did for me before and little more. Thanks for the suggestion!
Absolutely love streaming Netflix on my PS3. This just made it even easier for me to be lazy and never need to get off my couch!
I got a GV number to replace a second line I bought for my business. Just have it forward to my existing cell number and don't have to spend that extra money anymore. Worked great even before I got an Android phone and now it works even better with it nearly fully integrated into the phone.
If you're that good at doing, you could also try starting your own business on the side doing it. It's extremely easy to start up a small LLC and keep yourself protected with a legitimate business. That's what I did. It's amazing how quickly you stopped getting pestered to do things when you charge for it. Either the person corrects their actions or they find another sucker. Either way, you're getting paid for your time or no longer having your time wasted.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/herokernel/signatures-1.html
You can also go to htc.com and fill out the Contact Us form with the contents of the petition as several people have already done.
More people doing the latter would probably generate more concern at HTC if their customer service department is getting flooded with them.
Like almost all fee-based malware products marketed to home users, Adaware now-a-days is just bloatware crap that seems to cause as many problems as it tries to solve. The performance degradation of its background service is almost worse than what some malware causes. Avoid like the plague.
I advise all my home user customers to never pay for ANY antivirus/antispyware software. None of it prevents anything anymore and isn't worth spending money on. All it's good for anymore is notifying you after the fact when you get an infection and then most people have to pay to have it cleaned anyway. Install Firefox & set it as the default browser then install AVG/Avast/Spybot/etc (anything as long as its free) to provide infection notifications.
Hell, I'd probably buy anything they've got in the works right now if they offered service on anything but ONE phone with T-Mobile here in the US.
I've been hearing nothing but delay after delay after delay from other carriers since early last year when they started promising phones by the end of 2008.
How about you get the phone companies to actually release some new phones to use this stuff?
I hadn't even realized it until I was bored one time when I was checking my voicemail. I went through the other options to see what was available and one of them was to turn off these pre-recorded caller instructions that he's complaining about.
Maybe people just need to check what options their voicemail provides them instead of jumping to drastic measures like this? Wait... I forgot who I'm talking to here...
... will it blend?
Seriously... lots of geeks I've met love action packed martial arts movies. Why not go learn some of that stuff yourself? Martial arts schools are great social environments, get you in really good shape, and build a tremendous amount of self confidence & coordination. Those last two are the big things socially awkward geeks are usually lacking. What better place to gain them?
Like I said, I service home users. I tell my users the limits to the free use and explicitly state on my website where I have links to download this software that it is free ONLY for personal home use. And for an example where I advise Clamwin for home use is mostly for gaming systems or situations where they need more performance from their computer than a typical user. Most people that are in that class of user are very receptive to additional advice and I set them up with Firefox. I install the plugins Adblock Plus and the Download Status Bar which lets you configure Clamwin to scan all downloads from the web. I also set Clamwin to run a full scan and tell them when then scan will run. The nice thing about running a small home service business is that I get to be very up close and personal with my customers. :)
I run my own home computer repair company (but don't have enough bandwidth to post my URL here). I give all my customers the free versions of AVG, Avast, or Clamwin, depending on their needs/preferences. Usually throw on Spybot and show them how to use the Immunize feature as well. My advice to them is to never, EVER pay for Antivirus/Antispyware software ever again. It's doesn't prevent infections and they end up just having to pay someone to fix it for them anyway. The free stuff is plenty good enough for notifying them when an infection has occurred. My customers thank me for my honesty, for saving them money, and I get plenty more business than I ever would shelling out subscriptions to crap like this.
If you're not experiencing the issue described in the article, you're right, you'll see the OpenDNS error page. If you're experiencing what the article is describing, you will not see the OpenDNS error page, but whatever Comcast redirects you to.
You're missing the point of the article. Even if you use OpenDNS, you're still getting redirected to Comcast's DNS servers.
Link in original article is returning 404. I think this is it: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-future/
...now how about getting some more phones that can actually use it?
Anyone else reminded of the prison planet from Chronicles of Riddick?
Friend of mine got a copy of this book roughly a year ago back when he wrote/published it under his pseudonym (Leinad Zeraus) and let me borrow it on the condition I'd send a review back to them. I did so very enthusiastically, thanking him for a great novel!
:)
About a month ago I finally got a response back directly from the author thanking me for supporting his early work. He asked for my address so he could send me a thank you. Last friday I received a package that contained signed copies of both the original and now mass market hard cover!
How about the editors actually read the article and correct glaring mistakes for a change? Even before this made it out of the Firehose, there were responses that it was DNS failures and not 404 messages.
Try CDBurnerXP
http://cdburnerxp.se/
And it's free!
Hmm... that was added after I read the Tutorial before. Least there's people contributing!