What I'd like to know is Why the fuck Hollywood don't hire these guys to make game movies instead of the shitheads that made Doom and Uwe fricking Boll? Have you seen "Escape from City 17"? those guys had NO money yet made more engaging cinema than Uwe Boll has done in his entire fricking life!
Quite being morons Hollywood, hire guys like this that KNOW the material to do game movies. just cut them a check and let them loose. hell I bet that for half of what a Uwe boll flick costs they will make movies that are actually good!
Actually I think it is cheaper now for everything but the throwaway iCrap. When I was a kid everybody wanted or had a muscle car. Sure we bought rustbuckets but when you figured the amount of $$$ and time we sunk into those rustbuckets they got expensive pretty damned quick.
Now when my oldest got accepted to college my dad, who got me a 72 duster with a crunched side when i was his age, gets Jackson an S10 fully loaded in mint state. We are talking deep midnight blue paint, mags, kicking stereo, man that is a sweet ride. When I was a kid something THAT nice would have broke the bank, but now? $2300 and the thing is perfect, hell the engine even looks new as well as purrs like a kitten. The mechanic that checked it out said "Its the same as the day it rolled off the showroom floor, completely perfect" and then promptly tried to buy it off us.
So if anything I'd say we have quite an abundance. Both my boys have multicore desktops AND laptops, hell we have to have 7 PCs just between me and the boys, everybody has a car and a PC and an MP3 and consoles and handhelds and just...more everything. When I was a kid having enough money to get a Coleco was considered a big fricking deal. Owning a PC? I was the only one in the entire town and that was only because i had a trucker uncle who scored a VIC20 that "fell off the back of a truck" for me.
So now all the kids are really really spoiled and don't even know what its like to trudge uphill in the snow both ways. Damned spoiled brats getting on our lawns!
Actually there is even an easier way, as long as you don't mind using "wink wink nudge nudge" software friend. What you want is "Windows 7 all versions pre-activated" which i'm sure you can find a copy of. this disc has ALL the different versions, X86 and x64, all on a single disc and it gives you the option of inputting the OEM key at first install. With it all you have to do is input their legit key and voila! One disk to rule them all. there is also one out for Vista.
Then just use WSUS Offline (I keep it on a network drive) and Ninite and you can seriously cut down the times it takes from first install to completed system. I went from 3 to 5 hours to a flat 90 minutes using this method, with 90% of the time fully automated.
With XP sadly there is no "one OEM to rule them all" but I've found that the Dell and Compaq discs usually have most of the bases covered. There are a few Acer machines that won't take them but the rest will happily take the OEM keys from the machine if you use one of those two. And if you find one that doesn't? frankly the Indian help at MSFT don't give a crap as long as you can read them the key off the back they are happy to give you a phone code that'll activate it. all they care about is how fast they can get you off the phone so you don't screw the metrics, so unless you have used that key more than once they really don't care.
But by using those two discs, the 7 and Vista preactivated, I've cut down from nearly a dozen discs to four, one for 7, one for Vista, and one OEM Compaq for XP Home and Pro. I've found this will cover a good 80%+ of the machines out there and if you have the Dell XP OEM in a drawer that covers another 12%. Then like I said all you have to worry about is the occasional Acer or emachine, but I don't see those much around here so YMMV.
It is actually simple to understand, they all think THEIR software is perfect, you'll never uninstall it, and since you'll only be using THEIR software it doesn't matter where the data is, as long as their software knows where it is, right?
While I like the SMB jobs, just got finished with a nice triple core for a graphic artist, the thing with SMBs is....well they tend not to break things as much. they actually listen to me, follow best practices, and when i tell them by spending X amount more on quality hardware they will get X+Y back as ROI thanks to better performance and longer life? They actually listen.
Just got done with a quad as a spare for an electrical contractor. He was afraid if his home or business PC went down even a few hours without could cost him multi thousand dollar bids, so I told him that a $470 quad build with all his work software preloaded would eliminate this possibility and let him simply swap boxes and drop the broken one off to me at his leisure he whipped off a check and said "make it happen ASAP" and that was that.
But the home users is where the real money is at. little Suzy has three dozen Hotbar variants dropped on mommy's PC, Mr Brown's wife won't let go of her P2P and STILL will click on a "mp3.exe". I think I managed to fix her by putting her P2P crap into the crosshairs of Avast Free, so hopefully it'll kill the MP3.exe files but who knows. But you'll find that while the software can be a PITA you really get to help folks out. For example Mr Brown has 4 kids and a minivan payment so he doesn't have a lot of money to spend. You should have seen how happy he was when i told him I could triple the power of his PC by replacing the Sempron he has now for a Phenom triple and it would only cost him $75 installed.
So don't dismiss the home users so easily. The SMBs don't really need someone to really help them learn, the home folks do. I have been teaching my "homies" the importance of regular backups, of having good Av like Avast and Malwarebytes for malware, how they can get more bang for their limited bucks by going AMD, how using anything other than IE is better, how regular registry and C: drive cleaning can keep WinRot from occurring (BTW if you don't know that trick TuneUp Utilities kills WinRot dead. If they are poor like Mr Brown you can give them Glary utilities and teach them to run it once a week, but tuneUp has better tools and is fully automated. I have several XP machines going on 8 years in the field with NO reinstalls or WinRot thanks to TuneUp) etc.
So by keeping my costs down I am able to not only get more business but I am able to educate a whole lot of folks that would ordinarily be left to become zombies. sadly most of the other shops in my area simply do wipe and reinstalls, NO backups, NO patches, hell they don't even install a free AV or better browser to help the poor folks keep from getting reinfected. With my method I only see someone like Mr Brown maybe once a year, when his wife does something REALLY dumb, and I've probably gotten 40 jobs thanks to mr brown spreading the word. i haven't even bothered to get more business cards printed up in nearly 3 years, I'm just too swamped as it is.
Treat folks right, give them a good value, and everything works out nicely for all.
So you choose #1 correct? I got it in 1, woo hoo! Oh and it isn't my site, I just found it when hearing the same string of horseshit from FOSSies over and over AND OVER again. It is ALWAYS "U no leet, u M$ Ninja!" if you don't suck teh koolaid, it is always "U don't need that" and "Freedom by missing features" and "freedom of hypocrisy".
So please, wrap that tux blankie tightly over your head, or even better pull it over your head while you cry "Why are u picking on us? Leave poo Gimpie alone!" maybe you and the Britney guy can team up on Youtube!
it will NOT change the facts. FACT-It is a lame piece of software written as a kid's class project. FACT-It is a bad joke and the fact that dumbasses like you even have the nerve to compare in the same breath to professionally written software is both an insult to real software as well as the intelligence of anyone who has actually tried your garbage, FACT-It has abysmal support for things that ALL commercial photo software has had FOR A DECADE or MORE, such as CMYK, Decent layer and object control, hell I could write a fucking book on all the shit Gimp CAN'T do, and finally FACT- While I'm sure it gives neckbeards a chuckle to say "bring out the Gimp" it has to be the worst fucking name you could have possibly used. what's next Goatse email client? Its open!
But don't worry I simply added FOSS to my list of "things I should ignore" so you can go back to your circle jerks while myself and the professional world ignores your asses. You go be leet little tuxie, nobody fucking cares. hey maybe you can pay RMS with a sandwich to sing the hacker song for you!
Riiiight. Because all those millions spent on R&D, QA, focus groups, none of that actually exists or even matters! nope because a single kid with a class project can totally whip the shit out of that! Oh and Matthew Broderick could totally start WWIII with nothing but a modem and a shitty IBM, cause everybody knows there is NO security with those craaaazy nukes!
How about it fucking matters because that is how you make software better dumbass, you pay for R&D, and a shitload of QA, and focus groups and beta tests and a shitload of guys for document writing and bug fixes.
But hey, you don't need all that shit, right? You can just do like RMS and get a third world quality Loongson ARM POS and WGET web pages, software piffle, all you need is a term and some punch cards daddy-o! that is how the neckbeards that the FOSSies so desperately want to emulate did it, right? That is why RMS calls users "hackers" like it is still 75, right? quality software is for suckers, why there is even a TM for that!
BTW if you could do us both a favor and just link to the TM you are gonna use, it'd make both our lives easier, thanks. After all it has been the same BS for so long there is a TM for all occasions, so just link to the correct TM and call it a day. for example I figure you'll respond with oneofthesefour but since there is about 100 stock FOSSies phrases I can never be sure, so feel free to go and pick the TM that most suits the BS you'll say and save us some time, kay? cause i'm swamped, the graphics artists want quads now for their Solidworks and Photoshops. Have you seen that stuff? brilliant software.
Does it run on VB? Then at least they would be up to the level of "quality" of our CSI! After all they can do ANYTHING with VB! Why MSFT would abandon such a miracle is anybody's guess. They must have feared the Chinese would get a hold of it!
You work SMB or enterprise, yes? I can tell, because you haven't dealt with THE ABSOLUTE SHIT that is home user software. Sadly you DO have to babysit backups, because they almost never drop the data into my docs, it can be anywhere and everywhere. Take the one I just finished with my method. Doing a quick scan for malware Mr Brown's PC had data in my docs, in the root of C:, in the data folders of nearly 2 dozen different software packages, on a separate E: drive, on the desktop, hell where wasn't data dumped by software?
When the last XP and Vista machines are gone so data sanity is finally enforced? then repair installs might be the order of the day. but sadly until 2014 when XP is EOL there will be people that refuse to let it go and software that refuses to follow best practices. Hell try some of the Kodack software that comes with cameras, that crap not only has to be run as admin but dumps the pictures in C:/Kodack/Easyshare/Pictures. How many of those paths do YOU know? are you 100% sure you can have them all accounted for? Because if you don't you might wipe out pics of someone's dead grandma.
As for your problem sadly I could have fixed that for you in under 5 minutes. what you needed to do was go here and pick Revo Uninstaller, then have it do a deep scan on removal of Adobe. the reason you were having that problem is some screwed registry hooks, I've seen it plenty of times. Personally I give my users both Foxit and adobe and let them try both, most don't go back to Adobe after using foxit. Foxit also puts all its important data as an.ini file in its home folder so it is easy to nuke and reinstall if something goes wrong.
As for multi monitors? Don't have the room. My shop is a tiny thing, barely bigger than a single room apt. I find it keeps my costs down (it is only $75 a month, utilities included) and is only a single walk down the stairs from my home apt, so if I get an itch to try something at 3AM I can literally pad down to my shop in my PE shorts and sock feet. The neighbors have gotten so used to it they say "hey Kev, figured something out again?" when they see me padding down the hall.
My method isn't the safest, may not be the most optimal, but it keeps prices low and in a dead economy this keeps me backed up in work. Now if you'll excuse me I have to let Mr Brown know he can pick his up and then start pricing parts for these 4 laptops I have sitting here. Busy busy busy.
Actually I'm afraid sir you are wrong. You see if you had been part of the testers for Vista (I was from Alpha II) you would know that MSFT had made it QUITE clear for nearly TWO YEARS that the Vista driver model wasn't gonna use the "hey lets run everything as root!" driver model of XP yet the OEMs simply ignored MSFT and tried to continue toi use the XP driver model.
Sadly this wasn't the first time this had happened, if you were there you would also known they did the exact same stunt when MSFT went from the 16 bit based VXD driver model to the WDM driver model. In fact I would argue that this is the reason WinME was written off as a shitty OS, because if one loaded WinME with ONLY WDM drivers? It ran better than Win98. It went unstable when VXD drivers were loaded, but instead of refusing to allow the older driver model like they did with Vista MSFT tried to accommodate the OEMs and shim in support for both models and it was a disaster.
So as much as I hated Vista (They released the network stack too early, and they hadn't optimized the kernel at all, which is why by ripping out a good chunk of the stack and rebuilding it Windows 7 is so good) you can't blame MSFT on the driver borkage, you can lay that blame on shitty hardware OEMs like Creative. in fact here it is 2011 and I'd argue Creative STILL hasn't released a decent Vista/7 driver.
Oh and for the record I wasn't recommending Mac, which I think is just an overpriced Intel box, I was saying if he HAD to "think different" because there is one thing I'm sure you're aware of and that is that several will run total shit rather than touch anything by they that shall not be named. You wanna see something funny? Go look up "LinuxInsider" and read everything there by Robert Pogson. I have been there for nearly two years going "SAY IT, JUST FUCKING SAY IT!" and he will NOT say the word Microsoft, or MSFT, or even MS. They are "the other OS' or once in a while you can get him to write "M$" which I'm sure causes sweat to roll down his pasty cheeks as he fears the MSFT Nasgul riding down and breaking into his basement. pretty damned funny!
Oh good grief! You can't HONESTLY be saying the Gimp UI is professional, can you? You DO realize that was literally a kid's class project, yes? I'm fucking serious, look it up, it was a kid's class project and then he FOSSed it. You are literally trying to make us believe that a kid's class project is better than a piece of software that has had millions spent on R&D, and QA, and focus groups made up of top notch pro photographers.
As for why they won't use it.....uhhh...its a kid's class project which doesn't have the tools professionals need like CMYK, really good layer and object controls, and about a bazillion other things that makes their lives easier? But of course when it is pointed out what pros would need to consider using it guys like you will instantly pop up shouting don't care and you don't need that feature anyway! And you wonder why the FOSS "alternative" gets ignored for yet another year.
You want to gain share? it is actually quite simple, been used for hundreds of years, even before FOSS in fact! you see the public? Those people you snark at, look down on, and generally act like a giant ass to, like you are DOING RIGHT NOW? Yeah those are your CUSTOMERS. They are either your current customer or your potential customers, but either way they are the ones you want to walk in the door and "buy" or in this case use your software. And YES SPARKY you DO want them to use your software, why? because THAT is how you get support for the hardware like tablets and pens, that is how you get the plugin writers to write for you, that is how you get OEMs to install your software.
But instead of doing the most simple and logical of things, which is listen to your damned customers you spit upon them and tell them "Fuck u noob, our way is leet! U don't like it u go fix it uself or go back to photocrap LOL!"
And then you have the balls to wonder why they ignore you. Well sparky you are living proof why they ignore you. you are so delusional you honestly believe a kid's class project is more professional than a multimillion dollar software ecosystem, how's the koolaid BTW, is it cherry flavor?
I congratulate our brothers and sisters in Libya and wonder, what will be said when it happens here? Will they be called terrorists, or freedom fighters? Will our government do as old MoMo tried and do some mass slaughter to try to hang onto power, or will they slink away with their ill gotten gains like Mubarak did?
Don't say it could never happen here because I didn't think we'd be seeing tent cities and families living in cars like something out of the third world either. The bag of tricks at the Fed is completely empty now and congress can't keep up spending forever without our rating plunging further, and the teabaggers frankly can't stand anything given to the poor so they'll cockblock any aid packages anyway.
So I'd say its coming, probably in less than a decade. When the kids my oldest goes to school with at the local college are openly wondering if the shit will hit the fan before they even graduate? BAD sign. When the REAL numbers have one in three unemployed and their bullshit numbers have one in 6? BAD sign. When the government has blocked ALL COL adjustments while having the brass balls to say "there is no inflation" while they give THEMSELVES COL adjustments? Bad sign. I give us another decade tops. Then we'll either collapse or the government will try to take Poland for the resources (read South America) because one way to deal with massive unemployment is to have them build tanks or get killed at the front. Either way it ain't gonna be pretty folks.
Ya know, as much as I disagree with RMS on....well everything actually, this is the ONE subject he and I agree on. software patents are nothing but a credit default swap Ponzi scheme bullshit that needs to DIAF yesterday. just because some multicorps bribed enough of the right people to get them passed here in the USA I had hoped the rest of the world wouldn't have been so easily bribed, I was wrong.
In the end I really don't think it is gonna matter much. Want to see the future of the EU and the USA? it is playing out right now in Tripoli. the people will only put up with massive unemployment and rampant corruption for so long before they turn against the system and when they do the west shall have our own Arab Spring. I for one look forward to it, maybe we can become a socialist constitution based democracy instead of a corporatist state. Maybe something like old Henry Fords "social capitalism" where he believed the workers should be paid well enough to afford the products that they actually got to make?
But in the end you can forget making a difference within the system. i have tried joining email campaigns, writing plenty of real letters, you name it against that "Hey lets spy on everyone!" Internet blacklist bill, where anybody in power won't even need a warrant or a reason to have your logs, any corp can kill your access to the outside world with NO court intervention, and all I have gotten back is one canned spam letter by the congress critters after another.
They all might as well read "hello (Insert Name) do you have monies? lots of monies? if you do then write (insert large check amount) and we may be able to make an exception for you! If you do not please see this full color blowup of Goatse and consider it our response to you. If you would like it framed please send (insert amount) to this address and we'll get it right out. Oh and don't bother voting for the other guy, the only difference is he'll be sending you a picture of Lemon party if you have no monies. Now please do not bother us again or we will fart in your general direction. Have a nice day and vote for me, because I get endless benefits and healthcare but my family needs cushy bribes too!"
The problem with your suggestion is thus: a good 90%+ of the people out there have NO BACKUPS and my time is $35 an hour, so backing up 300Gb+ worth of data would literally cost them more than the machine is worth!
With a combo of Avast Free, Antivir bootable, and Malwarebytes I find you can be pretty sure you have everything without running up a several hundred dollar repair bill. Can i promise 100% success? nope but when the choice is a $75 cleaning or a $400 data backup and recovery session? it really ain't hard to guess which the customer is gonna choose, and they are always right you know.
Oh and before you say "repair install" because I know you are, I'd point out that a repair install blows away a good chunk of the registry so you've just stuck the customer with the "fun" of sifting through their emails and hunting for receipts for the sometimes several hundred dollars worth of software whose reg keys you just blew away. not fun and a good way to piss a customer off.
So while i'm sure you don't approve of my method, many don't, I'd point out that not only does it let me undercut my competition by nearly $60 (because i have the whole thing automated and can have 4 at a time going with a KVM switch) but most of the time I have a waiting list for my service with me doing ZERO advertising, simply by word of mouth and referrals. My customers are EXTREMELY happy with my method and since they are the ones paying my bills i'll defer to them. Be nice if I could just "nuke from orbit" just to be sure, but rarely do I find people willing to pay that kind of money.
Nooooo....it has to do with you using an OS with such a low userbase nobody will even fucking bother to write a toolbar for it. After all you don't see the Ask toolbar for Haiku OS or ReactOS, but you don't hear them bragging "Here is yet another piece of software that won't run! Aren't you happy?"..
As for TFA this is soooooo easy to fix. Just use Ninite for all the "must haves" like Flash, Java, Firefox, messenger, etc and then you will NEVER see a toolbar, even on programs like Java that originally try to stick you with them. that is because Ninite removes the crapola and just gives you sane defaults. for everything else there is Major Geeks!
Tada! Solved in under 30 seconds while still having access to the literally millions of applications in the Windows ecosystem, many of which have NO real equivalent in FOSS BTW, such as Photoshop and QuickBooks, and of course having ALL the FOSS software that is worth giving a shit about.
Now don't you wish you'd have thought of that before you jumped in to a software ecosystem with poor documentation, 6 month driver borkages, forum fixes, CLI tweaking, and all the other BS? Oh and you could have had AAA games as well! if you wanted to "think different" you should have just gotten a Mac. At least there all the software is designed to work together and follow the UI design, instead of a hodge podge of software by dozen of groups that don't interact all thrown together and treated as a single unit.
Actually I was there because once upon a time I was a Barry Goldwater conservative. you know, the bunch that got run out of the party by the racists and bible thumpers? yeah those guys. Once upon a time guys like Goldwater and Buckley were welcome, but not anymore. now it is all race baiting and blowing more $$$ than the Ds as long as the $$$ goes to the right people, or for killing brown folks, that is always popular.
And are you ACTUALLY gonna argue that it is a conspiracy of liberals PRETENDING to be racist twits that 'infiltrated the tea party" are your REALLY gonna try to sell us that? Because that is funny as shit and about a loony tunes as the Linux zealots that scream "Ur an M$ Ninja!" to anyone who dares to point out a problem.
Don't like the fact your party has become the party of racists and religious nutballs? THEN FIX IT. Speak out against the horseshit, call out every time you hear a republican bashing people because of their race, creed, or sexual orientation. be like the log cabin republicans and stand up to bigotry. But sadly you WILL NOT because that would blow the southern strategy all to shit. It isn't a coincidence that poor white neighborhoods in the south will vote R even when they are on the very plans the Rs would love to kill, it is because white trash hate niggers, duh! And since Nixon the party has played more and more to that very audience, as well as the Xtian Taliban types. Don't like it? FIX IT. but don't complain when we point out your leader is kinda nekkid.
Oh I don't you'll have to worry about the future as from what I understand Ninite is making quite good money making automated Windows repos for SMBs and the free site is simply good publicity and generates good will while letting folks see what an automated Windows repo is like.
I have talked to a couple of SMBs that have bought and and they love the thing, the Ninite guys will happily work with a company to add any software they need to their custom repo and with Ninite they can automate all the "must have" stuff like flash and decide where and when it updates. takes a lot of load off the network.
But I have to say for both new installs and even possibly infected boxes Ninite is a Godsend. I have had several boxes brought in filled with toolbars that traditional installs wouldn't take but Ninite was able to get Avast Free and Malwarebytes onboard so I could clean out the crap. Between Ninite and Major Geeks you really can't go wrong. Those two are my "go to" sites and now that CNET is no more the Geeks extensive collection of older software really comes in handy.
Hey we should team up! I bet for say 70 beeelion dollars we can build a COMBINATION asteroid shield AND Bogeyman destroyer! Think of all the money saved!
Oh and did you see how NOBODY checked the links? How the SAME GROUP that set up credit defaults swaps (aka economy killers) is now working for the carbon credit framers? Does that not ring ANY bells here? Does that not scream THIS IS A SCAM! in 100 foot neon with dancing hookers and blow?
Your best bet is Major Geeks. I have found the selection at the Major to be incredible, both of the latest and older stuff, and they don't try to push the crapola like CNET does now.
Heck i'm surprised it took/. this long to run a tory about it, as I've been warning folks to stay away from CNET for a few weeks now. if I'd have known it had been run I'd have put it up awhile back but I just figured somebody else had done it and I didn't want to dupe.
But if you want the "basics" your best bet is Ninite which always has the latest CCleaner, flash, Java, klite, etc and NO TOOLBARS in software like CCleaner, all automated and easy peasy, and for the more offbeat stuff you can't beat the Major. those are my two "go to" sites now that CNET has become just another adware spammer.
But would you trust a list handed to you by someone who has an agenda like in TFA? Could you ever trust that list to be open and truthful?
I'd say this should mark the end of "Open"leaks, which is about as truthful a label as NK being a democratic republic. From reading TFA it sounds like he was paid since he only seems to have targeted leaks about ring wing groups so one has to wonder if this guy wasn't a plant from the start or was turned from the inside.
Sadly this is something wikileaks is gonna have to worry more and more about. There are too many corrupt governments (which after reading about what was covered up in Afghanistan includes the USA) that would like to see Wikileaks utterly destroyed and their data lost forever. If they can't do it by "legal" means like trumped up rape charges (How many women go get their rapist breakfast while he is snoozing in their bed?) the next best thing is to cut a check to an insider to trash as much as he/she possibly can. I'd love to see this guy's bank account in the weeks before and after the shredding, I have a feeling it got a lot more substantial after the destruction.
Jesus WTF? The UK I can understand, but Mexico? You're on the same continent! Can't you just order from the states and have it shipped? I think Amazon ships just about anywhere. Hell if worse comes to worse find someone in the states you can trust and then just wire them some money and a list. it would be cheaper in the long run since it seems you are getting assraped on price there. I thought things were cheaper in Mexico?
Hell if you can't find nobody else get a hold of me we'll work something out. Nobody should get screwed like that. I live down the street from a UPS store and 1 day from the Newegg TN warehouse so online shopping is a breeze here. Don't pay those prices dude, that is just wrong. Especially when we have been getting quad core kits for less than $299 shipped, and that is with EVERYTHING, burner, 1Tb drive, CPU, cooler, case with PSU, fully loaded just add OS. I guess we in the USA have things better than I thought.
Cowards, that is ALL you and your community really are. You hide behind your Tux blankies and if anyone dares to say anything other than the circle jerk "Gee isn't Linux swell? It sure is Biff, and RMS' cock tastes like candy!" you go "Oh Noes, it is not teh true! our precious is leet! it gvives teh gonad powerz! you are teh secret M$ Ninja!" which hey guess what? Just like all the other horseshit you sling, has a trademark because you don't even have any originality to your shit. What a fucking surprise from the OS that rips off Windows and OSX, you know,the two OSes that are actually functional?
Hiode behind your blankie coward. i provided over ONE DOZEN LINKS showing fortune 500 retailers RUNNING AWAY from your POS as fast as they can. Why? Because YOU DO NOT LISTEN TO USERS and instead hang onto your "CLI haz gonad powerz! it makes us teh hackrz!" horseshit. Meanwhile your little rant is such a fucking joke they already have a trademark for it
Actually i'm torn on this. Yes freedom of speech is great but as someone who was hit on by a not very attractive female teacher at 14 as well as watched a friend trade sex for grades with said teacher there is actually sometimes where you DO need to "think of the children" because one forgets how much power a teacher can wield over a student.
So lets not lose sight of the fact WHY bans like this have been put it place. it isn't like these school boards have gone "Oh its Tuesday, we need to be douchebags" it is because time and time again we have seen both male and female teachers use their position to have sex with their underage students.
While there are plenty of truly awesome teachers out there (Thanks Ms Edwards for being a great teacher that inspired my lifelong love of science!) there are also some VERY sick puppies out there that are using the profession for their own sexual gratification. So I'd say this is one of the VERY few cases where one actually does need to "think of the children" when weighing and deciding this.
Are you THIS dense, or did you suck down too much koolaid? Was it cherry flavor? look up what Lee Atwater, you know the guy WHO WROTE THE FUCKING ADS says about William Horton, who he was quite proud to name Willie because "it scared the white folks more". And you can sugar coat the southern strategy ALL you want, but the simple fact is as someone from the south I've actually been to the rallies, HAVE YOU? They loooove to use words like "forced busing" and "states rights" and "youth gangs" because they can say that without getting caught.
IT IS NO COINCIDENCE that the MAJORITY of folks voting R in the south are white and older, sorry but you don't need Kojack to crack the case. Hell would you like for me to post the rally with McCain where lovely things like KILL HIM! were shouted about Obama from the audience? be happy to post it if you don't know how to find it. How about the Tea party nigger comments? Again happy to post, just ask.
Oh please, Poor wittle Lunix user has to think everyone that dislikes your product is a shill. No I'm your worst fucking nightmare...I've actually used your product. And unlike the "stick it to teh man LOL!" types I didn't drink the koolaid. but hey don't take MY word for it, lets ask some people like ASUS who has given up on your bullshit or Walmart who ran away from linux as fast as it could how great your products are? would you like for me to post a couple of dozen point out the same with LO? I'd be quite happy to if you'd like.
Your compatibility? SHIT. Your support for macros? TOTAL SHIT. PPT support? RUNNING FOUL SHIT. Support for complex Excel sheets? BEYOND NASTY SHIT.
But don't worry I've banned anything to do with Linux from my browser, please go back to your circle jerks and I'll just laugh when it fails like Munich all over again. Would you like links to the article from slashdot where everyone had a circle jerk about how big a success THAT was gonna be? I'd be happy to post it!
I believe a giant asteroid is gonna hit the world in the next 50 years. Do you have evidence it is not? We have smaller ones hitting constantly, so how do you KNOW there isn't a bigger one out there? You don't.
Therefor you should give me 50 beeelion dollars so that I can build my anti asteroid protection system. We can just tax everyone, we'll call it a "mineral derivative" and we can even set up markets to trade in them! Of course coming in on the ground floor I'll make a slight profit but that's only fair, since it was my brilliance that thought it up, right?
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What I'd like to know is Why the fuck Hollywood don't hire these guys to make game movies instead of the shitheads that made Doom and Uwe fricking Boll? Have you seen "Escape from City 17"? those guys had NO money yet made more engaging cinema than Uwe Boll has done in his entire fricking life!
Quite being morons Hollywood, hire guys like this that KNOW the material to do game movies. just cut them a check and let them loose. hell I bet that for half of what a Uwe boll flick costs they will make movies that are actually good!
Actually I think it is cheaper now for everything but the throwaway iCrap. When I was a kid everybody wanted or had a muscle car. Sure we bought rustbuckets but when you figured the amount of $$$ and time we sunk into those rustbuckets they got expensive pretty damned quick.
Now when my oldest got accepted to college my dad, who got me a 72 duster with a crunched side when i was his age, gets Jackson an S10 fully loaded in mint state. We are talking deep midnight blue paint, mags, kicking stereo, man that is a sweet ride. When I was a kid something THAT nice would have broke the bank, but now? $2300 and the thing is perfect, hell the engine even looks new as well as purrs like a kitten. The mechanic that checked it out said "Its the same as the day it rolled off the showroom floor, completely perfect" and then promptly tried to buy it off us.
So if anything I'd say we have quite an abundance. Both my boys have multicore desktops AND laptops, hell we have to have 7 PCs just between me and the boys, everybody has a car and a PC and an MP3 and consoles and handhelds and just...more everything. When I was a kid having enough money to get a Coleco was considered a big fricking deal. Owning a PC? I was the only one in the entire town and that was only because i had a trucker uncle who scored a VIC20 that "fell off the back of a truck" for me.
So now all the kids are really really spoiled and don't even know what its like to trudge uphill in the snow both ways. Damned spoiled brats getting on our lawns!
Actually there is even an easier way, as long as you don't mind using "wink wink nudge nudge" software friend. What you want is "Windows 7 all versions pre-activated" which i'm sure you can find a copy of. this disc has ALL the different versions, X86 and x64, all on a single disc and it gives you the option of inputting the OEM key at first install. With it all you have to do is input their legit key and voila! One disk to rule them all. there is also one out for Vista.
Then just use WSUS Offline (I keep it on a network drive) and Ninite and you can seriously cut down the times it takes from first install to completed system. I went from 3 to 5 hours to a flat 90 minutes using this method, with 90% of the time fully automated.
With XP sadly there is no "one OEM to rule them all" but I've found that the Dell and Compaq discs usually have most of the bases covered. There are a few Acer machines that won't take them but the rest will happily take the OEM keys from the machine if you use one of those two. And if you find one that doesn't? frankly the Indian help at MSFT don't give a crap as long as you can read them the key off the back they are happy to give you a phone code that'll activate it. all they care about is how fast they can get you off the phone so you don't screw the metrics, so unless you have used that key more than once they really don't care.
But by using those two discs, the 7 and Vista preactivated, I've cut down from nearly a dozen discs to four, one for 7, one for Vista, and one OEM Compaq for XP Home and Pro. I've found this will cover a good 80%+ of the machines out there and if you have the Dell XP OEM in a drawer that covers another 12%. Then like I said all you have to worry about is the occasional Acer or emachine, but I don't see those much around here so YMMV.
It is actually simple to understand, they all think THEIR software is perfect, you'll never uninstall it, and since you'll only be using THEIR software it doesn't matter where the data is, as long as their software knows where it is, right?
While I like the SMB jobs, just got finished with a nice triple core for a graphic artist, the thing with SMBs is....well they tend not to break things as much. they actually listen to me, follow best practices, and when i tell them by spending X amount more on quality hardware they will get X+Y back as ROI thanks to better performance and longer life? They actually listen. Just got done with a quad as a spare for an electrical contractor. He was afraid if his home or business PC went down even a few hours without could cost him multi thousand dollar bids, so I told him that a $470 quad build with all his work software preloaded would eliminate this possibility and let him simply swap boxes and drop the broken one off to me at his leisure he whipped off a check and said "make it happen ASAP" and that was that.
But the home users is where the real money is at. little Suzy has three dozen Hotbar variants dropped on mommy's PC, Mr Brown's wife won't let go of her P2P and STILL will click on a "mp3.exe". I think I managed to fix her by putting her P2P crap into the crosshairs of Avast Free, so hopefully it'll kill the MP3.exe files but who knows. But you'll find that while the software can be a PITA you really get to help folks out. For example Mr Brown has 4 kids and a minivan payment so he doesn't have a lot of money to spend. You should have seen how happy he was when i told him I could triple the power of his PC by replacing the Sempron he has now for a Phenom triple and it would only cost him $75 installed.
So don't dismiss the home users so easily. The SMBs don't really need someone to really help them learn, the home folks do. I have been teaching my "homies" the importance of regular backups, of having good Av like Avast and Malwarebytes for malware, how they can get more bang for their limited bucks by going AMD, how using anything other than IE is better, how regular registry and C: drive cleaning can keep WinRot from occurring (BTW if you don't know that trick TuneUp Utilities kills WinRot dead. If they are poor like Mr Brown you can give them Glary utilities and teach them to run it once a week, but tuneUp has better tools and is fully automated. I have several XP machines going on 8 years in the field with NO reinstalls or WinRot thanks to TuneUp) etc.
So by keeping my costs down I am able to not only get more business but I am able to educate a whole lot of folks that would ordinarily be left to become zombies. sadly most of the other shops in my area simply do wipe and reinstalls, NO backups, NO patches, hell they don't even install a free AV or better browser to help the poor folks keep from getting reinfected. With my method I only see someone like Mr Brown maybe once a year, when his wife does something REALLY dumb, and I've probably gotten 40 jobs thanks to mr brown spreading the word. i haven't even bothered to get more business cards printed up in nearly 3 years, I'm just too swamped as it is.
Treat folks right, give them a good value, and everything works out nicely for all.
So you choose #1 correct? I got it in 1, woo hoo! Oh and it isn't my site, I just found it when hearing the same string of horseshit from FOSSies over and over AND OVER again. It is ALWAYS "U no leet, u M$ Ninja!" if you don't suck teh koolaid, it is always "U don't need that" and "Freedom by missing features" and "freedom of hypocrisy".
So please, wrap that tux blankie tightly over your head, or even better pull it over your head while you cry "Why are u picking on us? Leave poo Gimpie alone!" maybe you and the Britney guy can team up on Youtube!
it will NOT change the facts. FACT-It is a lame piece of software written as a kid's class project. FACT-It is a bad joke and the fact that dumbasses like you even have the nerve to compare in the same breath to professionally written software is both an insult to real software as well as the intelligence of anyone who has actually tried your garbage, FACT-It has abysmal support for things that ALL commercial photo software has had FOR A DECADE or MORE, such as CMYK, Decent layer and object control, hell I could write a fucking book on all the shit Gimp CAN'T do, and finally FACT- While I'm sure it gives neckbeards a chuckle to say "bring out the Gimp" it has to be the worst fucking name you could have possibly used. what's next Goatse email client? Its open!
But don't worry I simply added FOSS to my list of "things I should ignore" so you can go back to your circle jerks while myself and the professional world ignores your asses. You go be leet little tuxie, nobody fucking cares. hey maybe you can pay RMS with a sandwich to sing the hacker song for you!
Riiiight. Because all those millions spent on R&D, QA, focus groups, none of that actually exists or even matters! nope because a single kid with a class project can totally whip the shit out of that! Oh and Matthew Broderick could totally start WWIII with nothing but a modem and a shitty IBM, cause everybody knows there is NO security with those craaaazy nukes!
How about it fucking matters because that is how you make software better dumbass, you pay for R&D, and a shitload of QA, and focus groups and beta tests and a shitload of guys for document writing and bug fixes.
But hey, you don't need all that shit, right? You can just do like RMS and get a third world quality Loongson ARM POS and WGET web pages, software piffle, all you need is a term and some punch cards daddy-o! that is how the neckbeards that the FOSSies so desperately want to emulate did it, right? That is why RMS calls users "hackers" like it is still 75, right? quality software is for suckers, why there is even a TM for that!
BTW if you could do us both a favor and just link to the TM you are gonna use, it'd make both our lives easier, thanks. After all it has been the same BS for so long there is a TM for all occasions, so just link to the correct TM and call it a day. for example I figure you'll respond with one of these four but since there is about 100 stock FOSSies phrases I can never be sure, so feel free to go and pick the TM that most suits the BS you'll say and save us some time, kay? cause i'm swamped, the graphics artists want quads now for their Solidworks and Photoshops. Have you seen that stuff? brilliant software.
Does it run on VB? Then at least they would be up to the level of "quality" of our CSI! After all they can do ANYTHING with VB! Why MSFT would abandon such a miracle is anybody's guess. They must have feared the Chinese would get a hold of it!
You work SMB or enterprise, yes? I can tell, because you haven't dealt with THE ABSOLUTE SHIT that is home user software. Sadly you DO have to babysit backups, because they almost never drop the data into my docs, it can be anywhere and everywhere. Take the one I just finished with my method. Doing a quick scan for malware Mr Brown's PC had data in my docs, in the root of C:, in the data folders of nearly 2 dozen different software packages, on a separate E: drive, on the desktop, hell where wasn't data dumped by software?
When the last XP and Vista machines are gone so data sanity is finally enforced? then repair installs might be the order of the day. but sadly until 2014 when XP is EOL there will be people that refuse to let it go and software that refuses to follow best practices. Hell try some of the Kodack software that comes with cameras, that crap not only has to be run as admin but dumps the pictures in C:/Kodack/Easyshare/Pictures. How many of those paths do YOU know? are you 100% sure you can have them all accounted for? Because if you don't you might wipe out pics of someone's dead grandma.
As for your problem sadly I could have fixed that for you in under 5 minutes. what you needed to do was go here and pick Revo Uninstaller, then have it do a deep scan on removal of Adobe. the reason you were having that problem is some screwed registry hooks, I've seen it plenty of times. Personally I give my users both Foxit and adobe and let them try both, most don't go back to Adobe after using foxit. Foxit also puts all its important data as an .ini file in its home folder so it is easy to nuke and reinstall if something goes wrong.
As for multi monitors? Don't have the room. My shop is a tiny thing, barely bigger than a single room apt. I find it keeps my costs down (it is only $75 a month, utilities included) and is only a single walk down the stairs from my home apt, so if I get an itch to try something at 3AM I can literally pad down to my shop in my PE shorts and sock feet. The neighbors have gotten so used to it they say "hey Kev, figured something out again?" when they see me padding down the hall.
My method isn't the safest, may not be the most optimal, but it keeps prices low and in a dead economy this keeps me backed up in work. Now if you'll excuse me I have to let Mr Brown know he can pick his up and then start pricing parts for these 4 laptops I have sitting here. Busy busy busy.
Actually I'm afraid sir you are wrong. You see if you had been part of the testers for Vista (I was from Alpha II) you would know that MSFT had made it QUITE clear for nearly TWO YEARS that the Vista driver model wasn't gonna use the "hey lets run everything as root!" driver model of XP yet the OEMs simply ignored MSFT and tried to continue toi use the XP driver model.
Sadly this wasn't the first time this had happened, if you were there you would also known they did the exact same stunt when MSFT went from the 16 bit based VXD driver model to the WDM driver model. In fact I would argue that this is the reason WinME was written off as a shitty OS, because if one loaded WinME with ONLY WDM drivers? It ran better than Win98. It went unstable when VXD drivers were loaded, but instead of refusing to allow the older driver model like they did with Vista MSFT tried to accommodate the OEMs and shim in support for both models and it was a disaster.
So as much as I hated Vista (They released the network stack too early, and they hadn't optimized the kernel at all, which is why by ripping out a good chunk of the stack and rebuilding it Windows 7 is so good) you can't blame MSFT on the driver borkage, you can lay that blame on shitty hardware OEMs like Creative. in fact here it is 2011 and I'd argue Creative STILL hasn't released a decent Vista/7 driver.
Oh and for the record I wasn't recommending Mac, which I think is just an overpriced Intel box, I was saying if he HAD to "think different" because there is one thing I'm sure you're aware of and that is that several will run total shit rather than touch anything by they that shall not be named. You wanna see something funny? Go look up "LinuxInsider" and read everything there by Robert Pogson. I have been there for nearly two years going "SAY IT, JUST FUCKING SAY IT!" and he will NOT say the word Microsoft, or MSFT, or even MS. They are "the other OS' or once in a while you can get him to write "M$" which I'm sure causes sweat to roll down his pasty cheeks as he fears the MSFT Nasgul riding down and breaking into his basement. pretty damned funny!
Oh good grief! You can't HONESTLY be saying the Gimp UI is professional, can you? You DO realize that was literally a kid's class project, yes? I'm fucking serious, look it up, it was a kid's class project and then he FOSSed it. You are literally trying to make us believe that a kid's class project is better than a piece of software that has had millions spent on R&D, and QA, and focus groups made up of top notch pro photographers.
As for why they won't use it.....uhhh...its a kid's class project which doesn't have the tools professionals need like CMYK, really good layer and object controls, and about a bazillion other things that makes their lives easier? But of course when it is pointed out what pros would need to consider using it guys like you will instantly pop up shouting don't care and you don't need that feature anyway! And you wonder why the FOSS "alternative" gets ignored for yet another year.
You want to gain share? it is actually quite simple, been used for hundreds of years, even before FOSS in fact! you see the public? Those people you snark at, look down on, and generally act like a giant ass to, like you are DOING RIGHT NOW? Yeah those are your CUSTOMERS. They are either your current customer or your potential customers, but either way they are the ones you want to walk in the door and "buy" or in this case use your software. And YES SPARKY you DO want them to use your software, why? because THAT is how you get support for the hardware like tablets and pens, that is how you get the plugin writers to write for you, that is how you get OEMs to install your software.
But instead of doing the most simple and logical of things, which is listen to your damned customers you spit upon them and tell them "Fuck u noob, our way is leet! U don't like it u go fix it uself or go back to photocrap LOL!"
And then you have the balls to wonder why they ignore you. Well sparky you are living proof why they ignore you. you are so delusional you honestly believe a kid's class project is more professional than a multimillion dollar software ecosystem, how's the koolaid BTW, is it cherry flavor?
I congratulate our brothers and sisters in Libya and wonder, what will be said when it happens here? Will they be called terrorists, or freedom fighters? Will our government do as old MoMo tried and do some mass slaughter to try to hang onto power, or will they slink away with their ill gotten gains like Mubarak did?
Don't say it could never happen here because I didn't think we'd be seeing tent cities and families living in cars like something out of the third world either. The bag of tricks at the Fed is completely empty now and congress can't keep up spending forever without our rating plunging further, and the teabaggers frankly can't stand anything given to the poor so they'll cockblock any aid packages anyway.
So I'd say its coming, probably in less than a decade. When the kids my oldest goes to school with at the local college are openly wondering if the shit will hit the fan before they even graduate? BAD sign. When the REAL numbers have one in three unemployed and their bullshit numbers have one in 6? BAD sign. When the government has blocked ALL COL adjustments while having the brass balls to say "there is no inflation" while they give THEMSELVES COL adjustments? Bad sign. I give us another decade tops. Then we'll either collapse or the government will try to take Poland for the resources (read South America) because one way to deal with massive unemployment is to have them build tanks or get killed at the front. Either way it ain't gonna be pretty folks.
Ya know, as much as I disagree with RMS on ....well everything actually, this is the ONE subject he and I agree on. software patents are nothing but a credit default swap Ponzi scheme bullshit that needs to DIAF yesterday. just because some multicorps bribed enough of the right people to get them passed here in the USA I had hoped the rest of the world wouldn't have been so easily bribed, I was wrong.
In the end I really don't think it is gonna matter much. Want to see the future of the EU and the USA? it is playing out right now in Tripoli. the people will only put up with massive unemployment and rampant corruption for so long before they turn against the system and when they do the west shall have our own Arab Spring. I for one look forward to it, maybe we can become a socialist constitution based democracy instead of a corporatist state. Maybe something like old Henry Fords "social capitalism" where he believed the workers should be paid well enough to afford the products that they actually got to make?
But in the end you can forget making a difference within the system. i have tried joining email campaigns, writing plenty of real letters, you name it against that "Hey lets spy on everyone!" Internet blacklist bill, where anybody in power won't even need a warrant or a reason to have your logs, any corp can kill your access to the outside world with NO court intervention, and all I have gotten back is one canned spam letter by the congress critters after another.
They all might as well read "hello (Insert Name) do you have monies? lots of monies? if you do then write (insert large check amount) and we may be able to make an exception for you! If you do not please see this full color blowup of Goatse and consider it our response to you. If you would like it framed please send (insert amount) to this address and we'll get it right out. Oh and don't bother voting for the other guy, the only difference is he'll be sending you a picture of Lemon party if you have no monies. Now please do not bother us again or we will fart in your general direction. Have a nice day and vote for me, because I get endless benefits and healthcare but my family needs cushy bribes too!"
The problem with your suggestion is thus: a good 90%+ of the people out there have NO BACKUPS and my time is $35 an hour, so backing up 300Gb+ worth of data would literally cost them more than the machine is worth!
With a combo of Avast Free, Antivir bootable, and Malwarebytes I find you can be pretty sure you have everything without running up a several hundred dollar repair bill. Can i promise 100% success? nope but when the choice is a $75 cleaning or a $400 data backup and recovery session? it really ain't hard to guess which the customer is gonna choose, and they are always right you know.
Oh and before you say "repair install" because I know you are, I'd point out that a repair install blows away a good chunk of the registry so you've just stuck the customer with the "fun" of sifting through their emails and hunting for receipts for the sometimes several hundred dollars worth of software whose reg keys you just blew away. not fun and a good way to piss a customer off.
So while i'm sure you don't approve of my method, many don't, I'd point out that not only does it let me undercut my competition by nearly $60 (because i have the whole thing automated and can have 4 at a time going with a KVM switch) but most of the time I have a waiting list for my service with me doing ZERO advertising, simply by word of mouth and referrals. My customers are EXTREMELY happy with my method and since they are the ones paying my bills i'll defer to them. Be nice if I could just "nuke from orbit" just to be sure, but rarely do I find people willing to pay that kind of money.
Nooooo....it has to do with you using an OS with such a low userbase nobody will even fucking bother to write a toolbar for it. After all you don't see the Ask toolbar for Haiku OS or ReactOS, but you don't hear them bragging "Here is yet another piece of software that won't run! Aren't you happy?"..
As for TFA this is soooooo easy to fix. Just use Ninite for all the "must haves" like Flash, Java, Firefox, messenger, etc and then you will NEVER see a toolbar, even on programs like Java that originally try to stick you with them. that is because Ninite removes the crapola and just gives you sane defaults. for everything else there is Major Geeks!
Tada! Solved in under 30 seconds while still having access to the literally millions of applications in the Windows ecosystem, many of which have NO real equivalent in FOSS BTW, such as Photoshop and QuickBooks, and of course having ALL the FOSS software that is worth giving a shit about.
Now don't you wish you'd have thought of that before you jumped in to a software ecosystem with poor documentation, 6 month driver borkages, forum fixes, CLI tweaking, and all the other BS? Oh and you could have had AAA games as well! if you wanted to "think different" you should have just gotten a Mac. At least there all the software is designed to work together and follow the UI design, instead of a hodge podge of software by dozen of groups that don't interact all thrown together and treated as a single unit.
Actually I was there because once upon a time I was a Barry Goldwater conservative. you know, the bunch that got run out of the party by the racists and bible thumpers? yeah those guys. Once upon a time guys like Goldwater and Buckley were welcome, but not anymore. now it is all race baiting and blowing more $$$ than the Ds as long as the $$$ goes to the right people, or for killing brown folks, that is always popular.
And are you ACTUALLY gonna argue that it is a conspiracy of liberals PRETENDING to be racist twits that 'infiltrated the tea party" are your REALLY gonna try to sell us that? Because that is funny as shit and about a loony tunes as the Linux zealots that scream "Ur an M$ Ninja!" to anyone who dares to point out a problem.
Don't like the fact your party has become the party of racists and religious nutballs? THEN FIX IT. Speak out against the horseshit, call out every time you hear a republican bashing people because of their race, creed, or sexual orientation. be like the log cabin republicans and stand up to bigotry. But sadly you WILL NOT because that would blow the southern strategy all to shit. It isn't a coincidence that poor white neighborhoods in the south will vote R even when they are on the very plans the Rs would love to kill, it is because white trash hate niggers, duh! And since Nixon the party has played more and more to that very audience, as well as the Xtian Taliban types. Don't like it? FIX IT. but don't complain when we point out your leader is kinda nekkid.
Oh I don't you'll have to worry about the future as from what I understand Ninite is making quite good money making automated Windows repos for SMBs and the free site is simply good publicity and generates good will while letting folks see what an automated Windows repo is like.
I have talked to a couple of SMBs that have bought and and they love the thing, the Ninite guys will happily work with a company to add any software they need to their custom repo and with Ninite they can automate all the "must have" stuff like flash and decide where and when it updates. takes a lot of load off the network.
But I have to say for both new installs and even possibly infected boxes Ninite is a Godsend. I have had several boxes brought in filled with toolbars that traditional installs wouldn't take but Ninite was able to get Avast Free and Malwarebytes onboard so I could clean out the crap. Between Ninite and Major Geeks you really can't go wrong. Those two are my "go to" sites and now that CNET is no more the Geeks extensive collection of older software really comes in handy.
Hey we should team up! I bet for say 70 beeelion dollars we can build a COMBINATION asteroid shield AND Bogeyman destroyer! Think of all the money saved!
Oh and did you see how NOBODY checked the links? How the SAME GROUP that set up credit defaults swaps (aka economy killers) is now working for the carbon credit framers? Does that not ring ANY bells here? Does that not scream THIS IS A SCAM! in 100 foot neon with dancing hookers and blow?
Your best bet is Major Geeks. I have found the selection at the Major to be incredible, both of the latest and older stuff, and they don't try to push the crapola like CNET does now.
Heck i'm surprised it took /. this long to run a tory about it, as I've been warning folks to stay away from CNET for a few weeks now. if I'd have known it had been run I'd have put it up awhile back but I just figured somebody else had done it and I didn't want to dupe.
But if you want the "basics" your best bet is Ninite which always has the latest CCleaner, flash, Java, klite, etc and NO TOOLBARS in software like CCleaner, all automated and easy peasy, and for the more offbeat stuff you can't beat the Major. those are my two "go to" sites now that CNET has become just another adware spammer.
But would you trust a list handed to you by someone who has an agenda like in TFA? Could you ever trust that list to be open and truthful?
I'd say this should mark the end of "Open"leaks, which is about as truthful a label as NK being a democratic republic. From reading TFA it sounds like he was paid since he only seems to have targeted leaks about ring wing groups so one has to wonder if this guy wasn't a plant from the start or was turned from the inside.
Sadly this is something wikileaks is gonna have to worry more and more about. There are too many corrupt governments (which after reading about what was covered up in Afghanistan includes the USA) that would like to see Wikileaks utterly destroyed and their data lost forever. If they can't do it by "legal" means like trumped up rape charges (How many women go get their rapist breakfast while he is snoozing in their bed?) the next best thing is to cut a check to an insider to trash as much as he/she possibly can. I'd love to see this guy's bank account in the weeks before and after the shredding, I have a feeling it got a lot more substantial after the destruction.
Jesus WTF? The UK I can understand, but Mexico? You're on the same continent! Can't you just order from the states and have it shipped? I think Amazon ships just about anywhere. Hell if worse comes to worse find someone in the states you can trust and then just wire them some money and a list. it would be cheaper in the long run since it seems you are getting assraped on price there. I thought things were cheaper in Mexico?
Hell if you can't find nobody else get a hold of me we'll work something out. Nobody should get screwed like that. I live down the street from a UPS store and 1 day from the Newegg TN warehouse so online shopping is a breeze here. Don't pay those prices dude, that is just wrong. Especially when we have been getting quad core kits for less than $299 shipped, and that is with EVERYTHING, burner, 1Tb drive, CPU, cooler, case with PSU, fully loaded just add OS. I guess we in the USA have things better than I thought.
Cowards, that is ALL you and your community really are. You hide behind your Tux blankies and if anyone dares to say anything other than the circle jerk "Gee isn't Linux swell? It sure is Biff, and RMS' cock tastes like candy!" you go "Oh Noes, it is not teh true! our precious is leet! it gvives teh gonad powerz! you are teh secret M$ Ninja!" which hey guess what? Just like all the other horseshit you sling, has a trademark because you don't even have any originality to your shit. What a fucking surprise from the OS that rips off Windows and OSX, you know,the two OSes that are actually functional?
Hiode behind your blankie coward. i provided over ONE DOZEN LINKS showing fortune 500 retailers RUNNING AWAY from your POS as fast as they can. Why? Because YOU DO NOT LISTEN TO USERS and instead hang onto your "CLI haz gonad powerz! it makes us teh hackrz!" horseshit. Meanwhile your little rant is such a fucking joke they already have a trademark for it
Actually i'm torn on this. Yes freedom of speech is great but as someone who was hit on by a not very attractive female teacher at 14 as well as watched a friend trade sex for grades with said teacher there is actually sometimes where you DO need to "think of the children" because one forgets how much power a teacher can wield over a student.
So lets not lose sight of the fact WHY bans like this have been put it place. it isn't like these school boards have gone "Oh its Tuesday, we need to be douchebags" it is because time and time again we have seen both male and female teachers use their position to have sex with their underage students.
While there are plenty of truly awesome teachers out there (Thanks Ms Edwards for being a great teacher that inspired my lifelong love of science!) there are also some VERY sick puppies out there that are using the profession for their own sexual gratification. So I'd say this is one of the VERY few cases where one actually does need to "think of the children" when weighing and deciding this.
Are you THIS dense, or did you suck down too much koolaid? Was it cherry flavor? look up what Lee Atwater, you know the guy WHO WROTE THE FUCKING ADS says about William Horton, who he was quite proud to name Willie because "it scared the white folks more". And you can sugar coat the southern strategy ALL you want, but the simple fact is as someone from the south I've actually been to the rallies, HAVE YOU? They loooove to use words like "forced busing" and "states rights" and "youth gangs" because they can say that without getting caught.
IT IS NO COINCIDENCE that the MAJORITY of folks voting R in the south are white and older, sorry but you don't need Kojack to crack the case. Hell would you like for me to post the rally with McCain where lovely things like KILL HIM! were shouted about Obama from the audience? be happy to post it if you don't know how to find it. How about the Tea party nigger comments? Again happy to post, just ask.
Oh please, Poor wittle Lunix user has to think everyone that dislikes your product is a shill. No I'm your worst fucking nightmare...I've actually used your product. And unlike the "stick it to teh man LOL!" types I didn't drink the koolaid. but hey don't take MY word for it, lets ask some people like ASUS who has given up on your bullshit or Walmart who ran away from linux as fast as it could how great your products are? would you like for me to post a couple of dozen point out the same with LO? I'd be quite happy to if you'd like.
Your compatibility? SHIT. Your support for macros? TOTAL SHIT. PPT support? RUNNING FOUL SHIT. Support for complex Excel sheets? BEYOND NASTY SHIT.
But don't worry I've banned anything to do with Linux from my browser, please go back to your circle jerks and I'll just laugh when it fails like Munich all over again. Would you like links to the article from slashdot where everyone had a circle jerk about how big a success THAT was gonna be? I'd be happy to post it!
I believe a giant asteroid is gonna hit the world in the next 50 years. Do you have evidence it is not? We have smaller ones hitting constantly, so how do you KNOW there isn't a bigger one out there? You don't.
Therefor you should give me 50 beeelion dollars so that I can build my anti asteroid protection system. We can just tax everyone, we'll call it a "mineral derivative" and we can even set up markets to trade in them! Of course coming in on the ground floor I'll make a slight profit but that's only fair, since it was my brilliance that thought it up, right?