Avast! is updated several times daily, and has captured several viral executables and attempted drive-by's when my kids tried to download screensavers, emoticons and such. The warning is loud and hard to ignore, and the malware did not get installed. It really works quite well at keeping trash off of my system (for the past two years, after I got sick of Norton), and doesn't cost a dime for your home machine.
Which just means the drives were ready to fail anyway. I cycle my machine on and off daily, and never any hardware problems.
To get on topic, I usually have 6 to 8 browser tabs open, plus Outlook, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Notepad (several), AlphaCAM, Word, and Excel. I have and aging HP PC with 2 gigs RAM with Athlon XP 3000+, I normally have few performance issues. I also use Avast! antivirus, which hits very little on performance, but apparently work great because I've never had a virus.
On my pc I have removed office 2003 and replaced it with 2007 release candide 1--yet at least two office 2003 patches were successfully installed, according to the MS dialogue? I saw no mention of vulnerabilities in the beta suite, yet it seems it was patched on the sly.
You can get a free trial, and this works better than the NVidea solution. You can even make your desktop look like your favorite Linux flavor.
WWW.stardock.com
You are trying to analyze a sick mind using a normal point of reference. It would be just as easy to analyze why the guy kidnapped the girl, as it would to figure out why he used a Commodore--wouldn't it? And maybe, the former is just a tad more important? But... that's just me.
I don't know about anybody else, but right now there's not much out there I want to buy. Traditionally, I buy CDs, as I'm too lazy to download. But since the Sony debacle, I haven't purchased anything from anybody, including downloads. Poor products + invasive DRM = poor sales. I've taken to listening to FM again. If they are going to be that protective, and if I can't own the music I play, then I'm not going to buy it, period. They can't blame this slump on piracy, as that has gone down, at the same time as sales.
-Dixon
(Bite me, Sony, you owe me a new PC)
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Yes, you are old, as am I. Do I have permission to use "I must be old to see this comment as cute and quaint." as my sig line?
This is so obvious: Say "Eunuchs." Wait, they may not have the balls for space travel...
Avast! is updated several times daily, and has captured several viral executables and attempted drive-by's when my kids tried to download screensavers, emoticons and such. The warning is loud and hard to ignore, and the malware did not get installed. It really works quite well at keeping trash off of my system (for the past two years, after I got sick of Norton), and doesn't cost a dime for your home machine.
Which just means the drives were ready to fail anyway. I cycle my machine on and off daily, and never any hardware problems. To get on topic, I usually have 6 to 8 browser tabs open, plus Outlook, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Notepad (several), AlphaCAM, Word, and Excel. I have and aging HP PC with 2 gigs RAM with Athlon XP 3000+, I normally have few performance issues. I also use Avast! antivirus, which hits very little on performance, but apparently work great because I've never had a virus.
On my pc I have removed office 2003 and replaced it with 2007 release candide 1--yet at least two office 2003 patches were successfully installed, according to the MS dialogue? I saw no mention of vulnerabilities in the beta suite, yet it seems it was patched on the sly.
You can get a free trial, and this works better than the NVidea solution. You can even make your desktop look like your favorite Linux flavor. WWW.stardock.com
You are trying to analyze a sick mind using a normal point of reference. It would be just as easy to analyze why the guy kidnapped the girl, as it would to figure out why he used a Commodore--wouldn't it? And maybe, the former is just a tad more important? But... that's just me.
I don't know about anybody else, but right now there's not much out there I want to buy. Traditionally, I buy CDs, as I'm too lazy to download. But since the Sony debacle, I haven't purchased anything from anybody, including downloads. Poor products + invasive DRM = poor sales. I've taken to listening to FM again. If they are going to be that protective, and if I can't own the music I play, then I'm not going to buy it, period. They can't blame this slump on piracy, as that has gone down, at the same time as sales. -Dixon (Bite me, Sony, you owe me a new PC)