Re: Is it a bad sign...

Kaz Kylheku wrote:
On 2008-10-30, Kenny <kentilton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And where should I put my money in my next computer?


The empty bay below the DVD burner.

ba-dump-bump



Is AMD any different than Intel, or shouls I save $150?


I don't know about ``then'', but different ``from'', certainly.

Never mind me, help this guy:

"Now that I have some vacation I all over sudden found myself making a few quick buttons for..."

Reminds me when I asked my older brother how to spell what sounds like "halfto". Hunh?, he replied. You, know, like in 'I halfto go to the bathroom'.



I know Vista is stupid, but is it slow? I'll be getting a lot of RAM.


I've been running Vista for like a year and a half. Yes, it is slow, but
the reason for that is all the crap that is enabled by default.

I.e. it's slow in the default setup, due to stupid reasons that
don't appear to have anything to do with the kernel.

If you go through the list of services and scheduled tasks, and kill everything
superfluous and useless, it will be a lot faster.

Knowing me I'll take out something crucial, void the warranty, and somehow launch an ICBM on Canada which is right next to Alaska so its governor should be OK on international affairs.


For instance, I discovered that, out-of-the-box, Vista was running a full hard
drive defragmentation daily! And lots of other stupidities.

It also runs Microsoft Anti-Spyware (which has been renamed Windows Defender).
This seems to slows down the system quite a bit; Defender is among the things
that I killed. Also, I don't run any anti-virus bull***. Anti-virus software
doesn't work, and infections are a dumb-user problem anyway.

99% of the virus problems out there are because people say yes to ``please run
this .exe to install the codec needed for viewing this porn file''.

Well how the hell else am I going to see it?!


So, quite literally, most Windows viruses are in fact sexually transmitted!

Nice catch. Back in my early days selling the Mac Algebra I did let a college student borrow a computer for a while and then used it to cut my floppies. Yep. Got a not-too awkward phone call from someone who caught it with their software before installing. Fortunately was not selling all that many just then, only had to make a half dozen more awkward calls, but I do recall that I had in fact infected at least one customer. The metaphor...hell, maybe it isn't even a metaphor.

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