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Steve Balmer defeated by Malware

By SogniX, June 5, 2006

“Allchin says Ballmer, the world’s 13th wealthiest man with a fortune of about $18 billion, spent almost two days trying to rid the PC of worms, viruses, spyware, malware and severe fragmentation without success,” Frith reports. “He lumped the thing back to Microsoft’s headquarters and turned it over to a team of top engineers, who spent several days on the machine, finding it infected with more than 100 pieces of malware, some of which were nearly impossible to eradicate.”

Brings a smile to my face and a tear to my eye.

Article on MacDailyNews

Original article on Australian IT News

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Steve Balmer defeated by Malware

By SogniX, June 5, 2006

Saw it on MacDailyNews,

Brings a smile to my face and a tear to my eye.

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Put Your Naming Skillz in the Place of your Complaining Skillz

By Liam, June 3, 2006

So, I hear that around these here parts, its gettin’ around that y’all are a little unimpressed with the lates’ crop o’ electronic names. MacBook, ya say? Why don’ they jus’ call it CrapBook? Winders Vista? Winders Piss-ta is better!

So I challenge all y’all to ~~help me type a southern accent~~ name ‘em yerself. Just name a product and what would be better. Then kill each other over who is more creative. Don’t really.

Since I ~~have no imagination~~ ~~wants to use strikethrough~~ wants to leave all a the creativity to y’all, I won’t attempt any myself. There are these simple rules:

No naming the MacBook iBook or the MacBook Pro Powerbook

No naming Windows Vista either Windows 2007 or Windows XP 2

The same applies for all product names (not literally.)

Go.

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Help Me! Problem Solved

By Liam, June 2, 2006

Why must the most crippling computer problems be the ones that no one has an answer to? I happen to have come upon one of these problems, and it’s the most frusturating thing I’ve had to deal with.

Basically, I am completely locked out of my primary OS on my only web-connected computer. I know that it’ll be hard to repress the urge to troll when I name this OS, but I hope that some can remain civil enough to weigh in on what they think may be the cause. Ready? The OS with the problem is Windows XP. I already asked about it on another site, so I’ll just quote it here:

Yesterday, I finally got tired of my system being a bit slow and having horrible Oblivion performance compared to how it performed a few weeks ago. I decided to just do a full system cleanup. When I went to defragment my disc, it reported that there are errors on the disc. So I set it to perform a disc scan on boot. Unfortunately, the disc scan was moving really slow at stage 4, so I went to bed and let it work. When I woke up, I found my computer at the Ubuntu login screen (GRUB is set to boot automatically into Ubuntu after 10 seconds). I rebooted back into Windows and it started the scan again. I hit the reset button on the case and booted Ubuntu so I could come here and ask for help.

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MacBook first impressions

By Nick, June 1, 2006

So I got the chance to play with the new MacBooks. All I can say is that I want one badly. What’s that, you say? It gets toasty? The screen is too glossy? Well, maybe. Here’s what I think after some limited use.

Note: I actually wrote this article a week ago but never posted it. I’m fashionably late to the MacBook party now, but I brought plenty of pizza!

The Screen

Yes, it’s glossy. Under indoor lighting, the glossiness didn’t really interfere with my use of the computer. Glossy or no, its image quality flat-out beautiful; crisp, bright, evenly-lit, color-rich. It’s among the best laptop displays I’ve seen, right alongside the MacBook Pro’s. But of course, there is a tradeoff: under some lighting conditions, I could imagine the glare becoming rather irritating. Not that it matters; my iBook is already damn near unusable outside as it is. Looking at my iBook’s screen side-by-side with a MacBook’s screen is pretty painful; it makes me wonder what I’m doing to my eyes by using this iBook. Bottom line, it won’t change your minds on the glossy screens--if you hate them, you’ll still hate them. If you love them, you’ll still love them. If you’re like me and fall somewhere in between, well, you’ll probably still be somewhere in between.

The keyboard

I’m an English major. As such, I write a lot, so you could probably guess that the feel of a keyboard is very important to me. For example, I now have…
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