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20 Reasons The World despises Norton Anti-Virus
Do i have a virus or is my computer just gooey???
In the beginning… well, I’ll stay away from that mess of evolution vs. intelligent design. Let’s start back when the Internet began. So there Al Gore was; supposedly he invented this thing called the Internet. Then some other college kid got bored and decided “Hey! I’m going to delete crucial code from a program until it crashes my computer!” Thus, the first virus was born. Ever since then, more and more Windows users have been placing viruses on the Internet, and every person with a PC is running around like a chicken with its head cut off in fear. Then came the good guys; yes, anti-virus software. Until one day a company named Symantec made Norton. Then the good became the bad. Norton turned the tide for PC users… until after it was installed on their computer. At that point they wondered, “Do I have a virus or is my computer just gooey?” Unbeknownst to them, their computer was infected, infected by the disinfector. Norton anti-virus sucks, and the world despises it. Why is it around? Because Compaq bundles it with their PCs. Geek Squad at Best Buy hands it out to old ladies who can’t even get their monitors…
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Windows Vista - the accumulation of everything ripped-off.
I finally took a dive into Vista with RC1, as it seemed that every disk image of Beta 2 I tried getting previously was corrupted.
I wanted to give Vista the opportunity of a doubt,
I thought it would be so much better than XP,
but, honestly - with the few minutes I spent with Vista (after more than an hour of installation and around 10 reboots later) feels like it’s simply a theme for XP (a nicer theme than the Fisher Price default theme on XP), with an entire collection of things ripped-off from others. Innovative indeed.
From the few minutes I was able to stand Vista, here’s how I feel:
Gadgets is most definitely Konfabulator - err I mean Yahoo Widgets.
IE7 is most definitely Safari.
The theme feels like a theme on Linux with some OS X Flavoring.
The forced dialog screens (where the entire screen goes black except for a password screen or dialog box) are annoying as all hell - altho I do like it for some people that tend to ignore them, there should be a way for advanced users to turn it off!
As it’s not an official release I can’t really complain…
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Korean Air bans Apple and Dell notebooks
AppleInsider is reporting that Korean Air, in fear from batteries blowing up has banned certain notebooks (Dell, Powerbooks and iBooks) from their flights.
“Due to the risk of onboard fire, we are not allowing passengers to use certain brands of laptops on the plane.
Altho it seems they’re ok to transport if the batteries are separated them into checked baggage.
It may seem a bit extreme, but then again there is this unsolved issue:
NTSB investigating laptop batteries as the cause of UPS cargo plane fire
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Vista to ship January 30--or so Amazon claims
From the “right on time, sort of” desk…
It looks like Windows Vista might just ship in January as Microsoft promised--barely. According to Amazon.com, Windows Vista is set to ship on January 30, 2007. Amazon is also now expecting preorders for Vista. As of this writing, Windows Vista Ultimate is already the 65th most popular software title on Amazon. For what it’s worth, Norton Utilities, Norton Antivirus, and Norton Internet Security are Amazon’s top three bestselling software products as of this writing.
Amusingly enough, Amazon also lists Vista as being “discontinued by the manufacturer.” Great. Contradictions.
Other events that have taken place on January 30 include the beginning of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War (1968), the beheading of King Charles I of England (1649), and the renaming of the town of Yerba Buena, California to San Francisco (1847). Exciting!
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Pre-RC1 version of Windows Vista available to Public
Microsoft is making a free Pre-RC1 version of Windows Vista Ultimate available for public download to the first 100,000 people.
No word on any limitations, but one would assume the Microsoft-standard 180-day timeout for prereleases of its OS is in effect.
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more stuff
- 20 Reasons The World despises Norton Anti-Virus
- Windows Vista - the accumulation of everything ripped-off.
- Korean Air bans Apple and Dell notebooks
- Vista to ship January 30--or so Amazon claims
- Pre-RC1 version of Windows Vista available to Public
- ARG I H@te WINDOWS XP!!!! (pardon the @ symbol but my rents have a g@y filter on the internet!)
- Ink-spirimenting in Inkscape
- Microsoft Acquires iView Multimedia
- WinFS is dead
- Photoshop is in the fonts
- Taking the Plunge: The Biggest Beta Trial I’ve Ever Done
- Steve Balmer defeated by Malware
- Steve Balmer defeated by Malware
- Help Me! Problem Solved
- Semi-Case Study: Which Windows browser is the biggest memory hog?
- Office 12 on Vista Screenies [UPDATED]
- Visual Studio 2005 Express Now Free Forever
- First on DT: Tevanian to join Vista development team
- Dell Buys Alienware and Announces Pricing on XPS 600 Renegade
- Windows Vista delayed--yet again
- XvsXP.com Relaunches
- Google Earth for Windows
- Versions in Future are Less Confusing Than They Appear
- Microsoft announces Vista editions
- Will Apple Adopt Windows? Not even when hell freezes over!
- Internet Explorer 7 beta available
- Google Earth Out of Beta
- Adobe releases beta of Aperture competitor
- A Very Vista Wishlist
- Dell issues battery recall
- RIP Macromedia
- A quick guide to cleaning out a Windows install
- My Windows User Experience
- The realism continues…
- Is Apple Prepared for Vista?
- Microsoft Codename Max
- Next eBay Purchase: Skype
- The World’s First 19” Laptop Is Here
- WinFS demo on Channel 9
- Intel Canning Lower-End Chipsets
- Microsft and Google Face Off at Golden Penguin Bowl
- Konfabulator Developer Sold to Yahoo! [UPDATED]
- A Room With a View
- Windows Vista: Possibly the dumbest name for an OS ever…
- Microsoft announces Longhorn will be called Windows Vista
- Why I Hate Musicmatch
- Microsoft issues a raft of security updates
- Microsoft to revamp Digital Music strategy
- Apple and Intel Gang up against Microsoft?
- Upgrade from XP Home to Pro, for free
- Mac site of the week: Mac OS X vs. Windows XP (XvsXP.com)
- Netscape 8 is out
- Netscape 8 Review
- Konfabulator 2.0 released
- Rant: I hate shell replacements!
- MSN Desktop Search goes final
- Speculation: will Windows go PowerPC?
- This gave me a chuckle…
- Microsoft finishes Windows Mobile 2005
- XvsXP begins posting Tiger updates, new XP info
- Thurrott declares Latest Longhorn “train wreck”
- More on Adobe and Macromedia
- Get Windows XP x64 Edition for Free
- New Longhorn Screenshots
- Email to Paul Thurrott
- Adobe Acquires Macromedia
- Microsoft fixes critical holes in Windows
- Sweet satisfaction in XP?
- New European XP version named
- Microsoft to give away Windows x64
- Why can’t skins have useful features?
- 1 millionth Tablet PC sold!
- Microsoft comissions six new fonts for Longhorn
- Intel to release 64bit Celerons
- Windows XP x64 RC2 released to General Public
- IE unaffected by major security flaw
- Windows x64 mini review
- TMO: Spotlight not WinFS wannabe
- Windows XP x64 RC1 released to General Public
- Windows x64 release date?
- Mobile Semprons go on sale
- Microsoft releases Avalon Framework
- Apple opens Irish iTunes store
- .NET and C# - hints at a possible future?
- Deep Thought PC now open
- Mozilla’s Lightning to strike Outlook
- Paint.NET
- iTMS comes to Canada--at last
- Apple retail finally coming to Canada
