Category: Computer/ Tech Related

You’ve Got to be Kidding Me

December 28, 2004

Computer/ Tech Related, Rants

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If you don’t feel like reading this whole article I can sum it up in two words: Get Firefox. If you want to read on about how IE sucks, then go ahead.

I decided to use IE just for the hell of it and see how crappy the internet is without Firefox. Since Service Pack 2 should have made it more secure, I decided to see how true that was. Apparently not.

ActiveX controls are the things that popup and ask you to install things, usually adware. Service Pack 2 blocks all of these by default but a little bar pops up on top telling you that it was blocked. Of course, IE is still vulnerable unless you go into Internet Settings and turn off ActiveX controls, but no one does this. So because a bar pops up notifying people when sites try to install bad software, this makes IE okay, right? Wrong…

Here’s what really pissed me off. Sites know that SP2 blocks their spyware, so now they provide detailed instructions on how to install it, bypassing all of SP2s new security features (which are weak anyway). Yes, it’s happening. “In order to continue using our site you must…” Check out the picture for the actual instructions given. Quick note about the picture – it is a real screenshot and a javascript detected Internet Explorer and those instructions popped up over the main content of the website. Dumb people would follow the instructions because they want to access the site. And here’s the kicker. The damn thing says security warning, and the instructions are asking you to install it. People are really dumb and would.

I can’t make this point any stronger: GET FIREFOX!!!! I went to the exact same site and every bad script and popup was blocked.

The i860 – New Junk for Lazy People

December 26, 2004

Computer/ Tech Related, Rants

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This isn’t the first time I’m bashing Nextel phones. Anyway, the i860 is crap and is for lazy people. The feature that pisses me off the most is the push-button flip mechanism. This is absolute junk and a waste of a feature. It proves people are too lazy these days. Whats the matter, takes too much energy to manually filp up your phone? I guess so. Some fat lazy engineer for Motorolla probably designed this because he was sick of burning an extra calorie by opening up his phone. He thought it’d be easier to push a button. Well it sucks. I saw the phone and used the push button flip. It opens so fast that it’s bound to wear out within a month. Just another thing to wear out and break.

Motorolla uses good marketing strategy build a phone that will wear out quickly and break, because lazy idiots will buy the phone, break it in a month, then buy another. I can get a Verizon LG phone for $60 that has all the same features minus the crappy flip option. Sigh… What’s happenning to society these days?

Fake Screennames

November 30, 2004

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If anyone IMs you with the screenname Portf0li0so, or any other variation of the screenname claiming to be me, it is not true and do not believe it. If I decide to change my screenname, I will ALWAYS tell everyone first on my main screenname that i will be changing it.

I received an email from AIM today which told me that someone used my email address to register a screenname. It asked if I would like to associate the email with the screenname or deny it. I chose to deny it, because I never signed up to begin with. However, the screenname will still work, just won’t be active.

Very nice guys, keep making fake screennames claiming to be me. Don’t you have better things to do?

I Dislike Ipods

November 15, 2004

Computer/ Tech Related

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You all my know how I don’t like Ipods… Well they’re okay in a pinch but they’re WAY too expensive, battery life sucks, you can’t change the battery if it wears out and it requires you to load your computer with the bloated iTunes software. Now, I’m not saying any other MP3 player is better The Dell one is giant and has a bad interface, the Creative Labs and Sony players are decent but do not support m4a formats.

I found a site that compares the Ipod with a casette tape. let’s see the winner: http://homepage.mac.com/danielturek/PhotoAlbum50.html

P.S (especially if you’re Dannyrob) Note the above link is sarcasm

Wake Up, Nextel

October 31, 2004

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I think it would be helpful if Nextel updated their clock for Daylight Savings Time. How dumb can you be. The entire system time is off probably because some fat lazy person slept all day. Actually, there’s no excuse for this. One person probably isn’t in charge of network time. I’m also assuming the CEO of Nextel has a nextel phone. You think he’d check the time on it and complain to the idiot workers that it’s off… It’s been about one day since the DST switch back. You mean to tell me that not one person realized this mistake in the entire day?