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Computer

Anyone wanna give me their old computer? I need one to run my server 24/7. I don’t feel like keeping my good computer on all day long and my old Packard Bell has no network card, so that’s out. I don’t care how crappy it is. It can be a 300 Mhz thing with a 15GB harddrive for all I care. And if you don’t feel like giving it to me maybe I’ll buy it, but I have better things to spend my money on. I won’t spend much on it because I can get the crappiest brand new Dell for $400. As long is it has a minimum of 300 Mhz and at least a 15 GB of harddrive, that’s fine with me.

Doing me this kind favor will enable me to run portfolioso.no-ip.com ALL DAY. You could be able to access my files any time. I’d also add a lot more files to it. Anyway, let me know.

AIM 5.5 Sucks

AIM 5.5 sucks. Immediately uninstall it and get 5.2.3292. First of all, the buddy list window seems to be getting smaller with each release and now the ads contain sound, video and macromedia flash. The screenname linking is retarded. It would have been better off if they made AIM clone instead of this. I don’t know what they were trying to prove. And they think they’re so swift adding games and such. Games can be played on other websites. The point of AIM is to chat, not to play games. AIM is becoming cluttered with shit that lags your computer.. Invisibility was added. Big shit… That could be done with AOL anyway… The only improvement is notifications, which can be annoying, especially if you have lots of people on your buddy list.

Finally, it installs a shitload of WildTangent spyware (about 70 registry keys of shit, and 30+ files). That’s right! AIM now with spyware. Use AdAware and remove AIM. I am not using this version until I can figure out some stuff…

Here’s some stuff that ALL versions of AIM install and you can safely remove them. First of all, “Viewpoint Media Player” is a useless piece of crap that you can uninstall because it does nothing. Also, In your C:/Program Files folder, delete the “aod” folder. This is useless crap that installs AOL for Broadband links on your desktop, favorites and start menu (when you first install AIM) It’s not used after that and is a waste.

Longhorn

Out of boredom, I downloaded the beta of Windows Longhorn, which is a new Windows operating system that will be released in 2005. I took a spare computer I don’t really care about and loaded it there. Of course, Microsoft makes it hard to find, and its scattered into like 46 separate parts all over the internet. It looks sort of like Windows XP, only its a lot more blue…. It’s probably unstable and a big waste, so I’ll be formatting that drive and putting XP back shortly.

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Edit: 9/2011: I was SO full of shit back then. Just trying to sound cool. No, I didn’t ever install Longhorn. That was a Windows XP skin… Dumbass.

More AIM Hacking

What better is there to do on a snowy day then to break into the buddyui.ocm file. Then, I located the strings that control various colors on the buddylist. So now I can have screennames in my famous lime green and a have a black AIM background.

Hexidecimal thingys are fun.