Rants

There’s a lot of really stupid ideas out there in TV land, most revolving around so called “reality” TV shows. Next time anything happens in your real life that’s similar to anything you see on reality TV, let me know. I guess they realized early that “reality” was pretty boring, and to make it worthy […]

I swear if I ever find the author of spyware or similar evil software I will happily beat him to death with his own mother. I spent two hours tonight cleaning off viruses and spyware and bots off of an ex-coworkers system. This is the one that called a while ago and that I did

I was playing around with some things last night, including the new SETI@Home client software. I tried to install it a bunch of times, with no luck. I’d click on the installer exe file, but it would just sit there, no splash screen or “unpacking archive” message or anything. I know it worked because I

The scene: 9:30am, Sunday morning. Our hero got to sleep past two am due to annoying kittens and a large indian food dinner. The phone rings. Alan: Hello? Virus Infected Ex-Coworker: Hi there, did I wake you? A: Not really… [yes] VIEC: I have a virus on my computer and I was hoping that you

So today I put up a post on ufies with great picture of ad-aware on a badly infested system. The parent post used the headline of “friends shouldn’t use friends use windows”. I thought it was funny. Anyway, Dana took offense a bit and pointed out that this post was silly and you can run

Is it just me, or does Sunday morning at 8am just seem like the wrong time to be using a noisy skill-saw? Across the lane from an apartment building full of people? Or maybe that’s just me and my old-school values. Morons. Oh well, I was already mostly awake from the cats anyway.

You know I must have some free evening time if I’m bitching about vbscript again. I’d forgotten how horrible it is, honestly. Read for more bitching.

Scoble, my insight into all things Microsoft, mentioned today that Messanger 6.2 shipped. Nifty, why not upgrade from 5.0? 5.0 hasn’t been respecting my wishes as far as a default browser goes, anyway right? So I clicky clicky install. It askes me if I want to install the MSN toolbar, which lets me to go

Dear Microsoft; When I set Mozilla Firefox as my default browser, I really mean it. I don’t mean that it should work properly for everything but a couple of your applications (specifically MSN messanger, but I’ve seen it happen in others as well), but in fact, it should follow the definition of default browser. That

If one more person sticks their head into our office and says something along the lines of “sure is dark in here.” I’m going to have some sort of breakdown. Maybe a sign rigged from the top of the door that we can drop down which says “Thank you for taking the time to point