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August, 2009
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Windows 7 Crippling, On The Big Screen
August 27th, 2009A few weeks ago I wrote about how Microsoft was artificially crippling “lesser” versions of Windows. Blocking you from running software you have a right to use, simply because you didn’t buy their more expensive version. Well, it looks like the Free Software Foundation is launching an attack against Microsoft, pointing out just that… “Microsoft [...]
Why is Windows 7 Media Player So Ugly?
August 23rd, 2009I’ve been using Windows 7 for a few weeks now, and it’s alright I guess. It would’ve more appropriately been named Windows Vista SE (Second Edition) though. It does not feel like a new OS. It feels like Vista SE. While a lot of changes are good, there are some changes that just make me [...]
Vista and 7: Easily Disable Ease of Access
August 17th, 2009Ease of Access on the login screen was always something I disabled on my Vista machines… and of course Windows 7 hasn’t added any built-in option to disable this useless and annoying feature, so I’m here to show you how. As far as I know you can’t remove the button, but you can disable it. [...]
UPS Mutilated My Parcel
August 10th, 2009Well, it’s a mystery as to what the hell happened to my parcel, but it looks like it has been to hell and back… When I received it it was folded in half and covered in packing tape. Upon closer inspection, it looked like someone has cut it in half and taped it back up. [...]
UPS Should Go Out Of Business
August 7th, 2009When you’re a company who has ONE job… delivering packages reliably and on time… and that is the ONE thing that is impossible for you to do, you should probably just fucking close up shop. Every damn time I am shipped something UPS it is a fucking disaster. Today was no different. I had been [...]
Windows 7 Home: Your very own crippled OS!
August 7th, 2009With Windows 7 RTM hitting official Microsoft channels, I figured I’d load up the final version of Windows 7 and check it out. I’ve commented in the past about being completely unimpressed with 7 and for the most part, that is holding true, with some added hatred for the big-wigs over at Microsoft for arbitrarily [...]
Changing Antivirus Programs, so long NOD32
August 5th, 2009For the last couple years I have relied on NOD32 to protect my systems from the nastiness of malware, viruses, and all the like. For most of that time it was a good program. It had it’s little hiccups along the way, but they always seemed to be resolved by Eset rather quickly. That was [...]
