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I still like Avira
November 14th, 2009Yesterday I wrote about how I had stumbled upon a virus through Java in Firefox and how Avira didn’t quite stop all the infections. I also mentioned I didn’t blame Avira because I felt that it was a new strain, and it looks like I was right. Yesterday when I scanned the infected file it [...]
Make Firefox More Secure, Disable Java
November 13th, 2009No, not Javascript. Java. Despite similar names, Javascript and Java are 2 entirely different things. Java, or Java applets are programs that can be embedded in to websites. They are generally poorly written, and hardly ever function right. Most people will probably never even need java, and in fact the only website I can think [...]
Philips DVD-R Yellows, Goes Bad
September 14th, 2009Today at work I needed some data off a DVD-R from about 3 years ago. I shuffled through my stack of discs and located the one I needed. Upon first glance I could tell it was aging because while other discs were still nice and silver, this once-silver disc was very very yellowed and gold-looking. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
