Posted 11/18/2009 at 03:08:38am

I grew up tortured by AOL's limits, and was denied access to Seattle U's website once because it had not been approved by the parental controls - when I was 17. Having all websites flagged besides those once tested and approved, there were a ton of perfectly PC sites I couldn't look at.

Thus, I never was able to seak hier educasion and therefore hav bad grammar and pour spelin sckils n stuff. F U AOL. When they finally go down I might have to change my boxers...

Posted 07/09/2009 at 05:08:29pm

Another great tool that's free is DVD Decrypter, which has built in copyright elimination and you can rip an ISO to your hard disk. Combine that with the Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM tool (also free from Microsoft) which can be used to mount the ISO on a virtual CD/DVD drive. You can then watch the movie, from the ISO directly from your hard disk.

Posted 05/24/2009 at 08:57:20pm

7 is cool, I had no problem with drivers or anything for my Acer Aspire 1691 wlmi laptop. However, Intel refuses to make a WDDM (allows you to use Aero) driver for the GMA 900 graphics on it, although the hardware itself is perfectly capable (early Vista betas allowed it to run Aero, then cut it off in later builds). There is a registry hack posted on a ton of forums out there, but be warned - it doesn't work, it is just a copy of an early Vista hack that all these idiots are posting up without testing it first. It is possible to force using the drivers for Intel Lakeport from Vista beta build 5308...but who the heck has one of those CDs laying around?

So, could someone running Windows 7 with Aero ENABLED please run regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\DWM and take a screenshot or list the entrys and values it displays? This will doubtfully be the complete fix, but it'll help me on my research, and I'll let you GMA 900 users know!

Posted 03/28/2009 at 07:30:33am

A "gimped" version of Windows 7? Sounds like Windows 7 with a 3 app limiter ADDED ON. The way Microsoft seems to work, people will (sadly, because of ignorance) pay more for the limiter to be removed, which didn't need to be there in the first place. Heck, the limiter probably adds a MB or two to the install. Just like XP Home and XP Pro CDs are the same, with some digits changed in an install registry. Oops, did I say that?

F*** off Microsoft, taking advantage of the public's general lack of technical logic is what you thrive on, so stop throwing a bitch-fit everytime something doesn't go your way. What do you expect when you try to sell "Mujave" or aka Vista to people with f***ing brains? Probably some people who'll question why the hell the biggest software company around all the sudden had to launch a cheesy advertising campaign, that f***ing annoys everyone. Then you use some little kids as bait, hoping elders will sit there in their old chairs and say "oooh I'm getting 'lil Jr. a Windows Vista computer for his birthday, that's so neat now-a-days.", when really all that easy photo and video editing shit has been around since the F***ING MID '90's!!!

Posted 03/26/2009 at 12:19:24am

...with that 32x256gig SSD RAID that Samsung put together in an earlier article. Woooo!

Posted 12/25/2008 at 04:44:44pm

...i don't even run antivirus software. I haven't gotten a virus in 2 years now, and the trojan I got back in '06 was from a piracy site that I was suspicious of in the first place. The best weapon against viruses is common geek sense. I pitty the common fool who responds to the "click here" pop-ups. Come on, think.

Posted 12/25/2008 at 06:48:04am

I was hesitant to upgrade to Vista like many people....not only for it's reputation after the release, but because I had gotten informative info from locals. I live in Redmond, right down 148th ave from the Microsoft campus. I'm a computer nerd, but I worked at Dennys before and after Vista's release. It's a 24 hour restaurant (if you can call it a restaurant) but anyways, alot of M$ employees come in there at all hours of the night. Including one of my neigbors, who unfortuantely was put on the spot for designing HP drivers (it was Microsoft's fault, not his, so don't ask me who he his. He rocks) for Vista. BTW at that time, they called that several million dollar junk "Longhorn".  He absolutely hated it, Hmm before I start the next paragraph, allow to to mention: this OTHER guy, who is a M$oft employee, who is a regular at that Dennys, in the bar. He constantly wears a M$oft shirt, black, that reads "I'm not a jerk, I run Longhorn."

This guy has been 86'd from there (86's is a term for being kicked out of an hospitality establishment, such as a restaurant or bar) on week terms, countless amounts of times. He wrote code for Vista. Yes, he still works there. He still had the decency to tell me Vista was junk. He, and they guy mentioned above, explained to me that people may think their computer is running slower on Vista than XP because of Vista's added features, but that this was not true. Vista runs slower because the code and software writing is so garbled, taking pieces from previous OS's and so on, that a PC has to read through all the junk to get to useful info.

 Hmm no wonder every OS seems a bit slower. Streamline the damn OS's, oh but no, don't pay more for that, just let your customers suck up the slack by buying new hardware. I stand with the M$oft employees that I've met that hate M$oft....stop trying to make users buy a product that is garbage, to promote buddys who make hardware. Rediculous.