What Grinds My gear 5
April 26, 2006
hey there everyone, im back after a long hiatus. As with my good friend atariboy things at uni are going to get pretty busy so i wont have time to write many posts, not that i imagine i get many regular readers. Anyway i would just like to thank the great comments from the last grind my gears, may the common sense in us all prevail over the forces of evil, so to speak.
Ive been undecided recently about where to take this blog, so i might change tack in a while, maybe a personal blog, maybe a music/movies blog we shall have to see. Ive also been undecided about what to grind my axe about, and it came to me when i went home for easter break.
So it came down to the decision, should i take back my computer for easter break of leave it at uni, so i left it safe in the knowledge ill have my trusty laptop back at home. So i log in, a laborious task if there ever was one, after the laptop was mincing around tryin to boot. Suddenly from out of nowhere the desktop of my user profile is overwhelmed with crap…. not literally, that would be messy indeed. So just to fill you in my grind my gears is partially at my laptop, and my dad, but mostly at windows xp and Norton antivirus. Oh christ did that program make things uncomfortable to say the least.
So there i am, picking through the wreckage of what used to be my desktop, to find about the following:shortcuts for numerous amounts of software which we dont use, including
several shortcuts for the printer
several shortcuts for my dads camera (which he's barely used)
shortcuts for my zen micro for when i connect to the lappy
folders all over the damn place, and all unarranged. It almost reduced me to tears.
But no i stayed strong, just as i was about to sort everything out, i get not one but three popups on my desktop, one for tiscali broadband, one for msn, and one for …… Norton antivirus. Grrr. Yes i allready know the systems status is ok, you told me last time, and the time before last, it wouldnt give it a rest, and to think you have to pay monthly for a pop-up to say everythings ok.
Surely i should get back to facts, firstly issue one was windows xp. Normally i dont windows xp, my pc is perfectly fine running it. My laptop just went through a major reinstall of windows, and my dad, who did it, is clueless when it comes to computers. A windows "balloon" comes up, for a start why the f*** do they call them balloons, face facts they are pop-ups. It says that software updates installation has had an error. I ask my self, what installation, which updates. Thats when it came to me, like an annoying pop-up, the windows update manager had not been changed. It just kept downloading crap all the damn time, firstly there was service pack 2, that took ages. But the one that took the biscuit was the sound drivers windows decided i needed to download. There was nothing wrong with the old one, but for some reason, without telling me it downloads them, installs them…without telling me, and installs them wrongly.
Of course i did not know about this until i wanted to load up itunes, i press play and a warning signs comes up, silly me, i must have moved the file somewhere else…. no thats not it, actually why arent i hearing anything. Thats right dumbass windows installed the fucking patched wrongly. A quick restart and i get sound back, until i open of firefox. Browsing my regular sites i find a youtube video i want to watch…hang on i dont hear any sound, the same with google videos.
Damn you windows xp, i shout furiously shaking my fist at the screen, if only computers had feelings. Then i could give it what for, and they would feel realy sorry and fix themselves, whimpering in guilt whilst doing so. But no, i havent the faintest whats wong, because windows media and quicktime movies are fine. So thats an open question, does anyone have any idea what went wrong there and how to fix it?
My next target in the line of fire is Norton Antivirus. Now seeing as though my friend got a warning from redstation about defamation, im pretty sure i better take precautions in what i say……nah fuck it. Norton sucks, but of course you all know this.
Not only does it use up shitloads of memory, its useless. everytime i start my computer i would get a pop up saying everythings fine, yet everytime i would get another saying that ive got an adware file, would i like to remove it. I think hell yes, i dont want those pesky casinos and penis enlargement ad's gettin through to my desktop. So away it goes, searching, finding it and removing it….. Yeah ya removed it right,, oh you did ??, then why the fuck do i get the same warning every startup with the same adware file being flagged in the same destination. Normally i would use the destination and look for the file myself and delete it, job done like with AVG, who ive never had problems with (free version). But Norton wont show the full filepath destination, so im left having to run through the same hoops once and again. This situation happens twice as i also have a trojan virus on their, that doesnt get deleted.
Im sorry but if you pay for and ANTI, and i stress the word anti-virus, then why the fuck wont it get rid of the virus. FFS my dad is paying monthly for the damn thing, i would like to think he could get some results.
So here i am back at uni, in front of my nice unconfortable chair that creeks with displeasure on knowing that its the worst chair in the world.Although the most important thing is that my pc is back in front of me, nothing is wrong with it, there are no pop-ups of crappy programs chewing up hard drive space, like a womans thong chews up… well ya know. Final words od discouragement, if thats a word, norton made my easter bloody annoying, and windows update manager didnt help much either, i would blame my dad for it but he doesnt know better.
Long live the days of internet (my university house, with uber speed broadband), with the glory's of firewalls, bitorrent, and a computer geek as a best friend. Thats right norton, you make me uncomfrotable when talk of going back home is brought up because you runined my easter!!!
anyway enough is enough
AND THAT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IS WHAT GRINDS MY GEARS
10 THINGS WE DIDNT KNOW LAST WEEK 4
April 14, 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4895278.stm – taken from bbc news
may i draw your attention to point 1, and women have a go at men thinking about sex all the time, tut tut
Snippets harvested from the week's news, chopped, sliced and diced for your weekend convenience.
1. The average British woman worries about the size and shape of her body every 15 minutes.
2. This Easter weekend will see 2.3 million people travelling through the UK's airports.
3. Six seats in the Italian Senate depend on the votes of Italians living abroad.
4. A flag expert is a vexillologist.
5. Coins which are called "coppers", such as the penny, have been made from steel since 1992.
6. Compensation payments to teachers following personal injuries, such as assaults by pupils, amounted to £7.6m last year.
7. Berlin's tallest building, a television tower, will have a giant 32 metre football placed on top for the World Cup.
8. Iceland has the highest concentration of broadband users in the world.
9. The suicide rate in the UK is at its lowest rate since records began in 1910.
10. Tony Blair is the first prime minister in recent times not to use RAF aircraft for family holidays.
[Sources where no story linked: 1: Daily Telegraph]
Quick Note
April 7, 2006
Easter break + Exams = Revision < No Posts for a while
