HALF-ASSED
I was
racking my brain for an “H” word today. In my usual fashion, none
of the words I chose and put in a list have been used. As a matter of
fact, I can't even remember the title of the list and have lost it
somewhere in the wilderness of my of my hard drive. I can't remember
what I chose, but it was probably something really Serious and
Meaningful. The hell with it.
The bigger it gets, the worse it gets. Its own peripherals hate each other. Links die and go nowhere, except to Existential Land, maybe. Twitter Support is lame-o. "Let us help pick your new PC!" they gush. I tweeted, "4MB RAM, 33MB processor." "Great! Windows 8 is for you!" "Really? I thought Atari might do!" I tweeted back. Idiots.
While I
was trying to work up a froth of “H” inspiration, I noticed,
wayyy up in the left-hand corner, a new folder icon, where earlier
today, my Recycle Bin icon had been. I haven't touched it, I haven't
deleted anything today; I haven't accidentally deleted my Recycle
Bin, which I have done in the past. I have Windows Vista. I used to
work at IBM and I was an OS/2 Engineer. I worked in 3rd
level support and I loved the operating system. It's robust and hard
to louse up, unlike Windows, which is nothing but a thriving, self-replicating bug
patch.
Vista is
probably one of the less intrusive operating systems versions of
Windows. We've had the Win95, 98, 2000, XP and I guess 7, which I
have no experience with and 8, which ditto. Frankly they all suck.
Apple sucks, too and you need to have Java loaded to run their
garbage. I got rid of all of that when I got some of their more
lethal viruses. I had to reload one of my computers back in 2008,
when I downloaded a Java update. I chased a trojan around on my old
Gateway system for 3 days and finally gave up and reloaded the
system.
I play Runescape; this is the MOST important thing I use my computer for. SETI@home, Math arrays and writing/blogging and fixing the world run a distant 2nd to this! ViolaFury and Linus on their way to the coal mines.
In
February, I got pneumonia and had to go to the ER. When I got home,
my computer nagged me to download an update to RealPlayer, which is
an Apple product and I did but didn't scan it before I installed it
and got a smitty_fraud Trojan worm. I caught it before it's 3rd
iteration. I then got rid of all of my Apple products. I had already
uninstalled Java. For good measure, I uninstalled all of my MS Office
and am running Open Office.org. I'm happy and my computer is happy,
too! There is so much nasty stuff running around out there and
Microsoft is sloppy. All big software publishers are getting sloppy
with their security, and their half-assed approach to security is
more apparent all the time. I bought a 2-year license for AVG
security and I run Spybot on every piece of software that a program
tells me to update. I have all updates set to “ask first before
downloading.” It's worth it to avoid the absolute frustration of
having to reload your system. I did this sort of work for 15 years.
Half-assed doesn't cut it, and the big companies don't care.
I'm half-assed myself; here it is 8:48 pm, just getting to my post. I think the "G" is for Golf was probably funnier. This is new you can use. Let's call it edu-tainment. Tomorrow should be for I is for Idiot. Naaa, too obvious. Ouch.
