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I have had it with AVG antivirus taking control of and messing up things that an antivirus software should never touch in the first place. I tell my friends and family that Avast AV is the best of the best when it comes to antivirus programs and they go download AVG. Hey, if you want to make that mistake.. I charge $50 to remove it. AVG has never been a very good antivirus and now it is virtually not uninstallable (kind of like some viruses I have fought recently… hmmmm) No, I am not saying AVG is a virus. I am saying that it sucks and is absolute IT hell to get rid of.

Take this computer I am working on now. I have to boot a Linux live CD to rip AVG out by it’s guts because AVG can’t stay in it’s lane and just kill crapware. It borks the video drivers everytime you try and uninstall the software. HA!
Get Avast – NOT AVG

Tired of all the advertisements in FaceBook? Tired of all the crap? The instability of the web app, the horrible chat interface? Here is your fix. it works for both Windows and Linux. The only difference is the file you download when you get the Pidgin mod. Of course you will download the exe for Windows and a DEB or TARGZ for Linux. If you are using MAC, figure it out… you had the money to buy a MAC, you have the money to buy some tech support to figure it out.

Use Adobe Air in conjunction with Pidgin. For the Adobe Air application you want to get ahold of the uploader. This is basically a light weight FB application. You can just upload a picture by dragging and dropping on the app. Very nice. Either search the Adobe Air Marketplace for it or download it direct from here.
photouploader.air

Now, install pidgin if you are not using it already (sudo apt-get install pidgin)
Install a supporting file for the mod. libjson-glib-1.0-0_0.7.6-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

Get the http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/

Buckey Balls.. They are magnetic balls. Oh soo cool. And entertaining. EBAY LISTING

We all know that Ubuntu just can’t run some of the great applications that are only available for Windows. I have also ran into a problem where Windows Vista and WIndows 7 won’t pick up certain hardware and there are no available drivers for them. Well, that sucks. There is an easy solution. Forget VMWARE.. it is garbage. Forget Parallels workstation.. it is also junk. QEMU is awesome though. Simply go into Synptic Package manager and search for qemu. Install qemu and the gtk gui package for it. BAM! You have a virtual machine. Now create your hard drive for your machine, tell it the OS you are putting on it and set up your boot device. Install Windows and have a nice day. That’s all there is to it.

I also installed Dropbox on it and synced files with it. Very nice feature.

Now my USB devices work, now they don’t. WTF. This is a problem I have been having since I installed Windows 7 on my laptop. Now, the laptop is a Compaq Presario V2000 with an AMD Semperon CPU an 1GB of RAM. The operating system runs like a dream, it is just that the USB functionality is intermittently troublesome and at times more unstable then Charles Manson on crack. Would I still recommend Windows 7 to other users? Absolutely. It is still great. It is just a little buggy the way it handles USB devices.

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Enjoy

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You wouldn’t use a screwdriver to hammer in a nail. Why do people use Microsoft Excel to store data? This is ridiculous. Excel is for manipulating and displaying existing data. It’s abilities to link to a database is superior to most other programs, it has great function and formula capabilities and yet has a terrible flaw. If you highlight information in the Excel spreadsheet and sort it, it will only sort what is highlighted. So, if you have a large spreadsheet with 5000 lines of inventory on there that has 15 pieces of information for each line, you could potentially mix up all your data rendering your spreadsheet data useless. You could also delete a cell and shift all data in that column up or in the row over.

SQL (Access, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, etc, etc, etc) operates differently. SQL has a set number if fields in a record. The data us unable to shift in SQL because each piece of data has record integrity. Use Access to store data and Excel to manipulate data.

Word. STOP USING WORD TO STORE DATA AND MAKE SPREADSHEETS! It will do it, STOP IT! Write papers, memos, resumes, and stuff like that. Let Excel do the calculating and Access do the storing.

Powerpoint…… Personally, I believe that powerpoint needs to be uninstalled from everyone’s computers and they need to seek other ways to relay information. Make videos, podcasts, use the white board or chalk board, pass out pictures, pass out items, do a demonstration, SOMETHING! Death by powerpoint is getting a bit old. There is nothing wrong with a little powerpoint presentation. Ask yourself something though, if I took out the powerpoint in my class or meeting, can I teach the class flawlessly or will it fall apart. If it will fall apart, you are guilty of death by powerpoint. Seek other methods of teaching in conjunction with your presentation slides.

Start thinking about the tools you are using on your computer. Are you using the for what they are intended for? If not, do you really think you are effectively and efficiently using your computer? Think about it.

ARMY USERS, LISTEN UP!

If you go into the CAC resource center in AKO you will notice a statement that ActivClient will not work with Windows 7 32bit edition. This is not entirely true. If you are thinking about plunging into Windows 7 and you are in the Army, spend the extra $40 and get Windows 7 Professional. This is key because you are able to run programs in Windows XP mode.

Simply download the ActivClient software from AKO. Then right click on it and go to properties and compatibility. Run the software as Windows XP SP3. Then go into the installation directory in C:\Program Files and sort by type. This will put all the exe files together. Do the same for all the exe files. Go into compatibility and run them as Windows XP SP3. When you are done, reboot. When you come back up. Plug in your card reader and install the drivers for it. This is done automagically in Windows 7. Now insert your CAC card and go to AKO. That’s all there is to it.

Enjoy

Windows Live Mail is an outrage. Unstable, freezes on start up, easily corruptable, slow, and over complicated with all the extra menus and crap they added in. You might as well use Outlook. The problem with that is, OUTLOOK DOESN’T DO NEWSGROUPS! That sucks royally. Especially for me, my university runs their forums from a news server.

Windows mail came with Vista. Ya, Vista sucks (memory pig) but Windows Mail was actually very nice. Guess what? Windows 7 doesn’t come with a mail client. No more Windows Mail, no Outlook Express, nothing. WTF? And the options you have is Windows Live mail or Thunderbird. I am not a fan of either.

Here is what you do. Go to a Vista machine and navigate to C:\Program Files. Then right click on the Windows Mail folder and create a zip file. Port that file over to the Windows 7 box.

Now in Windows 7, navigate to C:\Program files and right click on the Windows Mail folder. Go to Properties and security. Click the Advanced button and go to owners. Take ownership of the directory. Now, change the permissions giving yourself full control over it. Now, rename or delete the directory. Unzip the contents of the Windows Mail zip file from Vista into Program Files on Windows 7. Now the Windows Mail folder is back. Make a shortcut on the desktop for the Executable for Windows Mail. It is like winmail.exe or something like that. Tada, you ported Windows Mail to Windows 7.

Now, set up your email and newsgroups. Enjoy.