flame on fanbois!

I must be completed retarded, firstly for responding to trolls and secondly that I can build all the machines in my gigabit lan, tweak them to run as fast as possible, remove all the chances of loading ad sites with a host file, not use internet explorer or microsoft email, not click on any unfamiliar attachments and never see any unusual traffic on my lan.

Yet according to you, the new internet expert, I must be owned because you cannot fathom that someone besides yourself can actually run a computer?

I cannot believe the ignorant troll responses this post has garnered. You guys should get the hell out of your mom's basement and open your minds a little.

/rant

Ad servers can't serve ads to me though because I block them with a hosts file and have for about 10 years.

That's the only way left for malware to get on a machine if you don't use internet exploder. No drive by downloads. You have to allow it through negligence or stupidity.

The sad part is the amount of dumb people that click on anything, download warez and go to bad porn sites.

Those are the bozos you should be worried about.

I know when a machine runs like shit. Whether its from a shit install or a bad power connector on a dvd drive.

Just because most computer users are retarded, doesn't mean we all are.

I've been using a hosts file for years. Best thing I ever did.

Works across the system and not just a browser. Awesome. http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

Yes I have anti-virus and NO, I've never had a problem.

Router/ Firewall and a hosts file and don't be a moron and the thing will work forever.

I have tons of software and games that my little kids are gonna get a chance to use because I can keep these machines running.

I will probably be running XP machines for another 12 years or longer.

Microsoft support means nothing to me.

Had a guy call me once... "I can't get my email".

I asked him what he was using, Outlook, Thunderbird etc. Guess what he said?

Wordpad.

If I could have reached through the phone, I would've slapped him.

You more eloquently said everything else I was thinking on the issue.

I have over 5000 square ft in my house. The shelf space these take up is trivial. I also live in the boonies, so I have everything on hand. Just like living on a farm. I also don't believe that these bulbs will "last forever".

People here all think I live in America. Funny, I did mention "province" in my first post, yet all the tree huggers could see was my atittude about "saving the planet" and my lazy math. I couldn't care less about my electricity bill for lights. I have the money to pay the bills and am going to put in solar panels next year, maybe.

I agree, but there are quite a few houses in Canada that use electric heat. Everyone also missed my sarcastic comment about using computers for heat.

I am an iconoclast. People, especially Liberals, need to stop worshipping the planet. ( After re-reading my posts, maybe I am guilty of trolling liberals :-) )Up here we have the crackpot David Susuki. I'm sick of his rhetoric.

I don't believe the planet will last 100 more years as it is. That's got nothing to do with global warming. This sums up my belief of the planet and global warming:

Revelation 21 "21 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea."

It all burns and no tree hugging hippie liberal freak is gonna change any of that by changing a few light bulbs. /troll

This is the part where I get flamed by the secular humanists.
Ecclesiastes 12
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God and keep His commandments,
For this is the sum duty of man.
14 For God will bring every work into judgment,
Including every secret thing,
Whether good or evil.

Peace.

My second objection is the way that CFL's were handled, sold etc. I'm a grumpy old man and I don't trust anyone anymore. Salesmen lie.

Fuck em all but 6. You need 6 for pall bearers.