Yes I heard it has gotten better over years but I still see computer after computer crippled by their bloated software. It wouldn't surprise me if it was a rootkit of some sort which was used in older versions of Systemworks.

I got rid of Norton after I saw such a huge hit I was taking on startup time and hard drive access time. If you check comparatives on anti-virus products you'll find many offer the same or better protection without the performance hit.

Personally I have been very happy with Nod32 by ESET. Its startup is slower on my personal vs. work machine and I had to have it exclude some areas for false positives but overall it has been very efficient.

I have opened up Dreamweaver a few times but prefer doing things by hand in Notepad++. There are plenty of free and open bulletproof css templates for getting the basic layout of any site started and from there diving into your own code helps you better understand what you are doing. I am sure Dreamweaver has its own crowd but between a good CMS and hand coding I have never felt behind the curve.

Yep, and I do not care. I got my point across all before my workstation finished squashing some PDF files together for work. I am allowed one missing spacebar depression if they are allowed to waste the taxpayers time with this crap. :)

chrisbenge@okhouse.gov
subject: you are making national news

Dear Chris,

It might be good for you to note that your debate on House Bill 1015 is resulting in a mockery of your entire house.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/06/1726211

Are you aware that the Vatican sponsoring a five day conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. The subject is the compatibility of evolution and creation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7920205.stm

You understand the bill itself is a contradiction?

The resolution begins:

"WHEREAS, the University of Oklahoma is a publicly funded institution which should be open to all ideas and should train students in all disciplines of study and research and to use independent thinking and free inquiry..."

By paragraph THREE it is condemning Dawkins for:

"views that are not shared and are not representative of the thinking of a majority of the citizens of Oklahoma"

I do not know if you support or do not support this bill but asspeaker you might want consider stopping this nonsense before more of the American people give up on the government's ability for rational thought.

Thanks for proving Darwin long because people like that are obviously not evolving our species and our ability for rational thought.

A CMS, including Wordpress, pretty much provide all of that as long as the users keep their passwords reasonable and safe. There are a lot of small businesses and professionals out there that do not need all the backend of Joombla or Drupal. Wordpress is perfectly suited for those who want an accessible and slick looking site that easy to edit and maintain. There is even a great caching plugin that makes them very resistant if pegged by Digg etc.

http://autoshows.ford.com/ http://psiurpi.com/ http://www.rannieturingan.com/ http://lonnroth.info/ http://www.friskdesign.com/ ...

I looked at both Joomla! and Drupal but settled on Wordpress as a basis for setting up some freelance web development jobs. It was much easier to build a custom template from scratch by backwards engineering the default and customizing everything.

And for those who think it is only for blogs needs to look around a little. For example http://autoshows.ford.com/ is Wordpress.

But would they insure the whole house or just their materials and cost of the loss of work? Would they ensure a house they had no association with? Also when you get actual insurance the insurance company has to by law have at least a certain amount of backing to be able to make payout. The idea of insurance is good for explaining CDSs but the details make them fundamentally different than insurance.

The problem with CDSs is that it does not take a wholesale breakdown. Just the fall of one large bank can trigger multiple CDS payouts. This is because most places that bought CDSs also sold them. This weaving of CDS contracts bought and sold between large banks worldwide created a domino situation where when one fell the other could follow as the CDS payouts snowballed.

Allowing $50 trillion of payout on $5 trillion worth of interconnected stocks and securities is not useful, it is damn right foolish and is the root problem with the economy today.