Ok, I have been brewing rants about several things over the last few days, so I now feel I can’t hold it in any longer.

Norton vs McAfee

Now I know this is an age-old battle, which one better. I see this old chestnut brought up all the time in the tech section in my forum of choice. The problem is, no one seems to really know. I have seen horror stories from both sides. Just today I saw someone saying that McAfee had let in 1000’s of virus’s. I also saw another one by some one saying they had to turn Norton off just to surf the web. I myself do no understand this. How on earth can this be? I mean, they are both major products in consumer land and have a huge following on either side. But there is no way one can be deemed better than the other, as there are glowing reports and stinking rants for both widely available. I have therefore concluded that this has nothing to do with the product at all and they are both perfectly capable applications (I have Norton and have used McAfee with no problems) and it is entirely (yes, not just a little, but entirely) the fault of the stupid people using them. Therefore, new rule #1 people who post a problem with them on a forum should have their browsers redirected to a simple, easy to follow guide to how to turn of their computer and then disable the on/off switch.

Random

Next, in reference to this, I have decided that actually, the sending the money collected to open office is more a of a long-term scheme (as 1.1.5 only just came out today, so 2 is a long way off). So I think as a nice fast (labour style) quick recovery solution we should send all the money into the porn industry, helping them get better listings on their sites so they are not so badly beaten by “random”.

floor

I now have a wooden floor in my room (well, now = as in for the last half a year and wooden = as in laminate) and the dirt on it is driving me up the wall. I would love to know where it comes from because I’m really not sure. I mean it has no distinctive look or feel to it, its just dark and there. It does make me dread what my old carpet was like underneath the top layer of fibres. On another not about dirt. I would also love to know why may fan blades seems to have some black scum on the blades (it takes in air from the window). I am slightly concerned as to how much of that stuff is in my lungs since my fan has only been here for about 3months, and I’ve been on this pair of lungs for over 19 years…hmm

Thumb twiddling

What the hell is my computer doing with all its spare time? I saw all about this the other day (a project where you download their little prog and when your PC is idle it goes off and works for them doing something productive (or so they tell you) with its time). So since I saw about this I’ve been trying to come up with what my computer actually does. I’ve now settled on two idea’s. The first is that my files are playing hide-and-seek on my harddrive (which would explain this) or my computer is actually working on a cunning plan to lower it self out of my window to freedom (which would explain why I cant find my bag of salvaged DC motors anywhere).

Tell me what’s really going on

Oh I do so hate politically correctness. I went to an event for beaver scouts (which I helped out at) where at the end they were told that the winners were $foo and the runners-up were $bar and the rest had done well for taking part and so had also won…WTF! So now, these kids a) think that they are great at everything as they win all the time and b) think that other people are better winners , so however hard they try, even if they win, they still loose. What kind of twisted world is this?