To Dampen The Preceding Post

Peace to Sufjan Stevens.

Some links:

http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm - "Which search engine to use?"

http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~john/procrastination.html - "Structured Procrastination"

Okay, fuck links for now.

I'd like to discuss people and computers and their computers being in a constant state of disrepair: WHY AND HOW THE FUCK DOES THIS HAPPEN? I download more than anyone I know. I am on the internet more than almost anyone I know. Useff and I together do more on the internet in a day than most people do in a week, I would imagine. I get deep into the underbelly of this inter-net, and I stay uninfected with anything. How in the fuck...


Just how in the fuck do people manage to have computers that are absolutely crippled by spyware, adware, viruses and other shit?

Let me show you all what I use to keep my computer clean and safe:

• FIREFOX, A WEB BROWSER: http://www.getfirefox.com/. This is the first and simplest step (MOST NECESSARY STEP AS WELL) to keeping your computer free of bullshit. It doesn't have the same vulnerabilities as Internet Explorer, and is pretty frequently updated by folks who care about web browsing. It's free.
• CCLEANER, APTLY TITLED SO FOR BEING A "CRAP CLEANER": http://www.ccleaner.com/. I only discovered this program a few months ago, but it is already priceless to me. It cleans out temporary file folders and a lot of the shit you don't need in web browsers and whatnot, and allows them to run faster and gets rid of information that does not need to be lying around. Also, it can fix some registry problems which will also make your computer run faster.
• SPYBOT: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html. FREE FUCKING SPYWARE REMOVER. SIMPLE TOO! I never need to use it, because I never find myself getting spyware.

I don't really know what to say about all the crippled slow ass computers out there. It bothers me when I use other peoples computers and they are slow as hell. It's like people have come to expect their machines to be finicky, buggy pieces of shit when they really don't have to be, even when running windows (I run windows 95% of the time and have no regrets about doing so). A computer is supposed to work for you, you are not supposed to work for your computer. I know so many people who seem to be following the same steps I am, yet end up with computers that run horribly. I really REALLY REALLY want to find the root of this problem because it really bothers me. There are only so many scenarios that seem logical. One is that a lot of people are using the computer and not all of them are as educated on the matters at hand, so they will open internet explorer even though it is not the default browser, simply because it is familiar. Then, they will go to some god awful porn site or some kind of fake file sharing hub and it will install all kinds of nasty shit on the computer / inside of internet explorer to hijack it, and it will take a lot of undoing to to get it back to its former state. Another scenario is that people are installing programs on a whim just to do something stupid (i.e. installing real player and checking all the crazy options and ending up with a computer filled with all kinds of wild shit, or installing a different media player for each kind of file they want to play [there are media players that will play damn near everything for FREE, people]. Don't install real player and quicktime, look into real alternative and quicktime alternative. )

I'm done bitching (for now). I'm sure what is written above this is hard to read. I was really in a frenzy. Anyhow, I will write more about the applications I use on a daily basis in later posts. I will also give more insight into how people seem to be ending up with spyware invariably no matter what web browser their using. It's a real headache of a problem, especially when I see it happening all around me but not happening to me directly.