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Bundled crap
I’m growing less impressed with MSI… the video card is fine, no problems there. But all this bundled software… it takes me time to investigate all this stuff to see if any of it is worthwhile. So far, it’s almost universally crap. Why are they wasting my time with this? Would it kill them to…
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Bundled Software Overload
With my recent purchase of a new Athlon64 motherboard and PCI Express graphics, I have been buried under an unprecedented avalanche of bundled software. Let’s take an inventory, shall we? I’m going to include the bundled software that came with other hardware I had already, but which will be used with this system. Asus A8N-SLI…
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New Athlon64 system
Well, I’m finally getting a new PC together. I’ve been using a Pentium 2 300MHz for quite a long time now. Even now, the P2 is mostly adequate for what I want to do. For web-surfing, email, and web-publishing, you really don’t need more than that. But I’ve been doing more image and video editing…
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The end of my comment spam!
I’m delighted to report that as of Feb. 20, when I changed all old articles to disallow pings, I have been 100% comment-spam-free! On the other hand, I have also been 100% comment free, but that’s normal. I think since I started this blog, I’ve only ever had one legitimate comment. But that’s ok with…
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Captcha!
Continuing my struggle against comment-spam… I just installed a “captcha” plug-in, called AuthImage. Try to add a comment, you’ll see the captcha in action. Personally, I’m finding some of these captchas rather difficult to read myself, they are often rather off-centre in the image and chopped off at the bottom. But if they keep that…