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i'm flaming...
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:35 pm
by tim
I am so sick of active-x controls that installs the most DUMBEST programs on your computer... I have my IE settings set to PROMPT me before anything like that comes up, and still I get them!?!?!
For example, I got this stupid internet optimizer (every error page this comes up and I guess it pop-up windows alot too) and man, I finally got rid of all that (after going thru my registry and finding all assiociated .dlls and using DOS to unregister them)
grrr, if your a creator of these stupid things, please just smack yourself. save the "innocent" people who dont want your crappy things (searchbars, toolbars, porn crap, pop-ups, etc!) and just want to surf the web!
i literally hate you programmers

Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:00 pm
by nigma
Let me continue your flame, I often help clean up computers at a middle school and one of the most annoying things are exactly what you described tim. The people who design those annoying programs are not worhty of the title "programmers."
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 12:30 pm
by no_memories
Stop them before they have a chance to even install with
SpyBlaster
Then check your machine for spyware already installed with
Spybot S&D
If you use a router,
AVG 7 anti-virus, windows (XP), and the above spyware blockers, this combo will guard your machine almost 100%.
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 1:22 pm
by m3mn0n
Never surf with an Admin account. I only use my admin account when I install/remove something from my system. Other than that, I just use a limited user for everything else so nothing I run into can modify my registry or do anything else, because of the lack of access.

Re: i'm flaming...
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:18 pm
by PrObLeM
tim wrote:
i literally hate you programmers
just think where you would be with out em....ponder that from a breif moment
Re: i'm flaming...
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:30 pm
by vigge89
PrObLeM wrote:tim wrote:
i literally hate you programmers
just think where you would be with out em....ponder that from a breif moment
i think he just means the programmers who make such things

Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:11 pm
by tim
I didnt say I hate programmers, i would therefore saying I hate myself.
I said, I hate "you" programmers who code that spyware <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>.
get with it problem

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 2:31 pm
by patrikG
Forget about Active X and most of all IE - use Mozilla Firefox. It's small, powerful, cross-platform, has everything you need and, on top of that, is really beautiful.
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 3:15 pm
by Draco_03
i agree.. but right now i m using firebird.. i just didn't took time to upgrade (because i got all those add ons like css validator etc etc some side bar..) and well i m just too damn lazy.. but firebird doiing the work right now
so nyways ..does firefox is WAY better r.. it's just a different look ?
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 5:44 pm
by d3ad1ysp0rk
I don't see why things like shockwave/flash player dont come w/firefox.. i dont want to download an addon for something thats on over 5% of websites..
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 7:15 pm
by phice
I enjoy using a browser that more than 90% of the internet's webpages are created for.

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 7:20 pm
by Deemo
but web sites are viewed nicer on firefox
about firefox vs firebird, there are some major improvements like the downloads manager and stuff so bug fixes. i would first make sure all of your addons are availble for firefox, then switch asap
and yeah, shockwave and flash should come with it, but you guys have to remember that firefox is still in beta. when 1.0 comes out, it might have it built in
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:04 am
by Toneboy
Firefox is seriously nice. At the least you should use it for testing, it has flagged some mistakes I've made that IE has missed (there is a thread on it somewhere).
Used the download manager for the first time last week. Makes downloading hassle free.

Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:25 am
by phice
Firefox is starting to get pretty nice, but it still has that 'open-source feel' to it, but it's getting there.
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 9:57 am
by patrikG
phice wrote:I enjoy using a browser that more than 90% of the internet's webpages are created for.

IE and standard-compliance is a very different issue - and if IE had to compete on the "browser-market" these days rather than being deeply embedded into the most popular operating system, it wouldn't stand a chance.
phice wrote:Firefox is starting to get pretty nice, but it still has that 'open-source feel' to it, but it's getting there.
Not sure what you mean... would be interesting to know.
