Recent content by surrealdeal

" I guess I'm one of these old school guys that remembers when they didn't charge you a subscription fee every year." what like central point antivirus?

loooool. my bro was asking me about this recently. to play two copies of WoW for himself. dotdotdot... Linux + multiuser logins + VMWare

have you heard about blender.org? it's free, if you want to check it out. If you were serious, you could talk to pixar. The industry uses maya / 3dmax, i thought, so what ev.

ibm, *cough*, i mean, lennovo. Highly energy efficient. perhaps useful for you? I would recommend buying a few new batteries now, for the laptop, because used ones are terrible. And keeping them in cold storage or something. Because by the time yours are failing they may have stopped making...

Holly hell. Aerospace R&D? get a sparcbook, and load up matlab or macsyma.

advertising is only allowed in the 'classified' section. BTW, you are dead wrong to assume that os's on flash drives are virus free. P.S. lullz!

"unless it is open source or Shareware all 'free' software is illegal. but you wont get caught." ..What about freeware?

#2 your firewall should tell you what it's doing. System registry too. #3 sounds like a good idea. ... i called H&R, they say it's SUPPOSED to do that. hah. they wouldn't tell me why. http://www.rohitab.com/download.html API monitor. It's nice to have for these sorts of things.

to stop people from changing your, or anyone else's tax data. ..get a firewall.

Firewalls are funny because they can be hacked too. Hostile java will hack your browser and ip forwarding / blocking won't do a thing. Seriously, your main question should be: How many warez will i install, and how many hits per second on porn sites will you have?

It's a debugging feature.

The 'active' partition is the partition you want to boot from. The 'inactive' partition is the one that is not going to be booted from.

i like google custom search, though it's not really an internet filter. it's google's application, so there is no overhead on my side. i just use it to filter out wikipedia and slashdot entries, though. a while back, in one of my schools, we used "st.bernard" internet filter. it didn't suck THAT...

"why do these programs have so many limitations" d00d, fer sur, i hate it wen i download +100GB of warez and my computer fcks up.

Then, a word of advice: Seeking knowledge for it's own sake is vanity. Advertising is whoring.