internet

Yeah, so the new “update” to AVG seems to be really great… It’s so great that it could crash Windows. I mean, I know Vista is a virus, but sheesh.
Thanks to GandalhDJH for sending me info on this.
 http://www.lunarsoft.net/news/1-frontpag…
Reports are reaching us that today’s update of the AVG 8.0 crashed many computers. After the update AVG [...]

This originally was a comment to Chris Pirillo’s blog post here.
If only. However, with the mindset of “why buy, when I can download” that is in most of the world’s minds now, it will be really difficult to rid he world of piracy.
So many people want to download a movie to watch instead of paying [...]

I frequent a forum for a wrestling site out on the interweb. We have a user there who apparently thinks that he is some sort of tech god and his word is rule. There was a thread started about suggestions for a computer, and it boiled down recently into a “best way for non geeks [...]

Note to readers: In this blog there will be some “rough language,” but nothing obscene.
Ok, thanks to fellow Lockergnome blogger and wyldryde chat user Snakeyes11 for twittering about this.
Apparently now the extremely comcastic (comcraptastic more like it) ISP Comcast is now able to traffic shape even your basic Web browsing traffic. This is from a [...]

Need any proof that Comcast does traffic shape and throttles bandwidth.
Here is a speed test from speedtest.net after a download a file last night and had it uploading.

And here is one just after I closed utorrent.
*In a Sarcastic voice* No, I don’t see any change there, do you? I wonder if enough people see this who [...]