Ubuntu 9.04 is OK

Article = none , personal experience

Well.... ubuntu 9.04 does the job. My favorite game City of Hero's more or less runs , though far from perfectly. And World of Warcraft ? Cannot be installed. The patch program dies when you try to update it. so much for that "gold rated" program for running under wine.

Yeah , I gotta connive me a windows xp disk somewhere along the line. I don't know how.

One thing is certain. never buying a computer wihtout an os disk again. Darn that hurts when you do that.

Terror victims to be able to sue in Canadian courts

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Victims of terrorism will be able to sue perpetrators in Canadian courts under new federal legislation to be introduced by the Harper government this week.


Yep. A real political "We're doing something about this " answer.

By the way , Canada has like the most microscopic of armed forces in the world ? Somebody sues Iran in a Canadian Court and wins...what can Canada do to enforce the decision ? Not a dang thing.

but we're doing something about terrorism ! Yess sir ree ! We did something !

Well....they've shifted the blame of booting immigrants out who've done anything to support terrorism off of the government shoulders onto the victems shoulders, thats what they've done. Now the victems can keep suing and sueing if yuo made a bomb for some guy in great britian , until you take the hint and leave.

Or turn this country into an assassination play ground and start killing off the victems families when they sue you, one of the two.

But yep ! We did somethign about it , yes in deed !

Windows "Poochy Poo your system is now Pooched" Defender

Article = none , personal experiance.

Lets be honest here.

When I was in tech support for computers, and some user called me up and told me he/she had a virus, I didn't tell them to get an antivirus program and clean it up. I told them "You're pooched. Reformat. Virus Scanners arn't gonna do anything but take your 60$ and then tell you we did our best ..it didn't work , reformat"

I'm pooched.

I can tell , because the Dell system partitian that has a copy of windows xp on my hard drive ? Just in case ? It's pooched. it won't load. It won't let me reformat windows.

Currently downloading Ubuntu 9.04 , a reasonably friendly version of Linux. I will see if my favorite online game , city of heroes , will run under wine, the windows emulator. (a google search on "wine city of heroes" indicates it has been tested on 23 machines and they all agree it works great)

Well... it could hardly be worse than windows suddenly taking it all away from me. Every thing on the hard drive. Because stupid windows defender decided to open the internet exploder and EXPLODE my system.

Security is Job One indeed.

Can I sue Bill Gates now ?

No ? All software is use at own risk ? I don't feel like risking it anymore ...

Congradultions , you are Foo Barr'ed

You bought into the worlds most virus prone operating system. It took you for every thing it could...

... I think ... are you still feeling stupid ? Would you like to give me some more of your time and effort and money , ohhhh especially money ... so we can "try " to fix it again even though we both know thats not going to happen ... can I take you for just a little more ? a few more dollars ? A few more hours of your time ? How about just fifty cents .. ?

... and now you have to clean up the mess and get your computer back together again. And operational. And Windows is not interesting in helping you with that , they're only interested in SCREWING YOU FOR EVERY PENNY THEY CAN GET AND THEN LEAVING YOUR EMPTY CREDIT CARD ON THE STREET BLOWING IN THE WIND with all the others...

Ok. Lets try ubunto for a while. Dunno how well it will run City of Heroes.. might actually have to give up running that game ... but hey. I aint getting it anyways if I stick with windows now am I ? They took me for quite the ride ..no back up ..how much does a copy of xp cost again ? Oh they don't sell it anymore they want every one on windows vista or windows 7 ....

Ubuntu it is... if nothing else, my 21.99$ a month for online gaming will be saved for a little bit ...

Windows Non-Defender

Article = none, personal experiance.

I had the most interesting experiance today involving windows defender.

It had automatically set itself to scan for viruses at two in the morning , but of course I don't let my computer run all night, I only run it when I'm there to watch it and make sure it's not doing anything weird (a primary security precaution no one should skip , by the way).

So it started running it's scan. Ok , it's a quick scan , and I am running xp , though I always use Firefox so I doubt it will find anything.

Yep. It found nothing. It even openned up a nice window to tell me it didn't find a thing.

Except that that window was , you guessed it , Internet Explorer , or as we techies and former techies like to call it , Internet Exploder.

Then I got that annoying box "take a tour of Internet Explorer 8" which I always close and it always opens again whenever I open it. But I hadn't asked to open it ? Then it popped up this big full screen ad saying an Online scan (what was something online doing scanning my computer without my permission ? ) had detected several million billion zillion viruses and trojens on my computer and I should really download this file right now this very instant DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDED YES !!!! .

I said no.

Started up my online game.

10 minutes into the game , that annoying YOU HAVE TEN ZILLION VIRII ON YOUR COMPUTER DOWNLOAD THIS FILE RIGHT NOW !!!! came up again , and by the way got me killed in the game.

I was pissed.

Tried to update the virus definitions in windows defender. No go. Couldn't upgrade. Check fire wall, yes, windows defender is permitted to contact the internet ?

Went to Internet Exploder , disabled every single add on. Including two of them that mysteriously had no name ... considered the matter solved.


Didn't I read somewhere that after windows defender got tested and showed up to be the worst virus defender in the world microsoft stopped supporting it ? Yeah ... I couldn't find any updates for it because it was a dead scanner, no updates were anywhere to be had for it.

Uninstalled Windows Defender. It wouldn't be loading up that virus flea trap Internet Exploder on me anymore , if nothing else.


ARE YOU STUPID OR WHAT EVERY DRIVE ON YOUR COMPUTER HAS ZILLIONS AND ZILLIONS OF VIRII DOWNLOAD OUR SOFTWARE NOW DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDED = YESSS !!!!!!


Now I was really pissed.


Tried to find an online scanner. Kept getting redirected to advertising sites. Well , advertising site, the same site over and over , no matter what I searched for. The virus had hijacked firefox on me.

Found AVG , using Opera , not firefox, and certainly not the Internet Exploder.

Downloaded it , installed it , started her scanning.

Still scanning. found 9 viruses and trojens so far. SHeur2.AGJK , FakeAlert.KJ, stuff like that. No I can't look it up ,that just redirects me to the same sales site that is obviously owned by the virus maker and would only make my problems worse.

*sigh* 30 min later. Oh yes, I pay for my online game with my credit card. I've typed it into this comptuer several times. Oh well...

Phone credit card company. Explain to them my computer is infected with a virus I no longer trust my credit card I think the program stole the information and is gonna go on a spending spree. They told me 7 days, new card, new number, it's in the mail.

Scan complete. 16 virus found. Rebooting.... I'll be back.

(edit ...I'm back)

OMG I AM SUCH A TECHIE GEEK !!!

LMFAO (means laughing my fat (ahem) off)

Firefox didn't work. Popped up an error about proxies refusing connection. But Opera did ! I used opera to hunt down a help file to find the proxie settings on Firefox , and fixed them , and now fire fox works !

Ha ha ... the virus don't know what it did , you know.

It thinks it was taking it's petty revenge by sabataging fire fox and preventing me from getting online when I removed it. But really , all it did was TEACH ME TO SABATAGE THE INTERNET EXPLODER and keep that virus claptrap off line permanently !

I'm gonna go sabatage the Exploder right this instant ! That thing is never EVER getting online again. I've been searching for a way to do that for ages. Thank you SHeur2.AGJK , I appreciate that.

Ha ha ... I love it when I get the last word in. ha ha ha.

(Edit ..again)

Since I so kindly openned the internet exploder , to sabatage it's proxy settings, it so kindly PROMPTLY REINFECTED MY COMPUTER AGAIN !!! . But thats ok. This time I sabataged the settings first , and waited a while. And got treated to the site of it openning a blank page automatically about 10 minutes later.

Scanning again. This time it's over. I hope. Since this virus doesn't seem to understand that such a thing as opera exists, I'm editing this post on Opera now. Remind me to pick up another browser, someing free , and highly obsure, not used by very many people, it just saved my behind.
and opera plays youtube.video's real nice too.

Didn't apple try and put out a browser recently "? Yeah ... Safari ..lets try safari. I never hear of it much , so thats gotta be pretty obscure.
(edit ..yet again)
Ugh ! Safari uses the default windows settings for proxies , the very same ones internet exploder uses, the ones I just finished sabataging to a fair thee well. UNINSTALL ! I'll keep looking ...

Tories ready to 'take on' Liberals over EI reform: PM

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper suggested Wednesday that he would be willing to go to the polls over Liberal calls for changes to the employment insurance system.

Harper made the veiled threat during a heated exchange with Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, whose party has spent the past week calling for reforms to the program.

Ignatieff and Liberal MPs are urging the government to lower the minimum threshold to claim EI to 360 hours and make it a national standard.


360 hrs at 8 hrs / day = 45 days
50 weeks a year at 5 days a week = 250 days

You want to move from a 250 day work year to a 45 day work year, for everyone. The whole blinking nation ? Thats like everyone suddenly working only 1 day a week. Who pays for this ? Your next door neibours ? Sorry , they're only working 1 day a week too.

This is simple political tactics. The Liberals force Harper to say no to this , and maybe they win an election. And if they win , guess what ? This is not possible. You still don't get your 1 day work week, it's not in the cards it never was. It's a scam.

This is classic Liberal Tactics. Win the election at any cost. Make any promise, even the most ridiculous ones that anyone who bothers to use grade 3 math can see is impossible to keep , and just screw the public over. They care nothing for the people. It's all tactics and what lies can I tell today ?


The French-language commercials point out Ignatieff speaks French with a Parisian accent, rather than a Quebec accent.


With the constant deluge of Liberal attacks on our Hoover in a Blue Sweater, I suppose attack ads in return were inevitable.

The French one is tactically interesting though. The French Seperatists love the Parisans and treat them like visiting royalty, but does the rest of quebec ? One has to wonder if Harper is making a mistake with them, or did he some how sneak in a survey that indicates parisians are not so popular with Quebecer's and is taking a shot ? It will be interesting to see how that plays out.

Pig farmers bracing for pork import restrictions

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Canadian pig farmers are bracing for the economic impact of a Chinese ban on Alberta pork products, which some fear may be only the start of a backlash against their pigs.
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On Sunday, Jurgen Preugschas, the president of the Canadian Pork Council, called the Chinese ban a "knee-jerk" reaction, rather than one based on science.

"Quite often countries have knee-jerk reactions to news out of another country," he told The Canadian Press from his home in Mayerthorpe, Alta., on Sunday.


Yep. Something wrong with those Chinese milk products, CLOSE THE BORDER IMMEDIATELY TO THEM !!! Something wrong with Canadian Pigs...Now Wait A Minute Here ! Lets Not Be Hasty !

It's the self serving dollars first human health later attitude that gets me the most here. This fiasco is suddenly not about pigs catching a disease that can kill people, its suddenly about national pride in our diseased live stock , and how farmers are financially hurt by it all...

Excuse me ,I have to barf now.

And no, I don't want to eat meat from those pigs either. I don't blame the Chinese in the slightest.

Twenty people died from diseased cheese in Canada. Not a single person went to jail for manslaughter. Not a one. You want to know what I think about producers that make diseased products and then whine that they've been caught ?

Shoot the diseased pigs. Put the farmer out of business, he's obviously incompetent. And such incompetence will get people killed, and he'll get away with it.

King Iggy Speaks , CBC Relays the Propaganda

Ignatieff slams Harper for 'failure to unite Canada'



Michael Ignatieff took direct aim at Prime Minister Stephen Harper, attacking his track record on national unity, as he accepted the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, unopposed, at a convention in Vancouver on Saturday.


Did a single reporter from anywhere ask "One party one vote...isn't that how communism works ?" no ... they did not. They cheered him on like he was the second coming.


"For three years you have played province against province, group against group, region against region and individual against individual. When your power was threatened last November, you unleashed a national unity crisis and you saved yourself only by sending Parliament home.


Thus spaketh the Leader of the Party that would like to Tax Alberta Utilities because they have to burn coal to produce electricity and spend the money anyway they like. But did any reporter raise that question ? No.


"I will give this job everything I've got," Ignatieff said. "We meet in Vancouver as a great united party … in the shared belief that our time has come.

"In opposition, we are fighting to protect you, and in government we will lead you back to prosperity," he said.


Protect us ? Like a protection racket ? What did the liberals ever do except try and raise taxes , do the west dirty , and cow tow to the quebecors saying yes your special you're better than the rest of canada you're so very special not like those other rift raft .... Unify Canada indeed !


A video tribute shown before Ignatieff took the stage featured photos of him with President Barack Obama, which elicited thunderous applause.


Did any reporters ask any tough questions ?
Did they bring up any tough issues ?
Did they mention the bail out of big corporations vs the raising of taxes for the little guy is King Iggy's idea of "protecting" the canadian electorate ?

No.

They didn't do anything but relay his propaganda about how great and wonderful he is and every one should elect him and how stupid you are for turning the Liberals into the third place *LOSERS* in the last election. The Quebec only Bloc got more votes than the Liberals did , but you'd swear they were the second coming and they're going to fix all your woes and make it all better and how everyone else is EVIL EVIL EVIL ...

This exercise in Communist propoganda is brought to you by the Canadian Broadcast Corperation , who as is their want , did not bother to sign the article. One can only presume the CBC stands behind this anonymous article since it's on their website , but thats not a certainty.

Like kids driving by ,throwing eggs at someone they hate , and disapearing around the corner , no one knows who it was.

The Iggy Factor

Ignatieff Q&A: 'I'm going to become PM'


"I'm going to become the prime minister of this country, as sure as I'm sitting here, and I'm going to inherit the largest deficit in Canadian history."


It's a recession, and the Americans made the economy go to pot. Yet you're blaming the other guys , quite relentless in it. Pure propaganda.


His support for George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, subsequently recanted, and nuanced writings on the amount of "duress" permissible during prisoner interrogations have generated plenty of criticism from the Liberal left.
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"I could have spent my life in the United States, I didn't. I came back here because this is my home . . .

"I hate, detest and loathe torture, always have, always will. I do not want a world run by the American empire, never have, never wanted it, don't want it now . . .

You lived most of your life out of canada , so you're out of touch.

In true political fashion you change your tune as often as you change your socks. Yes to torture , Yes to Iraq ... oops it's unpopular now , no to torture , no to Iraq !

"That means I'm a medicare Liberal, I'm a Canada Pension Plan Liberal, I'm a Charter of Rights and Freedoms Liberal."


This week. Last week you were a pro-torture Bush lover. Not to say that that is a bad thing.(yeah I'm not too happy about "civilians" who pick up a rifle and start shooting other civilians and claim they want to do this to the whole world) The part where you keep changing your mind is what I object to.


He'll spend the summer rebuilding the party platform and fund-raising infrastructure, and implement the U.S. Democrat strategy of targetting all seats that helped send Barack Obama to the White House.


Yep. Love those americans ! Free Guns for all and to heck with the Health Care ! We're doing this the american way ! Oh , I said I supported the opposite of that ? Thats ok , I change my mind a lot, next week I'll do it again.


On that note, he wants "reasonable [carbon] targets that reconcile environmental objectives with employment objectives."

If that sounds close to Harper's position, it is; the green lobby will demand much more.


And that is a popular position so I'm stealing it from Harper !

This man waffles like a Pancake, you don't know what you're voting for, or what he'll change his mind and do next week. You vote for someone because you know he's gonna do something , you don't vote for people who change their mind as often as they change their socks, 'cause you don't know what you're getting.

It's the Iggy Factor.