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I found out this awesome little shortcut that anyone that may read this that happens to use ObjectDock may love (like I now do). I managed to find this shortcut out on accident, while playing World of Warcraft, I ALT + Tab'd out to open my Shortcuts folder (Think of the "Applications" folder on a Mac) and was accidentally holding CTRL while clicking on the icon. Upon my surprise, it brought up a right-click style pop-up with all the contents of the folder (all the shortcuts in one nice little menu). So, if you want to try this yourself, put a folder on your dock, and CTRL + Left-Click it to see what I mean.

Here is a screenshot of what mine looks like when I do it:

Was just spoken to for 30 minutes to from my mother and my step father.

According to them:

• Being anti-social means you hate God.
  
• Having a girlfriend means you hate God.
  
• Going on the computer for the 3 of the 7 days of the week you're home means you hate God.
  
• Being tired in the morning means you hate God.
  
• My stepfather admits to being a bad father, and wants me to change my ways (however he won't).
  

I'd like to note that when I used to be an "outside kid" (when I went outside, aka: barely ever used a computer), they didn't ever have a problem with what I did, but ever since I've become a "computer kid", they're pretty much ashamed of me. I usually make up pretend arguments in my mind about stuff like this just to say stuff I wouldn't normally say but I couldn't really think of anything. It's beyond idiocy. So..uhm, wtf?

I've been playing around with Google Chrome, and so far, here are my gripes and praises about it. Now I know that this is only a beta, and that all the features aren't in/finished, but I'd like to say this stuff anyway.


Positive:

• The download manager looks really slick, and easy to use.
  
• Very clean interface.
  
• Smooth animations.
  
• Search Engine editor. One of the better features of Opera.
  

Negative:

• I can't import my bookmarks from Opera, or an .html file.
  
• The fact that gmail.com comes up as a security threat...
  
• Inability to change the tab bar from the top to the bottom of the URL bar.
  
• After a moderate amount of web browsing, the URL bar becomes sluggish when typing.
  

This list is a WIP, and hopefully, will have a ton of positives, and no negatives for future releases.

This is all a matter of opinion. Sure, McAffe and Norton Desktop products have a bad rep. But some ones that have better status are Norton Corporate (if you try to say ALL Norton products are junk, well then ignorance is bliss.), NOD32, and Zone Alarm/Kaspersky.

None of the "better" ones mentioned above are better than one another, they will do the same job at finding things. If you try to say "Norton didn't find this!!!11!!" then you may want to also note that others won't find things that Norton will.

Honestly, you aren't going to find "the" best anti virus, it's which are good, and which aren't.

As for your computer running "smoother" and "faster", of course it will, you are uninstalling a program that is ALWAYS running. Think about that.

I will be one of the very few that will go unbiased on Anti Virus, most are resource hogs, and uneffective. But I will list several products that I know are good.

I don't mean to put anyone down for their opinion, but most people just go by word of mouth and not investigating what they hear.

Some good anti virus/anti spyware products are:
Windows Live OneCare
Zone Alarm Security Suite Professional
Kaspersky
ESET NOD32
Symantec (Norton) Corporate 10.1 (2k/xp/2003) / 10.2 (Vista/2008)

This is a post I made on a forum about anti virus. This is one of the first real posts I've made in a while and thought I did a good job, so I now share it with you.

On Friday I reinstalled Ubuntu, but with a different goal in mind then last time. This time, it was to get set up, fix any problems I ran into, and see if I could get everything working correctly. As of today, I can say that 99% of it is working perfectly.

I started off only using my secondary video card because it is an nVidia chip unlike my main card, an ATi Radeon 9250 (because we all know Linux works better with nVidia). My wireless card didn't have drivers for it, so I downloaded ndiswrapper on my Windows partition and got my wireless drivers for Windows. I got the Windows drivers because TRENDnet doesn't make Linux drivers, and the purpose of ndiswrapper is to be able to use Windows drivers for Linux network devices (eg: a wireless card). Once I setup my internet with my now functional wireless card, I downloaded EnvyNG and downloaded the newest drivers for my nVidia GeForce MX 4 graphics card. Upon rebooting my computer after the installation of my new video drivers, I noticed Compiz was running. This is a bad thing, seeing as I was going to enable it anyway.

The next thing I did was get my audio working correctly (yes, audio barely works correctly, if at all out-of-the-box). I started off by reading a tutorial on the Ubuntu Forums on how to change your output from eSound to ALSA. This forum thread explained what to do, and gave a script to use so you can have multiple applications use audio at the same time (which you'd think should be standard, right?). After doing so, everything seemed to be working good as can be. Now, pulseaudio does crash every now and again (*cough* during Skype phone calls *cough*), but it's running good besides that. The last thing I did was replace my default audio mixer with KMix (seeing as it doesn't have spasms like Gnome Volume Controller does).

Then the fun part came, application installing! The only thing I had to compile from source was my alarm clock applet, which came as a surprise. One of the first things installed of course was Opera, which isn't as stable as it is on Windows, but still runs good. Then I ran Pidgin (no need to install, it comes with Ubuntu) and set it up (I was a Pidgin user on Windows as well, so it was an easy transition). Then, came time to get and setup an IRC client. This isn't as easy as it sounds seeing as how I am a huge mIRC fan (enough of a fan to write his own modified version). I decided to go with XChat because mIRC isn't very stable when run under WINE, and everything else is either too much or too little. Another easy transition for me was from Winamp to amaroK. Now I did use a lot of the little known features of Winamp, but they weren't that hard to let go seeing as I used amaroK when I was using Winamp a year or so ago on my Gateway). Then came VLC Media Player, uTorrent (yes, I still refuse to use anything else, Linux or not), Photoshop CS2, and Skype.

I still hit the occasional hiccup in pulseaudio, and Opera crashes more, but it's bearable. I've changed my nVidia GeForce MX 4 card with a GeForce 6220, which runs so much smoother. And as of now I'm using Ubuntu as my primary install, I don't know how long it will last, but as of now, It's primary. As for anyone looking to jump into Linux, don't expect it to be a walk in the park, you'll realize that a lot of mainstream software, and your "favorite" software isn't ported to Linux. And be ready to learn how to use the terminal, it's not a nightmare, but it's out of the usual for a typical user.