McAfee is such a drain on my computer's resources that I have to get rid of it.
Tell me about it! Thanks to the conversation here, I've just switched over to AVG.
Joyce: Dawn, you be good. Xander: We will. Just gonna play with some matches, run with scissors, take candy from some guy, I don't know his name.
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Jon B. - Apr 12, 2008 9:45:55 am PDT #5609 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
brenda m - Apr 12, 2008 10:00:38 am PDT #5610 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
AVG highly recommended. Brenda m, I know it's absolutely none of my business... but I recommend you invest half an hour installing AVG at some point. It's free. If you're using Windows and you haven't got any anti-virus software installed, you've probably already got something on there. Which isn't a problem, but if you shop online it can be troublesome.
Oh, you're not wrong. I do use Spybot and AdAware and a firewall, but I'll add this as soon as my machine is running again. (Blown power cable, not already hoist on my lazy petard, FTR.)
DXMachina - Apr 12, 2008 12:58:33 pm PDT #5611 of 25501
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
DXM - well am I mixing it up? Might it be Foldershare and AVG? There was a crucial program that I couldn't use because of AVG.
Not sure. Antivirus programs can occasionally flag valid software as viruses, which is why a lot of programs tell you to turn off antivirus software during installation. I just haven't seen it with BT. Is it possible you had a trial version of one of AVG's pay products one that had firewall and/or spyware features? I know Grisoft makes it hard to find the free version sometimes.
Here is a link with quick reviews of three different free antivirus products, AVG, Avast, and ClamWin: [link]
Gris - Apr 12, 2008 1:24:55 pm PDT #5612 of 25501
Hey. New board.
I just bought a new MacBook. After a series of problems with MacBook Pro and a discontinued AppleCare (due to my computer having both liquid AND extreme accidental damage. Oops.) it stopped accepting power today. So I bit the bullet.
The new Macbook is smaller, lighter, faster, and has twice the hard disk space of my old computer. I can handle this.
DCJensen - Apr 12, 2008 6:37:28 pm PDT #5613 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
t insert inevitable MacBook question from Daniel
So, whatcha doing with your old one?
t /inevitable MacBook question from Daniel
§ ita § - Apr 12, 2008 7:22:00 pm PDT #5614 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hmm. I'm wondering about an iTunes server--what does that do to synching iPods? Do you have to connect the iPod to the server itself?
le nubian - Apr 12, 2008 7:26:38 pm PDT #5615 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
if you use a program like webdrive, it can load your server as another disk...
§ ita § - Apr 12, 2008 7:45:54 pm PDT #5616 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, since it's a machine on my internal network, mounting a drive should be little problem at all. I just want to be able to present the same iTunes library intelligently to my PC and my PowerBook, but now I wonder where I plug the hardware in to synchronise.
SuziQ - Apr 12, 2008 7:52:44 pm PDT #5617 of 25501
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Daniel - I have a couple of old laptops - one is OOOOOOOLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDD...like Compaq, portable computer old. Do you want items like that too?
Gris - Apr 12, 2008 8:03:06 pm PDT #5618 of 25501
Hey. New board.
So, whatcha doing with your old one?
Stripping out the hard drive and extra RAM, but I don't have much need for the other parts. I could send it along. E-mail me, profile addy's fine. There's not a whole lot usable in it, though - the DVD drive gave me big troubles the last couple of times I tried to use it, the display has a weird burn-in right in the middle of the screen, and the X key and the left control, alt, and command keys are all ded from red wine. And, as mentioned, it seems to be having sudden power issues. The fans are probably good, though, as I replaced them both within the last month.