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Subsidized Netbooks from Cell Companies are Crap

Nathan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:11:21 +0000

In the last year these little computers have become a big hit. The past couple of weeks I have had three friends get a new Netbooks. Personally I carry my laptop around with me, so having a netbook just doesn’t suit me. For them however it was a perfect solution. Portable, cheap, and they run Linux. What more could you want.

How about not to be screwed over by cell companies selling Netbooks at a “subsidized” price with a two year contract. The computer industry moves too fast for this to be a sensible option for the customer. Yet AT&T, Verizon and others are doing this. These computers are Netbooks, which means they are cheap, and underpowered. How does anyone expect these computers to be usable in two years?

I would personally not even think about getting a subsidized Netbook from a cell company. They are going to lock you into a two year contract, paying $60/month, and in a year you’ll have a messed up slow computer.

Thanks Jerks!

Tags: Bitching, Computer, Netbook

Norton Anti Virus

Nathan — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:56:11 +0000

Let me just explain my hatred for Norton Anti Virus. See because my work computer is on a government network, I have to follow their rules, and one of these rules is letting the government install whatever they want and configure it however they want. Well in this case it happens to be Norton Anti Virus Corporate Edition. Friday when I left I went to restart my computer but being Windows meant of course there were updates that needed to be installed. So I said sure install and shut down. When today rolled around I came in and started up my computer, logged in. Noticing there was a lot of activity going on with the hard drive I began searching and found Norton scanning my drive. Well its been about 45min and its still scanning. What nice about the way Norton scans is that if you want to do anything you are SOL because Norton is using all the systems resources.
Why can’t we (meaning every Windows user) have an Anti Virus that respects our usage and I don’t know….only scan when I’m not doing anything. Like maybe wait till the screen saver comes on or something. Jesus Christ this isn’t a big deal, stop using my computer when I’m trying to use it. Stupid machines never respect my authority.

Tags: AntiVirus, Computer, Norton

GeekTool Rss Script

Nathan — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:44:52 +0000

Here is a little script a friend help me put together. It it basically a caching RSS reader for GeekTool. I use it to display my Netflix query on my desktop, as well as My MeeVee listing. Just change the LOG, RSS lines and it will pull the title lines out of RSS feeds. If you want more you can change the curl lines. Have fun.

if [ ! -f $LOG ]; then
curl -s $RSS | grep title | sed -E ‘s/<\/?title>//g’ > $LOG
else
age=$(echo $(date “+%s”) – $(stat -t “%s” $LOG 2>/dev/null | awk -F\” ‘{print $4}’) | bc -l)
if [ "$age" -gt 3600 -o $size = 0 ]; then
curl -s $RSS | grep title | sed -E ‘s/<\/?title>//g’ > $LOG
fi
fi
cat $LOG

Tags: Computer, OSX, Programming, script

Real Linux Commands

Nathan — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:21:36 +0000

I stole this list from this blog.

% cat “food in cans”
cat: can’t open food in cans

% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.

% “How would you rate Quayle’s incompetence?
Unmatched “.

% Unmatched “.
Unmatched “.

% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].

% ^How did the sex change operation go?^
Modifier failed.

% If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many (‘s.

% make love
Make: Don’t know how to make love. Stop.

% sleep with me
bad character

% got a light?
No match.

% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.

% !:say, what is saccharine?
Bad substitute.

% %blow
%blow: No such job.

% \(-
(-: Command not found.

$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!

$ drink matter
matter: cannot create

Tags: Commands, Computer, Linux, Programming

The United States has gone nuts!!

Nathan — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:35:26 +0000

I teacher could be sentenced to 40 years in prison because her computer had porn pop ups. If anyone should be send to jail it should be Microsoft. This is just plain bull shit. If you can show me one 7th grader that has yet to see boobs, I will show you a lier. Every 7th grader has seen a playboy or has watched lite night HBO. A pop up on a computer screen is nothing new for these kids. If anything I might give them something new to try.

Tags: Computer, Crazy

Best of the Interweb 6-29-06

Nathan — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:11:54 +0000

Yay for the Interweb. Its great when you get up in the morning, to find Google trying to get everyone’s credit card numbers, to add to this fast knowledge of people’s information. Think about it. Take me for an example, I use firefox with a gmail extension,which keeps me logged into gmail all the time. So when I search on google, its saved in my history. Thats two personal items of info google has, little alone all the shit you can find on someone just by doing a search. I have finally realized that google could become “Big Brother” Maybe its time to stop worrying about our government, maybe someday they will help us fight ”
“Big Brother Google” or maybe the government has paid google to get all this information. I don’t know, but I am starting to get freaked out by google. Have a great day, and home you enjoy some of the other crazy stuff I found today.

Ok, now I really think Big Brother Google is getting to much info on people.
Ever wanted to wear a computer? This one is cool.
Don’t have a bottle opener available, try this
She’s a bot
ummmm got to love some them there Twinkies
Crazy women
How to make Porn…I don’t know if this is good or bad, but hey will porn in the title you know I had to post it.

Tags: Best Interweb, Computer, Google, Porn, Video, Women, YouTube

Best of the Interweb 6-21-06

Nathan — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:31:29 +0000

It took a while, but here you go a new Best of the Interweb, I personally don’t like dell’s so Burn Baby Burn story was just great to me. Have a great day, and hope you enjoy.

Myspace has killed another site.
Great, soon we will have to choose a laptop by what cell phone service we have.
Burn baby burn!
Real War Games
This seems to be a lot easier to do than anything for the PSP.
I so need to do something like this.
Sleep fucking…but baby I didn’t know I was humping you, I was asleep…great excuse!

Tags: Best Interweb, Computer, Crazy, Hacking, MySpace, Sex, War