Tech Talk
I finally caved in to the warning that my Anti-Virus software has expired. PCCillin is a fine product, and I highly reccomend it for WinXP. I never liked Norton or McAfee, and I stumbled on TrendMirco as a pleasant alternative. The subscription renewal is essentially synonymous with upgrade, so I worked on other stuff while it took over an hour to downlad the new version. Last year I got something out of order and screwed up the installation. Unfortunately, the helpful messages are so cryptic that you have no idea what’s happening anyway. Things seem to work best when you just click the OK buttons, but how do you know it’s right? Anyway, it uninstalled the old version, then installed the new one, and a couple of reboots later here I am. I don’t care for the fancy user interface. It’s too much like a cartoon. I like a mean command line that you can see means business. Besides, I don’t approve of a program wasting all those processor cycles drawing fancy pictures on the screen when it’s supposed to be scanning files for viruses. I’ve muddled around with text-based configuration files, and I’d be happy to do that here. In the mean time, Windows is getting hysterical about the anti-virus software being turned off. Memo to Microsoft: You’re not my mother! I spoke to her yesterday (Mother’s Day in the US), and she does not write the software used on the majority of the worlds Personal Computers. When she says “Be Careful”, I say “Okay Mom”. When Microsoft says “OMG! Your AV might be Out of Date!”, I say “Your friend Linux is really Cute. Is she seeing anybody? I’d let her move in on my Hard Drive any time!” Hmm… What am I doing at work? Oh right! Working. Enough of this nonsense.
Posted by Evan Bittner Mon, 15 May 2006 14:57:00 GMT
