Anthony A
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I use my browsers portably from a USB thumb drive to and a Hosts file does me no good there. I can easily set up exceptions with an ad blocker where the rule still blocks ads but not a specific one on a specific site. I notice no slow down at all with any of the add blockers I use in fact in my browsing is faster since the adds don't load.
The blocked adds aren't simply blocked and leave a ugly blank space where the add was. The elements are collapsed and the ugly blank spaces are removed.
As for using system resources thats a non issue. I have noticed when the add blockers are enabled I use less RAM and no change in CPU usage.
Add blockers are much easier to maintain as well. Once Ad block Plus is installed (which can be done in seconds) you add a filter and you are done. The filter updates automatically with out issue. I install ABP on friends and family's computers with FF because I know I can install and forget it and they do not need to know how to tweak anything it just works.
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Ad Block Plus is the best ad blocker there is. First extension that goes into Firefox for me.
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Ehh, it seems things are amiss there.
Whats amiss? Lu Lu and Humpty and Rip chain all said there is only one person in the US with their name so the fact only one person has my name when using Anthony is no big deal. Thats four people in this thread with unique names. Using Tony it says one or less again no big thing considering with Anthony there is only one person and Anthony is far more popular than Tony.
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I wouldn't want be "or less" in your situation.
Why not? I couldn't care less if some body else has my name or not.
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There are 336 people with my last name.
I tried my two first names.
Anthony is the 32 most popular name in the US with 1,105,251 named that.
Tony is the 216 most popular name with 296,158 people named that.
Using Anthony as my first name it says there is one person in the US with my name.
Using Tony as my first name it says there is one or less with my name.
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Have to say though, it's nice to see OJ where he belongs.
Going to be interesting to see what kind of sentence he gets. I have no doubt his not guilty verdict on his murder charges made him feel untouchable. Why else would he pull the stunt he was just convicted of after coming so close to getting convicted on murder?
It seem like the everybody involved in his prosecution this time were not taking any chances. They went by the book from what I have read (admittedly not a whole lot since I just don't care about this clown) and thats one positive to come out of this guys sad existence.
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Good thing we have DNA now adays. Most of the wrongful convictions that we see in the news are either from pre DNA or during the beginning when it was still an introductory science. And you are probably right. Better to let a murderer go free and not bend the rules. Because following the rules set by the government is more important then putting a murderer behind bars. And if you follow the rules, rather then do what is morally right, you always end up better off. Ask OJ.
I am sort of conflicted about DNA evidence. Sure it has helped over turn many wrongful convictions but that would not have been necessary if the crooked cops, prosecutor,lying witnesses, and in several cases here a total idiot of a medical examiner were not making a mockery of the legal system. DNA evidence is able to prove that the person was innocent but it should never have been necessary in many of the cases we see know.
For all the people DNA evidence has helped there is a lot that is has hurt. It is very easy to plant DNA. Hair, saliva, skin, what ever.
As for the bending of rules comment. My point simply is this. Even if an obviously guilty person walks the integrity of the legal system is much more important. Rules for search and seasure, chain of evidence, burden of proof and all that legalize are there to protect you and me. It's not good when you can convict people on flimsy or illegal evidence. Sometimes because of these tough standards people like OJ slip through and thats tough to swallow but it's better than the alternative. With very few exceptions there is no worse crime than the wrongful conviction of an innocent person.
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One of the reasons why I dumped AVG was the abusive Moderators on its forum.
They used to be very helpful and it was a good forum to get help at. When AVG 8 was released things really changed. No doubt the many millions of complaints about AVG 8 has something to do with it.
Just imagine if they did a major update of CCleaner and it was a flop like AVG 8 and this forum started to get flooded with a million complaints. I wonder if the mods here might get a little testy
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We all know OJ was guilty in the first trial of murdering his wife but the truth is the verdict was the right one. He wasn't found to be innocent. He was acquitted. This means the case was not proved beyond a reasonable doubt. As hard as it is to swallow that was the correct verdict. Cops can't behave like Ferman did and the prosecution was a joke. No matter what your gut tells you you have to put that aside and look at the facts and how they were presented and if you do that OJ walks. They have rules and procedures to follow like every body else and if they can bend them and screw up like they did with OJ and still get a conviction we all lose. I would like to think that if I was ever accused of a crime they would need to have their $hit together to convict me. I wouldn't be too comfortable living in a country were they can convict with illegally obtained evidence and the word of a POS racist pig cop like Ferman. I live in a country that has a horrendous record of wrongfully convicting people. There have been many major wrongful convictions that have come to light the last few years here. They are unacceptable and they happen because of POS cops like Ferman thinking they can do what ever they want and lax standards. As hard as it is to see scum like OJ walk is was the right thing. Convicting him on the evidence they had and how it was obtained and the word of Ferman might not bother you because it was OJ they were convicting but just imagine if it was you they convicted of some crime you didn't commit. Look at the bigger picture.
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Another vote for Google. Very customizable.
What FireFox theme are you using?
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I use Speed Dial or it's equivalent in all my browsers. My browsers launch with it loaded and it's my home page. In FireFox it's called Fast Dial. In IE7 it's called Easy Home Page and is part of IE7 Pro. In Maxthon 1 and 2 it's an addon called Speed Dial. In Opera the inventors of this great feature it's built right into the browser and called Speed Dial.
I also have an iGoogle page.
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Yes I've done a web search and its for WinNT only but I still wouldn't bother using it.
Oh I didn't notice you were still on Windows 98. When you upgrade get a Mac than you won't need an AV Ha Ha
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I've never heard of Sandboxie Anthony.
It's mentioned on here often. Do a search there are many threads about it.
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Yeah it's a good trade off I guess. haha
Yeah I could handle a slow Internet connection if I was sitting under a palm tree in January and fighting off alligators
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I'm still not impressed with the installation version of FF3 because it gives me nothing but issues forcing an uninstall which has happened with two completely different versions. FF3 Portable however doesn't give me any issues, which I find very strange.
Maybe it is the portable version and not the new set up that is giving me the much improved performance. No matter because I am really into portable apps now. So much easier to "install" and backing up or moving to another machine is as simple as copy and paste. The new FF 3 Portable set up I have just copied to my other machines and thumb drives. I also have never had an issue updating portable apps like I have with installed versions of programs.
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Your brave or stu*** if you surf the web.
Not really. I can't remember the last time my AV blocked anything. It has been years. The entire time I could have gone without one and I would not have been infected. If you use a program like Sandboxie or some other virtualization program you would probably be better protected than you would with an AV. I use an AV because the one I use is very light and doesn't have an impact on performance. If I was forced to decide between Norton or no AV I would choose no AV and run with Sandboxie on full time.
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Decided to try again since the first one didn't seem right. The second one seems even more way off. lol My internet usually goes so damn slow. Go figure. haha
At least you get warm weather down there
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I have not been a fan of Firefox 3 since it's release. I found it slow and clunky and used more resources than Firefox 2 even though it claimed to be faster and use less resources. I even called it a POSIMO
I had enough of it on one of my machine and removed it. I was bored yesterday and decided to put Firefox 3 Portable on one of my machines and play around with it. After a few hours of installing my 17 extensions and a few themes I like and making a few about:config tweaks I was ready to give it a good work out.Wow big difference from the FF 3 I had removed. The speed difference was immediately noticeable. It is as fast as Opera and in some cases like Gmail, iGoolge, and Google Calendar it's much faster than Opera. These are sites that can give browsers fits and are good sites to test on. FF 3 handled them great.
I also noticed the resource usage was much better than the FF3 I had just dumped. Not as good as Opera but better than FF 2. It still hits 100 MB but it releases the RAM much better than FF 2. I tested this by launching FF 2 on one machine and FF 3 Portable on another. I navigated to the exact same sites on each and FF 3 Portable used about 40 Mb less RAM. The "peak" memory was about the same so they both hit the same level but the actual memory and virtual memory were much lower in FF 3 which means it's releasing it bitter than FF 2.
The new features are very nice to. The new Download Manager and Pass Word Manager and Zoom especially. These were over shadowed before for me because of the poor performance but not any more. All my extensions except 3 work perfectly. The Google Tool Bar I dumped because it's not really needed. All it's functionality is built in to FF or easily replaced with lighter extensions. Cooliris Previews still works but the preview window sticks open and doesn't close automatically like it should. You have to click on the page to close the preview window which is a small annoyance. I also used an extension called Drag De Go that doesn't work with FF 3 but I found a replacement that has similar functionality until Drag De Go is updated.
I don't know if it's the fact I am using FF 3 Portable or just the fresh set up but it works very nice and I like it better than FF 2 because of the obvious speed difference and the nice new features.
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Sorry for bringin up an old topic..but this is insane.
Inside the student union at my college...wireless, no less.
AJ
Especially the upload speed
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My Controls -> Edit Profile Information
then you can input it under Custom member title.
Thanks that did it
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Yes we get snow in Canada. Usually start getting it in November but I have seen flurries in October. We can and have gotten pounded by snow up until late April and I have seen it in May. Our weather is a POSIMO
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You could always use it under your avatar. It will spread like wildfire.
That would be funny. I am looking around in my controls but I don't see where to do that. I see where to make it a signature (which I might) but not where to add it under my avatar.
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That "sounds" about right. As Andavari said, a touch of Italy.
Do you realize, this will start appearing on other forums worldwide. Just you watch.
It was quite by accident to. I posted POS IMO as two separate acronyms not even thinking that it could be one
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The best way to remove AVG is with it's installer. Run the installer and it will detect AVG already installed on your system. Than it will give you several options. Choose the one to remove AVG. This will remove all traces of AVG. This is the recommended way from their forum and has never failed me. I recently removed AVG from several machines without an issue.