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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Gumby]
#9649909 - 01/21/09 12:41 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Gumby said: You'd be stupid not to use Middleman.
I use Middleman all the time
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Gumby]
#9649988 - 01/21/09 01:14 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Gumby said: This post is for Windows users, back off you elitest Linux and Mac assholes.
What about us minority FreeBSD users?
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: FuzedBox]
#9650010 - 01/21/09 01:26 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks Gumby. I'm not an idiot but a lot of this helped.
Anymore cool progs you recommend? For anything?
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: FuzedBox]
#9650022 - 01/21/09 01:35 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'd group FreeBSD in with Linux. It might not be Linux, but it's close enough.
imagine: I'm glad I can help. I can't think of too many other programs that I would recommend at the moment. I would suggest using Gmail though. It works especially well if you work in/have any friends in a corporate environment. It's one of the few email/chat clients that corporate work environments don't block.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Gumby]
#9650077 - 01/21/09 02:00 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Linux is obviously the answer (but in upgrading to baselayout-2 and openrc, I borked my sound and I cba to fix, so I'm using windows right this second).
If you want a decent fast anti-virus program, which is consistently voted the best around, you should probably steal NOD32.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Cepheus]
#9650089 - 01/21/09 02:06 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Cepheus said:If you want a decent fast anti-virus program, which is consistently voted the best around, you should probably steal NOD32.
NOD32 or Avira, both have their quirks and false positives though.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Gumby]
#9650098 - 01/21/09 02:11 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Your right the reason is mostly bad browsing habits and people installing any old software.
Your advice will only help on a fresh PC tho. An already clogged up PC will require a format and OS re-install to return it to its original speed. Spyware removers etc can only do so much.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Ego Death]
#9650113 - 01/21/09 02:20 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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^The painful truth to Windows. Be nice to be able to do a kernell rebuild instead of a format.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Gumby]
#9650115 - 01/21/09 02:21 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks, Gumby. Great, helpful post.
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#9650157 - 01/21/09 02:45 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Edited by Yrtlzmo (02/03/13 04:24 AM)
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Yrtlzmo]
#9650189 - 01/21/09 03:08 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Would it not be too difficult to say buy a external hardrive and move everything to it, then format and drag the already scanned files back in?
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Gumby]
#9650190 - 01/21/09 03:09 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Haha, im going to show this to my freind, were always fixing some dumbasses pc.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Gumby]
#9650224 - 01/21/09 03:33 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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You forgot.....
NOSCRIPT - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. This + Firefox + Adblock = almost bulletproof websurfing (unless you are retarded)
CCLEANER (After you clean the viruses of course..) Run this shit regularly.
Delete unnecessary programs
DEFRAG! (I recommend - Diskeeper )
Although two of those have almost nothing to do with teh intraweb.. they help keep your PC running smooth
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Yrtlzmo]
#9650277 - 01/21/09 04:22 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Yrtlzmo said:
Why would you even use an older version of AIM? Pidgin is much better in my opinion, and can handle a ton of chat networks. http://www.pidgin.im/
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Acaterpillar]
#9650404 - 01/21/09 05:56 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Rabidbaboon said: Would it not be too difficult to say buy a external hardrive and move everything to it, then format and drag the already scanned files back in?
It's a pain in the ass. Just this computer alone has 3 HDD's with almost a Terrabyte of storage. I usually do what you say except with partitions on these drives rather than an external HDD. Both methods suck, but external could take up to a whole day or more to copy everything; this is because external drives generally spin up, read, and write slower, and Firewire/USB is nowhere near as fast as internal EIDE,SCSI, or SATA interfaces. Not to mention needing to sift through what is needed and what can be spared. If you copy programs you wind up wasting space half the time as they need to be installed from scratch again anyway due to the registry entries. As much as I hate the task, your method and mine are still the easiest way to go.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Yrtlzmo]
#9651017 - 01/21/09 09:42 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've yet to try Pidgin. I'm comfortable with my old version of AIM. Does Pidgin support direct connect and file transfer?
One that I like as a web-based solution to IMing is www.meebo.com
Shroomism, thanks for the added tips. I'm gonna check out all things mentioned. How does the defragger you mentioned do a better job than Winders defragger?
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Gumby]
#9651377 - 01/21/09 10:54 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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CCleaner is good, but I recommend Tracks Eraser Pro. That program is completely minimalist and deletes EVERYTHING!
Back in the day my stupid brother downloaded fat chick porn and busted my video card because he kept trying to hit the off switch. At the shop the guy saw it and thought it was MY fat chick porn and gave me the program.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Gumby]
#9651452 - 01/21/09 11:08 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Diskeeper not only does full system defrags when you want it to.. but it only silently runs in the background (VERY minimal resources - on my machine it uses about as much resources as trillian..) and defrags small time when you need it. So basically it's constantly doing small defrags so you when you do a full one the job is already half done. It also has a technology it calls I-FAAST, which puts the most used files on the fastest part of the disk. So basically, it's always running and optimizing your hard drives. I don't like paying for software, but this is the one piece of software I had no problems paying for... it's only $20, and it's worth it. Plus they let you try the full version for 30 days.
Noscript is the ONE plugin I wouldn't ever do without on Firefox. It's a pain in your ass for about a week.. but after that it's all gravy. It basically blocks EVERY script/flash function on every site you visit that could even be a remotely malicious script. So every site you visit, pics and flash and shit wont load.. and you'll get a tiny little popup at the bottom saying "noscript blocked this and this and this site from loading on this page". You can go through them all and individually click to allow them permanently, or temporarily for that session. (allow shroomery.org, etc) The trusted sites you go to all the time, and you know they are trustworthy.. you just allow them permanently and after about a week of surfing you will rarely get that unless you visit a strange site, and even then its just a click away to allow it to load scripts. But if you ever DO click on a link with say... a malicious trojan, keylogger etc... noscript will just straight up block it from loading period. It goes faaar beyond the protection of Ad-block. I'll click on trojans for fun :P
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Shroomism]
#9651470 - 01/21/09 11:12 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Have you noticed any real speed improvements with Diskeeper? Faster start up and loading of frequently used programs(FireFox, Photoshop) would be nice.
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Re: Gumby's How To Not Suck At The Internet Tutorial [Re: Gumby]
#9651513 - 01/21/09 11:21 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Well... that's kind of hard to pinpoint. Cause I do a lot of tweaking and I keep my machine pretty clean so it always runs pretty smooth. I did notice an overall improvement when I first got diskeeper, and I've had it for about 6 months now and haven't had to defrag once.. and I download/move/delete a LOT of files regularly. It does most of the work when your PC is idling. I go to defrag and it say it doesn't need it. I don't know if it would help with load times of programs, but it definitely helps the overall health of the discs. For faster load up times on programs, you can fuck with your registry.. and do some tweaks. Photoshop on my machine loads up in about 7 seconds, but that also has to do with ram and processor speed.. but you can definitely help it out with tweaks. You use XP or Vista?
Also... disable unnecessary windows services.. thats a good one for freeing up system resources.
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