KFC & Pepsi Co. can go suck a lemon...

Have any of you noticed the extremely annoying "Look at me" tone they've added to the most recent KFC TV ad campaign? It's irritating, right as the KFC bucket comes into view this loud piercing tone comes on. Running commercials louder than the content was annoying enough, this is just BS.

I, personally, am boycotting all Pepsi Co. products from this point forward... and I'll be honest, this geek ate a lot Taco Bell and KFC. So, I must say farewell to KFC and now Ezell's gets my chicken $'s... and to replace the crap that Taco Bell's been pushing, my local Tijuana Taco's going to get all my taco money!

Stop hiring shrinks to up your ad responses. New product, at a good value is whats going to get you customers. I went because of convenience, but your BS was enough to overcome my laziness.

They sure aren't looking after us, are they...

You know, it sounds great when you hear that congress is going to get off it's collective hind-ends and protect their citizens from spyware. But, when you actually look at Ed Foster's article at Infoworld about the new bill you suddenly remember... they don't work for us.

It protects us against spyware... unless it comes from just about any commercial entity.

So, according to this subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, my privacy is important... unless Paramount Pictures disagrees. This would give RiAA an excellent end-run around those pesky search warrants.

It's bovine fecal material like this right bloody here that makes me pause and attempt to come up with one new idea for a way to be able to afford to build, stock, infrastruct, and defend my own little slice of sovereign territory.

Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking?

ScribeFire

Just giving ScribeFire a quick try. Seems to be a great way to make it easy to comment on things that you've read. Caught it from a Linux.com article here. So far it seems like a nice option for keeping the blog right handy for posting.

Vista still sucks.

Every time that Windows Update tells me there's an update to Vista, I cringe.  Every single update has degraded performance in some way.  When the laptop first arrived the DVR thing worked great with windows Media Center and my Pinnacle HDTV USB Stick.  The video stayed smooth, even with the on screen info for volume or program info.  Now, if anything is on the screen the feed goes clunky.  It doesn't affect recording, thankfully, but still.  It used to work.  That changed on an update to video drivers from NVidia.  Updated SATA drivers from Microsoft themselves started causing bluescreening under heavy HDD usage.  Another update caused the network problems I mentioned bellow.  It's a nightmare... logic says things are supposed to get better.  So much for QFE quality.

Windows Vista Sucks

When I shopped around for the laptop I wanted... I settled on the HP dv9000z. So far, a nice machine. I dislike that even with the 64-bit amd processor they installed the 32-bit vista. But most of all I dislike that vista sucks so bloody much. Periodically some portion of the network layer becomes unglued. The shared dialup connection on the network still works. Other workstations get out just fine. The putty ssh session to the box running airodump and aircrack-ptw is still open... but trying to open a new session fails with permission denied. All sites come up unknown host in a browser. My active login session or whatever vista wants to call it has lost all rights to any network access. No amount of disabling and enabling the related devices or connections has any effect... but a reboot fixes it. I hate vista.

Once I get enough arp packets for the aircrack-ptw I'll be off dialup and then comes the gentoo install.

.-=Yup Yup=-.

... twodogs stumbles into the room, looks confusedly around then stumbles back out the way he came in.