Tech Review – TruXter

I had to do a scan a known virus with a number of virus scanners.
I used Jotti’s I used Virscan and I used Virus Total
They each have a messload of virus scanners through their site that allows you to scan at one time to see the results of each scanner

1st virus scan results

2nd virus scan results

Here are the results of the most known free or cheap virus scanners and antivirus programs out there, scanning two pieces of malware that we got at the office I work in.
Sad to say, the two most known, most promoted most noted free virus scanners out there, failed to detect this. Sad to say, we got these from a machine that was supposedly protected by Symantec Endpoint. We received an email that told us to update our tax information, and well it was bundled with an executable. The second one is another virus/trojan that was sent in an email disguised as being from Fedex, they sent an executable file saying it would help us track our recently shipped package.. The computer that received this email, the user actually ran th program and it installed and mass emailed her address book with the same message, then it downloaded tons of stuff into the machine, eventually shuts off internet access until an expected time then it opens internet back up quickly to download more updates, then it shuts it down.
So if you have a virus scanner that is cheap or free and want to see how it did in our little test, check the two pdf files I link and see for yourself.
If you do not have adobe pdf reader, I advise you use foxit, it’s ten times faster and much more useful.

I know this old stuff but I have to show it as I found it.
I have been using windows since 3.11.
Broke my first pc within days of getting it.
butter knife in the floppy drive.
Ewps. Hey I was a newb.

Here is the guy who did it best .
Evolution of Microsoft
I still think he should have said Windows.

In the video, wait for win 3.1 . Does that not bring back memories? .. lol memories of aps/gadgets.

Sound recorder never really changed did it??? I wonder why that is!

We have to look at the word Social first

“It always refers to the interaction of organisms with other organisms and to their collective co-existence, irrespective of whether they are aware of it or not, and irrespective of whether the interaction is voluntary or involuntary.”

I’m not so sure about the word “irrespective” sounds a bit redneck to me.  That’s what I hate about Wikipedia Anyone can edit it, even redneck Jim.

Well to start. In that sense Wikipedia is a type of social network. but let’s leave educational means of communication, out of the ring 0f  social networking, for this case, And let’s leave out youtube and Revver. They do have nice social methods (telling people their video is crummy) let’s not go into all of that. along with that, let’s not use dig either, their methods of filtering the spam has eliminated most comfortable social connection.

So let’s nail out the big Social Networks.

Myspace . This has been known as the trailer park of the internet. Why? well because of the 1997 appeal. The place is full of the mouse tracers and sparkly profiles like Geocities had. Everyone adds every person they see on there, as their friend. At one time it was like a huge challenge to get as many people as you could get added, added to your friends. Then you spend the next three months, weeding out all of the spammers and the real freaky people. It WAS an ok place to go and just read profiles. The profiles used to be like little ” I need a friend” Resumes. Now they are nothing but favorite band lists at the most. Really, why in the heck would someone list 200 bands. The ideal list would be at the most 10-15 bands. Not every dang band you ever listened to and didn’t want to smash your head with a hammer.

Then came the use of Myspace apps. Myspace apps are games that are connected with your myspace profile. They all;ow you and your friends  to join in and play against others and their friends. Great concept. For thos e who chose to not play the games on myspace, there was the bulletin board. In the bulletin board you could  write a short story and share  it with your friends and let them comment on it or re-post it. There was also the use of the “blog system” so you can write a long  story and show your friends or even share it with everyone of myspace. Some days you can get up to 2000 reads of a blog on there. I know I have many times.

Myspace also has the  “mood” section, where you can show the world your mood and give a quick explanation of your mood.

The bulletins have been taken over by the friends who have myspace applications. Some of the applications set to default the users to post to the bulletin and they do give the option to post to the bulletin, but most people don’t take time to read that junk and they just see the rods “post click yes” so they do. now the bullitens are flooded with “billy bob just  walked three feet”. Stuff n0 one cares about.

It is a clunky piece of junk that has not had a major overhaul, since…. well ever. but it is an ok place to find a whole lot of people.

Facebook Face book is a lot like myspace, even though the platform it is built on is different. The people join there and add as many people as they can. There is even an application to allow people to see people who know people they know, this gives them a chance to locate someone long gone. this also leads to 1000 people going” wait, who are you?? how do I know you?”
I for years called Facebook the antisocial network.

Well Facebook is just like the bulletin section of Myspace, but you really have no other means of group socialism. It is hard to just meet random people on Facebook because of the way the place is built. They ar working on that, but at the same time they are messing up bad by integrating many features that myspacce has.

Facebook now has Apps also, just like Myspace.  If you have one friend who plays the apps on Facebook, then you have a million and one invites in your inbox, 200 app gifts on your main page, and the bulletin is flooded in updates in the  user’s progress in what ever game they find the most fun.

“Facebook is really sucky, with all the ap invites and gifts and games and crap taking up the only means of ’social interchange’ this place is worse than myspace, except the custom profiles.”

Yahoo Chat “hi look at my profile and lets trade pics” spam bot link farm, full of  regulars who do not like new people. all of the regulars  have programs to kick other users out of the room, especially if the user is prettier, wittier or cooler than them. The regulars do not kick out the spam bots. This is the epitome of  what everyone ever perceived a chatroom to be. It is not what chatrooms really were.

Twitter Is like the Mood and status updates of myspace. Difference is, the place is a farm of spam, get rich quick and stick it to the man. i have lost a bit of interest in this place also. It seems Twitter has taking another route since it became mainstream. It is not quite what it looked like it would be. Yes it is a great place for all of  your followers to get a notice at one time about what you are doing or about to do or about to be or just left. Yes that makes it awesome. Especially if you are like a musician and no one knows when your show is going to happen. Musicians miss that point. Some think it would be cheesy so they refuse to connect at all..  and that makes them crappy and not heart effort musicians. If it aint from the heart, it aint  music.

I truly miss MSN chatrooms. That was really Social Networking. you used to be able to join a chatroom and exchange wit and banter with with up to 50 people per room. The rooms were separated by many categories. Most were separated by location , like city, and state. The city chats were always full to max of 50 people. The overflow rooms were always full of up to 50 people. The chat rolled at such a fast pace, your mind stayed well exercised. I feel as if I am getting slower by the day because there just is nothing that fast paced left to do. I can’t leave one post and wait 6 days for someone to reply to it. It’s just way to slow.
MSN says they dropped the program because it was not that big of a money maker. They have to be kidding. They had rotating banners in every single chat. With 50 people in each room, and there being over 200 main rooms, they had some serious revenue flowing in. I think they tried so hard to be like Google to beat Google, they missed on what was really working for them. I swear just a little bit of innovation for their chatrooms, and they could have potentially kept myspace and Facebook from ever coming out of the ground. Heck those places didn’t rise well and established, until the chatters had nowhere else to go. Facebook was around for at least three years that MSN still had chatrooms. Now look at the place.

We all know that Comcast is going to increase their prices. They made that announcement the moment they found out they could not start charging website owners for the “traffic they bring them”.  and we all see the new filters Comcast has put into their  servers, the ones that direct us to their designated page, so we do not ” get the inconvenience of a 404 page”. To the common that say they are doing us a wonderful favor of removing  unattractive pages that display nothing for us. The wise know that the filter is there and could potentially be used for extortion. Meaning specific websites could be  shut off by a specific internet provider. Let’s say a large enough internet provider, one that has a  40% foot hold of all united states internet users. 40% of all users being filtered by one company, is bad bad bad bad. If 40% of the readers who view this site just suddenly stopped reading, I would really feel like I am being shut down and feel like I could potentially be done wrong.

I don’t know about you, but I pay my web provider to allow me to go to websites using their services. So they are already making money from me and many others, for just that. The internet providers making money off of the website owners for the traffic that hits said websites using said owners, purely is greed. That’s almost like building a toll road, keeping fees for usage of the toll-road active, meanwhile using tax money to maintain said toll roads. Oh, they do that in Houston. hmmm..

Well the truth is, internet usage and file  downloads have all been increased.  How? well not by using Comcast. but closer to you than that. Smart phones or App phones, all have constant running  apps that use internet at all hours of the day. Pretty much all phones that use android have a default of keeping you signed into Gmail 24/7. You have to pay the internet fee for this services if you do not have internet services already. Here’s the funny part (before you say .. oh ok. that’s a lot),  you pay  $35 a month for that internet service. You can’t really do anything with that service other than stay connected. It’s a tiny 3 inch screen. the actual file transfer is so tiny it’s just a tiny portion of what what it would be on your home pc. yet the cost is 80% of the pc internet fee. Sure Comcast wants in on that action and that kind of fee. So now they limit our monthly usage and want to charge us for overages. Well because the number of users have increased. sure they did, Comcast bought out other services. The world did not suddenly gain 60% more people who use internet. Just Comcast’s user count increased. The amount of servers and hubs have increased at the same time . Picture a janitorial company buying out all the other janitor services, and then increasing fees because demand is up… like they lost all of the mops and janitors they just hired or something. Same thing.

Meanwhile Comcast cranks up their bandwdith to outrageous speeds. Unthinkable speeds compared to five years ago. 5 years ago 2.5 mbps was hard to come by. Now internet speeds are commonly 25mbps. there is no way you will drop that kind of service, you will just try an not go over  your amount of consumable internet downloads. Well that’s just the way we all think. That’s kind of is dense. In reality you want faster so you can download more much easily, but are willing to download less to keep fees down for overages. They know how to market us.

I advise you do not fall for this stuff. If we all just drop capitalistic companies, these companies can not continue with what  they do. Net Neutrality, H.R.6123,  what ever you want to call it

I thought I knew everything about search engine optimization, until I met Alicia Crowder. This lady schooled me in a flash.

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Kinda made me feel inadequate when I started reading her site for all of the tips she has on how to get seen in google for categories I want to fall under. I have been trying to pick her brain a bit over the last week or so, I mean come on this lady knows her stuff. She seems to be picking back from time to time, but I know I have been all over her sites. Her recent post on her seo tips site seems to nail out exactly what she does.

I follow her on twitter to get fresh updates. but I really try and not let her know of my sites to crawl and critique, it would slaughter my ego lol.

She does offer a service where she will do the  work for you, but she also has tons and tons of free information on her sites. I actually have no products to market so I just use her free advice and tips to get  an idea of what I need to tweak here and there to get my content read.

Running like 6 or seven sites I feel like I am a know it all. but really I do not. but hey, who does ?

I have been using her tips for about a week now and I have seen some real changes. a big hats off to Alicia and her SEO tips.

Since my last motherboard died three days ago, I had to trade it in, just days after I upgraded to it. So now I am using the black edition of the XFX 750a SLI nFORCE Motherboard.

Here are the stats for the machine I am using:

RAM : 2048 MB DDR2 Dual Channel
RAM Speed : 362.5 MHz (Unknown) @ 5-5-5-18
Slot 1 : 1024MB (6400)
Slot 1 Manufacturer : Corsair
Slot 2 : 1024MB (6400)
Slot 2 Manufacturer : Corsair

This motherboard is probably the most complicated install I have done since my old old EPOX motherboard back in 98. Actual jumper usage for overclocking. If configured incorrectly, you will not be able to boot to any operating system. On day one, I fell asleep in a pile of computer parts at 3 Oclock in the morning, sitting on my floor at the foot of my bed. So determined to finish the job. The next day I woke up to my alarm clock at 6 am and left for work, hurting from sleeping sitting up. The instruction book that came with the motherboard, was a lame accordion fold thing that just listed content and identified parts. All the use I had of a search engine was through my G1 phone. Glad I had it though. I was going to give up, but I found people leaving reviews at some sites (for buying computer parts) and the reviews they left said really bad stuff (not looking good) then there were follow ups saying ” ok last review was right in the sense it expressed how I felt, but after learning how to work this better, This is an awesome motherboard. Clearly not for the novice, oh and the full instruction manual is a pdf on the driver install disk”. That is sooo owrong. I was wanting to give up and take it back but I see that other people had a rough start and they figured it out. So now i was determined.

There is a huge set of jumpers between the PCI-E slots, move the jumpers to position 3-4 for all of them, you will be fine.. That is if you want to use the pci-e slots. If you intend to use SLI mode, you will lose the option of pci-e1. So take out all pci-e 1 cards.

There is a jumper next to the  onboard power/reset/cmos buttons. No matter what the book says, leave it at  1-2 pins. That is of course, if you just want the machine to boot up. Mess with the whole overclocking feature later when you confirm the machine works.

There is another jumper at the foot of the green PCI-E slot. That slot is labeled as being PCI-E4 . Really it is not what you think. that is actually the primary display slot. I know, it’s not the ideal typical location. Just do it, use that slot you will understand later. If you need to know now, it’s the closest spot to the north bridge (there you happy?).

Boot to bios and set everything back to default. Go to “JusTWoot” (lol)

Just Woot in my Bios

and set everything to auto. go to pc health and check to make sure that your processor is reading at the default speed. Mine kept overclocking to 4940 MHZ, That’s  2 gigs over default. Explains why it would crash most of the way through boot up.

After setting everything up and getting my machine running at default, it took me 15 hours of hard brain scratching work to get it going, I have to say, this is clearly by far the best motherboard I have ever purchased. I am far beyond satisfied. I can not thank the one person on the review system who retracted his negitive review by saying  that the people who reviewed it negitivly , clearly where counting on just plug and play. I love this motherboard.

At default I out benchmark any previous motherboard my components have been plugged into. Now I shall focus on geting new components.

So far this has been a nice upgrade for me. I moved from an ECS GeForce7050M-M

Here are the specs of what I upgraded from and why

Dual-channel DDR2 memory architecture ( I never saw the DC, I always ran at 400mhz)

2 x 240-pin DDR2 DIMM socket support up to 16 GB (will never happen only 2 slots)

Support DDR2 800/667/533/400 DDR2 SDRAM (I always saw it at lowest speeds even after max upgrade)

Well after a bit of less than one week, the PCI express slot, dies on me, I had to return the motherboard. it was the last of that kind they had at the fry’s by home. So i moved on to an xfx motherboard.

but the benchmarks I received on that motherboard where higher than I ever had, all I upgraded was the motherboard. that’s crazy. I used the same processor and sticks of ram, and my scores doubled over my past motherboard with the exact same components.

Well here is the review of the new motherboard XFX 750a Black Edition

Actually, They are all scams and full of pervs, Piggies and F tards.

We have all come to know this over the past 16 years or so. In 09 one site popped up that seems to be full of rednecks and tardos. There are enough of them out there that the site actually gets plenty of traffic. So guys, gals, if you are hard up try that site. I will tell you the sites name in due time.

See there are cheap unscrupulous ways to advertise your domain. The method that i hate the most is where it is spammed out with completely unrelated topics to what the site has. see there was a site that sent out ” look how I got rich” links all over myspace and and all over facebook and in your email and every freaking place on the internet. The site did not have anything to do with getting rich, other than to say ” I placed advertisements on my social network and got millions of  people on my site in one day, I am a millionaire”. The real people without sloping foreheads know darn well the guy who created that site probably had 50 legit users and maybe 300 fake accounts registered to one email address so he could maintain them all. People would click that “get rich quick ” link and  find a “meet your love” website being referenced. we all know that society understands that people without money, are without love. or wanting out of the broke love they are in.So his scam worked. We all know that someone too stupid to see the scam would clearly be to stupid to to see what’s coming next.

Plenty Of Fish. The site has millions of advertisements on it. Placed in what the site owner would call “strategic” methods. I say it’s  BS and completely disrespectful to put advertisements in the manor that site owner does. Sure it makes the site owner some money, but what does it do to the user? Depends on how stupid the user is.

Here is a list of bad things about that site that makes me thing of the old websites that used to bombard you in spam.

1. affiliate/advertisement links look exactly like site navigation links (yes you can design and color them as you wish)

2. Full page advertisements, Leaves you surfing a site that is not the site you where on. Disrespectful to your users

3. Not controlling advertisement content. I got hit 4 times with virus scan 2009 hijacker (it is a well known virus) plus adult friend finder links prove the site owner does not  filter their ads, otherwise the ads would not compete with the site. Adult friend finder is a well known trash advertisement site that is filled with the same issues this site is showing. I would not doubt it’s the same people.

4. No adsense advertisement. Yeah I bash adsense but I have to say, once you are banned from adsense, it pretty much says you are pretty tricky.

I have a sense of feeling that the Method that site uses to select your suitable matches, is based on how long you wait for the next time you refresh while on that page. Oh and with the slight measure of adding whether you are a smoker or not.. it matches you to people who have answers similar to yours, how about do something better, people who have answers that  cover what you lack and you cover what they lack.

The whole answering of the survey is BS, just another page for you to see more advertisements, and when you are done, be taken to more advertisements.

The page to see what you are about , the results of your surveys, is complete bs ” you are king of your domain, you are yourself and proud and eat food when needed” Oh come on it’s an ego petting, like getting your palm read.

The whole chemistry page, I have a feeling the people it sets as your highest match, are thepeople who get the highest votes in the “hot or not”  rip off page.

Everything 75% and below is probably more like it.. yes the worn leather hand bag looking  section. lol sit on that page five minutes or more without changing anything on the site… hit refresh and get a laugh as suddenly  your matches change.. yeah I know people change their profiles and stuff, but COME ON!!!

I saw the site back when it was a get rich advertisement. I heard about it from my co-worker who met like 5 girls in a two week period ( I understand why now, Piggy farm). I stumbled across it last night while doing a search in google for “Houston Chatroom”. well Plenty of Fish came up everytime i searched in every way I tried. Well so i figured what the heck I signed up to use the chatroom. After fifteen minutes of their bombardment of  profile crap, I forgot why i was there and started surfing the site. Gross. The women are nasty. Either super unattractive, or saddle bags for a harley ( I mean biker chicks with leather faces). or money hungry stripper trash with IN THEIR PROFILE it says ” you must make atleast XXX,XXX money to ride me” , or hot  in model positions and never online I assume fake accounts.

Well never the less, I never found the chatroom. There is no chatroom on plenty of fish. I would give the place  80% higher  value if they had what they meta tag their site with. it would actually be worth looking at and could potentially be ground moving if it allowed direct real time chatroom inter mingling  like a chatroom, not that stupid messenger  thing on all the other sites. real time chat conversation, that is where you actually get to know the wit of someone. Not some bs profile.

Burn it down. Plenty of fish is a bad place. The women are vultures. ” I don’t need a man to support me” and then the following line will say “must have good income and nice home” ok could somehow be innocent but I do not see it . Next line says “because I have needs and if you can’t  be there for my needs then you are worthless to me”

What pathetic self hating dude can fall for that garbage ?

PS… Yes I named it stupid to prove a point about what they did.

E-harmony and Friend Finder and Match, have very limited social interface. They all offer you a chance to get a bigger account by paying more.. Why? so I can talk to no one, as freely as I can? I think those three sites lose bad to Plenty of Fish. And that is sad. it is truly sad that anything can lose to that garbage.

I deleted my accounts on all of them, There was one female there on plenty of fish who seemed worth talking to. But really, she came to my profile way to fast. I felt like  a baby bunny getting swarmed by buzzards and vultures and eagles. And they all made me feel crappy about myself. I do not like feeling that way. I mean hey I just got here can you please not read me the fricken riot act ?????

If you want to know me talk to me. If you ask me anything about my income within the first 20 questions of conversation, I can only assume you are a gold digger. That to me makes you worthless.

Bullet  Points to focus.

Good ol’ Zipf

You can’t predict.

Things change

Traffic has limits

Ad inventory has limits

Self-competition

High velocity means lousy control

Taken from here

Help in understanding why your income from adsense sucks

Really that was a great post about 5-6 years ago when he wrote it. but now you can’t say “Adsense” because, well no one uses adsense any-longer. There is no money in it, google has shut down the income as if they monopolize the internet. So the site designers go elsewhere.

But you can use his tips on other advertising companies, like adbrite

Here is someone who sees what I see

Adsense is tanking

See I see these people talking about $500-$5000 a day in traffic. I think that is nuts. I don’t see that kind of money, that stuff is way way way deep in my adsense crushed dreams.  One guy responds about bidvertiser, really, I never saw a dime from bidvertiser.

Comparing to affiliate companies to Adsense

Look at that pay out.

Well I have had my G1 for one month.

On day one, it crashed about 3 times.

On day two it got an update to something, no clue it happened so fast and I had no idea how to work anything on it, that I may never know. After the update I had crashes the whole day . Finally found the applications and what ones I could install.

I have to have all background processes turned off, otherwise it is super dead slow. Barcode scanners all seem to be just advertisement for national companies. Mostly target and  some drug store. Read More about the Android Barcode scanner here.

While searching the apps online, every single app has some clown saying ” app froze would not run had to uninstall found better one” then they say the name of  the supposed better one. I have come to the conclusion they are smearing  and trying to promote their own app..  If it freezes, turn background processes back on.. you will move slow, but yeah, it will work.

Storage,
I hate the limitations of this cell phone. I have an 8 gig memory card in the machine, but it seems to only install new apps to the phone, not the memory card. That bugs the hell out of me, because default storage for the phone is like one song. There is no way to change that.

The phone has been out for just over a year, yet they already have the G2 on it’s way to the shelves? if not already released???? why? they knew it sucked?

Screen area is huge and the resolution is remarkable. The camera takes an amazing picture, audio is pretty good through good head set, if you have the right adapter. Internet is super fast if you use the wifi settings and have a fast connection at your house (lol). I have actually seen over 2 megs a second, considering I have a 20meg a second connection, it is possible. Pandora Radio and ars radio are the best features. Other than running around in your skivvies playing with the light-saber app.

yesterday I pulled out one of my old Motorola phones, slapped my sim card in it, and bam, I get a bunch of text messages.. Has that freaking phone been missing my texts? Is that why she dumped me ? is that why i lost that bid for the job? what in the heck ???

Not happy, selling pretty soon.

I will be going back to my Blackberry 8100, just hope I can get used to the double tap simi qwerty keyboard.