Safe surfing tool Web of Trust wins in court
The world’s leading safe surfing tool Web of Trust (WOT) has won the lawsuit filed against it in the United States. WOT was accused of defamation, violating rights, conspiracy and manipulating algorithms. The court of justice in Florida granted the motion to dismiss with prejudice.
Another victory for the Freedom of Speech!
On October 19th, visitors to computerforumz.com were greeted with a message stating that the Web site’s domain name registration has expired.
The situation has now been corrected and the forum is back online.
I installed Windows 8 Developers Preview on my Toshiba Satellite L355-S7905 laptop by itself on a clean install. Windows 8 blocked access to my BIOS. This also means that I cannot boot my system from the DVD drive or any other external source. Pressing the F12 key to access the boot drive selection menu did nothing.
I removed the Windows 8 hard drive and rebooted. Still no BIOS access. My system displayed the customary error message. I rebooted again. Access to the BIOS has now been restored.
Microsoft has intentionally embedded code into Windows 8 to block users from installing or booting a Linux or other operating system disk.
This is not FUD. This is fact.
I’m done with Windows 8.
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Not the chips. Intel CPU and chip sets are among the best in the business. However, their cooling fans suck!
The fan blades are fine. The fan motor is excellent. The heatsink is more than adequate. The four plastic clips that hold the fan to the motherboard are cheap pieces of crap!
The CPU is the heart of the computer. If the fan/heatsink comes loose from the motherboard, the system fails and the chip dies. A $300.00 (US) CPU. All because of a rinky-dink push-pin that doesn’t screw into anything.
It wouldn’t be so bad if the fan were mounted horizontally in the computer. But most modern cases mount it vertically, as if it were nailed to a wall. The combination of vibration and weight pulling on those horrid little plastic clips makes this an accident waiting to happen.
I’ve been reading posts on other forums where people have been having issues either installing these fans or upgrading, and the consensus is that you have to remove the motherboard and then install the new unit to make sure that the fan is properly connected on the backside. That’s ridiculous!
If this was a car or a baby’s crib or child safety seat, it would have been recalled. I won’t put up with an inferior OS, so why should I tolerate inferior hardware?
One loose connector might not make a significant difference. But if two consecutive connectors fail, the heatsink will lose enough contact with the CPU to cause the chip to overheat. The end user will never even be aware of this until their computer stops working.
There needs to be a mechanism that applies constant tension between the fan/heatsink and the motherboard. These plastic clips are not exerting a constant spring-loaded tension, making the connection much weaker than it ought to be.
Another problem with using plastic lies in the fact that plastic becomes softer as it heats up. This can also weaken the bond as gravity pulls on the fan/heatsink. Someone didn’t think this through at all. They just looked at the cost and ease of manufacturing.
There is no excuse for bad design. And this isn’t just bad design, this is class-action-lawsuit bad design.
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Unity, the new default Graphical User Interface (GUI) found in Ubuntu 11.04, is a controversial subject among Linux users. In this PDF presentation, I examine this topic in detail.
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