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Last night I went out and bought myself my first laptop computer! Being the computer user that I am, I LOVE the ability to take my PC with me.

Aces Aspire 5517 5671

• Windows 7 Home Premium
• 1.60 Ghz Processor
• 256 MB Video Card
• 15 inch screen
• CD/DVD burner
• Card Reader
• 64 bit processor (32 subset)
• 16:9 screen res / ratio

My most recent post was that of “Windows 7 is not that bad…” but after my experience with it last night, I feel betrayed at the lack of talent and brain power behind Windows 7. I will explain a few key things that will help you make a good decision if you plan on buying a laptop in the near future with Windows 7 on it.

Let me start by saying, this is not just me ripping on Microsoft, this is me getting pumped over the lack of common sense that seams to be smothering our people these days.

Microsoft needs to stop making a “home” and “pro” variations of their OS’. Now days, all it does is piss people off when they switch from Pro to Home because home is missing a few important things. Windows 7 has a lot of great new features and more security, blah blah blah… but it is missing a LOT of functionality that we are used to having.

I just went out and bought a new WRT54G Linksys wireless router for my home network. I find that running a wireless network is just too much of a security risk unless you go the FULL extent of securing your network, including but not limited to MAC address filtering, WPA2 Personal Security (TKIP+AES), and a long password. Even then people can sniff wireless packets to retrieve passwords to internet accounts or your wireless network and can clone your mac address to match their own. So you can see that if you live in an area where a lot of people are in range of your Access Point, you can be hacked and you would never even know it. I brought home my new baby and first things first, I wanted to connect to my wireless network. But as Microsoft would have it, Windows 7 can NOT CONNECT to WPA2 Personal protected networks (even though it has the settings for it) and at that, it can only choose AES or TKIP, but not both. If I am not mistaken, have linksys routers with WPA2P+TKIP+AES not been around for many years? Why does Windows 7 lack this common connectivity issue?

After further attempts, I changed my network to use WEP encryption, and then even tried a MAC filter only - It seams Windows 7 took a crap because I couldn’t get it to work at all last night. Is it a possible issue with the Linksys WRT54G router? Who knows.

Windows 7 controls it’s users, not the other way around as it should be:

If you want to move your files around in My computer… I’m sorry, in “Computer”… it won’t let you. You are forced to have auto arrange left on permanently. If you try to connect to a wireless network and it fails, Windows 7 doesn’t even give you a reason why it failed. It just says that it was not able to connect. If you dive deeper and do the diagnoses it tells you, “There is trouble with the wireless card or the Wireless Access Point”…NO SHIT! You think that most people would know that by this point already. Instead of having one page with all the options for related system tasks such as setting your screen resolution, your font size, screen saver, background/desktop settings, etc they have these options spread over a handful of pages. WHY!? It was better, fast, quicker and easier with the way you had it in XP. 7 tries WAY TOO HARD to be like a Mac. The thing is, I use windows because it’s NOT a Mac!! That’s the whole damn point!

So I spoke with the people at Frys, where I bought the laptop, and they stated that installing a different OS voids the warranty. I called Microsoft and they don’t even have customer service / support unless you pay extra for it. So I was left hanging without so much as an explanation from Microsoft as to why I was having so much trouble. I called the manufacturer and the Jihad-ist on the other end told me that they are hardware only, no support for the OS at all was available, but they suggested that I register with them and get a new Wireless Access Point.

So enough is enough.

Forget this BS. Forget MS, Forget about ACER……..

I am installing WHAT I WANT on MY new computer!

Read my next post for a tutorial on what you need to do to install Windows XP (or Linux) on your new ACER 5517 Laptop.

Please comment below your hate or love for the new Windows 7.

After hosting with Bounceweb.com for less than 2 months (first month free with coupon) they notified me that I use too much CPU on my account so I had 24 hours to backup my stuff and close my account. They have a 60 day money back guarantee, so I asked when I could expect my refund of $10….to put towards getting my next hosting account….They stated that there would be no refund and to “be fair”. I explained to them how it would be no different than if I waited the 60 days and then decided to that I didn’t want to be with them. So they removed my account (deleting some data that was so new I did not have backups of it) and they will not give me access to it. They sarcastically wrote me saying that I wanted a refund so here it is, but I never actually asked them for it. I simply stated that I should get the refund of a prorated amount if they are kicking me off of their server. I was calm and professional about it and they just got pissy. To me it was such a shock to see them turn from really great people that I have been working with for a few months into assholes…it made me wonder if the person there was doing drugs because it was such a backwards instantaneous change.

As a warning to everyone out there who might be interested in this seemingly awesome company, don’t be fooled as I was. They are nice on the phone and know how to speak on the phone, but they are thieves and dishonest people. They don’t care if you have a backup of your information or not, they wont even give you a chance.

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Recently I started a project know as TheGhostBay.Org.

Out Goals are not only to run a successful website but to develop new technology, FREE technology. On of the first ideas was to create torrent files that did not need a tracker only to find out that it already exists! The next step to this phase, if at all possible, is to pass indexing information through the clients as well creating a 100% self sustained network that can not be destroyed, can be updated, and managed by the users themselves.

As of right now there are over 80 people on the mailing list. The Pirate Bay has deleted my account on their website, and has block any comment with “TheGhostBay.Org” in it. But we aren’t without a paddle!

We are currently in the process of recreating TPB website. We have approximately 837,000 torrent files or so ripped from TPB. Last year I took a 2 day shot at it and came out with about 60,000 torrent files from TPB myself. So this is where we are at. We are also going to set up forums, a blog and possibly our own Instant Messenger.

Right now, there is a lot of waiting for the large amount of torrents to be processed into usable formats, etc. I bought two 1 TB drives for testing and back ups, etc and a few other pieces of equipment for moving this project along a little faster.

Sign up at http://theghostbay.org/mailinglist/

…and tell your friends!!!!!