calm. the fuck. down.

[ebtb.livejournal.com]

Ok, your personal computer being hacked is not a matter of national security. Yelling at us about our software's imperfections doesn't have an impact Vista's shortcomings.  GTFO n00b and bother MS.

I suggest your company talks to McAfee about the McAfee crash and loss of its firewall on Vista and failures in security proven by the fact that more data has been UPLOADED from an apparently protected Vista computer than has been DOWNLOADED even when the user downloads several HUGE DVDs.  It could be something to do with Google search hosted Chinese malware search entries that penetrate both Windows defender and McAfee FIREWALLs! or McAfee is playing funny games with my private data.

I suggest you STFU and stop wasting my time when this has nothing to do with our $20 anti-malware software. You weren't satisfied with the trial? Fine. Don't fucking buy it and uninstall it.

This is a very serious accusation - a national security threat!  Google have acted promptly to stop the rogue search entries but Windows defender and McAfee are full of holes and the sense of security is so FALSE it is a big LIE!  IE in protected mode on Vista is full of holes!  Many National Defence Computers DoD and MOD use Vista -  so I suggest you use clothes pegs and hang Microsoft and McAfee up by their ears untill they ACTUALLY CREATE A FIREWALL THAT PROTECTS BOTH WAYS - BOTH INCOMING AND OUTGOING DATA.  Windows defender is outward looking firewall so a (Chinese) Trojan can operate from within and instigate a connection from inside- result connection through the firewall - A SECURITY LEAK BOTH WAYS.   Does Microsoft know how bad that is?

I DON'T KNOW. ASK THEM? WE'RE ONLY RESPONSIBLE FOR SUPPORTING OUR SOFTWARE, YOU FUCKING ASSHAT.

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[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

Many National Defence Computers DoD and MOD use Vista

O RLY. I thought all they needed was a big red button that says "DO NOT PUSH". Did it not have enough chrome and eyecandy?

Too new

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

The thing about DoD computers is that whatever they use has to be certified. For Windows this means XP/2003. Linux could be anything, really, as long as it meets standards for security, etc...

And no, Vista is not certified for anything, mostly because it's new.

[brownizs.livejournal.com]

Last time I checked, majority of the Government computers are just now running XP, and the agencies have no plan to go with Vista, until EOL of their licenses have met the end.

[prozacnation.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that.

When I did my internship with the US attorney's office in my district around 3 years ago they were still using Windows 2000.

[rit-emt.livejournal.com]

Most DoD computers are still running Windows 2000/NT. They'll start "upgrading" to XP in a year or so, and won't be using Vista until at least 2015. Hell...most still run .Net 1.0. You have to get a special waiver to load .Net 2.0. The government is WAY behind the times technology wise for pretty much everything.

[kalium.livejournal.com]

I've heard the DIA likes Gentoo.

I would say more, but the guy who told me this couldn't say much more than that.

[fenrirvallin.livejournal.com]

I know right when it came out most of the federal government had a security ban on Vista. Too many security risks and too expensive for them to justify.

[blkrabbitofinle.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking, "Huh, I guess they're more pro-active tech-wise over there. Over here most Government departments and large corporate organizations (e.g. banks) are several releases behind on all their major software and basically only upgrade when it's completely unavoidable. Then they upgrade the absolutely minimal amount, and always seem to wind up one release away from fixing a bunch of major bugs. Why upgrade to 6.5 when we can upgrade to 6.0.2? Who cares if they're exactly the same product as far as anything we do is concerned except the later one is significantly better performance-wise, and release 8 just came out (and would be fucking fantastic except for the completely insane hardware requirements; why, dammit, they were so close..).

[blkrabbitofinle.livejournal.com]

(Bonus points to anyone who recognizes my main software focus currently from the release numbers..)

[agmlego.livejournal.com]

Could it be Adobe Acrobat Reader?

/me wonders...

[blkrabbitofinle.livejournal.com]

Hah, no, but now you mention it I've just realized how similar the release numbers for Adobe are.

But no, we get more mis-directed hate than Adobe unfortunately.

[agmlego.livejournal.com]

Hmm...

/me was just trying to uninstall Reader 7.0 (I grabbed the installer with the least evil, IMO, a while ago because I had a LaTeX installer that required it), and it decided that it wasn't going to uninstall. But, unlike any /other/ uninstaller, which *stops* when it fails...it just sat there and incremented it's time-estimated display until I decided I'd rather edit my registry than deal with an installer that was convinced that it needed another 10 672 minutes. Yes, that's right. Ten-thousand six-hundred seventy-two minutes. One hundred seventy-eight hours. SEVEN AND AN HALF DAYS!

Adobe < Microsoft

[blkrabbitofinle.livejournal.com]

I've fortunately never encountered any serious problems with Abode, although the new 'continue your DL' icon it shoves on your desktop has never worked for me and I got rather annoyed when it kept trying to automatically install Yahoo toolbar. WTF, if I ever have a brain tumour and decide I want Yahoo toolbar I'll install the fucking thing myself, I don't need a PDF client deciding I should have it installed.

But of course damn near everyone has that bloody thing installed now, because of Adobe. I take great pleasure in uninstalling it the moment I have the slightest excuse and I've yet to have a single person even notice it's gone.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Sounds like somebody needs to get their tinfoil hat upgraded.

[vampireborg.livejournal.com]

That was my thought, too. XD

umm...

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

"more data has been UPLOADED from an apparently protected Vista computer than has been DOWNLOADED even when the user downloads several HUGE DVDs."

that idiot has no idea how bittorrent works... and fails for admitting likely piracy...