Format W2000?...

[PlasticAnnArbor]

you never ran a bot net
ad hits for cash for one
small network
10,000 zombies serving up / redirecting adds to web browsers
.01 cents per hit 1,000,000 hits per day for all of the botnet
$100 per day .Just sit back and let the $$ role in .

or DDOS attack for blackmail
having 20,000 compromised computers ping your website 20 times per sec per computer . Will CRASH the server .
and if you are Amazon.com well YOU PAY , of course after calling the FBI.

[cosmicB]

I didn't know it was lucrative.. as in "crime for dollars"... I though it was merely Internet bullying by common assholes who like to hurt people any ways they can...

Those assholes are gonna make a few million bucks each, maybe, but when it gets right down to it, they'll pay their million bucks paying for emailings when what they do has forced the Culture to implement "pay per email", to support the legislating and enforcing of the Internet, because of their active crimes... They are our worst enemy... They are their own worst enemy.. It's like they are pokin' holes in their feet with their own swords...
And they'll be the ones complaining the loudest about having to pay for emails.. given that they send millions of useless 1-cent ones per day, now costing them up to 50-cents per... In a couple weeks they'll have used up their bank accounts paying for their crime.. and Then they'll realize what they did... Problem is that they are so mindless and feverish aggressive parasitic in their feeding practices, that they really can't think as far as tomorrow, most of them... They really can't fathom that what they are doing will end up bad for them... As far as all they know, "tomorrow comes after today.. what it will bring is anyone's guess"...

[monosodium]

MS, I didn't expect you to drag your poop into this pleasant thread... You always come across at me like a backed-up toilet overflowing all over the floor... Don't you think it's time you changed your MO..?

I'll be trying Linux, and W2K in the same hd...

I do try to make a point of including some useful information when I poke fun at you.

If you are going to try Linux then for your own sake, make sure you can get all the drivers you need for it. Sometimes they're easy to get and come with the distro, sometimes they're rare as hen's teeth. I'd still recommend BSD over linux every day of the week but it's horses for courses as ever.

[cosmicB]

My plan is to hook-up with a small group of Linux enthusiasts, maybe a Linux club, and work it that way... Problem is I just don't have the time to get out and find them, in the big city 12 miles from here...

I've got three PC towers up and running with W2K.. all fully loaded, tweaked, clean, and bug-free... When one breaks down I simply unplug it, and plug-in the next one.. and repair the damaged one when I find a whole night with nothing to do...

I got me two 20-gigs, and one 80-gig, towers for just two dollars each... Got 'em from garage sales last month.. and lucked out with the forth.. it had super cards, and four sticks of 128-meg Ram, which fit into the little 650 mhtz HP pavilion I got for a couple bucks... I tried to rescue the W2K OS in it, but I just couldn't get the hd down past 5.5-gigs of the previous owner's junk, so I had to format it, and load my own CD and preferences...
I've got it down to 2.7-gigs, with Nero, update 5, update roll-up, HP 3 in 1, all my cleanup softies, music, and a half gig of pix, and three photo editors... Now C will fit to a bootable DVD, and make restoring a buggy OS easy as installing a single software...

As soon as I've got the time, I'll pull up these CD's of various bits of Linux, and give it a go... I've been collecting bits of Linux software, for the past two years, onto CD's... I've probably got all the Linux I'll need, plus I've been studying in various forums...

Right now I enjoy Windows 2000... It's not slow and gaudy and buggy like XP and Vista... I don't know anything about W's 7 yet..? but my cousin's husband is a Microsoft exec.. I'm sure he will give me some insights on 7, as soon as he has it, when we talk again... I prefer the small systems, like I prefer the old car engines.. they are easy to maintain, and work on, and in.. and they aren't full of all that useless cultural crap...


Or.. If I could win a lotto, I'd toss all these computers into the trash at the curb, and buy me all I need... I would build myself a computer desk like I saw in the Angelina Joli flic, Tomb Raiders.. but in front of the desk would be a couple of big breasted teen strippers dancing around the fireplace, sipping dom, and munching russian caviars and such...

[cosmicB]

Cloud OS's
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10042463-16.html

[PlasticAnnArbor]

what dose " cloud computing" ( made up catch phrase like web 2.0,web 3.0) have to do with a FUBAR'ed w2k hdd

[cosmicB]

It obsoletes all the computers of today...
If I had a lab ten-years ago, we would be wearing our cloud PC's on our arms, today, as skin-grafts...


Essentially a "cloud OS" is a floating OS, which rebuilds itself perpetually, creating its own software on demand... It is a new bio-plastic which grows its own transistors.. and is fed off of inerts added to the blood... Essentially this computer is a "synthetic organ", "synthetic Life"... If I get a lab I will grow, PC's, synthetic replacement organs to boost human life-expectancy to 300, and androids that are better in bed, and at work, than the real thing... which is probably why this human race Won't provide me with a lab... They fear everything new, because their religions fear change, and teach that change means that there won't be a future for religion... You live in an insane culture.. one that is hell-based... Your religion is essentially "Hell's Face"...