hwood007

Not Everyone Likes Windows 7

I like this advise, when I worked, there were over 20,000 PCs connecting to company mid size servers, where I was a system manager. We never bought anything during the first six months of it's life, we waited to read what happened to others, we could not afford to take down so many computers due to a new upgrade.

One of the anti-virus software firms took us down with a weekend upgrade, that was pushed out from our servers to our PCs. what fun that was, took all day for us to back it out, so it is not just OS upgrades that can kill your computer. There are several virus that tell you that an infection has gotten into your PC and suggest you down load their system (virus). I have seen that one at home and use PC tools to remove it. I use routers and firewalls at home and still the bad stuff fines a way in. I wonder if firms using apple have such problems??


On Oct 26 11:00 AM Mad Hedge Fund Trader wrote:

> nns Microsoft (seekingalpha.com/symbo...) is about to hit
> you with a massive marketing effort to buy its new Windows 7 operating
> system, which will be officially released on October 22. I have been
> an early adopter of technology for most of my life, and have been
> doing my own tech support for 25 years (remember Evelyn?) Do yourself
> a huge favor and skip it. A number of beta testers have told me that
> this is the upgrade from Hell. Windows 7 doesn’t explode in your
> face when you first turn it on, but it comes close to it. If you
> have the 32 bit version of Vista, which most of you do, then you
> will only be able to install the 32 bit version of Windows 7, unless
> you want to go through a tortuous custom install. I shudder at the
> prospect of hunting down my lost original installation disks, web
> addresses of download sites, and long forgotten product keys. That
> defeats the purpose of the upgrade right there, as the 64 bit system
> was the main oomph behind the new version, enabling you to use more
> than 3 gb of memory at once. You will need 20 gigs of free disk space
> for the upgrade, which will put it out of reach of many laptops.
> If you do somehow get the 64 bit version installed, then many of
> your peripherals won’t work. If you are one of millions who were
> too terrified to take on Vista and are still using the antiquated
> XP operating system, forget it. There is no upgrade. Better to save
> yourself $120, and wait a year until you buy a new PC with Windows
> 7 preinstalled on it, with enough extra RAM to take full advantage
> of its real power. That gives Mr. Softy another year to debug it
> and come up with a product that really works.

Not Everyone Likes Windows 7

"Usually setting a new PC does not require loading the OS, it comes pre loaded. So after that statement, everything else he says makes me wonder if this really happened.

On Inflation, Precious Metals and the Mayan Calendar

there is a local eye doctor (even teaches in China) that claims to have corrected a vision problem for a pilot and the pilot is flying again. " johnny l. gayton"


On Oct 25 08:03 PM Albertarocks wrote:

> And as far as "getting to" Hopan is concerned, my son and all his
> buddies are commercial pilots.
>
> Sadly, no sooner had my son gotten his commercial pilot's license
> at age 21, the next year he developed an irreversible eye condition
> so that he'll never again have 20/20 vision. He won't be blind or
> anywhere nearly that bad, but he won't have the eyes of an eagle
> any more.

On Inflation, Precious Metals and the Mayan Calendar

The fact that some nuts destroyed much of their written history does not help to support or deny the truth of the 2012 end, perhaps someone very important dies on that date and we start over.


On Oct 25 06:38 PM doubleguns wrote:

> The paddling of inflation sensitive assets would simply be a buying
> opportunity.
>
> As far as the Mayan calendar is concerned how do we not know that
> they simply would have started a new calendar. At the end of 2009
> I intend to toss out the calendar that ended and replace it with
> a 2010 calendar. I doubt the world is going to end because my 2009
> calendar did.
>
> Unfortunately the Mayans are gone and we can't ask them.

Ken Lewis's Symbolic Pay Cut

I think a lot of CEOs made mistakes and I would like a share of that money returned to stock owners. Have you noticed that when the SEC or other gov agency fines a company for mistreatment of owners, the fine goes not to the owners, but to the gov. go figure that one?


On Oct 16 08:07 PM Cyrus the Great wrote:

> He is another scum that has robbed Americans of their hard-earned
> worth and tangible assets (as well as intangible assets, such as
> peace of mind). These symbolic gestures really mean very little today.
> These banks, corporations, the government, and even czars cant be
> trusted. They have deliberately expanded the gap between the elite
> and everyone else, having taken taxpayer money to devalue the worth
> of the masses while only exponentially growing their asset and value
> base.
>
> The end all is that Americans will, at one point, have to get fed
> up and expect a change (an actual one...not the one old buddy Barack
> promised). This will come in the form of revolt or simply denial
> of the system; once an individual learns subtle things that are not
> always recognized, such as the fact that when you sign a note for
> a mortgage, the bank is simply creating that debt out of no where
> and selling it off (securitizing) for FRNs, the individual may learn
> that he/she can simply deny the system as a whole based on the fact
> that it is a fraud. The system has been created to enslave the masses
> through massive institutional debt.
>
> Research the true history of the USA. Type in "USA bankruptcy" or
> other keywords. Learn how the USA was taken under hostile control
> in 1871 and was seized by international bankers who have since then
> had a stranglehold on this country. After the inception of the Federal
> Reserve in 1914, the USA officially underwent bankruptcy in 1938.
> It took the Federal Reserve less than 25 years to bankrupt this country.
>
>
> Look beyond daily perception. People like Ken Lewis are part of the
> problem; replacing him will not replace the sytem though. The system
> is the problem. The system is based on deception, fraud, manipulation,
> all to control the masses through a modern-day enslavement.
>
> Research the facts and learn to slowly deny the fraudulent system!

Ken Lewis's Symbolic Pay Cut

I hope you think as well of several members in congress who did us wrong in not allowing more oversight of the GSEs and others that lent money to thoses who could not really pay. We were taught not to lend money to friends or family members and ACORN had banks lending to friends of ACORN.


On Oct 16 01:38 PM notsosmart wrote:

> boo-hoo. im crying for this failed ceo. what will the poor man do?
> all these lying ceos should be in jail with made-off along with many
> of the liars & scoundrels in our congress.ethics & transparency
> are no longer a part of our society.quality is gone.you buy an item
> & immediately its suggested you buy a warranty extension.nobody
> cares & there is no longer a personal relationship.so screw you
> as i fill my pockets.sad.

Too Big to Fail: Greenspan Adds His Voice to the Break-Up Chorus

How can the gov use tax payers money to create an even bigger bank, such as BAC, have BAC save Merrill Lynch, and then break it up into parts? How and who gets the money from the "increased" value? They created these too big to fail banks, so they have to live with them.

Is ConocoPhillips a Potential Multi-Bagger?

I own all three and none are in the red in my accounts


On Oct 01 06:43 PM vasplieon wrote:

> Buffet sold only a small share of his holdings in COP. If next SEC
> disclosure shows him dumping it then maybe something is up otherwise
> COP still looks good and a better value than CVX or XOM in my opinion.
> I own this stock for this reason (and the 4% dividend).

Is ConocoPhillips a Potential Multi-Bagger?

so did I


On Oct 01 06:15 PM overbet wrote:

> What is it that you know that Warren Buffet doesnt? He said buying
> this stock was one of his biggest mistakes and then he sold it. If
> its so great why dont you own it? Im short it by the way. I put my
> money where my mouth is.

Three Coal Investments and a Sector on Fire

So, why is he not keen on the railroads that take the coal to ports for shipment?

Judge Rejects Bank of America / SEC Settlement

It was not that he gave a bad report, it was the words he used and the manner in which he presented it. So I have no problem with his facts, such as they were, nor yours. He wrote a rude article and used words he need not have used. so did you, name calling is so being a vogelkoph

On Aug 09 01:10 PM pirate wrote:
hwood: people like you are so annoying. sit there behind the veil
of your computer while criticizing this man's work. if you don't
like it then click off. its an editorial you knucklehead.

Russia's Restrictions on Exxon Mobil: It All Fits Together

Having lived with both the Koreans and Russians I would suggest Obama does not have a clue. The north Koreans think some one might come and take their land. No one would because if you did, you could not afford to pay for the Marshall Plan required to bring that country into the current age. It is like talking with people from another world. The north use to send goon squads into the south and the goons believed the citizens of the south would help them kill local government leaders. It never worked that way, the south Koreans would drop a dime on the hit squads all day. The Russians usually judge you by how they think. If you tell them a lie which sounds like something they would do, they believe it to be true just because they would do it that way. Newspeople used to go out and live with the people on which they reported. Now they may get to the country for a week and stay in a big hotel. I have worked and lived with these folks and they are nothing like US.

Judge Rejects Bank of America / SEC Settlement

I would rather the writer had given more facts, made them the center piece of his article, and had given less of his opinions. The way he presented this article was not the best.

Choose Phillip Morris, Not Altria

He did end a sentance with a preprosition but at least he did not use your for you're. I find it better to use zero contractions when writting. In total, I would not take his advise.

Cramer's Stop Trading! Caterpillar's Numbers Are Devastating (6/18/09)

All the comments so far (and this one) do not do what cramer says. Perfect, use him to tell you what not to do, I do. You must learn to study the words of your enemies in order to understand what is really going on in what ever field you are working.