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I was really excited when ABC launched Happy Town. I thought that at last there would be horror TV series to follow. I’ve watched first episode and it was not bad. It had mystery, some suspense, town was like from Stephen King’s books, mysterious lady was hot. What else do you need from decent horror? And then in second episode it started to collapse. Focus was set to dilemmas of main characters more than to mystery and thrill. It started to be another typical American TV series, just in creepy setting this time (and not such creepy as well). I’ve decided to give it a chance and watched third episode, but it sucked even more. So no more Happy Town for me. It could be good, they’ve made it as usual. With Heroes at least first season was cool, then they’ve ruined it. With this series they’ve killed it in second episode. Shame.

I’m using Windows 7 on my desktop for some time now, I’ve upgraded from Vista. Yesterday I’ve shutdown the system normally, without any problems. Today after start and logging into I’ve noticed that wallpaper is changed and then message appeared that I was logged into a temporary profile and have no access to my files. WTF?! I’ve logged off and started my Mac to catch up with few things meanwhile. Log off process was on for about 15 minutes, so I’ve finally gave up and turned off machine then turned it on again. Selected to start Windows normally in after crash dialog and voila my profile has been launched without problem, I have all my files and settings. Windows is strangest system, really. Next time somebody would ask me why I prefer Mac OS I’ll point him to this post. Just hope that it was single instance of this issue, will make a new backup though, just in case.

This is the title of an article from wired.com, which happens to be my favorite magazine. But this particular article is trash for me. Mainly it’s about how netbooks (like Asus EEE PC) are vulnerable for network attacks, because they’re have no security built-in. Author says that most of such computers have no antivirus installed (but how many notebooks or PCs have?) or users are simply turning them off (antivirus apps), because netbooks have too low performance to handle normal apps and antivirus at the same time (what a bullshit). Of course there is Symantec mentioned (commercial?), and I can agree that most of netbooks would not handle Symantec heavy security package. But even my Core 2 Duo regular laptop with 2GB of RAM had problems with Symantec. And it looks like Symantec knew well about the problem, because they’ve returned me money spent on Norton 360 without even asking why. But please, there are better security apps than Symantec and they don’t need such powerful hardware. Second thing if somebody is so stupid to turn off his firewall and antivirus, well, he deserves what he would get.

Another thing. He writes about corporate users that they would not want it as it’s non secure. Well, I’m able to find better reasons why corporate users don’t want it than low security. And I believe normal admin would not let such hardware to his network without proper security, same as with notebooks or regular PCs. I really don’t understand what he is talking about, same as these “experts”. My company’s Dell when I’ve unpacked it hasn’t got any antivirus software as well and it was far more expensive piece of hardware than mentioned by author 300$. And again old phrase, netbook is bad because it can’t handle software which is able to protect data from being stolen. Wow, it really looks that you need to have very powerful piece of hardware to be able to secure your data. What a crap.

OK, let’s calm down a little. At the end of this text there is mentioned that maybe it’s not so bad, because in most cases there is nothing to steal from personal computers. Well how would you know. They’re saying me that typical teenager who is using facebook has no interesting and valuable data on his hard drive? They’ve just ruined my world. According to comments under this text there is not only me angry about it. Still I think that it’s some kind of joke from Wired, to show us how some people could think. How some “experts” are not worth a penny. At least I want to believe that.

Uff. Long time there was no such long text of mine. I hope that in spite that I’m a little mad right now, it’s still understandable. And don’t worry, I’m still Wired fan, and would extend my subscription:)

I’ve watched this movie on the weekend. I’m not gonna write about this movie in general, but it’s quite stupid. I want to write about the image of Hungary (especially Budapest) presented in this title. Except car of main character there is no single one which is younger than 20 years. Nice, another typical image of Eastern Europe. They’ll never learn. I was in Budapest this year and may say that there is more luxurious cars than in Boston for instance.

Today I was driving to work, I stopped before the crossway. Suddenly the car before mine started to driving backward. I’ve started hitting the horn, but the car hit mine. I’ve got out from my car and below is the conversation between me and other driver, the woman.

Me: How are you driving?!

Woman: I’m not driving, I’m standing still (I know that this is wrong in English).

M: So how you have hit my car while you’re standing?!

W: Did I caused any damage?

M: No luckily!

W: So what’s the matter?

M: That you don’t know how to drive you stupid %#$%#%#$%#!!!

I’m really pissed off! Stop the women from driving cars, it’s dangerous!