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Alright, I'm sorry if any of this comes off as harsh, but I absolutely can not believe that people just try and go about their business w/o an antivirus running.

in fact, rather than turning this into a tech support forum, anyone having the "endless loop" start up problem that ends w/ a blue screen displaying a stop error, email me

@Rob Davis: do you have an xp install cd handy? I can teach you what to do in the recovery console to fix that.

it crashed my computer at first - had to swap a file from the service pack files dir into system 32 folder. Once I did that it started working fine. If anyone installs it and can't boot up, let me know - I'll give you detailed instructions on the fix

oh what the hell - I'm feeling saucy today, I'll give it a go.

judging by the pic, someone banks at commerce.

@holymogwai: I live in NJ, and usually go to Lowes. The tickets alone are $9 a piece. Forget it if you want something other than popcorn - the other food is expensive as hell. Whenever possible I try to go to a matinee at the cheap ass theater a couple towns over.

@pkoutoul: Piracy will die down when the RIAA and the MPAA take on reasonable practices when it comes to DRM and pricing. I'm inclined to download DRM free versions of songs I already own over bittorrent. Why? Because if I want to listen to my music on something other than my ipod or one of the three CD's I'm

One solid practice that I do that I haven't seen anyone else mention is I never, and I mean NEVER allow my isp to install their software on my pc. It's been suspected for a long time now that their software provides a back door to your system, or at very least sends data to them you'd rather they didn't have. If they