Author Topic: Skuzzy This May Make You Laugh (Read 926 times)

Hap · « **on:** October 01, 2007, 09:55:20 PM »

http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=741891990

A funny A/V spoof of Vista.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #1 on:** October 02, 2007, 06:24:03 AM »

Can't watch it. It requires a Flash player and ActiveX to be enabled.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #2 on:** October 02, 2007, 10:11:16 AM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Can't watch it. It requires a Flash player and ActiveX to be enabled.

Who's afraid of a little activeX and some fishy flash ....

(Beater pc hint hint )

hubsonfire · « **Reply #3 on:** October 02, 2007, 07:18:21 PM »

Speaking of ActiveX, I'm surprised to see it used on certain home page.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #4 on:** October 03, 2007, 06:05:14 AM »

Wasn't my idea and you can disable the auto-stream in Windows Media player. I have it disabled on my systems.

Not worth the potential of getting something nasty on my local area network Rosco. I really enjoy not having to run all that gawd awful software on my computer such as anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-Internet, blah, blah, and blah.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #5 on:** October 03, 2007, 09:34:46 AM »

yea yea ... I can hear ur pc squeeking all the way over here .... It wants out like a 15yr old on a friday night .

Getback · « **Reply #6 on:** October 03, 2007, 10:15:31 AM »

Can I disable activex and are there alternatives?

I took a class last semester that mentioned ActiveX briefly, Not my vocation but it was an Overview IT auditing class. I guess I should have studied that in more detail. Now I will. I passed though.

hubsonfire · « **Reply #7 on:** October 03, 2007, 02:11:40 PM »

In IE, go to Tools, then Internet Options. Click on the Security tab, then "Custom Level". I think all of the ActiveX stuff can be turned off there.

Short version of why I don't use ActiveX- Skuzzy says it's evil, and apparently a popular way to wind up with all sorts of spyware, viruses, malware, etc.

Vulcan · « **Reply #8 on:** October 03, 2007, 03:21:41 PM »

Make sure you turn off java too then, and flash, oh and don't read PDF files, or look at images (GIFs or JPGs).

Skuzzy · « **Reply #9 on:** October 04, 2007, 06:06:44 AM »

Hehe, Just use LYNX under Linux and be done with it.

Oh, and stop using Adobe Acrobat, for crying out loud. Foxit is much smaller, faster and is not prone to phoning home like Acrobat does.

slider0 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 04, 2007, 07:39:03 AM »

that video was hilarious, but just before it ended my system lock me out the boged down and crashed. I think that it is all a plan by Gates to make you mad. RED HAT is the only way to go for me at the moment. open code for all.

Hawk55 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 05, 2007, 08:24:53 AM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Hehe, Just use LYNX under Linux and be done with it.

Oh, and stop using Adobe Acrobat, for crying out loud. Foxit is much smaller, faster and is not prone to phoning home like Acrobat does.

Skuzzy, Absolutely right on about Adobe! Plus it's a resource hog. Dumped it long ago...and Foxit just recently updated itself for the better on a number of fronts.

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

JB73 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 11, 2007, 01:00:59 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Hehe, Just use LYNX under Linux and be done with it.

Oh, and stop using Adobe Acrobat, for crying out loud. Foxit is much smaller, faster and is not prone to phoning home like Acrobat does.

dude THANKS for that one, love it! it is a ton faster and easier to use... and get. at my company I have been distributing acrobat reader 7.0 as 8 was even worse...

this is going to be rolled out company wide this week I think!

texasmom · « **Reply #13 on:** October 13, 2007, 01:15:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Oh, and stop using Adobe Acrobat, for crying out loud. Foxit is much smaller, faster and is not prone to phoning home like Acrobat does.

gonna check that out too. I'm a heavy user of AA.