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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft Software => Topic started by: toadlife on 23 August 2005, 09:17

Title: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: toadlife on 23 August 2005, 09:17
Blackviper is back. Blackviper is back! Let's all masturbate to the fact that Blackviper is back (http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,14197072)!

I hate this moron (http://www.blackviper.com/). He gives out tons of idiotic information about Windows (http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm), and tons of clueless noobs soak it up like it's frikken gospel. Follwing this idiot's "guides" will only serve to make your Windows PC less functional, and it does NOT make your PC run faster or give it more memory. This moron needs a lesson on how Windows (or any modern OS) manages memory. If he had a clue he would realize that just because Windows says you have 20 more megs of physical ram free after turning off 15 services doesn't mean when you run quake the game will have 20 more megs of physical ram to use.
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: Orethrius on 23 August 2005, 09:29
Holy shit.  Am I mistaken, or do those updates link Mac OS X to Linux by way of the BSD-based Darwin?  Isn't that like calling Windows XP VMS (or vice-versa, for that matter)?
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: toadlife on 23 August 2005, 09:45
Are you talking about this?

"Regardless, I have purchased a Mac Mini to experiment with OS X and have ventured deeper into the Linux realm."

I didn't even see that...but it wouldn't suprise me one bit if this dude doesn't didn't know difference between linux and BSD.
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: Lead Head on 23 August 2005, 16:55
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Intel has always been more stable (IMHO) and I feel that stability is a major concern. No one can get ANYTHING done if a computer crashes all of the time. It is some hardware and some software problems, but when the majority of programs run "well" on an Intel platform, that is what I am going for.


No, its not that AMD is less stable, its the OS you are using.
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: Jenda on 23 August 2005, 18:36
Could someone please point to the points where this bloke proves himself to be such a moron? I apoplogize, but I didn't find anything too bad on the two or three pages I skimmed through - and don't have time to read the rest.
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: toadlife on 23 August 2005, 19:07
Quote from: Jenda
Could someone please point to the points where this bloke proves himself to be such a moron? I apoplogize, but I didn't find anything too bad on the two or three pages I skimmed through - and don't have time to read the rest.

Read his Windows services guides. He recommends turning off a ton of Windows services, claiming that it will speed up your computer - when in fact it really doesn't. Turning off Windows services only takes away functionality, and causes various parts of Windows not to work. Counteless people follow his guides and when have problems as a result of it, they forget which services they have disabled. They then come to support forums asking for help.
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: Lead Head on 23 August 2005, 19:14
and unfortuantly some of those people mistake microsuck.com mhas a support forrum
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: Jenda on 23 August 2005, 20:36
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and unfortuantly some of those people mistake microsuck.com mhas a support forrum

How fortunate for THEM!!! They, among the millions, have a slim chance of being enlightened!

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Read his Windows services guides. He recommends turning off a ton of Windows services, claiming that it will speed up your computer - when in fact it really doesn't. Turning off Windows services only takes away functionality, and causes various parts of Windows not to work. Counteless people follow his guides and when have problems as a result of it, they forget which services they have disabled. They then come to support forums asking for help.

Thanks... Poor folks. How happy I am that most of these problems the Windozers have are way out of my... way.
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: Refalm on 23 August 2005, 20:38
I guess Blackviper fans are the same as Gentoo users in the Linux world.
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: Jenda on 23 August 2005, 20:48
Is Gentoo really that bad?
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: piratePenguin on 23 August 2005, 21:03
Quote from: Jenda
Is Gentoo really that bad?
No.
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: skyman8081 on 23 August 2005, 21:10
Gentoo itself isn't that bad, albeit a little tricky at first.  However, it is the Gentoo ZEALOTS, that are the annoying ones.

Just like anything else.
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: Refalm on 23 August 2005, 22:09
Quote from: skyman8081
Gentoo itself isn't that bad, albeit a little tricky at first.  However, it is the Gentoo ZEALOTS, that are the annoying ones.

Just like anything else.

I agree, I said Gentoo users.

Even worse are people who buy Red Hat Enterprise for desktop use. Why the fuck bother with something that is comparable with Fedora Core 3 in desktop use?
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: worker201 on 24 August 2005, 00:12
If you follow his advice, you will be more secure.  In the same way that you will be more secure if you never leave your bedroom.

I believe his description of Windows Messaging Service is incorrect.  Anybody care to comment on this?
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: Refalm on 24 August 2005, 01:16
Quote from: worker201
If you follow his advice, you will be more secure.  In the same way that you will be more secure if you never leave your bedroom.

I believe his description of Windows Messaging Service is incorrect.  Anybody care to comment on this?

I believe that part is great. It competes to those assholes who sell programs to remove messaging for $ 30.

However, if you're behind a NAT box, you can't get these kind of messages from the outside (unless you mod your NAT box to forward them ;)).
I believe it isn't a vurnability, it technically doesn't do any harm at all.

And besides, Windows users choose a crappy operating system, they should get what they bought.
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: worker201 on 24 August 2005, 01:37
Quote from: Refalm
And besides, Windows users choose a crappy operating system, they should get what they bought.


LOL at that.

I remember a lot of fatal errors in Win98 were based on the messenger service, and it always seemed like the messenger service was used to deliver system interrupt messages.  When an interrupt message got delayed or lost, the computer would crash.  Not sure what goes on inside XP (and don't want to know), but if the messaging service is used to queue system warnings and critical stops, disabling it could be very bad indeed.
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: Kintaro on 24 August 2005, 02:35
I don't recall anything like that, ever, in Windows 98. I might be wrong.
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: Refalm on 24 August 2005, 02:45
From what I can recall, there was no messaging service in Windows 98 at all. I could be wrong though.
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: Kintaro on 24 August 2005, 03:58
It did have a messaging service.
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: Jenda on 24 August 2005, 18:12
Really? I don't recall that either...
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: toadlife on 27 August 2005, 00:06
http://www.blackviper.com/TheRant/copyleft.htm (http://www.blackviper.com/TheRant/copyleft.htm)  <----------

Hilarious. I've never seen this this before.

According to Mr. BV, "copyleft is the opposite of copywrite", and the Apache webserver is licensed under the GPL.

I wonder how we would respond if I emailed him and poitned out his complete misunderstanding of open source?
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: worker201 on 27 August 2005, 00:56
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What is a small time web geek to do?


My solution would be to either pay the money, or shut the fuck up.  Case closed.  No need to be a whiny pussy about mirrored Apache documentation in the process.
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: Kintaro on 27 August 2005, 10:20
Quote from: Refalm
I agree, I said Gentoo users.

Even worse are people who buy Red Hat Enterprise for desktop use. Why the fuck bother with something that is comparable with Fedora Core 3 in desktop use?

Does Fedora Core 3, a non profit community project offer professional technical support? The answer: NO. It doesn't. Some people want the support. That is why the fuck you would buy something that is otherwise comparable to Fedora Core 3.
Title: Re: Woohoo! Blackviper is back!
Post by: Refalm on 27 August 2005, 22:29
Quote from: kintaro
Does Fedora Core 3, a non profit community project offer professional technical support? The answer: NO. It doesn't. Some people want the support. That is why the fuck you would buy something that is otherwise comparable to Fedora Core 3.

But this guy didn't need support. He was almost a Linux guru if he wasn't such a fucktard.
He did it to support Red Hat or something. Plus, he actually called Slackware "slow".