scheckley

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Farewell, Internet (Download Squad)

Apr 12th 2011 7:33PM :( I read downloadsquad every day and enjoy the broad range of windows, linux, mac, and mobile reviews. I have the RSS feeds on my igoogle homepage and share many of your articles with colleagues. Sad times. Bad move by aol, but then they always did struggle with intelligent business decisions.

thanks for all the articles over the years and good luck to the downloadsquad writers :'(

Cloud Girlfriend will use a swarm of females to satisfy men (Download Squad)

Mar 30th 2011 7:54AM @ilkut or cloud nan! the horror!

Nook Color hacked to run Ubuntu (Download Squad)

Jan 7th 2011 1:29PM Wouldn't DSL have been a better choice for a low spec machine?

15+ free Windows apps to help you tackle Thanksgiving tech support (Download Squad)

Nov 21st 2010 12:28PM this is very true. nobody seems to equate web design work or IT support as something that deserves financial remuneration. Yet if your builder or mechanic friend wants a few hundred to do a job that's seen as "mates rates and a pretty good deal, top bloke etc etc".

I even did computer tech support at my old company which was completely unrelated to my contracted work and the company, despite requesting it, described it as a "non-business deliverable" and was unable to provide financial reward or even recognize it on my yearly appraisal.

I solute people who work full time in IT for enduring the endless abuse when things don't work and no reward for keeping it going.

IT - the invisible army of industry.

GoDaddy stops selling domains to Chinese nationals (Download Squad)

Mar 25th 2010 11:09AM The Chinese government needs to ask themselves if they can offer such a bountiful and successful governance why it needs to lock its citizens down. Hopefully the people will one day see the light and revolt, before the light is a nuclear flash.

Critical out-of-band patch for Internet Explorer now available (Download Squad)

Jan 21st 2010 5:08PM how come Gary McKinnon was extradited from the UK to the US to face charges of terrorism after accessing defense computer networks, yet no authority formally charges the Chinese government with their assault on US servers?

8 years late: Microsoft finally pushes users to upgrade from IE6 (Download Squad)

Dec 1st 2009 9:15AM It's unfortunate that most of the target audience for the Microsoft IE update effort wont even be aware of it, and most of that audience probably don't even realize there are different browsers... or that they're even using a browser to look at the internet. If it's not forced, they wont change.

but it's a start at least...

Firefox 3.6 to recognize if your computer is tilted (Download Squad)

Oct 14th 2009 8:25AM gimmick

they should have just made this an add-on and focus on performance and security.

It's not a good week to be a BitTorrent tracker (Download Squad)

Aug 27th 2009 7:01AM time and time again it has been shown that the biggest downloaders
are also the biggest consumers. If you could stop downloading today
then company profits would not go up and retail sales would stay the same.
People are already spending at 100% of their capacity. This is just
the extreme greed of the corporate empires attempting to squeeze out
an extra few percent profit to bolster their bonus culture and keep
them all sipping Champaign in Monte Carlo while the prolee's eat up
their crap. Why do gamers wait for games prices to drop after the
initial release? Why is there a huge surge in the retro gaming scene?
Is it because people are resisting over-priced tat and the current
generation of marketeer driven games are a pile of old tosh? No sir,
it's because we're all pirating all day long. The 2nd games market is
the next on the chopping block, and then it's the retailers themselves
until the media moguls have ALL the money in the world.

It's not a good week to be a BitTorrent tracker (Download Squad)

Aug 27th 2009 6:59AM time and time again it has been shown that the biggest downloaders are also the biggest consumers. If you could stop downloading today then company profits would not go down and sales would stay the same. People are already spending at 100% of their capacity. This is just the extreme greed of the corporate empires attempting to squeeze out an extra few percent profit to bolster their bonus culture and keep them all sipping Champaign in Monte Carlo while the prolee's eat up their crap. Why do gamers wait for games prices to drop after the initial release? Why is there a huge surge in the retro gaming scene? Is it because people are resisting over-priced tat and the current generation of marketeer driven games are a pile of old tosh? No sir, it's because we're all pirating all day long. The 2nd games market is the next on the chopping block, and then it's the retailers themselves until the media moguls have ALL the money in the world. Roll on global warming and ecological disaster: do the universe a favour and wipe out the scourge of humanity.