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MISENHEIMER, N.C. Chris Woods (Thomasville, NC) continued his All-American senior season posting a career high 20 rebounds to go along with his game high 30 points as Pfeiffer University defeated Mount Olive College 86-71 in Conference Carolinas mens basketball action on Thursday night. Woods, the first to ever post 30 and 20 in the same game, help the Falcons improve to 6-4, 4-0 in league play. The Trojans suffer their third-straight loss dropping to 6-5, 1-2.
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Here are just ten of the guilty parties who try to do the impossible: to make us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented — and who very nearly succeed.
This gallery was written by Rupert Goodwins, ZDNet.co.uk.
I do have Adobe Reader 9 installed, but I don't notice anything perhaps because it mostly benefits my roommate and his online games. Does it create infections? Does it slow down your speeds?
You missed the MAIN biggest nusance on the internet - GOOGLE! I get so sick of Google's nose stuck into everything that I try to do that I refuse to use Google even when it could be of some benefit to me. A close second comes default installation of useless, desktop wasting toolbars (including, but not limited to, Google and Yahoo). I'm sure it would be too much to hope for; but if computer users got angry enough to not patronize the software distributors that include toolbars by default, they would quit the practice. Many of these didtributors are listed here as most annoying.
I agree 100% with all 10 of your choices.
Spot on!
No kidding. This program is so annoying. I have taken to editing startup with MSCONFIG to get rid of crap like this.
The one I don't like is the one that keeps trying to dial porno up. Also that one that makes loads of extra pages open even when im not clicking on anything is cunty.
TechRepublic has lost ALL its credibility. How can you publish a "10 most annoying" list with Yahoo listed but Google not listed about 12 spots above Yahoo. I'll never believe anything you say ever again.
Bravo. Encore!
The Ironic Example you forgot was TechRepublic and many other websites that use the previous/next slide format presentation like this one here. In this presentation I click on Next Image and does the image change as fast as my broadband will allow??? No. The entire screen erases itself and all the ads update first and eventually we see the next slide. And this is a fairly well behaved example because not every single pixel is wiped clean and redrawn. Some boxes and buttons survive the operation. Other sites are worse and indeed make a completely white screen out my browser space while they collect all of the links, and the ads, and buttons, and finally last and clearly by this time least the actual content. Entertainment Weekly is a good example. Everyone keeps clamoring about online apps, but if this slide presentation technology was the leading edge of that revolution we'd all be turning back.
Dead on the nail!!!
Yes good article and yes they are probably the most annoying yes there are probably a few ways around this but the article is on target. They are really really annoying. Signed just an opinion
My dad still uses aol and needs my help keeping his system working at least twice a week. The resourse sucker is a pain. Finds it's way to the printer menu and every progam in the system. Shutting it down takes a keen eye and many tries from the task manager.
... Yes, What he said.
What a hoot! And so TRUE! I laughed all the way through the text. Thanks Tech Republic for being so informative and delightful.
Look at this article, we have to click on a link to read about each annoying computer program! That's f*cking annoying, I'll tell you.
Thanks! Actually, I think I agree with each and every single one of your picks, and nothing to add to top 10! Great work, Dragan
Thanks for penning the thoughts of every computer user on the planet earth.
Zamzar, Zoho Office, Magical Defrag, Foxit Reader, Firefox w/IE Tab & NoScript, IrfanView w/plugins, VLC Media Player, CCleaner, TextPad, bare-essential services (search BlackViper), no themes, no wallpaper, "best performance" display settings, AVG (internet related features off), no toolbars, etc. If I do download something, I immediately terminate and disable auto-updates running in the background. I use the WinDiz site for XP security updates using Firefox. As much as I hate it, I think a real-time virus scan is a must-have. I also use the built-in firewall to save resources.
Billions of $$$ and thousands of overpaid imbeciles at Microsoft and they only come up with the most annoying crap without ever solving anything but instead creating more problems and pissing off 3/4 of the computer world.
I only disagreed with two, one of them on the merits of the argument. The rest were dead on ... and to whomever wrote that linux fixes a lot of this ... not (I use both).
Thank God for this refreshing, O, so sharp and accurate article so well condensed. Kudos to the author. He's absolutedly, deadly right on. We need more sharpwited articles like this. Enough of the ill-informed candycoating we see all the time! As for Norton Antivirus, I believe Peter Norton should sue the company that he sold his rights to for defamation of reputation. Bring us more articles like this!
She's on the Internet (MySpace), her audio is far too Real and she annoys me. If my wife's cousins could, I'm sure they'd like to give Auntie a Virus, too. If you knew her, you'd feel she was trying to program your life, as well. The way she tells it, her Windows always need updating. She complained that a retired Acrobat Reads to her from the Adobe in the yard. He said something like "U bunt, U" to her which caused her to throw the closest Macintosh Apple she could find at him (it only got halfway, and it hit his Jaguar). To calm her nerves, I told her to try some Java while experiencing another Vista but she said that causes parts of her system to bloat and she then has trouble with her HP software. I've never had her Flash me, you pervs. My Mother-in-law: The most annoying thing on the Internet
Great read, Thanks for so eloquently stating what we all feel at times...
Right on! The only problem is the "people" who produce these are going to go right on making them and thinking that only a very small percentage of users really don't like THEIR program. Just call me a cynic
Software companies are the new handmaidens of advertizing agencies...they are always trying o rip you off.
Rupert Goodwins, thanks for a spot-on, well-written and just plain TRUE article! I would add to the gallery all software where the creators have forgotten the original purpose and have totally gotten carried away with their own brilliance. Can I now suggest a gallery of the 10 BEST programs? Thanks again.
1) Adobe reader... its been years since I used it. Switched to the free Nitro PDF extension in Firefox, that has a host of extra features and as light as an extension should be. 2) Apple... art or no art, haven't laid my eyes yet on a real Apple PC. 3) Windows Update... thankfully MS does provide an option to turn off automatic updates, which is one of the first things I do. 4) Real... installed ONLY for the exciting new option of downloading video content with a right click from web pages and some new codecs... but yes I "kill" the updater from task manager on every boot. 5) Java... kill updater/scheduler on every boot. 6) Yahoo... I don't Yahoo guys! I Google! 7) Norton Antivirus... do you have the solution or are you part of the problem? That's what comes to mind. So, use Avast instead. 8) Pre-installed bundles... clients come to me for solution to this kind of pain in the a?? I simply format the system and do a customized clean install from the OS media supplied. And if media's not there, forget it. That hardware piece was not worth buying. 9) Outlook/Exchange... stay a mile clear of that. 10) Flash... an unecessary evil that's taken over the internet. 90% of the web site clients demand it, not realising how big a turn off it is. The moment I see the flash loading bar, I close the tab/window, unless a skip option is prominently visible. Recently, I came across a solution to this torture - Flashblock extension in Firefox. IE guys, please post something you know about. Of course, these are all based on Windows. Linux platform is worth consideration with its many open source alternatives, if you can do without Windows applications.
Dear EXPERT, please spend a little bit more time and read about ADOBE Reader to learn its endless features: like allowing the user to digitally sign a PDF document, validate a digital signature on a PDF, fill in the forms in PDF, etc... So, Reader is one of the most talented client application in PDF world. Regards,
Great article: especially, don't buy anything from Adobe...there's not one piece of Adobe software that makes the grade, including Photoshop. While I was reading this blog, the ubiquitous questionmarket.com survey popup defeated my popup blocker, then the system rebooted suddenly as Windows Vista update did its thing. Realplayer did its in-your-face update thing too: no wonder I'm becoming nostalgic for viruses and spyware because most malware is designed and coded better than the crapware that the mainstream companies write these days. Unfortunately, you can't get rid of Adobe, Real, and Windows Update because they've become lingua franca on the web, but, on the serious side of things, bugs in those apps mess up other apps...in a business environment, you'd better rein these bad actors in. Bad programmers ruled by bad marketing bosses are ruining the products at the world's best-known software firms. Listen up, Adobe, Yahoo, Real, Microsoft, Apple, et cetera: your stuff is a mess! A Real mess!
Your browser is either set to require a full page refresh every visit to a site or you're using Internet Exploder...or both.
Have you ever tried to cancel the AOL Service and / or remove it from your PC? Talk about something that will keep you occupied for months on end........
Build a massive page that takes forever to download? I don't doubt you'd b!tch about that as well.
What I would like to do to whoever came up with that flashing pop-up that reads "Congratulations, you are the 999,999th visitor to this site" or some such crap. Come out of the woodwork whoever you are: I have the electrodes ready... Paul
The article was most entertaining and some good points were made in it. I have things like Java on my computer; I have no idea why or what they are supposed to do; whether or not they bugger up the system I have no idea, but it works... My own gripe is all the stupid video formats; why? And it seems to me that one has to have 15 different programs in order to be able to play everything; why? Why .avi; mpeg, mpg; wmv - etc., etc., ad nauseam. I have felt a little less annoyed with Acrobat ever since it occurred to the makers that I might just want to copy something that is in pdf... Those Apple Quicktime updates really piss me off and once I even foolishly downloaded ITunes - all 10,000,000 gigabytes of it; not for long! These people seem to think that my life consists of ordering horrible music and playing stupid games all night. Extraordinary. Paul
Most of us just click on the "Print/View all Posts" link at the bottom right of each individual post. Works fine, lasts a long time. And you don't have to whine about page refresh time. Unless, of course, that's what you live for...
I have made sure to install and configure all three browsers (IE FF O) as well as I possibly can. All three cause the column to the immediate right and the column to the right of that to complete redraw when I navigate from message to message. In addition, IE redraws the response tree that is found below the messages (clearly pretty static info). As I said this page is not at all the worst but it is an example. I also looked in IE for a long time to find an option that might cause complete screen refreshes, but I can find nothing like that. FireFox does not seem to offer such a control either. Opera does have a Loading option under "Browsing" that indicates how long to wait before redrawing. I don't know what that is. I suppose I could now take my three browsers to a worst case page, but I don't really think it's going to be much different. Oh heck, there I did it. They all three draw the complete screen from white (except for the publication's banner) at EW, see http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20204699_2,00.html In all fairness, while IE and FF worked almost exactly the same here, Opera did actually draw faster and always drew the content (the slide) FIRST, which has not been my experience with other browsers. Point is that this slide technology is supposed to glom us down. My guess is that page owner is getting paid by the impression and so does not care that the efficacy of disaplying ads goes down when they go away in a matter of seconds to be replaced by another short-timer.
but it only takes a half day to format a machine and reinstall everything except AOL. :D
Since when did text take forever to download???
But then, except on weekends, I can't continually monitor TR, so I'm usually catching up all at once. What I do when I want to monitor an active discussion (Friday Night Music, for example), is work in two windows. The first, in print view, is constantly refreshed. The second alternates between print view and replies.
it doesn't mark a post as read or not, so it is hard to follow if people continue to post through out the discussion. I will read in print mode, and while I am reading, launch many of the posts in new tabs and then close the tabs down just to get them marked.
... about this site. It is SLOW even in Opera and it tends to redraw the whole thing, just like you said. I turn everything off and use the Accessibility layout and it's still not user/content friendly. Often, site owners believe they can pull the wool over users' eyes, because marketing tells them users are sheep and this website is just another "income generating vehicle"... Well these money men and beancounters chose a poor place to try their deceiving ways on. Seems they forgot this IS a technical forum ;) Let them know how you feel!!!
And thanks for your very gentlemanly treatment of fellow members; I wish I had such couth! :)
But "not naive" is one of the nicer names. cheers JC.
... and I'm sorry that the meaning of my comments may have been misunderstood because of my somewhat brash manner, but I certainly won't apologize for the *spririt* of my opinions, no matter how 'ill informed' some may think they may be on a more *technical* level... As for Neon Samurai, I agree he's very knowledgeable and professional, and I truly respect that. I would probably not have been interested responding to his posts otherwise. As in all discussions, it's nothing personal, but purely philosophical. We CAN disagree on certain things, can't we? Or is debate not permitted? Besides, I believe Neon can see that for himself and can certainly answer in a intelligent manner like he did after another post of mine (much appreciated, Man!). BTW, JCitizen, I apreciate YOUR postings as well :)
Neon is the last member I would call naive at TechRepublic.
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I waded diddies-deep into one of those conversations about sex at a party on Saturday night. You know the kind, the two-drinks-too-many kind that leaves lasting friendships in its wake. Because they know too much. By the time I rocked up they'd already gotten through the bravado part of the conversation (concerning the more exotic aspects of their erotic histories) and were down to that unlovely question, the one with no right answer and an infinite number of wrong ones. How many people have you slept with?
I don't know. I have an idea, and I could count them out on my fingers, but I have no head for figures and no desire to go streeling through their names as a party trick. I answered with an assured smile and an approximation, and then proceeded to make excuses for myself because I wasn't sure whether my play was higher or lower than expected, and what they'd read from it.
I also confessed to them that I did keep a list at one stage.
It sounds vulgar, I know, but it was closer to lovehearts on a copybook cover than notches on a bedpost. I wrote their names in a little hand-bound notebook with a banana-leaf cover, and I gave each of them a page to himself. I never added any other detail, though I briefly considered developing some kind of code to qualify my relations with them. A little loveheart for the ones I thought I loved (most if not all of them, woe is me!) with a line through it where they hadn't loved me back (sigh).
I spent most of my twenties wearing a thick pair of beer goggles and my heart on my sleeve, living in an apartment in the city centre and working in administration, like a heroine in a romantic novel written on someone's lunch break. Having spent my teens cocooned in long-term relationships with unremarkable boys in a small country town, the world became my lobster when I moved back to Dublin. I don't want to take the seafood analogy too far, but I made a right pig of myself.
I threw my banana-leaf bound book away when my fondness for office efficiency and Excel spreadsheets had me considering opening one in which to catalogue my lovers. I liked the idea of being able to rank them chronologically or alphabetically. I liked the linguistic frivolity of keeping them in a "spreadsheet". I couldn't think of a good name for the file, though, or of an appropriate place to save it, and these practicalities made it seem distasteful. Probably because it was. I reconsidered my book in the same light and binned it.
I used to dread that a lover would one day ask the question. I worried that the number of men I'd slept with would make him think that I was a SLUT. Or that he'd expect me to have kinky tricks up my sleeve. Or that he'd think I had a vagina like a wizard's sleeve. I worried that the number of men I'd slept with would make a new lover feel insecure. I worried that the number of men I'd slept with would tell a new lover that I was insecure.
So I talked about it with friends. But not before I googled "average number of sexual partners" because if you want to know something and are too embarrassed to ask, The Internet is your friend. Or not. "Less than you think" said The Internet. OMFG! I thought AM BIG SLUT AFTER ALL! and then I set about qualifying my query by googling "average number of sexual partners for Irish woman in late twenties who works in administration and lives in an apartment in the city and so on and so forth" until I arrived at what seemed like a more realistic figure and felt better about myself. Then I talked about it with friends, thought a little more about what they'd had to say and how it changed my perception of them (or not) and wrote a giddy article for a magazine about it.
Which is why you shouldn't talk to me about these things at parties.
A year or so later, I was lucky enough to meet a man so good and honest that I stopped worrying about what he or anyone else might think about how many people I'd slept with. And, Reader, I married him. What has surprised me since is that far from sweeping my sexual history under the carpet now that I'm a Married Woman, I've found that the grounding my relationship with him gives me has allowed me to talk about sex with a frankness, lust and humour that I wouldn't have thought possible back when I was gallivanting around the city, euphemistically enjoying myself.
As for my totty tally, I've abandoned all notions of keeping a list. Assigning each of my past lovers a number doesn't give any idea of their value. It assumes that they're all of equal worth to me – they're not. But they deserve to be acknowledged (though not by name) for how they've each contributed in some small way to making me who I am.


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The sound of music fills a radio studio on a Saturday afternoon. Children's tiny voices sing Christian songs.
As David Ventura fades out the music and turns on the microphone, the voice of pastor George Contreras travels across the airwaves throughout central Virginia.
The music and voices originate in Henrico County. In January 2012, WBTK 1380 AM radio moved from Richmond to studios in the Glenside area. The station's tower has always been in Lakeside.
While based in Henrico County, the station hopes to appeal to Hispanic listeners and others from around the region who want to hear Christian songs, a mix of Spanish music and family-friendly programs.
"All of the music that we play, all the programming that we play, it is all targeted toward the family," said Glen Motto, operations manager. "The lyrics of all of the songs are going to be safe."
Motto said the station changed formats six years ago. The owners realized the region's Hispanic community was growing.
"Henrico is the sixth largest county in Virginia in terms of Hispanic population," Motto said. "When you include Chesterfield and Richmond, the Hispanic population nears 50,000."
Radio stations play a central role in Hispanic communities in the U.S. and in Latin American countries.
Felipe Korzenny of The Center for Hispanic Marketing Communications at Florida State University writes in his blog that radio traditionally serves "as the town-crier in an interactive way" and the "radio announcer publicizes jobs…and spreads the word about local events."
That's exactly what drew WBTK announcer Oscar Contreras to the station.
Contreras, who lives in Henrico County, didn't expect to be working at a radio station.
He came to Richmond to study film and photography at Virginia Commonwealth University after his family moved to Culpeper from Guatemala.
But one day in his car, he heard the new radio station. He liked what he heard and called to apply for a job. He's been at the station since then.
Contreras considers the station a community resource offering such programs as "Focus on the Community," which airs each Monday.
"When I came into the radio [station, it] was in my heart to do a community show where we can inform people about what's going on in the region, events, the services, have interviews with different experts on different topics," he said. "We open the lines and people call; people ask questions."
The station works with local governments and nonprofit agencies to share information with its Hispanic listeners. And of course the station connects advertisers with what Motto calls an "underserved market."
Most of the music and programs are in Spanish, but long-time announcer "Brother Herb" Pollard hosts a morning show Monday through Friday in English.
On a recent Friday morning, Pollard played religious songs and testimonials interspersed with weather and traffic reports.
Pollard, who is black, said one of his roles is to encourage his listeners. Another role he has taken on is to help build bridges between the area's Hispanic and African-American communities.
"I bridge the gap between two cultures," Pollard said. "I try to do it by music and by communication. I show equal love to all cultures."
This story is part of the series "Virginia Tapestry: Reflecting Our Rich Diversity," produced by In Your Shoes Media.
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Music lovers unite! There are several great concerts this weekend beginning with Innsbrook After Hours who will be kicking off their 30th season with Foreigner, Lee Brice, and Rusted Root & The Wailers. The Richmond Women's Chorus will present "Let Freedom Sing" at the Henrico Theatre tonight; The Taters will perform tomorrow at The Tin Pan; and the Richmond Choral Society will present "Sentimental Journey III" on Sunday at the Henrico Theatre. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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"Did you know monkeys could swim?" asks Tina Fey in Monkey Kingdom. While she's asking, a toque macaque (a two foot-long monkey with red-white fur and great hair) breast-strokes under the surface of a pond, yanking out lily pad flowers by her teeth and dragging them ashore to munch later.
Turns out monkeys can swim. And slide down telephone poles. And do the thing from Flashdance where you bring down a cascade of water on your head and shake it off in slow-motion.
All will happen in Monkey Kingdom, the eighth film in nine years from Disneynature, Disney's wildlife documentary outlet. > Read more.
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Relax this holiday weekend with Fridays Uncorked at Southern Season – taste wines from the Roman Empire! Or at James River Cellars who is hosting "Experience Virginia" – sample Virginia wine, beer, cider and mead. And what goes better with wine than strawberries – an annual tradition in Varina, the Gallmeyer Farms' Strawberry Fields Festival is tomorrow. Other fun happenings this weekend include: "A Little Princess" at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen; weekly dance at American Legion Post 125; and National Theatre Live's "Man and Superman" at the University of Richmond. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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Spokane loses bid to be KC-46 tanker base
The Air Force has selected Wichita's McConnell Air Force Base as the base for the new tankers, which are being built by the Boeing Co.
Members of the Kansas congressional delegation issued a joint statement Wednesday announcing the Air Force decision. The aircraft will replace the aging KC-135 fleet flown by crews for the past 50 years.
According to the delegation, the Air Force will base 36 of the new aircraft at McConnell starting in 2016. It also will be investing $192 million in upgrades to the base.
McConnell was chosen over bases in North Dakota, Oklahoma and Spokane.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee called the Air Force's decision "extremely unfortunate."
"Fairchild Air Force Base has a strong tradition as an integral part of our national defense and is ideally located," Inslee said in a statement.
Boeing is building the 767-based tanker, dubbed the KC-46A by the Air Force, in Everett.
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., demanded a briefing with Air Force officials saying she has "plenty of questions on how they reached this conclusion."
However, U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., was optimistic about Fairchild's chances for future basing decisions.
"This is not a loss," she said in a statement.
The decision announced Wednesday by the Air Force only affects the first installment of 36 tankers, McMorris Rodgers noted. Boeing is to supply the Air Force with 179 KC-46A tankers, leaving Spokane with additional chances in the future.
"Moving forward, Fairchild will compete very well," she said.
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While many look forward to and enjoy the few short months of summer, it's often a different story for those moms-to-be suffering through the sweltering high temperatures of the summer.
"Carrying around extra weight, swelling, and all the other challenges that pregnancy offers are only exacerbated by the hot and humid weather," said Dr. Ronald Burkman of the Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baystate Medical Center.
Dr. Burkman, a longtime obstetrician and gynecologist, said he gives pregnant women the same advice, and more, that most doctors offer their patients on how to stay healthy in the high heat.
"Drink plenty of water, reduce your activity, stay indoors, and if you don't have air conditioning, then get yourself somewhere that does, such as your local library where you can sit and read, or visit the mall or movie theater," said Dr. Burkman.
"And, if you do go to the mall, try not to walk around and around without resting in between," he added.
The greatest challenge facing pregnant women in the summer is the risk of dehydration and heat exhaustion. Moms-to-be experience an increased blood flow – which is why they feel hotter than usual – and, as a result, need to stay well hydrated.
"Eating plenty of vegetables and fruits, which contain water and electrolytes, will help guard against dehydration. And, you'll feel better, too, because you won't feel as stuffed as you would eating a high-protein meal," said Dr. Burkman.
Nausea, dizziness, and fatigue are all signs of dehydration. Heat stroke/heat exhaustion, which can occur when the body overheats and reaches a temperature of
101 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, is accompanied by confusion, fainting, and a rapid pulse.
"The high heat may also trigger contractions, however, most of the time these contractions are resolved by simply increasing your fluid intake and resting. If they persist, just as you would for severe dehydration or heat exhaustion, call your doctor immediately," said Dr. Burkman.
According to Dr. Burkman, a woman's body during pregnancy often retains about 15 additional pounds of fluid. On top of that, the heat and humidity can cause an expectant mom's body to retain too much fluid, resulting in swelling, particularly in the legs and feet and sometimes in the hands, making it difficult for some to remove a tight ring from their finger.
When swelling occurs, Dr. Burkman advises his patients to:
• Reduce, but not totally eliminate, salt intake
• Elevate legs while resting for 20 to 60 minutes; keep legs elevated at night when sleeping by placing a pillow or two under them
• Wear comfortable shoes, consider buying a pair larger than your others, and try supportive stockings or tights
• Eat foods high in potassium such as bananas, while avoiding caffeine
• Avoid standing for long periods of time.
"It is especially important for pregnant women who have additional health concerns such as high blood pressure, diabetes or kidney disease, and who are overweight, to stay as cool as possible and listen to their doctor's advice so as not to put themselves and their babies at risk," said Dr. Burkman.
For more information on birthing at Baystate Medical Center, visit baystatehealth.org and click on Women's Health Services.