User: Syron

I used to be able to hit pretty hard. I started back in round 3 or something when they actually gave decent free point offers and I slowly upgraded my account. Towards the end (partially thanks to the "sorry stone" I was able to do a 10x hit (5 slightly before reset and 5 after) from multiple accounts on the same person every other day. It took quite a few enemies by surprise because they couldn't even see who was hitting them. haha

I got fed up with the greedy/corrupt managers (remember the spam proxy they wanted everyone to run so they could get "free points" for each email? Forget that this could get everyone in trouble with their ISP..)

I stopped playing once someone told me about mechg.com. It's not as professionally managed but at least the community doesn't suck. There's so many arrogant kids on outwar that I regret ever joining.

$50/year gives me a decent hosting package at edatarack.com and I use that as my mail server. Each address is based on my initials and is very short. I like being able to give each person/group a unique alias. If one of them starts getting spam, I know who did it and I can completely block it. If someone is blocked (or is a stranger), they can use a PHP-powered form I wrote on my website to send mail until I give them a working address. That's too much work for spammers so I don't get any. :)

I banned the msn search bot after it started indexing my site several times a day, downloading large files each time. How annoying.

If a site doesn't work in Firefox, you should be offended that it doesn't want your buisness and leave. It is the website's fault for not following W3C standards: http://www.w3.org

Microsoft has been trying hard to exclude web content from all competitors by getting developers to write code that only works in Internet Explorer. For example they tried to hijack Java, which is a multi-platform development environment owned by Sun, by making an incompatible environment for Internet Explorer. Thankfully Sun successfully sued them and now Java applets will have to be made to work as they were intended - in any browser/OS.

Internet Explorer comes as default in Windows so most people complacently accept it as the default browser, but usually there are better alternatives out there until Microsoft feels threatened enough to add similar features to their own products.

Right now almost no development is even going into IE (MS is too busy integrating DRM crap into Longhorn) while Firefox's user base continues to grow. Tabbed browsing and smart popup blocking are among many features Microsoft has failed to implent, and they have no plans on doing so any time soon. However there are a wide range of extensions for Firefox already available with more under constant development. For example one of them gives mouse gestures and another lets you change your browser identification.

Firefox is automatically more secure because it is not tightly integrated with the OS. People are switching because it really is a better browser, not because it comes preinstalled on their OS. You can even use IE hotkeys like ctrl-enter and the "find as you type" is pretty convenient. You really should check it out, and by doing so you will help keep sites compatible for the rest of us (this is a circular problem - alternate software can't be good until people use it. There is real hope for Firefox).

I also built my own desktop. I ordered most of the parts from newegg. :)

There's also an old Gateway in my room that I got for free because the previous owner didn't know what she was doing with past upgrades. I completely rebuilt it, installed linux, and now it's my personal file server/firewall. Works great.

I had to remove about eight screws from three different angles to get the drive tray out. I mean if someone were to throw it out of a moving vehicle it might even need all of them. I had to use a crowbar to get the back panel off another. I think I hate OEM cases.