Quality expensive? It's priceless...

On March 21, 2002, a computer was brought online that had been a dream of mine to create. It is still functioning and my favorite machine on the planet. It is in an Antec case, has an Asus CUV4X-D dual processor motherboard, two Intel Pentium III 1gig CPUs (slightly overclocked, LOL), 3 SCSI hard drives that spin at 10,000rpms, 1 gig of Memory (5.4ns), 128m Nvidia graphics card, Logitech wireless keyboard n mouse, 21" CRT, Logitech 5.1 surround speakers, dual layer DVD burner, DVD-ROM, Audigy Platinum internal sound which is linked to the home theater system, and other goodies. This is not the latest greatest technology and it is not as fast as the P4 machine, but it has been a stalwart on my network.

Why am I blowing? Read the date again. This machine has run for over 3 years on the original installation of Windows 2000! It has NEVER had a virus infection! That's not to say that they haven't tried to infect, but efforts to keep AVG up to date and DAILY scans have afforded not great protection, but super protection. The Spyware Wars continue and if my life takes me to a point that I meet anyone who works for CoolWebSearch I will go to jail for opening up a large can of whup ass. Anyway, through diligence and much research, evil goons that infect PCs with their malware have not been successful in bringing this machine down.

You can run Norton's if you like, you can bow before XP voodoo, you can go buy a cheap computer, you can download the Yahoo Toolbar and chance spyware, you can ignore Windows Updates, you can let Ad-aware and Spybot S&D go for weeks without updating, and you can brag about crap like AOL, Apple and the rest. Let me know when you have 3 years of positive computing with equipment that works. Peace out...

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
-Sir Winston Churchill