Well that didn't take long.

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"P2P Instructions - We do not support P2P file sharing applications and any threads requesting help for such will be closed. This includes Torrents, Kazaa, LimeWire, RapidShare, Pirate Bay, and the like. If you're interested in the topic, you are free to discuss it on our site (and please visit StealingIsIllegal.com), but information on how to use them will not be provided."

And as soon as I start to discuss it on the site the threat gets closed.

Fuck off back to the dark ages Tech Guy!

1 Infraction on The Tech Guy

Have a read of this.

I start out with a question about why a disc isn't working and as soon I mention it was a torrent the thread is closed and I am given an "Infraction" notice. For all they know the torrent could have been a legal back up from my PC in Timbuktu to my PC at home but because they don't support piracy they don't support torrents which are only viewed as being the anti-Christ because a lot of commercially available software is distributed for free over the torrent networks. But hey, this is just saving people money without funding piracy. Have your say here.

Now have a read of this.

I have an issue with not being able to write to blank media. It wouldn't matter what make or model of burner or dvd I had tried to use it simply wouldn't have worked because I needed a dual layer disc. But instead of helpful suggestions for fixing the problem with the stuff I have available some brain dead fuck-knuckle who believes everything he finds on Google tells me to go buy new shit. News Flash: Already fuckin' did!

To further show his stupidity after I had figured it out for myself he get hung up on a crossed wire saying the burner should burn to a single layer disc no worries. Not when what I'm burning is bigger than a single layer DVD Dick Head!

Thanks for all the useless fucking so called help!

The Tech Guy Here to further your frustration.

Free I.T.

Praise the Cyber Lord for Open Source, Freeware and GNU GPL.

About 6 or 7 years ago I played around with a fun little freebie called Ubuntu, which I acquired by logging onto the site and ordering the CD to be posted to me absolutely free. "Thank you, come again." as Apu Nahasapeemapetilon would say. So I installed it, had a fiddle, but the novelty soon wore off and Windows XP (which perfectly fits the definition of a virus) once again ravaged my PC.

Years of frustration later Windows XP is still here to torment. Luckily I've just installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my other hard drive... ***For Dual Boot to work with PATA/IDE in this situation the XP drive needs to be set as Slave and the drive Ubuntu is going on as Master when installing*** ...for the second time in a week.

There are pros and cons of both Commercial Software and Open Source Freeware. But the pros are fast stacking up in favour of the latter. For a start, those who have ever bothered to read the licence agreement of their Microsoft Windows would know that all that money spent on XP, Vista, 7, etc, only bought you the right to USE the software and Microsoft remains the proud smug bastard owner who wants to know exactly what you are doing with its software every step of the way.

Enter Linux. The Unix based open source operating system released under the GNU General Public Licence which allow users to not only view the source code, but to make changes to the source code and release their own distributions under the same Licence.

What's so great about being able to edit the source code? For a start, if you don't like the window buttons being on the default side you can move them to the other side with one simple line of code. Something went wrong and the top menu bar doesn't display correctly? No sweat, one simple line of code resets the bar.
Ok fair enough, not everyone is comfortable screwing around with the source code due to fear they may break it. This is the beauty of Ubuntu; you have the option of entering code in the terminal or using the GUI menu's, installation wizards, etc.

But what about all my office programs, are they going to work on Linux? Yes, most windows based software will work in Linux after installing Wine including your MMORPG fix of WoW.

For those of us who want to save money by not spending any there are open source alternatives to most commercial software. Can't afford Adobe Photoshop? Try using GIMP. What about all my saved office files? Don't stress! There's OpenOffice. While it has its own file format it will read, edit, and save in the Microsoft ones. I'm not sure it does the post 2007 MS Office file formats yet but due to the amount of people still on 2003 it's bad practice to be saving in the new format anyway.

The best thing about Linux from a consumer point of view? Variety. There are shit loads of free to download, install, use, and change, distros floating around cyber space. Just to name a few:

Ubuntu | Puppy Linux | Red Hat | Debian | Linux Mint | Ututo | Fedora | Chrunchbang Linux | FreeNAS | SuperGamer

Install Linux as a stand alone OS, Leave windows where it is and use a Live CD, Install Linux inside your currant OS, run it from a USB disk. Whichever option you chose, you should all chose Linux!

You know it's true.