Finally, I return...I have internet again!

I doubt much happened in my absence. I finally put my cable BS into the scrap heap, and got DSL again. DSL is the best, period. I even switched cable companies. After what I told Comcast I don't think they'll ever let me be a customer again. I like my Verizon, but damn, every five seconds it asks can I run this, or install this? I blocked everything, as the more I read about these "helpful" programs, the less I like technology. Something is probably logging every keystroke I make right now, either for marketing or for "my protection" by some agency granted unconstitutional power with Comrade Bush's Patriot Act.

I finally got XP right. I don't plan on switching to Vista until Bill Gates threatens me with a cruise missle strike. I like Linux. I have SUSE on my laptop. I have some nice Windows emulators for it. The only reason I use Windows on my main box--the games.

With Verizon FiOS I can haul azz. DSL is dedicated all the time, not sharing the bandwidth with 1000 other people. My friend has Road Runner, and he doesn't have many complaints about it. Comcast is horrible. I had their 10Mbps service, and I was lucky to get 1-2Mbps. Sometimes it slowed down to a crawl, especially during the peak evening hours. It locked all the time, and I had to constantly reset the modem. Unplug it, wait two minutes, turn it back on... Speakeasy tested the connection, and it was at the advertised speeds. In real use though, it was nowhere near it's advertised capability. Cable was crappy upload too. I was playing IL2 and Rainbow Six online, and the cable was to unstable. Sometimes I had low ping, most of the time no. It has like using 56k to play. With this DSL it is smooth as glass. I can get frame rates in the double digits now, not like those 0.0000 fps with Comcast.