Brainwaves by Betsy Streeter
- March 26, 2009
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About Brainwaves
Dip your toes into BRAINWAVES and let Betsy Streeter’s stream-of-consciousness cartoon panel wash away your anxieties with its cool, clear insights and unabashed enjoyment of our irony-enhanced world. Streeter savors the absurd differences between what we do and what we think we do, and daily notes the deliciously strange juxtapositions that save our sanity. Whether her bemused humans find themselves in the clothing store, the cubicle, the doctor’s office or the traffic jam, there’s always an epiphany at hand. A veteran cartoonist whose drawings have appeared in Funny Times, "The New Breed", and numerous magazines, newsletters and textbooks, Streeter describes her work as being about "working, driving, hunting and gathering, impressing our friends, and the like." "As long as there’s laughter somewhere," she notes, "we’re all going to make it."
© 2009 Betsy Streeter - All Rights Reserved.
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pschearer
said,
8 months ago
My once-impressive but now creaking and groaning 9-year-old 933MHz Pentium-III 512MB computer started slowing down at unpredictable times. I traced this to several-times-a-day runs of the Live Update component of Symantec (AKA Norton) Anti-Virus.
As of an upgrade to the 2008 NAV edition, I cannot find an option to control how often it runs its memory-and-CPU-hogging programs, though I was able to change from automatic installation of virus definition updates to notify-me. Now at least I have some control over when the update will run.
If you are listening, Symantec, you are tempting me to switch to the free McAfee suite made available by my ISP.
farren
said,
8 months ago
Try the 2009 suite. They rewrote the entire thing, now the update routines and everything else pretty much runs in the background, not taking up resources. This, I swear, is true.
Dry
said,
8 months ago
pschearer, I know exactly what you mean! Norton is good for anti-virus but that is a pain in the a@@! When it’s running it slows down the wholoe works ! Irritating as he@@!
farren, I have the 2009 version!
WillBerry said, 8 months ago
To pschearer and Drystyha : Think what your system would be like without Norton - eaten up by a worm! BTW McAfee does the same thing with its running - I had it on one of two computers - McAfee tries to scan your entire computer every time you turn it on- which means you will actually get to use the computer about 10 minutes later, depending upon the size of your system!
chromosome
said,
8 months ago
It also bugs me when something updates automatically and asks you to reboot while you’re in the middle of something important.
Gil
said,
8 months ago
I use Ubuntu Linux so I pretty much don’t have to worry about getting a virus since they are mostly written to attack Windows machines. For most people it’s all that’s needed. If you really need Windows you can also dual boot like I do.
Gil