Rockinawsome's Hideout - Yes, I realize awesome has an E

No movie, book, or even game has brought me this close to bliss (and I played Mass Effect). Bioware deserves a big hug.

So I was in Buffalo last night, watching a play at the celtic theatre--which is actually pretty nice--when I got back to my car however, I found that my passenger side window was smashed into tiny bits. This is on a nice side of town. My gps, mp3 palyer, and wife's track phone were all stolen. That's the 2nd time I've been to Buffalo and been robbed.

I yelled Fuck You, Buffalo at the top of my lungs, having had a bit to drink, and waited to see if I had garnered anyone's attention. To my surprise, no one wished to defend Buffalo's honor. It seems Buffalo is one miserable shit hole.

My wife's sister happens to live in the city, and had a murder/shooting on her street over the summer.
I fucking hate Buffalo. Give me Pittsburgh, Erie, or some cities from the south like Charleston, Lexington, or Memphis. But fuck Buffalo.

Anyways, aside from this rant, I'm just curious why I can't seem to find a gps online with a transmitter for locating the unit after it's stolen, since according to Buffalo police, who were actually very nice and helpful, "this sort of thing happens all the time".

This was undoubtedly one of the best things I could have ever read. I've struggled with this sort of thing my entire life, but didn't realize what it was. To have it all coalesce for me in this article, and for this writer to provide me a way out, makes me feel greatly supplemented for the rest of my life with an understanding that will allow me to cut away all the clutter and confusion in life. And since I still have the majority of that life ahead of me being a mere 23 yeas of age, I'm thrilled to find advice worthy of great scholars and tutors for only the cost of what I pay for my internet. I really can't say enough great things about this article and writer.

http://artofmanliness.com/2009/07/20/ modern-neurasthenia-curing-your-restlessness/

*Edit
I should mention that this article--http://artofmanliness.com/2009/09/20/paradox-of-choice/
-- is a great supplement. It deals with the economic idea of "opportunity cost" and applies it to Neurasthenia.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=673&tag=nl.e539

Though this article seems undeveloped, it makes me raise an eyebrow. I'm not sure I agree with everything 100 precent, but over regulation is the hallmark of leftist government.

Since the search results for how to do this were crap -- I came up with a simple way of doing this. I don't like messing with msconfig if I don't have to. msconfig is there for debugging windows, not for managing startup features, and this is what most of the search results I found were suggesting. But this is a topic for another time.

To keep things short, here's the steps I used:

*NOTE, this does not work with UAC turned off. Your guess is as good as mine as to why this is.
(Insert vista sucks comment here).

1.) Go to C:\Windows\System32

2.) Create a folder as a sub-directory (the folder can be anywhere, but a sub directory is the easiest to make and keep track of (I called mine 'mobsynccrap').

3.) Find mobsync.exe in the current directory.

4.) Right-click it. Select properties, find the security tab, click the advanced button. Find the Owner tab on this new window.

5.) Change the owner by clicking edit. Now another window will pop up. Under "Change owner to:", highlight the current user and click okay. A prompt may appear saying it will have to do this or that, if it does just say okay.

5.2) (An addendum here, I forgot to mention this step!)
Go to the permissions tab. Highlight the user again and click edit. Now highlight the user on this page and click edit, now click the checkbox next to full control and click okay.

Finally, click okay on the remaining window, this will warn that you are about to change permissions. Click okay...again.
6.) Cut and paste mobsync.exe into new directory.

7.) You're done! No more idiotic automatic transfers of files you never wanted on your portable devices.