Josh the Aspie’s Blog

There are a lot of different kinds of software available to be installed on the internet. Many of them are available for free. Others aren’t.

A lot of the time, certain terms are bandied about the net about this software, and to someone who isn’t an experienced netizen, this can be rather confusing. Even worse, most companies that produce software that is in one of the negative categories create their own definitions of these terms, so that they can artificially exclude their software from that category.

So I figured that over the next few days I would provide descriptions of these terms, and give examples of software that fits in these categories. Keep in mind, these are the terms as I use them, and some people will have differing definitions… such as anyone who produces any of the software I place in these categories.

Today we’ll start with Adware.

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Back to the computer Saga.

Once I got my laptop working, it was time to get things up and running on my new Tower, Kusanagi_Makoto. This singular wonder, which I have also come to call Minus Morgol in the back of my head, had a bit of a RAID problem. To be more accurate, it had a RAID 5 array that ceased to function.

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