I do bloated downloads all the time while I sleep…there’s nothing wrong with DAP, let alone FF w/o RESUME, nor the GAOTD servers, and AOL is still doing fine with the unbloated-code-without-obfuscation-added-on-marketed trash they ALL now march to the rhythm of to the tune of the piedpiper king of the desktop. I dismounted versions 9,10,11, this other one called V something or other, deleted all their trash marketed icons off my desktop and in all those deep-layered, hidden folders I had to sniff out using the MS Search doggie, Little Yeller; and I use Version 7.0 with great speed on dialup because I have simple, unbloated AntiDialer, GOATD-offered Antilogger, Spybot, MS Malicious, FF Clue and CoolIris and WOT to spy into layers of links, set up flashing warnings of pot. bad sites; and turn donut red, orange or green GO to warn me; I only allow cookies given, NOT read at my e-m site which FF auto deletes upon SIGN_OFF; and a few other precautionary settings I have enlisted; and if they don’t like me, don’t want me there, IAM not all hung up and paranoid about it…different strokes for different folks; but,

I MUST say this: 25 years of escalating high-quality hardware and firmware, tight, efficieny design and implementation of solid-state elecs. and disk, flash drives, cams, smart-this-and-that, and all deliverd at the armtwisting demand of not so much, competition, but, whim of the king to sustain it self with bloated code; and all this talk about how the h/w is slow while the s/w is waiting on it:

I went to school with your s/w designers and worked with them on the job! There is nothing NEW under the sun: what you bloat out in code calling MS whatever and linking with bloated OBFUSCATION calling intellectual property protection from piracy, and the auto industry calling “testing ground” in the 1960s, has all but passed into oblivion since a team of programmers I knew who programmed everything using bloated code with do-nothing functions having people take notice of flashing consoles, alarms, scanning screens and such effects, and added in back doors; and called it all “job security;” and used it to insure nobody else could understand or debug their work; and they could double their salary on overtime and double and triple time over the holidays, these workaholics; now you call it Y2K, MS whatever, OBFUSCATION, Detroit socialistic takeover, rundown economy, marketing strategy, whatever, it’s nothing NEW…ONLY the hardware is; the software is the same old 1s and 0s I had to pump into stingy registers on the first Apollo flight like those stingy BIOS codes which will almost replace the OS…metal to metal!

To all you vendors tuned in: acoute’ moi: hear me: lend me your ear: digame: listen: stay tuned in: check it out: ich haben einen grossen unt swei kleinen koffer don’t do the dis on me: THE H/W IS WAITING ON YOUR STINGY, UNBLOATED, SIMPLE, UNCOMPLICATED, UNSOPHISTICATED, SKINNY CODE: embedded layerings, re-used modules, a MAIN pgm call consisting of 10% of the volume code of one module being called by it of these stand_alone modular routines to go bang! bang! bang! in sequence selected by MAIN single-lined calls; none of this mangled, spaghetti noodle stuff…and Ashraf and Fubar and a few other names are RIGHT! tighten up the flab, loose belt; get rid of the bloat! Become systematic, go back to school and make your self “employable!”

Did you ever run Win 3.1 on an old Packard Bell Legend 2440 75 Mhz 32bit code built and intended for WIN95, 98? Installs in 10 minutes and runs like a screaming daemon! Would drive crackers, hackers insane trying to trouble you on a 200-400 G shirtpocket USB drive the size of a cell phone with 400 logical partitions isolating everything in containers like the unsinkable German ship whatever of old…Bismarc? You could care less about bloated-code antiviral malicious whatever this or that and just use isolated, protected modules of partitions as individual firewalls; and reformat any one of them corrupted in 5 mins. You don’t try to do a 400G single part drive in your sleep…PARTITION…cascade partitions for seamless overflowing into the next if you need the application overflow. Isn’t this the principle behind Scandisk or does it stash it all away in heaven or someplace hot! How does disk compaction do it? What about System Restore, did it ever ask your permission to increase virtual memory to do the restore? These are simple, modularized, DOS system whatevers calls Peter Norton built a legacy on and sold to Symantic (?). NOT bloated code. Old is first, old is good, is basic foundation to not obtusely abuse, but to build upon carefully good.

And good to see you back, Ashraf, and do continue to hammer. Sound is good…some can receive good out of it, others can stifle your genius or creativity, or whatever, and others lose out to the sincere bigotry and persecution, ad- or inadvertantly of others. I felt an emptiness, a neglect, I felt the vacuum, vacuole along with the insult. No one valuable should be put down, such a valuable contributor…and there may even be vendor spies among us, marketing junkyard attackers to dis-sway essential contributors among us. Be of good cheer. Thanks for your ear. Sorry for the long.

Thank you!

YEAH, many of the people that post in this forum have a perverted attitude. Your example of giving bucks away is the best. Let’s try to keep a healthy position about this website and about the developers that dare to offer some piece of work here.

OK, I’m running a personal trial of this software. For a program not so big, the price ($59.95) seems expensive, but again, I’m gonna try it in-depth. I don’t wanna think a developer has overpriced his work before it shows what it can do, what it can solve and how it performs. I am a heavy Outlook user for both proffesional and personal. If this program shows me it can unload PC workload from me, I will surely think about a Pro license. BTW, this GAOTD, at least for the initial attempt, does sync with Outlook, as opposed to the stated features, which I consider a significant added value on behalf of the developer. Lemme take a tour with it.

Developer: I’m expecting the best of you. Keep up the good work.
GAOTD: thank you. You people working at this excellent site, keep up the good work :)

Might be worth looking into for others.

Thank you.