I recently installed McAfee VirusScan 2006 and Personal Firewall Plus 2006. Around this time, I discovered that my ATI video card’s control panel, Catalyst Control Center, stopped functioning: it wouldn’t even open.
It turns out that Catalyst Control Center needs access to the Internet, and Personal Firewall Plus 2006 was blocking it, apparently by default. Click the thumbnail on the right to see a screenshot of Personal Firewall, and notice that CLI.exe is marked “BLOCKED”.
To fix this, open the McAfee SecurityCenter, and click Personal Firewall Plus on the left side. Then click the link, “View the Internet Applications List”. If CLI.exe (with an ATI icon) is BLOCKED, then right-click on it, and choose “Allow Full Access”.
So, just why does Catalyst require access to the Internet? Who knows, but if you run ATI cards for a while like I have, you come to expect dumb things like this.
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” — Thomas Paine
“God is everything science has yet to explain.” —unknown
Sometimes CNN really outdoes themselves with their online polls (click for full-size):
Umm… WTF is that?
Mark Steyn has published a well-argued editorial piece on the failures of the United Nations:
Can the U.S. force the UN to reform itself? Look at it this way: With hindsight, the UN was most effective when it was least effective—that’s to say, the four decades between Korea and the Gulf War, when the Cold War’s mutually-assured vetoes at least accurately represented the global stand-off. Now, however, we’re in a unipolar world. As a result, the UN is no longer a permanent talking-shop for the world’s powers but an alternative power in and of itself—a sort of ersatz superpower intended to counter the real one. Consider the 85 yes-or-no votes America made in the General Assembly in 2003: Arab League members voted against the U.S. position 88.7% of the time; ASEAN members voted against the U.S. position 84.5% of the time; Islamic Conference members voted against the U.S. position 84.1% of the time; African members voted against the U.S. position 83.8% of the time; Non-Aligned Movement members voted against the U.S. position 82.7% of the time; and European Union members voted against the U.S. position 54.5% of the time.
I have saved the article on my blog for your reading pleasure. Originally published by Hillsdale College, here.
