Feb 29 2008
For those in the U.S., Microsoft is cutting prices only on the higher-end versions of Vista, and only for the upgrade version used to move from an earlier copy of Vista. The suggested price for Vista Ultimate drops to $219 from $299, while Home Premium falls to $129, from $159.
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Feb 28 2008
A must-have for all Geeks!
TCP/IP Registry Values for Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
This white paper describes the registry values for the TCP/IP protocol stack in Microsoft® Windows Vista™ and Windows Server® 2008. The intended audience for this paper is network engineers and support professionals who are already familiar with TCP/IP (both IP version 4 [IPv4] and IP version 6 [IPv6]).
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Feb 28 2008
The Vista SP1 benchmarking silliness keeps getting, well, sillier…
MS commissioned a company to run and report on: Responsiveness of Windows Vista, Windows Vista SP1, and Windows XP on common home / office tasks
Immediately it was picked up by several places as news.
The results are in — XP trumps Vista in benchmark tests
How embarassing — Microsoft commissions tests that compare Vista and XP, with the goal no doubt being to show how much better the new version is. Except that’s not what the test results prove.
Principled Technologies Inc., which performed the tests on the vendor’s behalf, showed Vista SP1 actually lagged XP on about 46 per cent of the business-oriented operations it measured. (The gap was 61 per cent on the consumer-oriented tests, but that’s not primarily what we’re concerned with here.)
Microsoft: Windows XP faster than Vista SP1 in some cases Windows XP is faster than the new Windows Vista Service Pack 1 in completing common consumer and business tasks on PCs coming out of sleep mode, according to tests commissioned by Microsoft Corp.
Report: Vista on par with XP performance; SP1 is fasterIn any event, if you download the above linked reports (the first two are new while the next two are from last year), you’ll discover, surprise surprise, that “overall, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP performed comparably on most test operations [but] Windows Vista SP1 was notably more responsive after rebooting than Windows XP on several common home operations.” This was true for both common home and business tasks.
Gentlemen, start your complaining.
First you’ll notice the articles seem to have completely different spins on the same info. (XP faster, XP a little faster, XP not faster)
Second, this study was PAYED FOR BY MICROSOFT.
Comments anyone???
Feb 28 2008
Raxco released v.43 of Perfectdisk 2008 and then pulled it.
Continue reading “Perfectdisk 2008 v.43 Released, and Pulled”
Feb 28 2008
Today a new feedback site is launched at brainstorm.ubuntu.com that will make it easier for users of Ubuntu to suggests ideas for improvements. Voting makes it clear which ideas have the most support in the user community and should be given priority. We have of course been inspired by the IdeaStorm site from our good friends at Dell but modified the concept to fit our needs.
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Feb 27 2008
New poll up (in the right margin —> ). Please vote!
I’m currently trying to switch most of my email from my domains own email over to Gmail. I’m curious as to what you use and why?
Feb 27 2008
AnandTech has a great review of Vista SP1. A few interesting Quotes:
Continue reading “A Second Shot: Windows Vista SP1″
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Feb 27 2008
Jack O’Brien sent in this article from Ars Technica:
One of the most significant new features added in alpha 5 is support for Wubi, a new installation mechanism that makes it easier for Ubuntu and Windows to coexist on the same computer. Wubi provides a complete Ubuntu installer that can be run in Windows from the Ubuntu Live CD. It installs Ubuntu into a folder on the Windows file system and sets up a boot menu so that users can choose between Windows and Ubuntu when the computer starts.
Unlike a regular dual-boot configuration, Wubi doesn’t require users to create a partition on their hard drives for Ubuntu. When Ubuntu is installed with Wubi, it can be uninstalled directly from the Add/Remove Programs utility in Windows.
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Feb 27 2008
Sysinternals Freeware updates and 1 new program:
ShellRunas v1.0: ShellRunas provides functionality similar to that of the Runas tool to launch programs as a different user via a convenient shell context-menu entry. This makes it more convenient than Runas for heavy Explorer users.
Process Explorer v11.10: This Process Explorer update adds a number of enhancements, including support for high DPI, display of paging and standby list sizes on Vista, and display of cycles consumed on threads tab on Vista. It also reports the COM object running inside of Dllhost processes and the tasks running inside of Vista Taskeng host processes in the process view hover tooltip.
Autoruns v9.13: Fixes bug where Autoruns could crash when looking at the icon properties of third-party DLLs.
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Feb 27 2008
Jalbum sent over this Press Release:
Today, Jalbum.net launches a new site for sharing of photo albums. The new site will enable the extensive Jalbum community to share their created albums, connect with others and explore thousands of album appearances.
Albums can have any look
The endless customization possibilities of Jalbum’s web album software has attracted millions of users who enjoy the control of the output of their online photo presentations. Since Jalbum albums can have any look, the new site will be a place to browse both great photos and the multitude of presentations that users produce with the software.
Photo albums can be placed on any site
With Jalbum, the photo albums can be entire web sites by themselves. Once an album is created, users may publish them to Jalbum’s free hosting alternative or any other site. The new community site will display albums that are hosted anywhere. Jalbum users will always have control of their content which includes the ability to move albums from one site to another. Jalbum will never copyright user images.
“- The Jalbum community is passionate about the presentation of photos. With the release of our new site, we are providing a better way of sharing albums created with our software. As our users often express an interest via images, this site will make it easier for them to connect with likeminded” said David Ekholm, Jalbum’s founder.
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Feb 26 2008
Not ‘offically’ released yet. Should be by days end (check the Tbird homepage).
Security updates and bugfixes.
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*edit 19:20 hours- Tbird 2.0.0.12 is now officially out.
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Feb 23 2008
The same guy that did the Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2 – Benchmarked article did another round of benchmarks. Vista: 32-bit vs. 64-bit & RTM vs. SP1 The one quote that really matters: “All of the systems showed a decline in benchmark scores after installing SP1.”
In a related note, Ed Bott asked, “How do you benchmark real-world work?“. My short answer, You Can’t. As someone who has done his fair share of benchmarks in the past (actually, way too many benchmarks) I learned a long time ago that benchmarks have many, many problems. It is hard enough to benchmark hardware but benchmarking software (including OS’s) is even worse.
On a personal note, a big thank you to everyone who commented in If you built or bought a computer right now… I haven’t made up my mind about what I’m gonna do yet but you all came up with some solid options.
Off Topic
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I have always made a point of keeping politics and/or social issues out of my site content. But. The race for Prez, the candidates, and the wall-to-wall coverage of the coming election is enough to make me barf. To quote Forrest Gump, “That’s all I have to say about that.”
My wife and I were supposed to go to see Van Halen last night in Charlottesville, VA. It was to be a much needed break. We had a hotel room for the night and plans for a night on the town. The concert was canceled. While there is no official word as to why, I think it is because one selfish little…’person’ decided to open her mouth about stuff that isn’t anyone’s biz. I’m sure that breaking news just made Wolfie feel swell. Note to Valerie: When you have a kid you take stuff like that to the grave. Real classy move.
Oh, and I’m still not rich.
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