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Ubuntu 8.10ish – The Intrepid Ibex

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With Hardy now past feature-freeze it’s time to start to plan features that are being lined up for inclusion after Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is released in April.
And so I’d like to introduce you to the Intrepid Ibex, the release which is planned for October 2008, and which is likely to have the version number 8.10.

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If you built or bought a computer right now…

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O.K., this old ‘puter is beginning to get on my nerves. So the search has begun for a new system. I’ve built my own systems for many, many, many years but the prices for hardware today is so high I may even consider a Dell or HP.
So I would like to see what some of you might suggest. If you built or bought a computer right now what would it be?
Here are my ‘specs / no specs’:
Intel Chipset and CPU, single video card (not onboard), I don’t overclock anymore.
Please list at least the basic specs (feel free to add to this)
Motherboard:
CPU:
Memory:
Video Card:

Are Mac users snobs? “The Street” thinks so

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Mac users strong enough to watch The Street’s video clip without getting so offended they’ll smash their screen will discover the 2 minute and 18 second video says the following: Mac users “self centred, arrogant, conceited”. Out of the Mindset Media study of 7500 Mac and PC users, “Mac users do really think they are superior”. They think they are “self important, extraordinary and more intellectually curious”.

Hit up Neowin for more.
Freakin’ hillarious!!!

Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2 – Benchmarked

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ZDnet takes a crack at XP v. Vista. Part 1 & Part 2

So, onto conclusions. Looking at the data there’s only one conclusion that can be drawn – Windows XP SP2 is faster than Windows Vista SP1. End of story. Out of the fifteen tests carried out, XP SP2 beat Vista SP1 in eleven, Vista SP1 beat XP SP2 in two of the tests, and two of the tests resulted in a draw.

But, you didn’t really need yet more proof that XP is faster than Vista, did you???
Also there are alleged performance gains for XP SP3 coming.

Time To Run Windows Update

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Lots of updates available for XP, 2K3, Vista, Office, IE6, IE7, etc…
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2008

***For those who have installed SP1:
As far as I can tell the 9 updates that actually apply to Vista itself are already included in SP1 (by comparing the dates on the files, and 1 update is actually listed inside SP1).
(No, I am not 100% positive and the SP1 release notes haven’t been updated)
These are:
Windows6.0-KB937287-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB938371-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB942831-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB943055-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB943899-v2-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB946026-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB946041-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB946456-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB947172-x86.msu