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Update on PerfectCache

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Previously discussed in this post, I’ve got some more info on PerfectCache.

1 – Raxco now has a product page up here: PerfectCache 5.0

2 – There is anew video and blog post over at their blog: PerfectCache in action — automatic disk caching demo

3 – Reader Redseujac was right about the price. It is $79.99 USD (on sale, regular $99.99).

4 – According to Joe Abusamra at Racxo the program is powered by the SuperSpeed engine. ( I am assuming it is this programcooltools)

My thoughts so far.

I haven’t had time to do any real benchmarking on this program (for whatever they are worth) nor any real world testing. Programs seemed a little snappier but other than that I haven’t noticed anything spectacular. Eventually I will get around to testing it out more (but not any time soon).

For me the price is prohibitive, even at the $80 sale price.

VirtualBox 4.0.12 Released

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virtualboxDownload & Info

VirtualBox 4.0.12 (released 2011-07-15)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes
Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds 166 and above)
VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)
Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances whith VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)
Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA controller (bug #8592)
Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)
Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading when several VMs were transmitting at once
3D support: fixed GL_VERSION string for different locales (bug #8916)
Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official builds
Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)

Firefox 5.0.1 Released

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firefoxPlease read the release notes (below) before updating. Looks like there is nothing here for Windows and Linux users.
Download, Release notes.

The latest version of Firefox has the following changes:
Worked around an issue in Mac OS X 10.7 that could cause Firefox to crash
Worked around an issue caused by Apple’s “Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 5” where the Java plugin would not be loaded