Major Geeks has posted Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 Final.
WD VelociRaptor
Western Digital announced their newest drive today:
Engineered for maximum speed! WD VelociRaptor, the newest member of our unique class of 10,000 RPM SATA hard drives, combines a SATA 3 Gb/s interface and 16 MB cache, to deliver performance that’s up to 35% faster than its speedy older brother.
PerfectDisk 2008 Service Pack 2 (Build 52)
# New Feature
* Improved boot time defragmentation performance — up to 5 times faster. Results will vary based on number of files, file sizes and drive size.
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Sysinternal Tools Updated
ATI Catalyst 8.4 Drivers Released
Firefox 2.0.0.14 Is Out
Firefox 2.0.0.14 fixed security issue: Crash in JavaScript garbage collector
Download from the Firefox home page.
Windows XP SP3 Release Dates
My New System Is Up And Running
First off a big THANK YOU to the guys who helped me pick the right parts. You are truly awesome and I cannot thank you enough.
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Vista's UAC security prompt was designed to annoy you
At the RSA 2008 confab in San Francisco, Microsoft admitted that UAC was designed, in fact, to annoy. Microsoft’s David Cross came out and said so: “The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I’m serious,” said Cross.
When will Windows 7 ship?
For those who care, Ed Bott discusses the issue.
I’m betting that Windows 7 will be ready in the second half of 2009.
All these guesses about Windows 7 and I can’t even get a straight answer on XP SP3…