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Caldor

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  1. Sorry, but you cant really justify all your arguments there: Clearly, Firefox is faster than IE7 in some areas, however as I said in another post IE8 has a new revision of Trident under the hood with many optimisations that may very well change this situation. To say that FF is more secure than IE7 is untrue in the situation of using both on Vista. The key thing here is that IE7 on Vista has protected mode and FF3 does not. This is a very important thing because if a security exploit is found in IE7, in the end it really cant do anything because of protected mode sandboxing all the securiy tokens for the session. To get the same in FF you have to run other programs and mess around to set it up.
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    Avast on x64

    So Im using Avast to have a look at it. 1. How do I purge the contents of the VRDB? 2. Im dissapointed to see that the processes of Avast are mostly 32 bit and are therefore being thunked down by wow64. This is slow and inefficient. They said it supports 64bit but it doesnt really at a kernel level. Cheers
  3. consumer grade routers are junk! Try using torrent with 150 connections and see them fall apart. Use untangle on an old machine. It rocks!
  4. IE8 uses a new build of Trident that has many optmisations in it.
  5. IMHO security starts with the users brains, then second, using a secure operating system. That isnt XP....Vista, Linux, BSD etcetc is. I use a nat router, Vista firewall, Windows Defender and seem to bounce around between Avast, Antivir etcetc. Im using Firefox 3 RC3 as current builds of IE8 are unstable and not ready for public beta. Though I will probably goto IE8 when I can as FF3 does not have the reduced permissions mode that IE has without using something like sandboxie.
  6. For those of you who might be suffering from corrupted files on Nvidia's 7xx series platform you can use: sfc /scannow in a vista admin command session It will identify any core windows components that are corrupted
  7. Im running it and have been on internal connect builds pre beta 1. Its a major architectural shift especially with the new page renderer. Performance is slightly better than IE7. I like it.
  8. IMHO your better off leaving the default windows firewall and running a UTM gateway on your network boundary - untangle release candidate is FOSS and runs great on old hardware.
  9. So Ive been using hashcalc for md5, sha-1, crc32 etcetc but its kinda kludgy and old. Anyone got a better freeware? Thanks
  10. Its my contention that no product can do this properly. Its an issue of where to mask the complexity from the user. It will result in bad transcodes.
  11. Its a patent pool legal minefield. Besides, avisynth frameserving and some open source tools will do all of what you need anyway. Video transcoding is far more complex than what people think and the ideal of pressing a button and everything is done is a pipe dream.
  12. Hi, Google earth detections are wrong on Vista. To fix, here is the code I use: [*Google Earth] LangSecRef=3021 Detect=HKCU\SOFTWARE\Google\Google Earth Plus Default=False FileKey1=%localappdata%\Google\GoogleEarth|dbcache.dat FileKey2=%localappdata%\Google\GoogleEarth|dbcache.dat.index FileKey3=%appdata%\Google\GoogleEarth|*.* RegKey1=HKCU\Software\Google\Google Earth Plus\Search Also there is a whole bunch of stuff in Vista that CCleaner doesnt clean. Generally Vista could do with improving support for. Some examples: RSS Feeds and feeds cache not deleted Thumbnails not deleted LocalLow cleaning Cryptnet cache cleaning and so on
  13. Its really not that high end guys. For example, Im not getting the latest QX yorkfield ($US1400), or 4GB of fast DDR3 ram ($US1000), a 128GB solid state drive or anything else over the top. I think its just trisli that will set this system apart. Though in the long run its a tax concession and I can sell the cards second hand later on. Apart from tri sli its just a nice motherboard, 4gb of pretty cheap ddr2 and a run of the mill yorkfield quad core. The Tagan ESA 1300 doesnt have any reviews but reviews of the similar ITZ were not positive. The Thermaltake designs dont support ESA so it looks like I will need to wait until Thermaltake\CoolerMaster\X3\Corsair etcetc put out ESA supported psus.
  14. The proper way to do this is to setup AviSynth as a frameserver into Virtualdub. If you dont know what this means you can learn from AviSynth documentation and virtual dub.
  15. Thanks mate, that Tagan BZ ESA 1300 looks sweet. Ill check around for some reviews. I'm an ICT consultant and the cost goes against tax as "tool of trade". LOL Here's my spec so far: EVGA 780i mobo - or maybe the EVGA FTW or maybe the Asus Striker II. I heard rumour that 790i may support DDR2 but it all depends on how and when it plays out. I wont be going DDR3 the price / performance is just crazy. 4GB 2x2 G.Skill F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ. These overclock very well and IMHO are just as good as the OCZ reapers but far less costly. 2x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 RAID HE103UJ. One for system and one for data. I am particular here to buy the enterprise grade HDD and not the crapsumer version. Its called RAID, but I dont run RAID, it jusat signfies the enterprise grade drive. RAID 5 is the only raid level I'd be interested in but that requires a hardware xor engine and I wont have space on a tri sli mobo for it to fit and regardless, RAID isnt a backup solution anyway. Lian-Li PC-P80 Case and Lian-Li C-01B Black DVD Bezel. Or the TJ07. Or the Cosmos S ESA. I dont like the dorky LED fans on the PC-P80 but could replace those with other 140mm fans. Neither the Lian Li or Silvestone support ESA so Im looking at the Cosmos maybe. The TJ10 wont have ESA until March and no plans for the TJ07. I'd like to run ESA, but the ability to use EATX mobos and having 10 slots on the PC-P80 is handy too so its a hard choice. I'll be running an old QX intel quad core until intel bring out their Yorkfields. For graphics I am now waiting until March cos the 9800GTXs are delayed from February so old hardware here again until then. It'll be three 9800GTXs more than likely. IMHO Ive never seen water cooling give a consistently better overclock than high end air so it will probably be a Ultra Extreme with two scythe 120mm fans. This isnt an over the top system. Im not getting 8GB of RAM or the highest end Intel. Im planning for a very solid machine that makes sense - for example the performance difference between 4gb and 8gb of ram on Vista x64 in most uses is zero. Same with the processor the new QX yorkfield is just waaaaaay to expensive to be worth it, and the 1600mhz fsb can be achieved through overclock anyway. I will however get the 12mb cache version of the quad core yorkfield.
  16. The M1 build is not a public build and it is stolen software that people are downloading to get a glimpse of. As for it's feature set IMHO there isnt a significant difference from the M1 build to win server 08 or Vista. It will take more milestone releases before features of significant get added - especially remembering the Vista feature list was cut down. I also think it will be 2009 and not 2010 for the next windows.
  17. Ok, tax time means a new PC for my workstation....errr gaming and entertainment machine heh So Ive got the spec pretty much nailed down now but the PSU remains oustanding. The criteria is: 1. Must be atleast 1000 watts 2. Must have 3 six pin pcie 3. Must have 3 eight pin pci 4. Must have totally stable and clean power 5. Would be nice to have good efficiency >85% 6. Would be nice for modular plugs for cable management 7. On a whim, ESA support would be cool for geek factor This will be a 780i, tri sli, quad core overclocked beastie.
  18. I use the open source UTM called Untangle. Its great, and runs on old hardware. IMHO the best way to go for UTM security at home, and even for enteprises.
  19. Theyre getting better at it - anyone remember the I love you malware? Social engineering works pretty well.
  20. Mate Id be happy to be wrong but I do believe that quad crossfire and tri sli wont be available in XP drivers because advanced frame rendering modes in XP is limited over Vista. i.e. My understanding is the architecture of the middleware with directx9 doesnt support it. For it to happen I believe MS would have to heavily patch DX9 which I dont think they would do.
  21. Jim, yes I agree it would be nice if programs could be easily and practically protected from third party modification. However the reality is they are routinely modified - have a look at the crack scene for example. Its difficult to not have programs modified. The best way IMHO is to use something like an MD5 hash sum to compare if there is real doubt about it being modified. There is very good reason why decades of computer platforms have operated in least priveledged mode. Real security involves looking beyond the ego and ignorances of so called power users. UAC is not bugged. Not remembering previous admin credentials is a purposely designed feature, just like in UNIX. I am part of the SP1 beta program on connect and SP1 does not change this.
  22. For me, Vista is the only OS that supports the programs I want to use. Vista runs all the usual stuff like openoffice, paint.net, ffdshow and so on just as they run on XP. Since I enjoy gaming, Vista offers me DirectX 10 and support for multi gpu configurations of three and four gpus. It is unlikely XP will ever support these new crossfire/sli setups.
  23. Actually, there is more unpatched security flaws in XP than Vista if you research the data. I wouldnt call 100 million users a sign that everyone is staying away from Vista. Its many more desktop users than MacOSX, BSD, Linux etcetc all combined. It's a common theme amongst some MS users - I heard the same with people sticking with 2K instead of XP, with 95 instead of 98 and so on. Actually I remember windows for workgroups 3.11 being the same said about it.
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