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23. March 2007 @ 19:41 |
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lol, I know, I couldnt tell one twit from the other.
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25. March 2007 @ 07:36 |
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Logitech: Setpoint Mouse Software for Vista 3.3 Build 165
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25. March 2007 @ 07:40 |
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Realtek AC'97 Drivers for Vista 6.0.1.6231 WHQL
Author: Realtek
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Realtek AC'97 Drivers for the Vista operating system.
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Realtek High Definition Audio for Vista 1.63
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Realtek High Definition Audio drivers for Vista.
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25. March 2007 @ 19:50 |
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I think the best way is just to stick with XP. I tried Vista last week, and it's decent, no real bugs, but nothing really that much better in it. I say stick to Vista and download that theme changer to make XP look better. :-)
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26. March 2007 @ 09:08 |
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Vista security 'huge success'
p2pnet.net news:- Vista's first 90-days, "have been a huge success as compared to the first three months of Windows XP, three versions of Linux, and even the current version of the Mac operating system".
Who says so? Jeff Jones, the strategy director in Microsoft's security technology unit.
He counted vulnerabilities patched in Vista, XP, Mac OS X 10.4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Workstation, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, and Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 within that period, says GameShout.
But the story says 90 days may be a bit early for a benchmark and, says CNET News, "Despite having the fewest security holes, Windows was hit by more critical flaws than either Red Hat Linux or Mac OS X, Symantec found.
Almost one-third of the 39 Windows holes were high severity, and 20 were medium severity, says CNET, adding:
"Just two of the 208 Red Hat Linux security holes discovered were high severity, with 130 medium severity and 70 low severity. Only one of the Mac OS X holes was considered high severity, with 31 classed as medium and 11 as low severity.
"The report found that Windows also had the most vulnerabilities with exploit code and exploit activity, which Symantec claims may be one explanation why Microsoft has been pressured to develop and issue patches more quickly than other vendors."
Slashdot Slashdot it!
Also See:
CNET News - Study: Windows has fewest security holes, March 23, 2007
GameShout - Microsoft Gives Windows Vista an A-Plus for Security, March 23, 2007
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26. March 2007 @ 09:25 |
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Microsoft Windows Vista OS rated as ?Most Secure? by Symantec
Mar 25, 2007 - 10:04 AM - by Digital Dave
Oh... weren't they just bashing MS?
Microsoft, the software giant has frequently been criticized for releasing insecure products, with security holes and vulnerabilities galore. However, Symantec, the world?s leading security company thinks otherwise, and has said so in a forthright manner in its latest research report.
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Microsoft Windows Vista OS rated as ?Most Secure? by Symantec
Microsoft, the software giant has frequently been criticized for releasing insecure products, with security holes and vulnerabilities galore. However, Symantec, the world?s leading security company thinks otherwise, and has said so in a forthright manner in its latest research report.
In Symantec?s 11th Internet Security Threat report, the company said that when it comes to widely-used operating systems, Microsoft has being doing better overall when compared to its leading commercial competitors. This report was released this week itself, and covers a vast range of security and vulnerability issues over the last six months of 2006.
The Symantec report found that Microsoft Windows had the fewest number of patches and the shortest average patch development time when compared with the five operating systems that the security giant had monitored in the second half of 2006.
During this period, 39 vulnerabilities, 12 of which were ranked high priority or severe, were found in Microsoft Windows. However, Microsoft took an average of 21 days to fix them all.
The next best performer was Red Hat Linux, which required an average of 58 days to address a total of 208 vulnerabilities. However, this was a significant increase in both problems and fix time over the first half of 2006, when there were 42 vulnerabilities in Red Hat with an average fix time of 13 days.
Next up was Mac OS X, and if you read further you will realize that Apple has absolutely nothing to boast about. Symantec found 43 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X and a 66 day turnaround on fixes. Fortunately, only one was high priority. Like the others, this is also an increase over the first half of the year. For the first half of 2006, 21 vulnerabilities were found in Mac OS X and Apple took on average 37 days to fix them.
In the rear, was HP-UX from Hewlett Packard and Solaris from Sun. HP-UX had 98 vulnerabilities in the second half of 2006 and took 101 days to fix them. Sun, which had 63 vulnerabilities, took an average of 122 days to fix them. The company didn?t do any better in the first half of 2006 either, as Sun took 89 days to fix 16 vulnerabilities.
According to Alfred Huger, vice president of engineering for Symantec Security Center, the real problem is with Web applications, where two-thirds of all vulnerabilities are found. Operating systems are fairly minor, and despite the long time periods, the vendors are doing ?an ok job, just not stellar.?
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26. March 2007 @ 10:28 |
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GameShout - Microsoft Gives Windows Vista an A-Plus for Security
I love this.. what a quote.
anyway. I have the most secure OS known to man.. Even I can't open any damn ports through the firewall, and it's my machine...
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26. March 2007 @ 11:13 |
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Vista firewall Control 32-bit 1.0.5
Author: SphinxSoftware
Date: 2007-03-26
Size: 816 Kb
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Requires: Vista
Protects your applications from undesirable network incoming and outgoing activity, controls applications internet access. Allows you to control personal information leakage via controlling application network traffic.
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Designed for Windows Vista
Free versions available
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Special editions for U3 smart devices
Protection from incoming and outgoing threats
Simplicity of operation
Per-application security settings
Shareware versions of Vista firewall Control Plus are available at the author's website with more features.
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Vista firewall Control 64-bit 1.0.5
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Date: 2007-03-26
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Requires: Vista
Protects your applications from undesirable network incoming and outgoing activity, controls applications internet access. Allows you to control personal information leakage via controlling application network traffic.
Features:
Designed for Windows Vista
Free versions available
Special editions for portable devices (USB flash/HDD drives, iPod etc)
Special editions for U3 smart devices
Protection from incoming and outgoing threats
Simplicity of operation
Per-application security settings
Shareware versions of Vista firewall Control Plus are available at the author's website with more features.
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27. March 2007 @ 10:18 |
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YOU MUST ALL WATCH THIS VIDEO!
I almost p*ssed myself watching this, it's some grade A microsoft comedy ;-)
And THIS video of the first demo of the same software...
Hilarious.
irc://arcor.de.eu.dal.net/wasted_hate
Wanna tell me off, go ahead.
I dare ya !
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27. March 2007 @ 11:38 |
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OMG sweet vista monologs... lmao
Chuck
"Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes." Titus Livius (59BC-17AD)
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PC World refuses Windows refund,VISTA REFUND?
You have to pay for something you don't want
By Nick Farrell: Thursday 29 March 2007, 08:03
AN INQ reader who bought a PC from PC World has had no joy getting his money back on the pre-installed Windows software that came with the kit.
Barry Dorrans bought the PC so that he could test the Windows Home Server Beta and wanted his cash back on the pre-installed copy of Vista.
He reasoned that even if he put Vista back on the machine he would use his MSDN licence for Vista Ultimate.
But while outfits such as Dell are giving punters their money back, apparently PC World is telling punters to go forth and multiply, in a nice way of course. A letter back from the outfit says that the operating system comes as part of the package pre-loaded onto the machine and therefore no refund.
Barry was not deterred. Having read the Vista EULA he knew that the licence said that he could reject the software by not accepting the terms and get a refund.
Just to make sure he penned another missive to PC World and attached a BBC story to show the good people athem how this was being interpreted elsewhere. Again no dice.
PC World suggested he talk to Vole directly as it had nothing to do with them. Barry tells us he has asked for this in writing so that he can have a quiet world with Microsoft Licensing.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38577
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29. March 2007 @ 05:47 |
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29. March 2007 @ 10:24 |
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Originally posted by :
YOU MUST ALL WATCH THIS VIDEO!
I almost p*ssed myself watching this, it's some grade A microsoft comedy ;-)
this has got to be the funniest thing i have ever seen 
"When I look at the smiles on all the childrens faces, I just know theyre about to jab me with something."- Homer Simpson This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 29. March 2007 @ 11:09
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29. March 2007 @ 13:31 |
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YOU MUST ALL WATCH THIS VIDEO!
I almost p*ssed myself watching this, it's some grade A microsoft comedy ;-)
this has got to be the funniest thing i have ever seen
I watched the whole thing and the end result was only three lines of code! And He still had to type "INFO" because all he could get was "Info".
Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
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29. March 2007 @ 16:54 |
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Vista - 20 Million Copies Sold In 30 Days - No Way!
Our good friends in Redmond must be using the new math when they are boasting of a sales figure that just doesn?t make sense. I have read several articles about Microsofts claims of selling 20 million ?licenses? of Vista in 30 days. In fact I was so impressed that I tossed my XP laptop in the trash, and rushed right out to buy a Vista machine. Yeah, right!
First you have to understand how these numbers may have been calculated. Remember all the folks who bought computers from about the end of October 2006 that were issued upgrades to Vista? And that after the Vista launch, were shipped copies of Vista which some folks are still waiting for? Well if you count those as licenses issued during the first 30 days of the launch, that adds up to a lot of licenses. BUT, the time frame really extends backwards to about 4 months.
Next, we have to look at the licenses issued to the OEM?s for the machines that are licensed, but that are still sitting in warehouses or on store shelves. Because a license has been issued for a computer, is it a real ?sale? until the system is actually purchased by a consumer who takes it home and activates the copy? I personally don?t think so.
Here is the best one that I like the best. Vista has sold 20 million copies in 30 days and it took 2 or 3 months, depending on who?s figures you believe, to sell 17 million copies of XP. OK. That doesn?t take into account one small little factor. 5 years ago when XP was released there were not as many computers as there are today. I don?t think anyone can fudge on this logic.
And here is the one figure that Microsoft has also not made public. Does the number of licenses also include the free copies that were given away free of charge to beta testers? I got a free copy. So did my good friend Denny. And they are licensed copies so they do qualify as part of the 20 million.
If Microsoft sells 20 millions copies a month of Windows Vista, than in approximately 11.3 months every computer in the world will be running Vista. This is Ron?s new math. ;-)
Comments welcome.
PS I wonder if these numbers include those who bought and installed Vista, formatted their disks and went back to XP?
http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/2...30-days-no-way/
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31. March 2007 @ 03:10 |
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"PS I wonder if these numbers include those who bought and installed Vista, formatted their disks and went back to XP?"
Or if the numbers include the thousands of people who downloaded it illegaly for free!
Apple G5 Two dual-core 2.5GHz PowerPC G5 processors 1.25GHz 1MB L2 cache per core1GB of 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM 250GB Serial ATA hard drive 16x SuperDrive (double-layer) AirPort Extreme+Bluetooth Three open PCI-Express expansion slots NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT with 256MB SDRAM 23 inch apple HD cinema display. One 600 GB external Maxtor hard drive, three external 160 GB Western digital hard drive's, four external dvd burners, two photo printers,
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31. March 2007 @ 03:16 |
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Originally posted by MasterRE:
"PS I wonder if these numbers include those who bought and installed Vista, formatted their disks and went back to XP?"
Or if the numbers include the thousands of people who downloaded it illegaly for free!
Much like console numbers or any corporate "sold sold sold" numbers I think it means what the retailers bought.
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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31. March 2007 @ 18:57 |
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Several pages ago I did promise I would get back about not being able to unload vista and install xp on new bought computer.
After gathering all the info I got from this thread, and as I said I would take it over to bestbuy circuitcity and another solo computer repair store.
Bestbuy to me were the biggest dummies, I made the geeks there read all the posts I printed from this thread about how it can be done, the super there said maybe it can be but good luck locating drives for xp that will work properly plus some other excuses because he couldnt give me proper answers.
Circuitcity guys sounded way more knowledgable, talking with two of them both said yeah it can be done but problomatic, especially getting the drives together and or maybe some hardware issues that might be a problem, the one kid said he did it with his notebook everything worked fine except he could not get his sound to work no matter what he tried, said he didnt care he doesnt use it anyway.
Than thier main guy finally got some free time and as we spoke, he asked me why the issue with vista cause I would not buy a new computer with vista on, I said I had several issues with vista but my main one was that I always make a backup copy of my store bought dvd's and with vista it wont allow it, he said I'm not the only one that has been bringing that up, that plenty customers have been asking for xp on new computers for many reasons also.
But here is what shocked the hell out of me, now I dont know if he is right or wrong, but he said all you have to do with vista to disable thier DRM crap is to disable your user account info, he said thats all thier is to it, once you do that he said your home free, he said he also has been making backups forever, said he uses ripit4me, dvdfab AnyDVD and others and burns with no problem, he said it was that simple, he said his big brother is some big mahaff that works for Dell and he figured it in no time, I said it cant be that easy, and I'm not gonna buy a new computer on that hearsay alone even though I hope he is right. His big gripe about vista is that many customers have brought back thier computers because of compatability issues, especially the lower end models, he said trying to run vista esp. on lower end models is like running a truck with a 4 cylinder engine in it.
The last place was the solo computershop, they just laughed and said if you want it done we will do it but we offer no guarantee if you have compatability issues, and a $300 price tag, yeah right.
Anyway, dont matter to me anymore, I found a great HP highend model, one year old and hardly used from craigslist, this baby was like brand new, and a 20in viewsonic widescreen, just a beauty, I didnt care about that extra slot for an extra hardrive to much but no biggie, it has an amd dualcore, also didnt like that the 250 hardrive was partitioned, and my biggest fear was that it didnt come with systemrestore disc's, I tought the guy was lying to me, than found out it doesnt come with it, you have to create your own, kind stupid if you ask me, oh and it only allows you yo do it one time, my luck I'll screw something up while trying to create one lol.
But all in all what a nice system, very happy with it, oh I did try to call HP asking about the systemrestore thing, I couldnt understand that guy if you beat me with a stick, forget it I said.
I live near Philly and got this baby from a guy in Jersey, it was only about a 30 mile drive and walked out with it for only $400, it was a happy day.
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31. March 2007 @ 19:36 |
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Interesting. Maybe there really is driver problems. I dont really use the sound though except for with the headphones. So I could try putting XP on.
Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
"Opinions are immunities to being told were wrong." - Relient K
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31. March 2007 @ 19:59 |
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Can someone confirm that the vister DRM crap can be "turned off"?!?!!?
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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31. March 2007 @ 20:10 |
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I to would like to hear from somebody from AD that did what the kid said he did from circuitcity, just buy eliminating the user account or account administrater thing or what ever the its called to disable the DRM crap, as much as I want to believe that kid I still want to hear it from somebody at AD.
It just sounds to simple, why after all the reading I have done on this subject and listining to so many different people that this so called simple solution has never been brought up before.
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31. March 2007 @ 20:25 |
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check in this thread or ireland's tech download thread as i think i saw something about it but not certain.
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31. March 2007 @ 20:28 |
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Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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31. March 2007 @ 20:52 |
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Zippy, I checked out all 3 links, the most disturbing one was the bottem one, I'm just so thankfull I got my used but pratically new HP with xp, and will use it till like that guy in the article says till xp is rendered useless cause of no more support, till than i'm xp all the way and vista can kiss my ass, till after, maybe linux will be the way to go and be more user friendly I hope.
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31. March 2007 @ 21:03 |
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they dont kid when they say useing vister you sign your soul away,only the rich, stupid and brave will fool with vister,XP was a better OS at launch thats what truly scary.
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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