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    • Adverts in Copenhagen International Airport call on world leaders to secure a deal at the Climate Summit. December 3, 2009
      Visit http://andrewsherman.blogspot.com for full version of this post with videos and full sized pictures
      Andrew Sherman
    • November 2009 browser stats: IE8 passes IE7 December 2, 2009
      Internet Explorer remains ahead of the rest of the competition, and users continue to cling to older versions, but IE8 has finally surpassed IE7, and will likely pass IE6, easily the most hated version of Microsoft's browser among the tech-savvy, before we see the New Year. Firefox's steady gain continues and it will also likely hit the 25 percent […]
      emil.protalinski@arstechnica.com (Emil Protalinski)
    • Epsiode 13 – 15th Nov 09 December 2, 2009
      Shared by Douglas I think this is the episode with Lorenzo's Music (Madison band), though I wouldn't swear to it. They are on one of the recent releases. Download Ogg – Download Mp3
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    • The Bizarre Cathedral - 61 December 1, 2009
      Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral. read more
      Ryan Cartwright
    • Dell vs. Apple – the desktop version December 2, 2009
      Shared by Douglas it's not until the very top end that Apple can really begin to compare in cost. Following on from yesterday’s post regarding the difference in price between Dell and Apple, I also ended up doing one between desktop machines. You know, just for the sheer fucking hell of it. Similar plan – same specs where possible, same plan. Not bog-st […]
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    • Microsoft aims at IE6 holdouts, highlights security December 2, 2009
      Shared by Douglas Rarely, I'll point out good news from The Great Satan. One of the ways Microsoft plans to push Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 users to upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 is convincing them the latest version is much more secure, which it is. Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer, last week posted a story on t […]
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    • Sprint fed customer GPS data to cops over 8 million times December 1, 2009
      Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at Indiana University's School of Informatics and Computing, has made public an audio recording of Sprint/Nextel's Electronic Surveillance Manager describing how his company has provided GPS location data about its wireless customers to law enforcement over 8 million times. That's potentially millions o […]
      hannibal@arstechnica.com (Jon Stokes)
    • Bush and Rumsfeld Let Osama Escape November 29, 2009
      The main reason policy toward Afghanistan is so vexing, in my view, is that we basically failed in our main mission back in 2001 and 2002. Demands were made on the Taliban to hand over key al-Qaeda leaders, the Taliban refused, we went to war, and even though we succeeded in marginalizing the Taliban we didn’t succeed in achieving for ourselves what we’d bee […]
      myglesias
    • Google Phone reports continue; Apple rejects Motorola Droid app December 2, 2009
      Shared by Douglas Ha! Another report claims that a Google-branded phone will arrive soon, and an application that served as a promotional tool for the Motorola Droid was rejected by Apple for distribution in the iPhone App Store.
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    • For These Three Men It Is A Serious Discussion December 1, 2009
      Shared by Douglas woah there. Submitted by: laurenpettigrew via Submission Page
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    • Eko: A Traffic Light Augmented by Progress Bars December 1, 2009
      Shared by Jordan T-H this is one of the most brilliant ideas I've even borne witness to The Ecological and Economical Traffic Light Concept [relogik.com] by Damjan Stankovic is a Red Dot Design 2009 Award winner and consists of a simple yet, potentially highly practical visualization concept for everyday traffic lights that could reduce pollution and pr […]
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    • A Modest Proposal: "How to Fix Capitalism" November 22, 2009
      "How to Fix Capitalism" is an insanely ambitious post that ranges over, well, just about everything concerned with business and all it touches. The following proposals give some hint of its deep wisdom:# Abolish patents. They have not been proven to speed progress: the evidence seems to be to the contrary. They definitely increase costs, are an ine […]
      noreply@blogger.com (glyn moody)
    • Radar Absorbing Turbines Prevent Aircraft Confusion November 27, 2009
      Shared by Douglas sweet. The U.S. Military has recently expressed concern about Maryland offshore wind projects because radar could identify spinning turbine blades as low-flying aircraft, potentially disrupting its training missions in the area.  Turns out the UK Military is blocking wind projects for similar reasons.  If only there were a cool, high-tech s […]
      (author unknown)
    • Amazon Offers Three Free MP3s of Your Choosing [Dealhacker] November 27, 2009
      Shared by HeyGabe Nice! Amazon is running a brief promotion (ends November 30th) offering $3 worth of MP3s from Amazon MP3 for free. Just head to this page, follow the directions, and enjoy your free credit. Jason mentioned this in today's deals of the day, but we all know how important music can be to getting work done, so take advantage. [Amazon via U […]
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    • Get a 25-inch 1080p monitor for $149.99 shipped November 26, 2009
      Shared by Douglas hmm, this may be too good to pass up. Lowest...price...ever on a 25-incher. Amazingly, it's new, not refurbished, and you don't have to muck around with any rebates. It even has two HDMI inputs!
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    • Subscribed to tronath4n November 25, 2009
      I subscribed to tronath4n’s channel on YouTube.
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    • Subscribed to dcostalis November 25, 2009
      I subscribed to dcostalis’s channel on YouTube.
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    • Subscribed to geekazine November 25, 2009
      I subscribed to geekazine’s channel on YouTube.
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    • Subscribed to amrzeft November 25, 2009
      I subscribed to amrzeft’s channel on YouTube.
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    • Subscribed to abrahammw November 25, 2009
      I subscribed to abrahammw’s channel on YouTube.
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Archive for March, 2008

Vista SP1

Posted by douglasawh on March 1, 2008

So, I’ve been running Vista SP1 at work for a little while and I really haven’t noticed much difference.  SP1 has not been pushed to machines yet, it was distributed to OEMs and I got it through Software Acquisitions on campus.   My machine wasn’t really having too many slowness issues with Vista, which is what the SP was supposed to fix (and maybe some other things, I’m not sure).  I did recently have some performance issues while trying out andLinux.  Though the performance issue were with the Linux side and not the Windows side, I did also notice:

I also posted at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=702357&page=3

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