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So far my experience in Vista has been positive. Like all gamers who are now using Vista, I am consumed by the “PC performance” AKA “Vista Experience” points. When I tested my experience at 2GB of ram, I had a memory score of 5.4. I added 2GB more (IDENTICAL) memory to the machine for a total of 4GB, now my score is 5.3.

Current System Build:

• Asus P5W DH Deluxe
• 4GB Corsair 800 MHz Memory
• Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
• Raid 0 Seagate HD x2
• Seagate HD for backup
• Nvidia 7600GT (Riva Tuner, unlocked 16 pipelines)
• Vista Ultimate SP1

No idea why, but it’s very annoying…

Direct Download Link For Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3

I was somewhat disappointed to read this article posted on CNN. I understand how people and users get used to one program, but i think people need to give up a good thing for the benefit of new tech. Take for example, the coming analog signal conversion happening in the US for TV. The government, while late, is taking measures to free up more spectrum for other technologies. The same goes here. If everyone is going to rely on XP for the rest of time, then how can Microsoft and other vendors continue to grow and expand their own horizons. From the start, Vista has gotten a bad wrap, and rightly so. Do you honestly thing XP was solid pre-sp1? No WAY was it remotely close to stable, that’s why so many companies were still reliant on Win 2000.

I think people will eventually adopt Vista. In my opinion, Microsoft needs to market Vista better to regain user perception on how this operating system runs. What do you think? I also believe the marketing department at Microsoft needs to come up with fresh ideas fast!

Prior to 9/11 mostly only techy’s knew about text messaging while cell networks were down. This was due to messages being sent over emergency bands. Later, cell carriers added multimedia and other data to be passed over those same lines thus that old trick is dead.

Now the FCC will be approving an emergency text messaging system that would be used in the case of emergency by the government. Customers and carriers will be able to opt into the new system. Interesting it took them this long to introduce a good measure.

Link To CNN Article

Maybe my title is a tad dramatic but it did feel like quite a battle. Personally have done my fair share of downloading torrent files, it’s simply a great way of deploying information. When I first heard that Comcast was sniffing out BitTorrent users I was extremely wary. I believe a service provider should “provide” and not manage. I understand technically how the amount of packets are extremely inefficient but limiting protocols and services isn’t the right approach in my opinion. Either way, I am happy that they took the hint from both the consumer and FCC.

Full CNN Article 

Q: What do each of these roles do?

A: There are 5 different user roles in wordpress

• Administrators  - Can do everything
• Editors - Can edit other users posts and comments as well as their own.
• Authors - Can create content and publish them without Admin review.
• Contributors - Are authors that need approval from Admins to be published.
• Subscribers - Are just read only users who have their own ID.. woohoo.

It’s about time someone did this. Fujitsu has created a new hard drive that will spin at 7200 rpm. Most of the time when users complain of “slowness” it’s not the CPU, Ram, Video, etc.. it’s mainly the hard drive read/write times. Here is a direct link to the news on Engadget.

I saw this notebook first hand and I have to admit it’s a great notebook. It’s light and best of all (sorry mac lovers) it runs Windows. Yes, it’s true, I am no MacFanBoy. Direct Link to Site.

Price: 2,866.50