It simultaneously worries me and uplifts me that a self-proclaimed group of internet activists name themselves after Indian mythical figures....
It's actually far easier to work anonymously on the internet than you think. With tools like Tor bouncing your traffic around the world before...
1000272134 and bluedalmatian
with you both there but then I'm still in 10.04 land (and happy with it)
Interesting article and definitely see your points on the products mentioned. One of the top products for our Help Desk (approximately 20% of all...
Absolutely - this should obviously not be handled my isp - but handled by their hosting operator.
What's been suggested here is that my isp police...
Looks like a great phone. I don't notice any deficiencies in WP7. used IOS before, that's pretty good. I don't spend much time in Apps, all i need...
Now with the help of these apps you are always synced with MS outlook while on the move. Just download apps like xobni or outlookreflex and get...
Your details are wrong. The version currently being made is the one with 2 USB ports, 256MB RAM and a network port. This is the Model B.
The...
The thing that has been puzzling me for quite a while is how Anonymous can remain anonymous whilst not only being active on the Internet but also...
If what Semantec is saying is rue, that is even worse and shows a complete disregard for thier users.
If what Anonymous claims is true and the...
Didn't seem particularly biased to me either. Oh though you might have mentioned some other competitors with free search and email services...
James - exactly as much as anyone paid you for your comment; I don't feel that I need to say that I'm independant and unbiased, but just for you...
Once they realise symantec are willing to pay real money, they will simply keep extorting, unless of course symantec/authorities can use the...
You can find more information on BS 8878 by Jonathan Hassell its lead-author at http://www.hassellinclusion.com/bs8878/
The page includes a...
Thanks for this list. Now I know, what to include on my system to make it more functional.
What if it's a 4 car household? The point is, more bandwidth = more things you can do simultaneously, like streaming HD video in one room of the...
No point whatsoever increasing broadband download speed. unless ever server on the net has access to massively up rated throughput.
The worlds...
They're also increasing their TV package prices, whether to help fund this or not.
How can you set it up wrong to intermittently connect? Should I be asking for more pay? Outlook/Exchange is a breeze.
And how much did Microsoft pay you for that article?
Talkback
I had win 7 installed on an Intel 4300, core ll duo processor with 1.5 gig of ram, and it took almost 2 minutes till the hard drive light was off. This was a dual boot drive with PCLinuxOS 2009 and the Linux partition was fully booted in 38 seconds.
I'm very surprised based on my own experience. My Netbook boots to a usable state in about 1 minute 20 seconds. However, the security software bangs away for a considerable time after that - something not experienced with Linux.
My subjective experience is that Windows 7 boots more quickly than Vista and generally performs much better than Vista.
I have friends with Vista laptops that are still slow and flaky running with all the latest service packs, and compare very unfavourably to my Netbook running Win7. In part, I have concluded that their laptop designs were not entirely *Vista Compatible*.
Myself, I was one of the many who removed Vista and installed XP on a brand new laptop which *should* have been more than adequately specified but clearly was not, i.e. it was not "Vista Capable" let alone designed for Vista - which opens another can of worms from which Microsoft seems have extricated itself despite demonstrable bad faith.
I triple boot my Netbook with XP, Win7 and Ubuntu and it is clear that Ubuntu is the OS which performs the best in almost all respects. In particular, maintenance of Ubuntu is the least demanding and easiest easiest to carry out.
I installed Windows7 on an IBMR51 Laptop, 2GB RAM, 40GHD and it takes under 2 minutes to fully boot, except for when certain programs require updates. I know that Vista wouldnt even look at this laptop and as far as I can see, Windows7 is a HUGE improvement on Vista. As for the slow bootups, it depends what else is running in the background, the more you have running at startup, the longer it takes to fully boot! Self explanatory i think.
Which bright spark thought they'd stop the clock at the picture load up point?
As claw has already stated suppose it will fall down to how well each individual will have there OS configured, mind you having icons the size of mobile phone screens doesn't help.
"Which bright spark thought they'd stop the clock at the picture load up point?"
Where is this mentioned? I didn't see it!
"As claw has already stated suppose it will fall down to how well each individual will have there OS configured, mind you having icons the size of mobile phone screens doesn't help."
Right click on the Desktop and set the Icon size to your preferred size. Simple!
Things like adobe reader and office are going to add start items that seriously slow down boot times. And, the golden rule is to defrag for better than out of the box performance. Also, removing 'shadows under menus' and 'show shadow under menus' not only sharpens up the appearance of Windows 7 (and vista) it also eaks out a little extra performance. The 'average' user can also get away with unticking 'allow indexing of this drive for faster searching' to free up even more resources. On an acer one we're talking 40 seconds until the wireless adapter is ready for take off. With flip 3D and all aero effects.
"Iolo said it measured not the time it takes for the desktop to appear — which can be as little as 40 seconds on a fresh installation of Windows 7"
What did you think this meant.
MS operating systems default icon picture size's on disk these days have a larger footprint than they once did, thus contributing to ridiculous overly sized Operating system and memory usage.
I appreciate the evolution of GUI's as much as the next person, but I think 512x512 or above icons is a bit ott irregardless of being able to resize them after boot up, the pres set's still haft to be loaded into memory first.
Not to mention the increasing overuse of layers that continue to gradually creep up, thus requiring the use of more & more 3d hardware effects just to display an icon!?
Whats next DOF AF AA :#
This is *what* Iolo are reported to have said.
"Iolo Technlogies, which sells PC tune-up software, said its lab unit found that a new machine running Windows 7 takes one minute and 34 seconds to become usable, as compared to one minute and six seconds for Windows Vista. Iolo said it measured not the time it takes for the desktop to appear — which can be as little as 40 seconds on a fresh installation of Windows 7 — but rather the time it takes to become fully usable, 'with CPU cycles no longer significantly high and a true idle state achieved." "
"Although Windows 7 has been praised for loading and shutting down faster than prior versions, according to one software company, in many cases the new operating system can take longer to get started than Windows Vista."
"Although Windows 7 has been praised for loading and shutting down faster than prior versions,"
"Although Windows 7 has been praised for loading and shutting down faster than prior versions,"
"Although Windows 7 has been praised for loading and shutting down faster than prior versions,"
"Although Windows 7 has been praised for loading and shutting down faster than prior versions,"
Happy yet?
"Happy yet?"
Yes, thank you.