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Quote: Originally Posted by Rokcet Scientist Win7's claim to fame is it's supposedly state-of-the-art security management. Well: it failed! A couple days ago Avast found a W32 Trojan on my Win7 system. A Trojan that Win7 had obviously 'overlooked…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Macintosh_Next First off, welcome. Second off, they would be wrong. OS X is like Windows NT. Windows NT, being the core of the OS, hasn't received a major re-write in a very long time. It has been changed, features add…
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Quote: Originally Posted by freakboy I've been using the beta of win 7 for awhile. I reminds me of windows 2000, which was probably their best effort. With that said, the GUI and UI are infurating and stupid. It's amazingly badly designed at ever…
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Quote: Originally Posted by PG4G Do service packs have a complete overhaul of multithreading, a complete move to 64bit, a completely new language specification that runs GPUs as CPUs, etc? Maybe WIndows 7 is a good overhaul graphically and lay…
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A lot of this oversimplified, but I think this is the a quick & dirty summary. Note that this is for drive-by downloads and installations. Whatever the user downloads and choose to install is beyond any OS control. Windows XP, admin mode: c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism If there is an old printer or some other device that only has a 32-bit driver, and you need it to work, you will need 32-bit mode. The 64-bit drivers will be 32-bit compatible. You mean that 64-bit drivers…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tawilson However, Microsoft makes software (particularly the OS), not hardware. And if we look at the price of Windows vs. OS X (a good comparison as it's software to software), Windows is more expensive than Mac OS X…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Shookster I don't think an operating system should bet on obscurity as a method of security. But neither should Apple adopt the Vista approach of popping up a dialog box to confirm absolutely EVERY task the user wants …
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Safari 4 looks very good. It's certainly as fast or faster than Chrome when loading webpages but slightly slower in application launching. All it needs is Adblock Plus and mouse gestures from Firefox, and we're good. I do find the UI for the ta…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Simple. Here's how you do it with NTFS diskpart> create volume stripe disk= (32 disks) DiskPart successfully created the volume diskpart> assign letter=s DiskPart successfully assigned the …
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I find it questionable on the integrity and true motives of the author's writings, and indirectly of AI, since neither the author nor AI has fixed any of the blatant misinformation. This was explained earlier in my first post on Page 2. I am not t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii And here they are in Windows 7, forcing people to relearn again, which (if this theory is correct) will create more switchers not less. The only thing they really need to relearn is a few new behaviors. It's …
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Note: You = author of article Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider The new Taskbar in Windows 7 is so greatly improved that Microsoft’s more vocal proponents have begun calling it the Ultrabar, just as Apple fans began calling the new Dock…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GQB ooh... can't wait for my battery to be drained even faster by some runaway cycle sucker. Choice is good. Having the ability to run multiple programs when you want and at our choosing is great. After all, you'v…
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Thanks for the link. I find it quite strange and perplexed why an article gets removed like that without a hint of reasons why. Removing the article is okay with me. AI can do whatever it wants, but the entire discussion thread was also removed. …
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Usually hard drives have write-cache, a scheme called write-back, were files are stored temporarily in the hard drive's volatile buffer after a write instead of actually writing the file to the magnetic platter. This improves hard drive performance…
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I think the link below is for the forum discussion: forum page It returns a permission error. I was looking forward to reading other readers responses, since I put some time last night into a short response on processor support. Maybe it's been…
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Note: You = the author who wrote the article. Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider While Microsoft makes far more revenue selling a retail box of Windows to an Intel Mac user than it does bundling the software on a new PC (hundreds of doll…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Windows 7 is more of a rebranding of Vista. It doesn't even offer the deep changes that Snow Leopard does with 64-bit kernel (because Vista already went there) and thread managing tools like Grand Central ,…