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Windows 7 security defeated by 8 out of 10 malware applications {Download Squad}
Nov 9th 2009 5:28PM the setting change had been off-putting to me ever since Beta. I turn it up to maximum ever time
even "safe" surfing is relative, as more often mainstream sites turn up having hacked ads and trying to throw infected PDF's or other such in the ads. UAC really is no different than having to su/sudo in Linux, so people really shouldnt complain
You spend more time on MSN Messenger than ANYTHING else {Download Squad}
Nov 7th 2009 3:58PM nearly all of my online contacts use MSN, i just have a couple who use only Google Chat. we used it all the time at my last job for communicating with people internally.
Unreal Development Kit brings Unreal Engine development to the masses {Joystiq}
Nov 5th 2009 3:37PM that would require a complete rewrite into C# though
Old Man IE6 shakes fist as Firefox surpasses him in browser share {Download Squad}
Nov 5th 2009 1:17AM different data from different sources. Ars Technica's data is based on the traffic their site gets directly, which are numbers much more useful to THEM. for one of my sites, Firefox is 26%, IE 41% with IE6 15%. and there are other tracking sites that show 32% overall (W3Counter), 24% (Net Applications), and so on. different sources give different numbers
How to fix a Windows 7 upgrade from Vista that is stuck at 62% {Download Squad}
Nov 2nd 2009 2:52PM need to finish your sentence there, Lee
"The problem occurs when the Windows IPv6 helper service (which allows automatic IPv6 connectivity over a much more common IPv4 network. Microsoft has posted a fix to this particular problem, and it's not terribly complicated."
The great Google Wave invite giveaway! {Download Squad}
Oct 31st 2009 12:37PM yeah okay, let's do this
Millions of Karmic Koalas descend on the 'net as Ubuntu 9.10 downloads go live {Download Squad}
Oct 29th 2009 12:17PM just let Synaptic download the updated packages for you, instead of reinstalling
by the way, you'll want to have it select a different repository mirror (there's a tool part of Synaptic to automatically scan for the fastest mirror to you) instead of using the main Ubuntu server, so that it will download the updated packages much faster
although not all of the mirrors have had Karmic uploaded to them yet, but it lets you select from a list too so you can pick from somewhere you know is close to you ( a lot of colleges are mirrors)
Millions of Karmic Koalas descend on the 'net as Ubuntu 9.10 downloads go live {Download Squad}
Oct 29th 2009 12:15PM just let Synaptic download the updated packages for you, instead of reinstalling
by the way, you'll want to have it select a different repository mirror (there's a tool part of Synaptic to automatically scan for the fastest mirror to you) instead of using the main Ubuntu server, so that it will download the updated packages much faster
ICANN set to approve web addresses using non-Latin characters {Download Squad}
Oct 26th 2009 12:31PM I had thought this was implemented some time ago. from the way I had thought it was working (the proposed method) is that the international characters get transliterated back into latin characters according to the romanization that they are defined in the Unicode codepage, so the domains are still latin characters they can just be typed differently
Google Reader now sorts your feeds "by magic" {Download Squad}
Oct 25th 2009 1:16PM so Google's not even trying to hide their involment in the dark arts anymore?
