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Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 Hits Mirrors
Not on the home page yet, but it is on the mirrors.
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Apple: Arrogance, Untruths, and Karma
More Vista-bashing commercials appeared yesterday, compliments of quite possibly the most arrogant company in history. I love a good spoof (I had a good laugh over the first “cancel/allow” ad), but when you keep spewing the same false bullshit over and over it becomes obnoxious. It also shows me a company full of people and users that have a serious inferiority complex.
Let us just review the reviews of their latest release shall we???
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Fedora 8 Is Out
Codenamed “Werewolf”, hehe that beats “Feisty Fawn” any day! 😎
Article with more info at Arstechnica.
Download links, reviews, etc. at Distrowatch.
I’m downloading now, about 1/2 an hour left. I’ll attempt an install shortly.
If you have any good links for Fedora 8, please post them.
*edit
I attempted an install on my main rig (several times, using several methods). The install always freezes right after ‘keyboard selection’. I’ve neither the time nor desire to do this on one of my other machines. Bye, bye Fedora, and, bite me Werewolf…
Sysinternals Freeware Updates
ADInsight v1.0
PsExec v1.90
Process Explorer v11.04
ADExplorer v1.01
DebugView v4.72
Process Monitor v1.26
BgInfo v4.12
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Acronis True Image Home 11 Updated
Build number is now 8053.
The issues with RAID seem to have been fixed (somewhat), at least for me (see my updated review).
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New Nvidia Drivers (XP/Vista)
# WHQL certified driver for GeForce FX, 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs.
# Added support for the following Motherboard GPUs:
* GeForce 7150 / NVIDIA nForce 630i
* GeForce 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 630i
* GeForce 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 620i
* GeForce 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 630i
* GeForce 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 610i
# Improved compatibility and performance for NVIDIA SLI™ technology on DirectX 9, and OpenGL applications.
# Game and application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.
PerfectDisk Updated…Again
Build 66 inadvertently checked the floppy drive file system even though this drive would never be defragmented. This has been fixed.
Update from within the program.
or
Download from Major Geeks (30 day trial).
More info at the PerfectDisk home page.
Copy Protection Bites Microsoft
Karma???
Microsoft has warned that a faulty driver used for copy protection could allow a hacker to gain high-level access to a PC. The problem lies with a driver called secdrv.sys, which is part Macrovision’s SafeDisc software included with Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. The software, which can block unauthorized copying of some media, also ships with Windows Vista, but that OS is not affected.