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Tech ARP have just updated their Hard Drive Performance Comparison Guide, where they test and compare the performance of all the hard drives they can get their hands on. Of course, the hard drive is more than just a repository for our data or a place to store the games we play. It affects the performance of our PCs, especially how long it takes to launch applications or games, or open up files. Its performance is also critical if you are low on RAM because your PC will use more virtual memory. This is where the Hard Drive Performance Comparison Guide comes in.
TechwareLabs recently took an unbiased look at Windows Vista and explain what they felt were the advantages and disadvantages of this still relatively new operating system. Like all operating systems there are advantages and disadvantages to using the operating system from Microsoft. Most of the people I talked to so far take up "I hate it or love it" attitude. People that generally love the system tend to point out its convenient features such as the new Graphical User Interface (GUI), added security, DirectX 10, and other extra features that are packed into the 6 billion dollar giant. The people that disagree tend to complain about Vista's slow transfer speeds, compatibility issues, and other miscellaneous problems that become annoying and unbearable to them over time. Users from the Overclockers Australia Forums describe what they like and dislike about Windows Vista in the for and against threads.
Coincidentally, William George from Puget Custom Computers shares his experience with Vista and why it isn't as bad as you've heard, responding to some of the charges that have been leveled against Vista. There are lists of why folks hate Vista, lists of things Microsoft supposedly stole from the Mac OS, and reports of people switching back to XP in disgust. Amidst all of this negativity, I wanted to share my experience with Vista - which has been remarkably good!
FireTech sent word that the Knowledge Base Article regarding the data corruption issue with Microsoft's Windows Home Server has been updated, with a Q&A page available here. The Windows Home Server team's current plan is to "release beta test versions of a fix over the next few months, with a final version currently estimated for June 2008, although that date could change as testing progresses."
DiGiTaL_MoNkEY spotted an article on the TorrentFreak site describing how the Dutch university INHOLLAND uses BitTorrent as a network management tool to distribute software to 6500 desktop computers in 16 different locations throughout the Netherlands. Before they decided to use BitTorrent, more than 20 servers were needed to distribute 25.6 TBs of data to the desktops, and even then it could take up to 4 days to update them all. Now, with BitTorrent, this process has speeded up significantly, and all computers are updated with the latest software in less than 4 hours. The data doesn't have to be distributed from one location, since all the workstations connected to the network actively help in the distribution.
An article on the CNN.com site details an interview they did with a Chinese hacking group who said that "no Web site is one hundred percent safe," and that "there are Web sites with high-level security, but there is always a weakness." They operate from a bare apartment on a Chinese island. They are intelligent 20-somethings who seem harmless. But they are hard-core hackers who claim to have gained access to the world's most sensitive sites, including the Pentagon. A video of this interview is available here.
CircleID mentions that the March 2008 Domain Name Industry Brief released by VeriSign reports that "the Domain Name Industry closed 2007 with more than 153 million domain name registrations worldwide across all of the Top-Level Domain Names (TLDs), an increase of nearly 33 million domain name registrations since the close of 2006." In the last quarter of 2007, the base of domain name registrations grew 27 percent over the fourth quarter of 2006 and five percent over the third quarter of 2007… The total base of Country Code Top Level Domain Names (ccTLDs) was 58 million, a 33 percent increase year over year and a six percent increase quarter over quarter. Across all of the gTLDs and ccTLDs, .com has the highest base followed by .de (Germany), .net and .cn (China). The fifth spot is shared by .uk (United Kingdom) and .org. with approximately the same size base of domain name registrations. A PDF copy of the Domain Name Industry Brief for March 2008 can be downloaded here (239 KB).
To round up this post, trog has said that two new StarCraft II trailers − Zerg Revealed (56.8 MB) / Zerg Cinematic Teaser (6.87 MB) − are now available on the AusGamers site. The third and expected playable race in StarCraft 2, the Zerg were revealed by Blizzard at a recent Korean event. Two of these trailers have now been released in a higher quality and you can check them out locally on AusGamers.
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