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Using your job's VLK is about to get messy
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 6:00 AM

MS has deployed a new version of WGA (Windows Genuine Activation). I've been reading ( http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=93555&st=0 ) this new version is more aggressive as it collects VLK (Volume License Keys) and IP addresses.

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What will kill programming
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 11:19 PM

PS: this is going to be the worst post I've ever written becuase I didn't have the time to make a decent article out of it, sorry. I'd like to promise I'll rewrite this, but my track record of rewrites is 0. But I might get re-interested in

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Vista is actually pretty light on ram usage according to math
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 11:15 PM

Honestly, Vista's requirements aren't very high at all when you do the math. The biggest "bloat" Windows ever faced was Windows 2000, where "usable" ram requirements went from 32mb to 192mb in order to run a usable box, that's 6x more in less than

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Google Toolbar 3.0 for FireFox
Sunday, February 18, 2007 10:21 PM

In case you were running the 3.x beta of the toolbar, I should point out Google released a final version of 3.x about a week or two ago, but you'll need to manually install it as it seems Firefox's build in update check won't find the final version if

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Vista, eh, I can wait
Monday, February 12, 2007 6:00 AM

I'm not downing Vista, but let's face it, when you want to run a new OS you want to be able to use it properly. My 6yr old machine isn't really up to par, which happens to be an AMD XP1700+ /w 768mb of ram & 200 IDE drive.Oh what's that, the

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Vista and XP don't waste as much ram as you think
Friday, February 09, 2007 6:00 AM

A concept I've been preaching for years is that XP does not use more ram than Win 2000. Yes, if you view task manager you'll see that XP is using more ram than Win 2000, but that's because of pre-caching technologies. The truth is, if you

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WTF happened to Google Blog Search?
Thursday, February 08, 2007 6:00 AM

I don't use it very often, but I find Google Blog Search to be a groat resource as it allows me to search for bleeding edge subjects. For example I saw that Target ad where they used a cover song of the Beatle's "Hello Goodbye" and being that the

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Knowing how effective vitamins & herbal items are
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:20 AM

I've been studying nutrition and prevenitive medicine for years, but outside of reading the study itself, it's hard to find out how effective something is. Somehow I've never seen the lookup info in the Mayo Clinic's website. Keep in mind

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Intel's Core 3 Duo
Thursday, February 01, 2007 6:00 AM

Ok I'm exaggerating, there is no Core 3 Duo, but the new line of Core 2 Duos are so much better, they should have been called Core 3.Here's the summary:- 20% more speed at the same mhz- 30% less watts usage- 1/5th the watt wasteIf you haven't made the

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