Jordan

Member since: Aug 25th, 2007

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Theft is Bad Karma: Stop Pirating Photoshop! (Download Squad)

Aug 21st 2008 1:51PM For those of you complaining about the gimp interface, look into version 2.5.2 that is a big step towards the next stable release of 2.6, they are working on a substantial overhaul to the interface, including docking all the windows together much like photoshop instead of the different panes.

Microsoft warns hardware makers to begin Windows 7 testing ASAP (Engadget)

Jun 2nd 2008 3:09PM I have a vista laptop and don't mind it for every day tasks, but other than for looks (though xp can be modded) i would take xp any day to run any of my more intensive things. Hopefully Window 7 can be a true replacement for xp, and unlike vista can give power to software, not fancy os visualizations that just slow everything down.

Toshiba says its 1GB MRAM chips are "almost ready," we're ready now (Engadget)

Jun 2nd 2008 3:04PM However, despite security concerns I am excited to have instant on capabilities. My vista laptop takes forever to start up, even with minimal startup programs and services. I have gotten into the habbit of just hibernating my laptop instead of shutting it down most of the time cause at least then it starts up faster.

Toshiba says its 1GB MRAM chips are "almost ready," we're ready now (Engadget)

Jun 2nd 2008 2:06PM lol mattydread and jagster, you totally beat me to posting my response while i was typing it.

Toshiba says its 1GB MRAM chips are "almost ready," we're ready now (Engadget)

Jun 2nd 2008 2:03PM The retain memory part is what scares me a little bit. This will open up a whole new world of theoretical security flaws. So you password protect your computer, have encrypted drives, yada yada. if the memory stays even after the power is cut it makes it that much easier for a hacker (with physcial access of course) to just pop out the ram and do a dump of whatever is on it, gaining access to everything from encryption keys to passwords or anything else that happens to be residing in ram at that moment. It is not like this hasn't been done before, there is a trick in which you can freeze the ram chips and it will cause them to briefly hold their memory, and some white hacks thus managed to break a true-crypt encrypted drive by accessing the keys that were left in the ram.

Web site fights Adblock by blocking Firefox (Download Squad)

Aug 25th 2007 1:11PM If you look at the code on the why firefox is blocked site on how he blocks firefox... it just checks the useragent string... but even if i switch that using useragent switcher the site still someone seems to tell that im useing firefox? how does that work.