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save the developers. not quite ready.

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

TechCrunh was blogging about how big is the number of IE6 users, in February. Right now we are at 28.9%, a small decrease. This is what I really think, about the IE6 upgrade issue. (more…)

emc clariion ax150 setup

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

This is a bad boy. It will pump 1TB of data through a 2GB fiber channel 10 times faster then a similar RAID array. For $7,500, it better do it. (more…)

caviar se16 raid setup

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

I always used a RAID1 array to store my data into a PC. Recently, I had 2 disks failing on me, not one. They were Seagate Barracuda 400GB SATA drives. Previously, I had a lot of problems with Seagate but I sticked with them because of the 5 years warranty. So that made me switch back to my old friends, Western Digital. Still, I had my share of troubles, even with those cool drives. (more…)

vista sp1 dvd checksums

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

There are many fake versions of the new Vista SP1 OEM images. Also, there has been a lot of discussion about the famous 1840 and 2040 ending ISO’s. Those numbers represent the time the RTM was built. OEM manufacturers received the ISO file with 1840 time stamp on it.

The original ISO files are available only to Microsoft MSDN subscribers. However, if you own a valid license, you will be able to do a clean install and use your current license key to activate the new slipstreamed versions. Their proper checksums are listed below.
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