FF4 - wow

yes - i had to try it out, everybody is ranting... so on to see if it gets any better...

- wow - its almost an exact copy of Opera - the menu styles, slimness, icons, sliding, better interface, but still lacking -now they even say "use it on your phone" - except Opera has been the primary browser (tho not branded) on several phones for over a decade now - including the new iphone 3.9g (in favor of slugfari).

interesting that opera has had 98% of the features that firefox and chromezilla only just now get for a couple years now, i hear they have all these "extensions" - i guess thats what you need when you're "too short", while Opera is more than sufficient out of the box, it has a large set of addons, and supports native java "scripting", so many addons are simple scripts in java that are kind of open source (as in you can read them), unlike so called mozilla source.

I do find humor in that ff4 runs gmail faster than chromepig.

hmm... that was a learning experience (for them) back to using Opera.

Talk about not respecting system resources

Was messing around on a clients network (that they maintain) - Symantec Backup Exec{ute} was on the server, I remember when this used to go by the acronym BENT (i still call it that cause thats what it can get).

BENT runs a total of 12 processes on this server, and at idle - it uses exactly 495.1mb of RAM - lets just call it 1/2 gig - i hate to see it actually "in action".

In years past I have always relied very well on ntbackup - it even includes bare metal restore capability. It has been replaced in 2008, but I have heard you can still steal the exe from another system (as is the case with XP Home which lacks ntbackup).

Its a little known fact that ntbackup was actually created by Veritas (original creators of BENT) for Micros0ft, and while its not the ipad of backups - it DOES the job, and without a lot of unneeded attitude - who needs pretty icons and unneeded baggage?

Go away antivirus pigs!!!! (come on Vipre)

A client has Vipre on their network, was looking it over, the client is DAM slim - 7 mb of ram usage (between 2 services), and during scheduled scans it is running about 50 mb.

The managed server portion runs on a sql db (which most sbs servers already have), and it seems to take up about 140mb on the server.

Was reading some reviews - it comes in first on boot up scans (hate that on NOD/Symantec).
http://www.pcantivirusreviews.com/reviews/vipre_antivirus_software.html

theres a 30 day trial of the Enterprise, and 15 day trial of the home version, and its cheap (compared to u-no-who).

home users:
$29.95 for a single user license ($19 on some sites),
$39.95 for a three-user license, or...
$49.95 to license all the computers in your house

Oh - and for you Mac users (yes there are viruses for you) - Vipre Enterprise does support OSX.

Couple of nice reviews for you:
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Product-Review-VIPRE-Enterprise.html
http://retrohack.com/gfi-vipre-enterprise/

So far for a runner up, I really like MS Security Essentials, but am not at all hot on Forefront (the corp version of MSSE), tho... there is not even one that is perfect, at least I can get on with my life without having an imperfect antivirus slaughter my PC (hopefully GFI keeps this straight).

Nokia signs off Open Source - looses $5 billion

Interesting blog post I found here.

In years past Nokia was putting some major support and ownership dollars behind open source projects including being a major patron of KDE.

At some point Nokia P'ed off its major management, then replaced them with former Microsoft execs, magically some months later they announced Symbian OS would be "no more", in favor of Windows 7 mobile - yep they immediately lost BIG TIME - read the whole deal here.

The sores was strong in those ones.

Tired of customer service purgatory?

Ever call somewhere, only to spend hours on hold waiting for a customer service representative?? - Your waiting is OVER!!!

www.lucyphone.com is a new service that will wait on hold for you until a LIVE person answers - while you do more important things, it then lets the rep know that *he* needs to wait while you are reached, lucyphone.com then calls you back with the live rep on the line.

Some other good options - backdoors to live humans at many large organizations, www.DialAHuman.com and www.GetHuman.com will also tell you how to reach a real person faster at many companies.