Archive for February, 2007
Slashcrap: 4GB? O Rly?
Just hit the presses, 4 GB May Be Vista’s RAM Sweet Spot. As usual, slashcrap quotes half the story to make MS look bad. I’m running vista with around two dozen programs running, and my physical ram usage is at 58%, and I have 2 gigs of ram. I never had a problem running Vista [...]
UAC is like fine wine
User Account Control, or UAC, is Microsoft’s solution to the “Always Admin” problem in XP. Most unix guys deride Windows XP because it has the user run as root (aka Administrator) by default. Running as Administrator means that if you get infected with spyware/viruses, the whole computer is pretty much infected. The reason for running [...]