I thought this was pretty interesting…
“Preload is a Linux daemon that stores commonly-used libraries and binaries in memory to speed up access times, similar to the Windows Vista SuperFetch function. This article examines Preload and gives some insight into how much performance is gained for its total resource cost, and discusses basic installation and configuration to get you started.”
That’s a mouthful!
I found this great free piece of software and it really works. I suggest that anyone who has issues with their system due to uninstalling software should use this product. It’s a great find.
Well Microsoft has said that they are planning on releasing Vista SP1 into the wild in March or April. They need to get this right and I will be interested in how my system changes once I have SP1 installed.
Paul Thurrott keeps saying over and over that SP1 is not going to be a big deal and it’ll be just a rollup of previous hotfixes etc. Well, that’s not good in my opinion. I mean Vista has a lot of downfalls that need to be addressed.
Anyway, that’s just a few things that bother me about Vista. In general, it’s a better OS than XP but these things need to be addressed.
Here is a very in depth review of Firefox 3 Beta 3 which you can download from here:
Download:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0b3/
Review:
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/02/a-deep-look-to-firefox-3-beta-3/
Well I was browing the Mozilla FTP today and I found that they have placed Firefox 3 Beta 3 in the nightly directory and they’re already at RC3. You can find the link below:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/3.0b3-candidates/
We should start seeing news around the internet buzzing about this soon. And I would expect Mozilla to release Firefox 3 Beta 3 in the next few weeks. I’m excited to see the day when I finally get a build that has the native Vista icons!!
Here is a great collection of networking tools for Linux, Windows and Apple.
This is one of the most interesting projects I have seen in a long time. It is essentially a complete Windows shell alternative, and it’s called Cairo. This project has a ton of potential, maybe the most potential for true progressive change in Windows I’ve ever seen.
SO check it out!
