Happy Holidays and Protection Thoughts Vista Security Discuss Happy Holidays and Protection Thoughts in the Windows Vista forums; I like several teams ... but I always root for any body who plays against 1. The Patriots 2. The Packers Gads I'm from Kansas so mostly the Chiefs and ...

[Snuffy]

I like several teams ... but I always root for any body who plays against

1. The Patriots
2. The Packers

Gads I'm from Kansas so mostly the Chiefs and Broncos are my teams..

[Znod]

Thanks Felix. You too, and I am glad you still are here.

[Znod]

I am watching AZ state against USC; game just started. AZ state started poorly as usual. We'll see. They don't look like they want win yet. I am a cowboy fan too, but I sort of lost some interest in the Barry Switzer (sp?) era. I was born in San Antone, and grew up in Houston and Austin.

Edit: After USC scored easily on the first drive after a long kick off return, AZ state just ran the kickoff back. Maybe both or neither want to win.

[ProCookie]

Football over there seems like a great test of strength am i right? well i would hate to get tackled by one of those burtes thats for sure

We have a TV channel that shows these games late at night so i may watch a few to see what its all about. Im guessing its like rugby but with a bit more action.

Knowing me i will pick a rubbish team to follow 2 and they all have cool names so i guess the one that stands out might get my vote

[Znod]

Our football is more like rugby than anything else I know. Yes, more action in football, and, in football, the hits are so brutal that the players must be heavily padded. Still severe, possibly lifetime debilitating, injuries are very common. I alway thought that rugby would be very rough given no pads.

[ProCookie]

yes it can get rough in rugby, you have to be of a large frame to play rugby becuase of the scrums and tackles.

[Znod]

Originally Posted by Znod

Hi Gang:

From above:

The result was, of course, an even more peppy machine (I typically get 1,680-1,730 or so on the Passmark Performance Test for 64-bit). Overall the machine is great (still have a 10 in reliability).

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One side effect is that that my first Passmark score after turning everything off became my best--1,734--with many processes running and with "Best Appearance" selected.

Happy All Holidays to All,

Znod

New Record: 1741.7 (I have not yet tried adjusting my video card for better performance.)

[ProCookie]

Hello guys,

just a post to say that i have changed something on the security front and i must say its for the better, I no longer use Windows Live Onecare, instead i have gone for the lighter option and got a smaller/less heavy anti-virus app to go along with Windows Firewall and Windows Defender.

I was going to do the usual and get AVG Free but after having some speed and update troubles with it when booting in Vista a while ago i decided to look around. I was hearing great things about a program called NOD32 and i have downloaded it and its great!

Its fast and has a friendly UI, with advanced options like password protection and url blocking and i just found out it protects me from spyware too! i love this little app and just wanted to post it in case anyone else wants to ditch there heavy security suite for a speed reliable app. You can even disable Windows Defender as it has great spyware protection too according to the reviews.


Merci, au revoir!

Ant

[felix8406]

There's a review by PCWorld at http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,13...e/article.html.

[ProCookie]

thanks felix, looks like its detection rates are spot on too.