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Below are URL related to this topic... http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/story98907.html SecureWorks researcher Joe Stewart has seen evidence that the massive Storm Worm botnet is being broken up into smaller networks, a surefire sign that the CPU power is up for sale to spammers and denial-of-service attackers. Stewart, a reverse engineering guru who has been tracking Storm Worm closely, says the latest variants of Storm are now using a 40-byte key to encrypt their Overnet/eDonkey peer-to-peer traffic. "This means that each node will only be able to communicate with nodes that use the same key. This effectively allows the Storm author to segment the Storm botnet into smaller networks. This could be a precursor to selling Storm to other spammers, as an end-to-end spam botnet system, complete with fast-flux DNS and hosting capabilities," Stewart said in an e-mail message. "If that's the case, we might see a lot more of Storm in the future," he warned. The malware attacks behind this botnet have been relentless all year, using a wide range of clever social engineering lures to trick Windows users into downloading executable files with rootkit components.

It's not the same though.

I have an Asus G1S. It has a C: drive with Vista on it and D:. I have a copy of XP Pro retail I want to install to dual boot with Vista.

But D: is a logical drive, and XP won't work on it.

People have reported that if you repartition into two drives install XP first on C: and the Vista on D: it will work but to do that I need a retail Vista. The restore CD would just go back to the original config of the machine, groundhog day style.

http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/post-737896.html&sid=d104cb5b451af71033375f4228c5a440

Asus G1S is the same - you can run XP on them but you have to find the drivers yourself and it's a real pain to install.

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20070731141139875&board_id=3&model=G1S&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

Because the XP doesn't have drivers included for the SATA chip, you either need to slipstream them into XP or use a USB floppy. It looks like you need to nuke the whole thing, repartition and install XP first and then Vista second too

http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/post-738142.html&sid=2379b1d8d49003d966b49652db3ee5d4

All of which looks like too much trouble to be worthwhile. And it's not clear if G1S is even supported on XP. Shame really, and I still need to test stuff on XP occasionally and my ancient XP laptop is falling apart.

Vista also stole several Apple-isms, like the monochrome motif of the system tray icons that has been a staple of Mac OS for quite a long time.

Saying MS "stole" this from Apple is a stretch. Vista's system tray (and taskbar/start menu) have adopted a dark color. White/light icons (and digital clock display) show better on this new dark background. Note that XP's system tray was a light color, so the clock and many icons were dark colors. Also, you must be colorblind if you haven't noticed how colorful the other icons are in Vista's tray. Take a look at any screenshot with more than just the default speaker icon in the system tray, like this one: http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/album_pic.php?pi c_id=1307&sid=268779520c2b89a36a10069f6bfb930b

The speaker is actually the very same sideways speaker with three sound waves coming out the right, increasing and decreasing with volume. What a strange thing to clone directly from OS X.

Every window border has a gigantic window border with an ugly blurring effect, giving everything a weird camouflage look. Microsoft didn't know how else to deal with overlaying text on top of this, so they just put a white haze behind letters which look utterly bizarre and actually makes it difficult to read...
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...And you'd better get used to the color blue. If you thought Luna was hilariously bad (I still don't get how Windows fans defend that theme), wait until you come across the puke-worthy blue and seagreen EVERYWHERE in the Vista interface, complete with a 1980s-style animated ribbon swoosh in the corners of the windows.

When OS X Leopard comes out, it will look very professional when placed side-by-side with Vista, which looks like a toy.

You can either use the command-line based bcedit.exe, or use VistaBootPRO which is ridiculously easy to use. Another option is to use the startup repair utility that comes on the Vista CD, and it'll recover WinXP's boot.ini and also configure it to use Vista's bootloader.

This should be really simple with bcdedit actually. Do you already have an entry (in bcdedit lingo a "data store") in bcdedit that corresponds to your XP partition? What exactly is the problem you are running into? bcdedit is actually a really powerful bootloader, IMHO.

Check out some of these google results:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url= /library/en-us/BCD/bcd/portal.asp
http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/post-580795.html &sid=9f93849fb3dad5edd85df3d19778e44f

And no your multibooting woes have nothing to do with bitlocker, that's for sure.

http://www.pro-networks.org/XPMaNiA/fat32.shtml http://www.mcmcse.com/windows_xp/guides/filesystem s.shtml The advantages listed in both certainly make for good reading.

and here are some simple changes that you can make to Firefox to speed it up.

Microsoft is working on that.