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Tablet computing has been around for a long time.

And the exact form factor, and almost its exact name, were being discussed long ago:

"PAD" Computer
redfoxtx 06-10-2002, 01:56 PM
http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-1793-PAD-Computer.html

Steve Jobs seems to think he invented it, and the idea of calling a tablet a "pad".

Steve Jobs: 'Pad? That's my word'
New frontiers in control freakiness
Rik Myslewski in San Francisco
Posted in Mobile, 13th April 2010 20:11 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/13/jobs_claims_pad_trademark/

At some point, someone needs to stand up to this lunatic.

some options:

• Release the source code, or source with paid registration
• Get listed by one of the major download sites as this poster said
• Get listed on one of the major OS-specific app news sites as in this thread

WOT has the same problem as anything else, false negatives. I found many different sites offering software with this name.

This one has links to tucows and is the Google keyword sponsored link, making it look legit: http://pdf-suite.com/us/default.asp
This has the same picture but entirely different website, looking suspicious: http://www.pdf-suite.com/
This looks like different software with the same name: http://www.aloaha.com/wi-software-en/printing.php
But that's featured on TechSite. Do you trust Techsite? http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4109-aloaha-pdf-suite.html

Basically it's the same reputation-based research you use anywhere - if a reputable source links to it, or even better offers it for download, your reputation improves exactly like PageRank. If dubious sites link to it, it looks like a bad idea to download.

Consider it from a different angle - if you are a Micro ISV, how do people hear about your product in the first place? Chances are you're not getting first-page google results unless you have a truly niche product. However people hear about it is a channel you want to strengthen.

Do a quick Google on "Spore pirated", just for fun. Page after page of links to articles about how Spore's DRM did affect pirating. Now if that hasn't reached EA...

Spoiler: it has, EA has in fact announced they'll use less obtrusive DRM in the future. Plus, they released this tool to reduce DRM obtrusiveness from certain games, including Spore.

So far this is the fastest GPU I could find. It is billed as "the worlds fastest GPU" at least. It runs at 1,476MHz or roughly 1.5 billion theoretical calculations per second:

http://www.techspot.com/news/34959-asus-shows-off-worlds-fastest-gpu-at-computex.html

So, to summarise, if you lump all the versions of FF together, they're more popular than IE, as long as you don't allow the numbers IE to do the same....?

And where do you get these statistics from? This is the most recent article I've been able to find -

http://www.techspot.com/news/36374-internet-explorer-loses-71-market-share-during-august-ie6-still-most-used.html

- but as stated before, I find it highly unlikely that all the users/ sites I visit just happen to be the ones that have upgraded to IE7/8.

Another FF issue - I wonder how popular IE/ MS would be if it force-installed updates when opened? How good the coders are is irrelevant - why is this suddenly considered acceptable default behaviour?

Windows XP ... http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-30966-XP-boot-failure-after-using-windows-update.html

Or Windows Vista ... http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/769242-failure-boot-right-after-windows.html

Or Windows 7 ... http://windowsfixup.com/2009/04/latest-windows-7-updates-cause-bsod-fix/

They take a significant loss on every Xbox sold

Microsoft is no longer selling the Xbox. They now have a competing console, the Xbox 360. The Xbox was being sold at a profit before its end of life, and the Xbox 360 is no longer being sold at a loss. Constructing an adequate comment on slashdot? You fail it!

Using the example of Apple's attempt to sell System 7 to Mac clone makers as evidence that they cannot survive as a software company is not fair.

The world is not fair. Here in the real world, where things happen, people bought enough mac clones to threaten Apple's own sales, proof that Apple cannot survive as a software company, at least not without dramatic changes. Certainly it won't work to sell people the OS for their PCs, and to keep selling the OS to your customers every year, because now that they've become just another PC their OS will work on lots of other PCs and Apple doesn't even get a cut of the hardware sales in licensing.

Today is a very different situation. Apple's software runs great on most any PC,

So the situation is even worse, not better. Now you can use Apple's OS without them getting ANY licensing fees for hardware. The clone market was actually superior to this situation.

Of course Apple has their reasons for not moving into the software business. They might be quite valid, but I don't believe it has to do with profitability, at least not directly.

Too bad that's exactly why they got out (for some strange value of "out") of the software for non-Apple-computers business to begin with.

Owning Apple makes them feel special, like they are somehow superior for buying Apple. This is a hugely valuable resource for Apple, and I think they would be foolish to risk compromising the culture they've created. In my opinion, this is the true reason you will not likely see Apple software available on normal computers.

Maintaining that cachet maintains their high prices, and making people pay those prices maintains their profitability. It's all connected.

Techspot AMD has been working hard to develop Open Physics. Furthermore Bullet Physics has been shown running on Cuda. So that sounds to me like doom for physx...

Sony have done that. It required a reboot unfortunately.

http://www.cnet.com.au/sony-vaio-vgn-sz483n-339284061.htm

Actually I think a better solution would be to put a PCI Express slot in a docking station and integrated graphics in the laptop. Then you could disable the integrated GFX when you dock and use discrete instead. Even better you could use a relatively cheap desktop card.

Mind you Asus have tried that and it didn't exactly catch on

http://www.techspot.com/news/24044-asus-introduces-xg-modular-laptop-docking-station.html

Probably the reason is only a vanishingly small percentage of people care about gaming performance on a laptops. Oh, and at the moment docking stations use a proprietary connector so the market for things like this is even more limited.

Lots and lots of tests and bechmarks. Looking good.

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However, a Dell Linux system is about $50 cheaper than a non-Linux system (see http://www.techspot.com/news/25432-linux-discount-on-dell-machines-about-50.html). While you could argue that there are more low-end and therefore cheaper Windows systems out there, (hard to beat a $300 Toshiba 15 inch laptop, new, even with Vista installed), but aside from third-parties taking systems from OEMs, rebranding them and installing Linux (undoubtedly more expensive due to the middleman) OEMs offering Linux are generally cheaper than the same systems with Windows.

On second viewing, two things come to mind:

1) the opening scene from LOTR: The Two Towers, an amazing piece of design and rendering.

2) Audio player visualizations. The giveaway is the contrails appearing in sync to the music.

Is it possible RGBA are using a built-in visualization library, possibly from WMP? That would explain the high level of detail and apparent use of texture maps, which I'm guessing wouldn't fit into 4kb, algorithmic or not.

This (admittedly weak) theory can be verified by disabling the visualization library for Windows Media Player.

Anyone want to volunteer to verify this?

http://www.techspot.com/news/30082-thirdparty-fix-for-xp-sp3-reboots-published.html

There's a patch. Very small, but it still counts and fixes something. Third-party. In fact, I have used it for both my desktop and laptop.

Thank you, come again.

I hope these notebooks come with three or four spare motherboards. Judging by their previous track record, that is what it takes to keep their notebooks running beyond the warranty.

http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=243038&start=0
http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-71394-Acer-5101-keyboard-usb-and-touchpad-are-dead.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/51337-35-keyboard-mouse-work-vista-login-screen
Google it, tons more...

Seems Acer preferred playing their customers along until the warranty ran out, then charged them for a new motherboard (that didn't fix the problem in most cases) rather then admit they had a pattern failure.

I don't care WHAT kind of product they have, from a purely moralistic point of view, I'll take my business elsewhere.

"Check out some of the refurbished systems available online and from places like Frys."

Craigslist any 2+ ghz P4 1gb system for ~$100 and you should be able to play City of Heroes since that is the recommended system requirements. Slap in a $100 Radeon 4770 (slashdot's new favorite card) and her system will probably run better than yours.... or you can continue to waste our time. Your choice, choose wisely.

Something like this perhaps : Texas Memory Systems demos 1TB RAM disk. "24GByte/sec throughput".

Actually you can buy barebones notebooks too, e.g.

http://www.techspot.com/review/97-asus-c90s-laptop/page10.html

Price wise, the C90S retails for roughly $700 as a barebone, which includes everything but the CPU, RAM, graphics card, and hard drive. Users can also add a wireless card, and purchasing an operating system will also be needed.

You can buy one here

http://www.blazintech.net/laptops/asus-c90s-15-4-inch-wsxga-core-2-duo-w/-dvdrw-notebook-barebone-computer/prod_27197.html

You add a CPU, HDD, Memory, MXM Video card and then install whatever OS you want on it. Just like building a desktop system.

It really depends.

At work I use a Microsoft Trackball Explorer which is probably one of the best trackball mice ever made, and are nearly impossible to find nowadays.
I know a few people that use the Logitech Cordless Trackman Optical and love it, but it didn't feel confortable enough for my own use.

At home, I use a Logitech G9 mouse and a Ideazon Fang for gaming sessions, but for everything else I tend to just rely on keyboard shortcuts to navigate around my desktop.

Microsoft has no problem exposing Windows source code to the Royal Navy:

The United Kingdom is the latest country to join a Microsoft programme that lets governments around the world see the otherwise secret source code underlying Windows.

Microsoft unveiled the Government Security Program (GSP) two weeks ago as a way to address concerns various governments have about the security of its Windows operating system.

The programme, widely viewed as Microsoft's response to the complete openness of the open-source movement, already includes Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) as members. Under Microsoft's new programme, governments may visit Microsoft's campus, see the millions of lines of source code that make up Windows, run analysis tools on the source code and build versions of Windows for themselves from the raw materials. Officials will be able to see source code for Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and CE. UK government gets access to Windows source code [Feb 3, 2003]

In the years since, access to the Windows source code has become rather easy for the student or the developer: Microsoft Expands Access to Windows Source Code {Jul 2004], Microsoft Shared Source Initiative

I would also humbly suggest that if that if your cyber intelligence is so limited that you haven't been able to deconstruct Win2K in eight years, you have no business building military grade submersibles.

Ten seconds with google, and now your firmware password is useless. Physical access >> anything you can ever come up with to lock a machine down.

With regards to Windows, it's safe to say that many apps out there, with the exception of some higher-end games, don't use modern CPUs to their full potential. Just because Windows acknowledges their presence doesn't mean they're being put to good use. Some will be quick to ask why an office suite (for example) needs multi-core support. My answer is why not!? You forked over the extra cash for the dual-core processor and it would be nice if it was actually put to good use.

Running what amounts to a virtual 3D-adapter in software is nothing new of course. Whether it will be done properly is another story. Will the performance ever catch up-to the likes of the GeForce 9800 GTX?? Highly unlikely because of it will cause a great deal of strain between the graphics card market and OS vendors like Microsoft. For the VM world, it would be great as Linux users could FINALLY run Windows-based games in a VM without the need to mess with dual-booting. Not to mention Live CDs could finally run Compiz! It would definitely be a paradigm shift as it would help steer more users towards Linux.

Now THAT would be the year of Linux on the Desktop(tm). Dreaming is still free right?

that today they sue their fans and anybody who gives a negative review of their games

oh how the mighty has fallen

MOD PARENT UP.

Nvidia is managing badly in other ways, also, than supplying poor quality software; this Slashdot story is not an isolated occurrence. For example, All Nvidia G84 and G86s are bad. Or see All Nvidia G84 and G86 chips faulty?. Or, Nvidia Likely to Confirm Scale of Chip Troubles Soon.

Sandisk SSD drives are poorly made and perform poorly (much worse than others..). This is just Sandisk trying to shift the blame elsewhere..

DailyTech's article (and others) have also added opinions similar to yours. From the DT article:

• "It is quite true that SanDisk's SSD are woefully subpar in performance when running Windows Vista. Numerous benchmarks from around the web have shown SanDisk SSDs getting outpaced by the competition.

  In fact, it's not uncommon to see SanDisk SSDs rank last in testing in almost every benchmark and by a large margin -- even in Windows XP. Recent testing showed that MSI's Wind netbook was no faster with a SanDisk SATA 5000 SSD than with the standard 80GB HDD -- an Eee PC 1000h featuring similar specifications was significantly faster with a competing SSD from Samsung.

  While Vista may be a performance inhibitor compared to Windows XP for SSDs, it appears that most new, current-generation SSDs are having no problems performing well with the operating system. The problem appears to be SanDisk's low reads and writes (67 MB/sec and 50 MB/sec respectively) compared to the competition (i.e., OCZ's new Core Series SSDs which clock in at 120 to 143 MB/sec for reads and 80 to 93 MB/sec for writes)."

Maybe people on /. haven't run into problems with DRM because they know enough to avoid it? People should be aware of the real-life implications of DRM. It isn't theoretical. It's a problem we'll face in the future as services shut down, and whatever you bought through that service will be lost.

The desktop/tower with separate monitor is still the most popular seller from the PC vendors.

In PCs above $1000 Macs dominate: "Apple dominates sales for PCs above $1,000".

their big sellers are still separate tower types, specifically mid-low range ones.

That's one area Apple isn't in. As someone said dealing with TFA, most people who say Macs are too expensive what they really mean is that Apple doesn't offer a computer configures the way they want it.

mean look at the server market, these days it's all rackmount hardware, mostly 1U.

Apple offers 1U servers, the Xserve. Unfortunately I didn't find data on what it's market share is otherwise I'd post it and the link.

Which is exactly where they don't want to be. Right now they're huge in the $1000 and up market, which I'm sure is where they're happy to be.

Yea, you could almost say Apple owns the market above $1000: "Apple dominates sales for PCs above $1,000".

Search engines are not THAT tough to build. Technologically, it's within their grasp. But people just don't WANT to do business with MS. Without a captive market, customers and would-be partners take their business elsewhere.

And if Microsoft wants Yahoo! because of the eyeballs that will be a problem for them. It's easy for people to switch to another search engine or email provider. I've heard a few people say that if MS does acquire Yahoo! they'll switch, though I use mostly Google for searching I use Yahoo! for email and for the groups and I will switch.

Their most successful/innovative product is XBox, and they lose money on every single one that ships. The joke of it is, by the time they reach the break even point it will be time to upgrade the hardware and start losing money again.

MS has reached the break even point on the XBox, for the second quarter they've made profits, $89 million this last quarter.

On the desktop, I predict Apple will do the best job capitalizing on the Vista meltdown. Linux will rule the cheapie subnotebooks and everything below that in the food chain, along with the server world. MSFT will be stuck in the middle, sandwiched between Linux on the low end and Apple on the high end.

"Apple dominates sales for PCs above $1,000".

It's not DOUBLE.
It's 180 dollars.

$399 + $25 shipping buys two. Looks like the price is $199 dollars. Which is within 1% of DOUBLE.

One of the first google hits is this: http://www.techspot.com/news/27662-olpc-price-reaches-200-per-unit.html

Anyhow, just because the press said it was a hundred dollar laptop it doesn't mean it was a main objective, and and exact amount.

Who said it was a hundred dollar laptop? Re-writing history are we?

Here's something a little more recent: From Nov 2006

You clearly need to work on your Google skills.

http://www.techspot.com/reviews/hardware/trackball _explorer/ [techspot.com] I have been using these for my post production company for years since logitech got rid of the cordless trackman FX. It has a big red ball and your forearm doesn't cross over the radius and ulna bones like when you are using the kensington (your hand is in a more moderate close to pistol grip position) You can also hold a pen in that hand if you have a wacom or, better yet an intuos LCD pen device - thats my regular rig and its awesome.

http://www.techspot.com/reviews/hardware/trackball _explorer/

I have been using these for my post production company for years since logitech got rid of the cordless trackman explorer.

It has a big red ball and your forearm doesn't cross over the bones like when you are using the kensington (your hand is in a more moderate close to pistol grip position)

You can also hold a pen in that hand if you have a wacom or, better yet an intuos LCD pen device - thats my regular rig and its awesome.

I started getting RSI like symptoms from mouse usage in 1996. I got a trackball (either Microsoft or Logitech) and a Natural Keyboard. Pain went away overnight. Whenever I've had to use a normal mouse the pain would return after not too much time, so because of this I've stuck to my trackballs. Favourite of all times is the MS Explorer, which they unfortunately discontinued - luckily I have a couple.

Having said all that, when Logitech brought out their G5 laser mouse I decided to give it a try. This has exceptional sensitivity, never misses a beat, and I found that hardly any movement is required to control the mouse. I have now been using it for nearly a year in combination with MS' Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 (great, great unit) and have no discomfort whatsoever.

Note that the selling for a loss thing is no longer true, hasn't been since late November. Costs may even have come down more since then.

to be clear MS is already making a profit on each Xbox 360 console sold, and has been since last November (I'd be willing to bet they're making a killing with the Elite version)... 2008 simply marks the point where the Xbox division as a whole finally gets out of the red, most of that is making up with losses from the Xbox 1 which IIRC never made a profit on a per console basis.

The XBox 360 is apparently slightly better than break even now as well.

Agreed. If the FCC allowed the company to transmit 1 Watt, which I doubt, then the power would immediately spread throughout the room and beyond. There is no way to keep the power focused unless both the sending and receiving antenna is close to the size of one wavelength, at least, an unacceptable size. And it would certainly not be acceptable to focus the power, because of concerns about health. (At 900 MHz, the wavelength is 33.4 centimeters, about 1 foot. If you don't live in the U.S., you may need to know that the FCC is the U.S. government agency that regulates electromagnetic transmissions.)

Question: If this is an April Fools joke, it is the most elaborate one I've seen. Is it a joke or is it fraud? I can't imagine Philips allowing the company name to be used to advertise an April Fools joke.

It's a tragedy when otherwise intelligent people play video games instead of learning about the world around them.

.... as there have been others:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0 DE2DB1731F93BA35751C1A9609C8B63
http://www.techspot.com/news/23809-sanyo-faces-13m -cellphone-battery-recall.html

I guess this proves that it's not just Sony that puts the "boom" into laptops.

You're correct that they Xbox division hopes to be turning a profit by next year, but that doesn't mean they're still loosing money on each console sold. From what I've heard they're currently netting about $75 per premium unit sold. When the console launched they were estimated to have been loosing about $125 per unit, but have since been able to cut many of their manufacturing costs. I suspect that moving their chips to the 65nm process will further reduce costs.

Basically the only reason they haven't dropped prices yet is because the console IS actually turning a profit and they have the choice between gaining more market share (by dropping) or fast tracking the division towards getting out of the red (by staying where they are and collecting the profits on the units they're selling). There's no real incentive to drop since the Wii really targets a different market and the PS3 isn't currently threating their price point.

Do a little research: Population density of various nations. USA is #172. Just going down the list, Finland is #190 and has 96% broadband penetration. That's all I can be bothered to look up in 2 minutes, but I also see Sweden, Iceland, and Norway all have lower population density than USA, and I'm willing to bet greater broadband penetration.

I imagine that the prices are very carefully calculated to yield the maximum amount of profit (feel free to correct me if anyone has statistics to prove otherwise).

I couldn't have said it better myself. Of course, this ignores the concept of a "fair" price. But since the word fair is such a difficult word to pin down, I'll have to give it my best shot.
There is the model of competitive pricing, which is more or less built on the cost of selling. When you go the grocery store to buy your dozen eggs, you can see they're not very expensive; a dollar at most in most areas. I would say that is relatively in line with how much it costs to get the eggs there, with just enough left over to make the grocer 'feel like' putting them there, and the farmer to sell them.
Now there's the darker side. I feel like I first became aware of this concept at my local amusement park, with the obviously jacked up food prices. It's $2.50 for the cup of french fries, which after cost of goods and wages, probably set them back 45 cents at most. I use this example not only because it's the perfect example of monopoly pricing, but also because there's a (relatively) fair market price waiting outside at your local fast food joint. 99 cents for more or less the same product.

I think consumers subtly realize when they're getting screwed. Wendy's doesn't have access to a pricing model of "do you get your food or don't you", they're stuck with "get it here or get it elsewhere". The amusement park definitely realizes you can't get it elsewhere, and the prices show it. People buy, of course, because it's usually a pain to leave and come back, and a day with hungry->whiney kids is hardly 'amusing'.
Ok, so maybe I should be thankful that my local amusement park is offering me the choice to not go hungry, but I know I'm getting screwed. They're making their extra buck off of my back, and I'm well aware of it. The same goes with the record labels. They keep the copyrights for the works that 'their' artists produce, so they don't have to fight against someone else selling the same music. Thanks to their convenient cartels, they don't even have to compete with each other over similar genres. The result? You guessed it. Overinflated prices. Again, this concept of a "fair" price is a difficult one to pin down, but I would certainly say it's less than the $12.75 we're stuck with now. Even 99 cents per song for the ones I like is a tough sell. I've been on a farm before (well, at least visited one), and I have a small idea of what a pain in the ass it is to raise chickens. I feel like a dollar is a pretty modest price to pay for 12 of them, actually.

Now there's the RIAA. Of course, their model is based on a certain amount of uncertainty of whether or not an artist will succeed, so it's a bit harder to gett a spot price (as opposed to measuring the effort it takes to raise chickens for eggs). Well, they claim that it's a lot, but in my experience, whenever a company is being secretive about their pricing, I've found that something fishy is usually going on. Music consumers (and artists... the monopoly works both ways) have been getting screwed for a long time, and it's no secret. Now, somebody comes along with a way to screw them back, and they cry foul? Please. I don't want to hear it.

What the Napster era really produced wasn't a country full of pirates. It was a new fair price. Now, the music industry actually has to compete with something. And it sucks for them. Bye-bye amusement park profits. Hello market price. But back to this

If the wording is, as reported, that he is banned from accessing the Internet for personal reasons, that includes ATMs (he'll have to give his bank card to a teller instead), speedpasses, self-scan checkouts, xbox live, etc.

So the way I read that is that even if he had permission to add stuff to his profile (which clearly he did, since the changes were allowed), if the changes were not intended by the "owner of the information," then he broke this law. Pretty screwy wording, if you ask me. So basically, anytime you "modify" data in a manner not intended by the website owner, you're breaking the law (at least in California). I wonder how long before somebody uses this law to sue the RIAA for putting fake files on P2P networks?

"The creator of the infamous worm was unfortunate enough to be the the target in MySpace's latest litigation."

AFAIK, a civil court (which is where MySpace would have to sue Samy) doesn't ban people from the internets or sentance them to community service. And TFA says he pleaded guilty in LA Superior Court... you don't plead guilty in civil court.

Here's a better article

Samy Kamkar (aka 'Samy is my Hero') plead guilty yesterday in Los Angeles Superior Court to a violation of Penal Code section 502(c)(8) as a felony and was placed on three years of formal probation, ordered to perform 90 days of community service, pay restitution to MySpace, and had computer restrictions placed on the manner and means he could use a computer - he can only use a computer and access the internet for work related reasons.

Undoubtedly, the prosecutor had MySpace's cooperation, but MySpace certainly didn't "target him" in court.

P.S. of the 3 articles on Google News submitter picked the least informative one.

That would be great but I don't think it will happen. When Slammer hit S. Korea in 1/2005 they were one of the few global financial systems that were affected. They made a big stink about blaming MS and then went on, business as usual, without rethinking their reliance on a single vendor who is notorious for breaking standards.

If it has less than 3% market share or the version is over three years old, strongly consider what your effort is worth before changing code to support it.

Whew! It's a good thing then that Apple is just about to pierce 3% of the desktop market share! Of course you should be careful making claims like that around here since Linux desktops are around only 3% as well, though a quick search didn't turn up any recent numbers.

I find it humorous when people (and certain stupid stereotyping commercials) talk about how consumers are switching from PCs to Apple in droves when just now they are approaching 3% (OSX being released in 2001). I don't anticipate much of an impact, but I do have to wonder what a new release of Windows will do to Apple's market share.

The average home user that likes to take their home movies from their digital camcorder amd make dvd's using Pinnacle Studio (Another vidio editor for home users) will apprciate the 157% improvement in rendering time over a dual core (pentium D).
I am building one of these as I type. Still waiting for the $1500 chip to come in, but this is a small price for someone that has a passion for making movies and is sick and tired of spending most of his time looking at a progress bar.

I agree that even the forward-thinking can sometimes fail to think forward, but if you're going to put quotes around an attributed statement then you must be sure you quote exactly. The problem is that the actual quote can't ever be pinned down, so it's not proper to attribute it to him as a direct quote. See this link for more information.

That said, I think Mr. Allchin is treading dangerous ground. Even with lockdowns, exploits are a moving target, and when users can get infected by a malicious banner ad found on a popular commercial site it's bad karma to say that you can be confident that nothing will ever get in. Running AV software is a pain, but it does have the advantage that the company stays up to date on new threats so they might build in an update that fixes a problem you've never encountered before it starts attacking you.

Virg

You mean, something like this?

Keep up, will you?