with the double-battery option - around 8 hours continuous use, and that isn't using suspend/standby. Sony says that it could last up to 11 hours but I haven't been able to get that. All this with a gorgeous 14" screen and about 4lbs w/o the battery. If you got a few bucks I recommend getting this bad boy.
In typical MS fashion they bought out this company a while back for this express purpose. The only thing that wasn't known is when and this article doesn't enlighten us any further. So like I said, this is old news.
I would imagine that most of the virus scanners for mail servers out there can be configured to not send out the notification to the forged From address. The virus scanner I am familiar with - RAV, has this capability. I had ours configured to send out the notification until Klez and other viruses made it a worthless endeavour. Unless of course you are an ISP that has no qualms about using the opportunity to advertise.
It would be nice if GeCAD would rewrite their software to stop the notice from being sent when the virus is Klez, Sobig, etc. But since GeCAD got bought out by Microsoft who will be discontinuing their product line, I know that will never happen. Hopefully someone else like Sophos will.
But if you're accessing a web page that's already compressed, you won't see any improvement (btw, linux users will be able to see gzipped web pages as ordinary html, as its' decompressed on the fly, but windows users have to use plain-jane html)
If you access a web page that is already cached and compressed on the server, it will be even faster since the ISP's server doesn't have to retrieve the page again.
These things are a joke. The primary performance increase comes from recompressing images into really nasty JPEGs. AOL was doing this years ago (and getting blasted for it). If you turn that off, the performance improvement is not even measurable.
They do get a significant performance gain from compressing text, and some work for your email too. Most of the software will let you adjust the settings for the compression of the images. I have seen the difference this software can make on a dial-up connection and it is significant. Even on mainly text based pages like webmail. On a dial-up connection something like this helps big time. Trading CPU cycles which most consumers have plenty of for bandwidth is a no-brainer.
Actually, how it was described to me, is that the requested page is retrieved by the ISP's server, cached and compressed, then sent along to the client. Which, with the compression they are able to get, is much faster for the dial-up user. At least that is how is supposed to work with Slipstream's product (what NetZero uses).
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with the double-battery option - around 8 hours continuous use, and that isn't using suspend/standby. Sony says that it could last up to 11 hours but I haven't been able to get that. All this with a gorgeous 14" screen and about 4lbs w/o the battery. If you got a few bucks I recommend getting this bad boy.
In typical MS fashion they bought out this company a while back for this express purpose. The only thing that wasn't known is when and this article doesn't enlighten us any further. So like I said, this is old news.
I would imagine that most of the virus scanners for mail servers out there can be configured to not send out the notification to the forged From address. The virus scanner I am familiar with - RAV, has this capability. I had ours configured to send out the notification until Klez and other viruses made it a worthless endeavour. Unless of course you are an ISP that has no qualms about using the opportunity to advertise.
It would be nice if GeCAD would rewrite their software to stop the notice from being sent when the virus is Klez, Sobig, etc. But since GeCAD got bought out by Microsoft who will be discontinuing their product line, I know that will never happen. Hopefully someone else like Sophos will.
F5 will be using Linux for version 5.0 of their software due out soon.
But if you're accessing a web page that's already compressed, you won't see any improvement (btw, linux users will be able to see gzipped web pages as ordinary html, as its' decompressed on the fly, but windows users have to use plain-jane html)
If you access a web page that is already cached and compressed on the server, it will be even faster since the ISP's server doesn't have to retrieve the page again.
These things are a joke. The primary performance increase comes from recompressing images into really nasty JPEGs. AOL was doing this years ago (and getting blasted for it). If you turn that off, the performance improvement is not even measurable.
They do get a significant performance gain from compressing text, and some work for your email too. Most of the software will let you adjust the settings for the compression of the images. I have seen the difference this software can make on a dial-up connection and it is significant. Even on mainly text based pages like webmail. On a dial-up connection something like this helps big time. Trading CPU cycles which most consumers have plenty of for bandwidth is a no-brainer.
Actually, how it was described to me, is that the requested page is retrieved by the ISP's server, cached and compressed, then sent along to the client. Which, with the compression they are able to get, is much faster for the dial-up user. At least that is how is supposed to work with Slipstream's product (what NetZero uses).