if you read the TFA it tells you that the SuperFetch will release memory (cache) to make way for applications that require it more urgently... once the application stops the SuperFetch will begin filling the cache again.
Watching SuperFetch
After you've used a Windows Vista system a while, you'll see a low number for the Free Physical Memory counter on Task Manager's Performance page. That's because SuperFetch and standard Windows caching make use of all available physical memory to cache disk data. For example, when you first boot, if you immediately run Task Manager you should notice the Free Memory value decreasing as Cached Memory number rises. Or, if you run a memory-hungry program and then exit it (any of the freeware "RAM optimizers" that allocate large amounts of memory and then release the memory will work), or just copy a very large file, the Free number will rise and the Physical Memory Usage graph will drop as the system reclaims the deallocated memory. Over time, however, SuperFetch repopulates the cache with the data that was forced out of memory, so the Cached number will rise and the Free number will decline.
As far as end user experiences "speed" on a system upgraded from XP.... well it is pretty similar for most applications... gaming has been showing somewhat lower frame rates....but I think that the state of Nvidia's Vista drivers has had more to do with that than Vista taking performance away.
when XP came out there was a ton of people with boxen from 98 (PII 400's 128MBRAM) that were bitching that XP slowed them down... if you have a old pc you may need to get a new PC to get the most outta Vista yeah.. but that is hardly different than it has ever been.
yeah I saw some ASUS board that had 256MB flash memory onboard for this application (readyboost) reviewed..but I can't remember which model......but I imagine more MB may add this feature as Vista takes off.
Q: Isn't user data on a removable device a security risk? A: This was one of our first concerns and to mitigate this risk, we use AES-128 to encrypt everything that we write to the device.
depending on how implemented
not starting the engine for someone that is drunk excellent
warning the driver that the car will slow and then stop and that they must exit traffic if the system determines the driver is intoxicated could be good also. I would encourage them to install sensors to determine that the car in not in traffic before it does anything drastic.
stopping someone dead on i-5 in SoCal traffic could be quite catastrophic indeed.
Too many people are still being killed by drunks on the roads. It is too bad that people can not behave like responsible adults, since many can not such a system might be in order.
what a bunch of pompous assholes the scientists sound like.
how dare anyone (especially celebrities express concerns about the chemicals that are in everything we eat and the air we breath)
cause science has proved so fucking infallible in the past.... how long was asbestos on the market?
now sure sometimes the layperson maybe be well talking out their arse...but if people choose to take a non experts word for something without doing some verification that is on them.
I don't trust scientists on the face value of what they say any more than celebrities however.
this is such a bullshite story.. oh noes your l33t pirate copy might not just have a activation crack but a virus / rootkit / trojan....DUH.... you don't want compromised install image... GO FUCKING BUY VISTA... or run something else....
bitching about slipstreaming is pure FUD stupidness... it is an awesome feature...again if you don't want it abused to root you...DON'T D/L warezed copies off some random BT site.
if you want vista buy it... if you don't wanna buy it don't use it... (maybe if a enough people rebel the pricing will be lower next time?.. maybe not ???)
do you piss and moan when your warezed photoshop has "added" malware goodness too.....
buy it / crack it yourself / or shut the fuck up.... but don't be too surprised when people that crack vista (or other apps) put something like malware into the mix also.
yeah but... how are you going to spin the disc?
on
Blu-ray Laser Gadget
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· Score: 1
fast enough or hold your hand steady enough for that to read the disc???? oh wait...
that thing is retarded seriously what kinda idiot would pay $2K for that?
First of without a doubt Firefox has managed to achieve excellent market share considering it is competing against a browser that is pre-loaded and tied into the dominant OS platform.
Is it of interest or a priority to try to get Firefox preloaded on OEM PCs?
... not even people with boarding passes.... great.
ummm so if none has "test" these generated passes how does anyone know that you could actually get onboard a plane with it????
you could probably get past security which is bad....i guess.... but you'd still have to go thru the screening so not sure what good that would do.... unless your not going to fly but you have a thing for paying $5 for a latte at the starbucks just past the security check?
considering the airlines are basically not letting a plane fly without almost every/every seat filled... even if you managed to get on the plane one can assume that your arrest would be happening shortly there after as the person with the real ticket for the seat showed up and wanted to know what the fuck you are doing in their seat.
on an admittedly off topic not... but related to my last point to the guy that acted all bent outta shape when I accidently sat in your seat instead of mine a row infront of you after working 20hrs the day before the flight....... HOPE YOU ENJOYED MY SEAT ALL THE WAY BACK IN YOUR FUCKING FACE THE WHOLE FLIGHT BITCH
this doesn't fill me with confidence that a control room full of NASA mission controllers and a space station full of astronauts can not manage to preform a task any MSCE can do in their sleep...
sheesh...how many of y'all does it take to screw in a light bulb?
~~~~
Pro - Graphic Designers will talk to you: The company where I work has developers and designers working closely together. Designers using Macs, wearing $300 dollar jeans. Developers using Windows PCs, wearing $20 jeans (but earning much higher salaries).
When you can talk about the Mac with a designer they will suddenly like you 50% more. It may sound stupid, but the results are there.
~~~
man i just as soon have those arrogant, vapid...etc design pricks take their $300 jeans and go fuck themselves.... fuck I hate people like them... seriously if the mac made people like that leave me the fuck alone I'd buy two.
anyone that likes you better cause of your choice consumer items is a total twat.... and should be avoided at all costs.
luckily FTA the dispute appears to be limited to "webisodes" the producers are refusing to make any more of the webisodes until the compensation issue is resolved.
it does not appear to impact that actual episodes of the TV series however.
since they maybe able to help me boot linux w/ vista's Bootloader but they can not save their webserver from collapsing under the weight of the slashdot masses.
sooo... but without this... u can still use GRUB or LILO right ?? in the same way as XP/Linux dual boot? I haven't tried it soo just wondering..
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Watching SuperFetch After you've used a Windows Vista system a while, you'll see a low number for the Free Physical Memory counter on Task Manager's Performance page. That's because SuperFetch and standard Windows caching make use of all available physical memory to cache disk data. For example, when you first boot, if you immediately run Task Manager you should notice the Free Memory value decreasing as Cached Memory number rises. Or, if you run a memory-hungry program and then exit it (any of the freeware "RAM optimizers" that allocate large amounts of memory and then release the memory will work), or just copy a very large file, the Free number will rise and the Physical Memory Usage graph will drop as the system reclaims the deallocated memory. Over time, however, SuperFetch repopulates the cache with the data that was forced out of memory, so the Cached number will rise and the Free number will decline.
As far as end user experiences "speed" on a system upgraded from XP.... well it is pretty similar for most applications... gaming has been showing somewhat lower frame rates....but I think that the state of Nvidia's Vista drivers has had more to do with that than Vista taking performance away.
when XP came out there was a ton of people with boxen from 98 (PII 400's 128MBRAM) that were bitching that XP slowed them down
yeah I saw some ASUS board that had 256MB flash memory onboard for this application (readyboost) reviewed..but I can't remember which model......but I imagine more MB may add this feature as Vista takes off.
http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/0
Q: Isn't user data on a removable device a security risk?
A: This was one of our first concerns and to mitigate this risk, we use AES-128 to encrypt everything that we write to the device.
this is news??? is it really that shocking that the advertising people would miss something like this?
/. has stopped them serving pages anyway it appears =p
btw... does anyone know if Windows Defender would have blocked this unfortunate mistake from affecting a users computer?
the TFA dosn't seem to say?... and now
step 1.
have system memory of at least 1GB (ideally 2GB) searching at newegg 2GB kits (DDR2) starting at $130~ (not that i'd buy those ones =p)
Step 2.
buy 1 or 2GB USB flashdrive (meeting requirements for readyboost) enable readyboast....and enjoy.
btw I'm running Vista on a FX55 w/ 1GB ram right now...it is FINE...
Google targeting plugin I figured Pakistan would pay good money for itl
driver support than vista ?
how about someone freaking sue logitech so they have to make setpoint for vista for my g5 laser mouse.....
to start calling the iphone (tm Cisco Systems) the Newton 2 instead ??????
depending on how implemented
not starting the engine for someone that is drunk excellent
warning the driver that the car will slow and then stop and that they must exit traffic if the system determines the driver is intoxicated could be good also. I would encourage them to install sensors to determine that the car in not in traffic before it does anything drastic.
stopping someone dead on i-5 in SoCal traffic could be quite catastrophic indeed.
Too many people are still being killed by drunks on the roads. It is too bad that people can not behave like responsible adults, since many can not such a system might be in order.
what a bunch of pompous assholes the scientists sound like.
how dare anyone (especially celebrities express concerns about the chemicals that are in everything we eat and the air we breath)
cause science has proved so fucking infallible in the past.... how long was asbestos on the market?
now sure sometimes the layperson maybe be well talking out their arse...but if people choose to take a non experts word for something without doing some verification that is on them.
I don't trust scientists on the face value of what they say any more than celebrities however.
this is such a bullshite story .. oh noes your l33t pirate copy might not just have a activation crack but a virus / rootkit / trojan....DUH.... you don't want compromised install image ... GO FUCKING BUY VISTA... or run something else....
bitching about slipstreaming is pure FUD stupidness... it is an awesome feature...again if you don't want it abused to root you...DON'T D/L warezed copies off some random BT site.
if you want vista buy it... if you don't wanna buy it don't use it... (maybe if a enough people rebel the pricing will be lower next time?.. maybe not ???)
do you piss and moan when your warezed photoshop has "added" malware goodness too.....
buy it / crack it yourself / or shut the fuck up.... but don't be too surprised when people that crack vista (or other apps) put something like malware into the mix also.
fast enough or hold your hand steady enough for that to read the disc???? oh wait... that thing is retarded seriously what kinda idiot would pay $2K for that?
Dr. the bad news.. you have AIDS and left untreated it will kill
you: DAMN
Dr. now the good news we will inject you with AIDS that will kill your AIDS
you: GREAT
Dr. Now the not so good news the AIDS that kills the AIDS will then kill you.
First of without a doubt Firefox has managed to achieve excellent market share considering it is competing against a browser that is pre-loaded and tied into the dominant OS platform.
Is it of interest or a priority to try to get Firefox preloaded on OEM PCs?
judging by the homo that just modded my first post troll i assume they didn't enjoy my seat all the way back in their fucking face.
mod this down if you must it is totally worth it to have called that person a fucking homo.
... not even people with boarding passes.... great.
ummm so if none has "test" these generated passes how does anyone know that you could actually get onboard a plane with it????
you could probably get past security which is bad....i guess.... but you'd still have to go thru the screening so not sure what good that would do.... unless your not going to fly but you have a thing for paying $5 for a latte at the starbucks just past the security check?
considering the airlines are basically not letting a plane fly without almost every/every seat filled... even if you managed to get on the plane one can assume that your arrest would be happening shortly there after as the person with the real ticket for the seat showed up and wanted to know what the fuck you are doing in their seat.
on an admittedly off topic not... but related to my last point to the guy that acted all bent outta shape when I accidently sat in your seat instead of mine a row infront of you after working 20hrs the day before the flight....... HOPE YOU ENJOYED MY SEAT ALL THE WAY BACK IN YOUR FUCKING FACE THE WHOLE FLIGHT BITCH
of course that doesn't mean we can type "MCSE" correctly.... jeezous Christ i gotta start using the preview function.
this doesn't fill me with confidence that a control room full of NASA mission controllers and a space station full of astronauts can not manage to preform a task any MSCE can do in their sleep...
sheesh...how many of y'all does it take to screw in a light bulb?
back to my home network / RADIUS server. ... when using the interweb on public APs
...about your oppression and lack of intern.......OH WAIT.
do you suppose those fuckers have a spam filter on their mail server???
and if so is it using spamhaus's list???????
~~~~ Pro - Graphic Designers will talk to you: The company where I work has developers and designers working closely together. Designers using Macs, wearing $300 dollar jeans. Developers using Windows PCs, wearing $20 jeans (but earning much higher salaries). When you can talk about the Mac with a designer they will suddenly like you 50% more. It may sound stupid, but the results are there. ~~~
man i just as soon have those arrogant, vapid...etc design pricks take their $300 jeans and go fuck themselves.... fuck I hate people like them... seriously if the mac made people like that leave me the fuck alone I'd buy two.
anyone that likes you better cause of your choice consumer items is a total twat.... and should be avoided at all costs.
luckily FTA the dispute appears to be limited to "webisodes" the producers are refusing to make any more of the webisodes until the compensation issue is resolved. it does not appear to impact that actual episodes of the TV series however.
since they maybe able to help me boot linux w/ vista's Bootloader but they can not save their webserver from collapsing under the weight of the slashdot masses. sooo... but without this ... u can still use GRUB or LILO right ?? in the same way as XP/Linux dual boot? I haven't tried it soo just wondering..
please forward this slashdot story to 20 of your friends in order to fight spam.... actually just to be sure email it to them twice.