An interesting article on how to have hard disks that combine the traditional way with a bit of flash disks. Initial booting etc happens from the flash disk (and is hence fast and less wear/ tear for the hard disk), while data etc is stored on the spindle-and-discs hard disk. §
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Get Windows Live Mail! for free – no invite needed!
Seriously, it works. Your Mileage Might Vary though. I’m linking to two sites here — both have similar instructions, but I guess the link they want you to click on is different. The first site didn’t work for me, the second worked. And I didn’t follow the instructions ditto either. I was signed out of Hotmail, then clicked the link (coz I was frustrated trying to signup and having it not work), and voila! it worked! § §
WMF vulnerability!
Happy New Year folks! :)
There’s a WMF vulnerability on the loose! (Basically, its a vulnerability for all version of Windows. A very critical vulnerability. To do with the code in Windows that displays pictures, their thumbnails, and the like. Once affected, your machine downloads spyware and soon things are pretty messy. § §
I plan to follow SANS’s advice and install the unofficial patch as well as unregister the DLL.
