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Comment Re:LastPass (Score 1) 209

It's funny that you bring up Xmarks. LastPass recently purchased Xmarks, so it still lives. You might have to pay like $10 a year for it, but I still think thats a great deal. Hopefully, they give Xmarks for free to their premium users!

Comment Re:Switching from legacy to native mode (Score 1) 931

Windows XP won't easily. Windows 7 is a completely different story though. It's VERY easy to switch to/from AHCI mode in Windows 7.

The reason why it isn't as easy for Windows XP is because when you switch the controller to native/AHCI mode, it appears as a completely different controller as before.

Comment Re:Activation and slipstreaming (Score 1) 931

This information is just plain wrong. You do NOT need a floppy drive or slipped stream disk for SATA. You can put the SATA controller in to Legacy or IDE mode and XP will recognize it just fine. There are only a couple of circumstances where you need to slipstream or use a floppy. One is if you insist on using AHCI. AHCI is nice as it provides stuff like NCQ, but its not a necessity. Outside of AHCI, you only need to slipstream or use a floppy if you have a semi-recent RAID card that XP doesn't have drivers for, or if your card won't go in to legacy mode. If you are in this 'minority', then you should be able to easily find a CD burner and/or a USB floppy drive. FYI, even Windows 98 lets you install on a SATA drive.

Comment Re:Overkill? (Score 1) 225

I created an Xmarks backup environment at work for people. It's a simple PHP scripts with some Apache httpd .htaccess goodness. Xmarks can use webdav over https (which is what I do). Each user only has access to their specific bookmarks and this has worked fine. Guess I'm going to have to come up with another solution now.

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