I just tried to get the beta and got this message;

Not available in your country or region

You appear to be in a country or region where the Microsoft Security Essentials Beta is unavailable.

This beta is available only to customers in the United States, Israel (English only), People's Republic of China (Simplified Chinese only) and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese only).

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

oh yes, I can just imagine how a Commodore BASIC v2 attack on the iPhone would work...

10 IF iphoneosver=2.x OR 1.x THEN H4X0R ELSE GOTO 20
20 PRINT "pls wait a couple of weeks kthxbai"
30 END

(Apologies for not getting BASIC right - I'm a muso, not a programmer)

don't keep any really personal stuff on your laptop. I take my laptop to work with me all the time to get around the no-internet-on-work-computers policy (I work in a call centre, go figure). There's a couple of Futurama and Star Trek episodes on there and the usual browser and Office installations. It's set up to never remember logins and passwords.
I do all my computery work on my real computer at home though. My laptop is just a convenience. My data security won't be compromised if it were stolen.

now, if only they'd let them export to PDF from any Windows app. I wonder why Apple can get away with it, but Microsoft can't?

that sir, is pure gold.

it means you rode Shai Hulud

Now if only Facebook (and other big sites, I guess - I don't visit many of them) would do things like decreasing bloat while adding functionality, the web would be a much nicer place to be.

It has to be. Posting for the April Fool's achievement... :D

I can't work out if it's for real or not, but it's a pretty cool idea. I'd like to know how they work some of them out.

"61 days, rebooting only for updates" still flies in the face of everybody that claims that Vista will crash on a weekly/daily/hourly basis. His point is still valid without you needing to wave your epenis.

as far as I can see, the Memory Performance section of that article hands the win to 64bit. The ones where there's a clear winner (more than 5 point difference) 32bit wins by no more than 35 points or so, while 64bit wins its ones by about 30-50 points.

Overall, 64bit wins out in terms of performance too. 10.9% might not seem like much of a number, but that's where performance gains start to become noticeable.

They cut the ribbon? How are they supposed to access that much data unless they buy a new one?

Does anybody know just why Hulu & Boxee don't get along? I've read that come content providers asked Hulu to block Boxee, but I completely fail to see the logic behind the request.

Agreed. Wikipedia also points out that the PPC architecture has been the polar opposite of a "flop". No, it didn't take over the Desktop Computing world, but it sure made an impression just about everywhere else.

...last I heard of it, it had the friendliest installation process of all the Linuxes (which wasn't saying much at the time, I guess...), but then it kinda.. disappeared...