I noticed on the Linksys' log that the laptop was making seemingly random connections to high-numbered ports on various IPs. I did a nslookup on the IPs to see that they were all either in Canada or US, with Comcast and other ISP addresses
Hey dad, you see that donkey icon in the system tray, next to the time ? Now right click on it and choose "Quit".
I bet that 90% of slashdotters are still wondering what is L0phtCrack and how can you eat it.
Hmmm no. I'm just wondering how I can smoke it.
Why did they fail to compare performance with Windows XP?
Because Vista was really slower than XP, and 7 is only a little bit faster than Vista (but still a lot slower than XP). That's why it was not in the benchmarks. Marketing...
If you search for XP vs Vista vs 7 (and, why not, vs Linux) disk/networking benchmarks, you'll see what I mean.
In speed and elegance, perhaps.
So you agree to the fact that emacs is faster and more elegant than vi, right ? You agree ?
scientists burn the liquid and bombard the resulting gas with electrically charged particles
After the lab test
Yes, it was a real one !
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. -- Plato