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Comment Re:Not News!! (Score 1) 843

by bard on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @05:46AM (#29975654) Attached to: In Test, Windows 7 Vulnerable To 8 Out of 10 Viruses

The difference might not be especially troublesome for you today but it will be when that hardware is a few years old. For instance I guarantee when many windows users "upgrade" to vista aka windows 7 their perfectly functional printers/scanners/multi-functions/digital cameras/web cams that are a few years old will have to be replaced to accommodate the upgrade. Ubuntu will continue to support nearly every piece of hardware it supported with the last release on into the future until some compelling TECHNICAL reason makes it infeasible.

For me it's been the opposite. A printer (an old HP Color LaserJet) that didn't have support out of the box in either XP or Vista did have support in Win 7 without any problems at all.

Comment Re:But UAC works perfectly fine at frustrating me! (Score 1) 843

by bard on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @05:41AM (#29975610) Attached to: In Test, Windows 7 Vulnerable To 8 Out of 10 Viruses

If you start notepad with administrative privilieges instead you wouldn't have had to disable UAC.

Comment Penny might be it (Score 1) 384

by bard on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @12:23AM (#28021753) Attached to: Where Are the High-Res Head-Mounted Displays?

http://www.penny.se/eng/index.html has a HMD which projects the image straight into the eyes. I can't find any information about the resolution, but they're apparently going into large scale production later this year.

As one of their suggested customer groups is entertainment, I hope the price won't be too high.

Comment Re:TrueCrypt and Mac (Score 1) 468

by bard on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @05:28AM (#26794955) Attached to: How To, When You Have To Encrypt Absolutely Everything?

There's also CheckPoint Full Disk Encryption for Mac... Which happens to have been working on Mac longer than PGP's version. :)

On a related note, I find it interesting that the FDE product (CheckPoint Full Disk Encryption, formerly Pointsec for PC) which has one of the largest if the not the largest installed base in the world is never mentioned in any of these threads here on Slashdot.

(And before you ask, yes, I work for CheckPoint on the FDE product).

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