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{ Monthly Archives } January 2008

links for 2008-01-04

Vista SP1 RC1 Slows HDD & Network Speeds - TrustedReviews
Across a network transferring a 1.37GB file took three minutes 37 seconds using Windows XP SP2, the known Vista bug caused the same file to take a whopping 12 minutes 58 seconds, while Vista SP1 RC1 took even longer at 15 minutes 41 seconds.
(tags: microsoft vista [...]

2008 01 03 delio-kac work/web Comments (0)

links for 2008-01-02

Source for “MetaFilter MultiFavorited” – Userscripts.org
adds a colored bar to the left of multi-favorited comments on metafilter
(tags: mefi greasemonkey script)

2008 01 01 delio-kac work/web Comments (0)

metafilter justice: givewell.net founder outed for astroturfing

One of the two founders of givewell.net, a newly-formed charity foundation started by two former hedge fund analysts, has been astroturfing on sites including boingboing and lifehacker (lifehacker has since purged his comments, so the link is to a mefi comment wrapping up the different lifehacker ones). He made the mistake of trying to pull [...]

2008 01 01 tarheelcoxn metafilter Comments (0)
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States