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Vista SP1 - it’s here!
2007-04-03 23:20:00
No, no - official Vista Service Pack 1 is not released yet. However, Ethan Allen (software quality specialist, Microsoft exworker) has created unofficial Service Pack with about 100 fixes. Most important of them fix: Windows Media Player memory leaks Problems with playing .mov files in WMP Problems(mainly Bluetooth problems) after “wake-up” Long loading time on IBM and Lenovo computers Problems with ...
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Hardware serial number generator
2007-04-03 19:33:00
One of my applications had to encrypt very secret informations on user’s computer. I thought that asking user for password would be foolish, because it’s easier to get the password from user than crack encrypted data. All I’ve needed was unit/code that generates unique identificator for a computer. I’ve spent many hours searching for it, but without ...
More About: Hardware , War , Ware , Generator , Hard

Strong encryption in Delphi
2007-04-02 22:37:00
You can find many codes to encrypt a string on the Internet. There is just one small problems - all this “algorithms” are rubbish! However, don’t worry! There are great Delphi components (I use them as classes) - DCPCrypt . This components package have implemented many strong cipher and hash algorithms. So, I guess that you think “Great components? ...
More About: Encryption , Tron , Strong

Toilet Broadband
2007-04-01 11:44:00
Imagine that you have ultra-stable, always-working wireless Internet broadband connection without any limitation for free! Today, on 1st April, Google lunches a new service - Google TiSP. You get 8 Mbit download speed and 2Mbit upload speed - GORGEOUS!
More About: Broadband , Toilet , Road , Broad