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  1. Majic 7

    Newegg tracking me?

    Had something happen today that I'm not too happy with. Yesterday I was looking through heatsinks at Newegg, not logged in, just window shopping. Today I get a email from them, "Hi costumer, looking for heatsinks, bla bla". Too much information being stored somewhere. ---------------- Hi This...
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    New Cards: Real time video comparison with fps and frametime

    Just saw this on HardForum. 980Ti, 980, Fury and 390X. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39PHDS-KYf0 Mostly pretty close.
  3. Majic 7

    Avast forum hacked/Windows8 Forums

    Sort of amusing. http://www.eightforums.com/windows-8-news/47011-avast-forum-offline-due-attack.html#post385505
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    Trouble with Defender on 8? check here

    There is a bad update screwing up Defender over the last week or so. Froze Defender and then my computer. To fix download the latest definitions from here http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/definitions/adl.aspx and manually install. Freezes when you do a scan.
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    LastPass hacked. Maybe

    Getting notices from LastPass about problems connecting to server. Turns out they had some suspicious activity and are telling users to change their master password. Most secure passwords last. Their servers are overwhelmed at the moment, thus the errors. This is getting tiresome. I've had three...
  6. Majic 7

    W7 Event Viewer hangs

    Has anyone had any hangs on exit since installing SP1? I haven't and it was usual for for it to hang about one out of six times. Had to kill it through task manager. Just curious.
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    Ever had a pop-up with your name in it while shopping online

    A couple of weeks ago I was researching smartphones, plans and costs online. I was going back and forth with different plans, phones and such when a pop-up came up saying Hi Mike, how may we help you with your decision? Creeped the absolute $#!+ out of me. Backed out there like an anti-virus...
  8. Majic 7

    Microsoft awarded patent for graphics chip video encoding

    Short article here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20019358-1.html This could mess with AMD, Intel, and Nvidia along with others. We will have to wait and see. More lawsuits, probably.
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    Pop-ups on the forums?

    Just got a pop-up blocked from anandtech forums. On Chrome, checked the notification deal for info and all I got was -. Don't want to allow it to see what it is, too many weird things here lately. Well not "many" but the associate forum thing and Rubycon's account getting hacked are kind of scary.
  10. Majic 7

    W7 Control Panel All Tasks List Shortcut (All of them, very handy

    Found this on SevenForums. It creates a shortcut on your desktop that opens a window with every task that you have to go through two or three windows in 7 to get to. All listed by category. Can be pinned to taskbar or start menu. Lists some things not normally available through Control Panel...
  11. Majic 7

    Reason Intel pulled Optimizer Tool

    If using Vista or Windows 7 it makes all restore points unusable prior to using optimizer. http://communities.intel.com/thread/8342 On another note they will try to get new firmware out by end of Nov.
  12. Majic 7

    Safely eject C:drive Intel 160GB SSD?

    Found an option to eject my Intel SSD under the safely remove hardware and eject media icon in the taskbar. Seemed like something I wouldn't want to do. Researching I found this. http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/32248-safely-remove-grafics-card-o-o.html#post333567 Anybody else found...
  13. Majic 7

    Want a boot drive?

    Now that I have your attention. Kingston 40GB with Intel internals. http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1111/1/ The 84.99 is at Newegg after a rebate. Should be available Nov 9. This will be an intro price, no telling what it will be normally.
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    Phish alert for hotmail, @msn.com & Gmail +

    Saw this at XS. http://www.neowin.net/news/mai...asswords-leaked-online and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8292928.stm This mostly affects Europe but it may be a good time to change your password for your email accounts. just saw the first link, amusing. Update; The carriers are...
  15. Majic 7

    Razer drivers infected with Trojan

    http://hothardware.com/News/Ga...s-Up-Infected-Drivers/ I guess you can never be too careful. Followed the links in the article and the detection rates for this by the major players was pretty pathetic.
  16. Majic 7

    New Version of Chrome out

    http://googleblog.blogspot.com...year-sporting-new.html
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    New Mass Effect Patch/Aug 25

    There is a new patch out for Mass Effect in case anyone is still interested. http://masseffect.bioware.com/me1/pc/updates/index.html Fixes some of the problems that people have wanted fixed since it came out.
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    Intel and TSMC to announce joint venture

    http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=219375 Just saw this on xtremesystems. May belong in video, though. We will know Monday.
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    Qimonda files for insolvency

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/...pYdTTRersOU&refer=home Que the dum dum dadum music. Looks like more to come.
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    Does Vista dream of Electric Sheep

    I've had Vista HP 64 running for about a month now. I've noticed that from a cold boot I end up with about 1 GB of ram used. 1.3 after hours of browsing the web. If I use the sleep function I start with 700 MB of ram used and it raises to about 830 after browsing for a while. Not really worried...