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Ask DriverGuide: Re: OT - DG free membar -how credits works?
by Jerry K, posted 3 October 2007, 7:01 pm |
| To my knowledge, there are no credits given for uploading a driver. This has always been on a basis of helping each other. Are you saying there is a page somewhere that offers credit for uploading drivers? If so, please point us to that page. |
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Ask DriverGuide: OT - DG free membar -how credits works?
by Josepe, posted 3 October 2007, 6:05 pm |
I'm a free DG account member since several years, but sometime I upload some drivers what I think are hard to find...
I download some drivers too, but no problem with limits to my free account.
I don't understand how credits works with DG. |
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DriverGuide News: A whole new look...
by quincy, posted 28 October 2005, 7:38 pm |
DriverGuide is proud to announce our new design! It's the same site you've always known, now with a better interface. Beyond merely improving the look we're also working to improve the interfaces to many of our features, making things more friendly to novice users while not losing any of the features important to veteran users. And many exciting new features and services are on the horizon and will be launched in the coming weeks and months.
And if you find bugs and want to switch back to the old look/interface until we resolve them you can do that by choosing the appropriate option in the left hand nav.
Click here to turn on our new design. |
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Technology Blog: Windows XP SP3 Preview Surfaces Online
by quincy, posted 5 October 2005, 11:34 pm |
"Though Microsoft still won't confirm that it will release a third service pack for its Windows XP operating system, a preview version of the software update has been made available on the Web."
Windows XP SP3 Preview Surfaces Online |
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Technology Blog: Microsoft's OneCare, Antivirus, Firewall, Spyware Remover, and more
by quincy, posted 19 September 2005, 9:38 am |
Microsoft is preparing to release a product they call OneCare, it is a suite of security related apps which goes a few steps beyond the critical update patching of WindowsUpdate. It will include a far more functional firewall (than that provided in Windows), antivirus, spyware remover, backup automator, and disk fragmentation automator. Price has not been announced, but is expected (by the author of the article cited) to be ~$40/year.
As the article also points out, it is nice to know that Microsoft, not profiting enough from selling the OS, can now profit even more from the issues surrounding its insecurity, and in the process drive other competitors in that space out of business. I am not suggesting that Microsoft has been directly responsible for all of the security woes of the platform, not at all. Any dominant platform would be by its popularity the target of script kiddies, virus writers, bot net builders, etc. But, Microsoft has made their job considerably easier by their decisions and neglect. One example would be the fact that a virgin install of XP from media if directly connected to the internet would be vulnerable to and extremely often become infected with various worm-borne contaminants before it was able to be patched via Windows Update. The time before the average computer on the average network would be infected is something like 7 minutes, seriously. Either you need to have a hardware firewall (firewalled router) or you need to take the steps outlined by SANS, steps which should have been at the very least implemented by Microsoft in the original media. Other OSes have made other choices about which services/ports to allow open and vulnerable by default, and their choices (most often: none) have meant their OS can at least survive into its critical initial patching. Obviously if you've bought XP recently, or on a recent computer then you've been safe via the SP2-related protections, but that's a bit too late for so many users, and the damages (hundreds upon hundreds of millions if you believe the news media reports of worm-related damage, not to mention annoyance from bot nets delivering spam and conquering more PCs) should be paid off (I would argue) by the profits they will reap from OneCare. Or, since that's totally impossible/impractical, give OneCare away for free, as a penance for their many gaffes of the past, present, and future. Will it happen? Almo$t certainly not.
The article: Now Windows can clean up after itself
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