Rank 1 – Symfo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuQTui9irqk
Dogzilla – Without You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=warA8rmjCxQ
Deadmau5 feat. Rob Swire – Ghosts ‘n Stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ArUgxtlJs
Larry Tee Feat. Roxy Cottontail – Let’s Make Nasty (Afrojack Remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP2bzNNVfoA
Give it a try! The Windows 7 Beta was brilliant, so this can only be better!
Downloads will be open at least until the end of June 2009. Read the expiration notices and take-note before you download.
Yes, you read the title correctly.
After having been running good-old XP Professional x86 reliably for a couple of months, I started to miss that extra 1GB of RAM that the x86 version couldn’t address. Enabling PAE doesn’t help within Windows XP, since Microsoft has limited XP’s address space to 4GB anyway. I tried XP x64, but I found that there were a few driver and application compatibility issues with this rather niche version of the Operating System.
While XP is the fastest Microsoft OS that is currently able to run on modern hardware I felt that, with the work that I do, I needed better memory management and the availability of my full 4GB of RAM. I decided to try Vist x64 one last time, convinced that the freezing issues are driver-related.
Success.
I’ve been running Vista x64 for about a week now, with no hint of a freeze or crash. The system fans spin-up and spin-down as tempuratures fluctuate, and the performance is amazing on this notebook. Yes, XP was faster, but I can be more productive in an OS that makes better-use of my RAM. Visual Studio oparates quicker, as does SQL Server Manageemt Studio. I typically have in excess of 60 processes running simultaneously and I find that x64 does multithreading a bit better then x86 with less RAM available.
What I’ve done, is simply NOT install some of the Apple Drivers, included with Boot Camp. I installed the latest nVIDIA graphics drivers from LaptopVideo2Go; the Ethernet drivers from the nVIDIA 64-bit setup archive off the Boot Camp Disc; the Apple keyboard driver off the boot camp disc and a cut-down version of the Boot Camp system-tray application that simply installs the Keyboard Manager executable. This is done by simply extracting the contents of the BootCamp64.msi file.
I think that the faulty drivers are either AppleBluetoothEnablerInstaller64.exe or AppleBluetoothInstaller64.exe, but I’m leaning more towards the former. It seems to install an Apple HAL driver that causes problems with stability. I have full functionality of everything, barring the Bluetooth (which I’ve not tried) – although Windows has picked-up the controller and I do have a Bluetooth Adapter installed as per Device Manager.
I’d like to do a little more investigation and testing, after which I shall post a guide about the drivers that I did and did not install, and how to get the keyboard, display, iSight camera, touchpad and softkeys working properly.
Quite often, the need arises to force redirection of a website to it’s secure, encrypted version. For example, I may wish to force this site to be viewed in SSL Encrypted-form only. ie http://blog.animosity.co.za should redirect to https://blog.animosity.co.za
This is very easy to do within IIS6.
Firstly, you need to create a new text file, containing the following content (obviously replacing mysite.com with your domain name):
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="0;URL=https://mysite.com">
</HEAD>
Youd then save it somewhere within your hosted website’s directory with a filename resembling something of the following, httpsredirect.htm
Note the .htm extension.
Now, within IIS Manager, access the properties of the relevant website or web application and navigate to the Custom Errors tab.
Find the HTTP Error for 403.4 (Probably listed as 403;4) which is the error for “SSL Required”. Click on Edit Properties, change Message Type to File, and give it the path of the file you just created.
NB:
In order for this to work, you will also need to force the web site to only be accessible via SSL.
To do this, within the site properties, navigate to the Directory Security tab, click on Edit in the bottom section called Secure communications, and check the checkbox called Require secure channel (SSL).
That’s it!
For IIS7, you’d follow similar steps – it’s just minor changes in the interface in the new version.
I’ll update the article to include IIS7-specifics in due course.
After having finally given-up with Vista’s constant freezing, I installed Windows XP and tried that on my MacBook Pro.
It has been pure bliss! Stability, performance and productivity have returned to my life!
After confirming with a gent from DigiCape, the horrid freezing-issues appear only to affect Vista – more proof that it’s driver-related. (There are some cases of XP being affected, though these are very few)
I had actually forgotten how incredibly fast Windows XP performs! It is incredibly faster than Vista and, when skinned with Stardock’s WindowBlinds, looks just as good, if not better than Vista! Couple that together with Stardock’s DesktopFences and you’ve got a very organised desktop, complete with breathtaking themes and graphics combined with the sheer speed and reliability of XP, not to mention that it is 100% stable on my MacBook Pro.
The included BootCamp drivers appear to work flawlessly! Even the fans do their thing whenever CPU or temperatures rise beyond certain thresholds – this is something that was NOT happening at all in Vista! This could illustrate a power-manegement or SMC-interfacing problem within the Vista drivers – though I’m far from being a driver or OS expert, so don’t take this opinion of mine to heart.
In my case at least, XP seems to prove that the Unibody MacBook Pro does run Windows extremely well and very reliably!
Now… if only Apple could solve the Vista issues so that I have the option of skipping straight to Windows 7 upon its release!
[Edit: A buddy of mine suggested that Apple's probably not interested in sorting-out any Windows driver issues. I do agree with that point, however I must say that if that is Apple's stance, then they should not advertise that their MacBook's can run Windows]
Windows XP! Respect Regained!
I made a call this week, to Core (The sole importer and distributor of Apple within SA), to discuss and to complain about my Vista freezing issues. They in turn put me onto a company called DigiCape in Rivonia.
DigiCape is a premium Approved Reseller of Core’s.
I spoke to a very helpful gent there, who explained that there have been an absolute plethora of complaints with regards to the new MacBook Pro’s freezing in Boot Camp.
He confirmed that the problem was driver-related and that Apple is aware of the issue.
He logged a Service Request with Apple, in case they do have a resolution for this.