“I did a controlled FiOS speed test using the speed test, with and without an on-demand movie playing. Martin Heller, a past colleague of mine who reads the newsletter, wrote me to tell me that he tested FiOS TV related to my concern about erosion of broadband Internet performance while data-intensive, on-demand programming was being downloaded and played, and the results are very encouraging. But I’m willing to admit that, very likely, some of my concerns about the potential to impinge on FiOS Internet bandwidth may have been unfounded. For now, I’m sticking with Comcast for HDTV and cable. Posted in Firewalls, Security, Software - Windows | No Comments » For more information on the set of leak tests I used, please see my review of the free version of ZoneAlarm 7.0.337 in the last issue of the newsletter. But I recently conducted a -style leak test of Eset Smart Security, and the results weren’t good. With that bit of housekeeping out of the way, on to the twists and turns.Īdmittedly, I’m testing Beta 1b of Eset Smart Security, and rumor has it that Beta 2 is due out shortly. Or, to get an up-to-date story that covers the bases of the three links above, including updated information, see this Computerworld story: Review Roundup: Slim Is in for Windows Desktop Firewalls (June 2007). Kicking off a Software Firewall Comparo (Sept.Update: Software Firewalls for Windows XP (April 2007).More on Software Firewalls for Windows(June 2007).I have several bits of info for the hoppers of those following along in my quest to find the best software firewall for Windows.įor those of you new to the saga, you’ll need to catch up with the rest of us by reading (or at least scanning) these previous articles: If you’ve sent me something recently to the old address, I’m not going to get it. In the end, the clerk found a small stack of letters to me in the back room that they gave me, all of which had June or very early July postmarks. When I walked in a week or two back to pick up my mail, the clerk handed me some other guy’s package. Not only had the UPS Store terminated my box, it had already re-rented it. Before the UPS Store bought out Mail Boxes Etc., I received notification if I didn’t pick up my bill before the due date. I didn’t know about it because the company contacted me by sending the bill to my UPS Store box, not my address on file. At some point in May or June, the UPS Store terminated my account for failure to pay the next year’s annual fee. But I can’t say the same about checks or cash sent via conventional postal mail. All PayPal contributions reached me fine. There are two ways to send your donations to Scot’s Newsletter. And, of course, that request ran into a snag. Posted in Apple, Buying Tech Wisely, Hardware, Mac, Windows | No Comments »ĭoesn’t it figure? I haven’t put out a call for monetary contributions to Scot’s Newsletter in roughly a year. In other words, I was attempting to make an objective comparison that did not inject any evaluation about the hardware, anything at all about the software, or my personal experience with the operating systems and hardware involved. I was comparing the hardware goods only, including CPU, chipset, RAM, video, display, hard-drive capacity and specs, ports and upgradeability, dimensions and weight, and so on. This was a pure, hardware-based, speeds-and-feeds kind of comparison. It seemed to me that people who criticized this story missed the key points I was trying to get across:ġ. PC cost analysis: How does it all add up? (Computerworld) If you didn’t catch it, I recommend the Computerworld version of the story, which was lightly updated because of Apple’s release of its new MacBook Pro model line on June 5. It was also republished by Computerworld, where it pulled in a lot of traffic. I was praised and lambasted around the Internet for it.
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