I will be redoing the TrueCrypt Benchmarks in the next week on a new PC that is standard spec where I work. It will be Core 2 based with 1GB RAM and SATA drives. I am running TrueCrypt’s FDC on my MacBook Pro under Bootcamp and I haven’t noticed any perceivable performance drop even playing [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Review'
Full Disk Encryption
June 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: IT Security · Operating Systems · Review · Windows · benchmark
Benchmark PGP versus Truecrypt Full Disk Encryption
March 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I noticed something rather important missing in the realm of Full Disk Encryption, and that was benchmark data. The methodology I followed may be a bit unorthodox but would provide me with a consistant platform to test with.
I installed Windows XP SP2 on VMWare Fusion and applied all the patches available from our WSUS server. [...]
Tags: General · IT Security · Review · Software · Windows
My “Social Network”
November 8th, 2007 · No Comments
Flock
I have now been using Flock for three or so weeks now and must say it feels more stable than FF and most of the plugins I use work fine (Session Manager, PDF Download, StumbleUpon and others).
The people tool bar introduced in the v1 versions is useful, but I would [...]
Holy mother of Google goodness
August 25th, 2007 · No Comments
Been fiddling with Google Desktop (GD). Yes I am slow on the uptake, but I did try to give Live Desktop a chance, and it is bleh. I had it installed on the same too machines that I am now testing GD on both my laptop and my Vista box, and did it cause huge slow down. It always seemed to be indexing, if I forgot to pause it when my laptop was off power, sucked the juice right out.
Tags: General · Review · Software
World of Vista
February 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
Installed Vista on Saturday, and no I did not miss formatting using the old console :p
The installation went smoothly, until I realised that I did not have nVidia drivers, nor Live 24 drivers.
Goto nVidia’s site, download, install, wow it works.
Goto Creative’s site, download, install, they also worked (or so it appeared)
Install Logitech Momo drivers and [...]
Tags: Apple · General · Hardware · Review
Extreme Movie Manager 5.2
May 17th, 2006 · No Comments
Quoted from their site
XMM: Probably the most powerful movie manager around, let’s discover it’s power:
Is it really? Lets see
Ease of Use
Getting Started
There are a variety of ways to get your Movies and TV series’ into XMM. HDD Search and Importing from text is probably the most useful ways. Once that is done all [...]
