If your Skype calls are sounding less than optimal, get some technical detail. In your Skype UI, click over to Tools | Options | Display Technical Call Info. One of the more important stats displayed there is Roundtrip. If this reads 100 milliseconds or more, your call traffic is getting seriously delayed. Try placing the call again, and if that doesn’t solve your problem, it’s time to check your gateway settings.

Upgrading your graphics card for Windows Vista ? Be sure to get a card with as much local memory as possible. Windows Vista renders everything—even the desktop and windows themselves—as 3D surfaces, so local 3D memory greatly improves performance, sometimes more so than a more powerful GPU does.

If you work with images, video, or sound, don’t buy your PC off the rack. This step-by-step guide shows you how to build the perfect PC.
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Performance Shootout–Microsoft Vista 32-bit versus Vista 64-bit

On top of that, anyone using 64-bit Vista will still be running a lot of 32-bit applications. So we benchmarked some of those as well. Let’s take a look at the benchmarks and test system.

There are three main approaches to filtering out spam. Content-filtering products use their own proprietary algorithms to distinguish spam from valid mail. Challenge/response products block all mail from addresses other than trusted ones but allow new correspondents who respond to an e-mailed challenge. And community-based products use the collective intelligence of their users to decide what is and isn’t spam. Each approach has its own plusses and minuses. The Best Ways to Stop Spam

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One device to firewall the network. One for antispam. Another to keep
malware out. One more to filter Web content. Physical hookups,
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management (UTM) devices. Unified Threat Management

If you have a 1 gig USB stick and a little time , it is possible to make it boot Knoppix.
Your computer must be set to boot usb first. If you cannot boot usb
from the bios there is a workaround. This is a fairly simple process.
First you need to make the usb stick bootable FAT not FAT32 or NTFS,
the second thing is to copy all the files from the knoppix 4.0
distribution to the stick. Third you need to copy loadlin to the drive.
and forth you need to create a text file named autoexec.bat containing
the line “loadlin /boot/isolinux/linux initrd=/boot/isolinux/minirt.gz
knoppix lang=en” (without the qoutes) and copy it to the usb stick. Yes
you can copy and paste from this text.knoppix: boot knoppix from pen usb pen drive