Improving Windows Vista’s reliability by ZDNet’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes — I don’t buy into all the “Windows Vista is rubbish” rhetoric that’s been floating about. Rather than rely on collective hearsay I much rather collect my own data. Also, when it comes to operating system reliability problems that look like they are down to the OS are usually down to something else - a bad driver or a rogue application, for example. Over the past few months I’ve been keeping a close eye on my system’s reliability and taking steps to improve reliability.

How to: Using TrueCrypt 6 to hide an operating system by ZDNet’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes — When I read about a new release of TrueCrypt (open source, free …), and found out that using this software you could essentially have a hidden OS and a visible OS both on the same PC, I was intrigued. Intrigued enough to take a look …

Barracuda® 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive, Seagate’s eleventh generation drive for desktop PCs, A half-terabyte increase from the previous highest capacity of 1TB. The Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive combines proven PMR technology, components and expert manufacturing to provide 1.5TB of reliable storage for mainstream desktop computers, workstations, desktop RAID, gaming and high-end PCs, and USB/FireWire/eSATA external storage.

According to Seagate :

Seagate’s new Momentus drives are lean on power consumption, allowing notebook users to work longer between battery charges, and are virtually inaudible thanks to Seagate’s innovative SoftSonic™ fluid-dynamic bearing motors and QuietStep™ ramp load technology.

The Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive combines the capacity and speed required for today’s most demanding desktop PC applications. The drive packs 1.5TB on just four platters and its fast Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface delivers an industry-leading sustained data rate of up to 120MB/second for fast boot, application startup and file access. The 3.5-inch drive is also offered in capacities of 1TB, 750GB, 640GB, 500GB, 320GB and 160GB with cache options of 32MB and 16MB.

The Best Open Source Projects in One Open Source Platform Untangle is pleased to announce that their latest version, Untangle 5.3, has been released. The released includes QoS (quality of service) makes tradeoffs between bandwidth (throughput) and latency. The more bandwidth that’s used, the higher the latency. The less bandwidth used, the lower the latency. You can now also Block on IP webfilter which blocks all IP get requests. and and Improved ClamAV and SpamAssasin.

I can say that this is one of the best webfiltering software and is really a killer of Sonicwall…