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Firefox 5 is out, this is not good.

Posted on June 22, 2011 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Firefox 5 is out, this is not good.

Mozzila decided to be aggressive with Firefox releases. Not a problem, just keep the old version till add-ons are all compatible. Doesn’t work that way if you want to be secure. Mozzila announced that Firefox 5 is the security update for Firefox 4. There will be no other updates unless there is a major, and…

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Windows 7 Drivers…

Posted on December 16, 2009December 16, 2009 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Windows 7 Drivers…

So my replacement video card shows up last night and I go to install it. I download the latest NVidia driver for Win7 x64 and start the process of switching out the card. Upon reboot, Win7 starts to try and download a driver to install. Of course I do the old fashioned thing of stopping…

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