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by aen0 12y ago
I'm been using a Windows Phone for 1 month (from iOS). Surprisingly, the pure OS part is not bad at all (even with some perks like BT aptX, default maps app with offline mode). Store is missing a bit of stuff (mostly first class games)
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by aen0 12y ago
You can fined tune (almost like uMatrix) the blocking in the latest version by enabling "Advanced user feature".
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by aen0 12y ago
Be aware that Adblock Plus for Chrome increases significantly RAM usage for each open tab. uBlock author has extensive benchmarks about this issue. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-.
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by aen0 12y ago
I believe that the hosts history should not be visible by default. It also shows hosts while browsing in private mode. Maybe only visible with an UAC auth.
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by aen0 12y ago
I highly recommends HTTPS Switchboard or uBlock (same author). They are both faster and better than any Adblocker out there.
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by aen0 12y ago
Check your antivirus.
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by aen0 13y ago
The footer ...
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by aen0 13y ago
Disable the Windows service called "DNS Client". The name is suggesting that It disables DNS resolving but it's not. It will just remove the cache.
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by aen0 13y ago
Almost unrelated but every SSDs with the old SF-1200 (such as Corsair F60) are not compatible with the current Intel Haswell platform. The drive randomly disappears from the system and this on ALL motherboards. Google "sandforce 1200 h
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by aen0 13y ago
OVH just confirmed, they were compromised. http://forum.ovh.com/showthread.php?t=88277 (in french). Nutshell: - attacker brute forced the unique ID used in the reset URL - they could do it because the unique ID was not random enough -