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Vista SP1 release candidate will be available next week!

It looks like our wish of a Vista SP1 release before Christmas may in fact be coming true. Microsoft's Windows Vista Blog announced that the Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) release candidate (RC) is now available via Microsoft Connect and will be available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers tomorrow. Even better, this release will be made available to the public next week via Microsoft's Download Center. Microsoft is still aiming at an early 2008 release (and the blog says they are on-track), but depending on the feedback fro the RC public release, we think we might see the final version out even faster.

As the blog states, a release candidate is typically the last phase in beta development before a product goes RTM (release-to-manufacturing), or "gold." Some of the biggest changes with the RC, as compared with previous betas, are the reduction of both the installer size and the amount of diskspace required for the installer. Additionally, the RC will automatically clean-up any directories left behind from previous SP1 betas, which in the past left up to 1 GB of data, even after being uninstalled. They have also improved SP1's integration with Windows Update. Microsoft has also provided an patch for IT Admins who may want to prevent users from installing any SP1 release before the final shipping version via Windows Update.

Please note, if you do install the RC update early, you will need to uninstall it before updating to the final SP1 release.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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