General software updates

[Gary]

No problem with nod/ESS and vista Home Premium SP1 here, and the bug was "Fixed tasks scheduled to be run after a successful update" that bug sound, was it reboot blank screen and no bluescreen? if so that cold be a ram issue, i had that problem runnning memtest showed bad ddr3 ram since replacing it no issue like that has come back

[MoHux]

Thanks Gary, that could have been the bug concerned.  It usually happened within 5 minutes of start-up (and updating Nod).

No, sequence was blue-screen just flashed on/off, then rebooted.

I will give it time, to make sure it's now OK, then may try Nod again.

Mo

[Gary]

I only had the sending of statistical information failing with NOD but that works again now, always worth doing a memtest just in case but if avg works well don't fix what is not broken

[Sebby]

I don't think it's NOD that's the problem, Mo.

[Gary]

Well its not Vista, Sebby

[Gary]

Java Runtime Environment 1.6.0.7

[Rik]

Just got it, thanks, Gary. 

[Sebby]

Thanks, Gary, updated.

[MoHux]

I don't think it's NOD that's the problem, Mo.

Well, all I know is that since I uninstalled Nod it hasn't done it!

I spent all day yesterday on XP (which uses AVG), with no problem.

But as I had paid for it  ...... today I downloaded the new 669 version of Nod, and re-installed it in Vista.

So far - so good ................. 

I will keep an open mind (not difficult!) about Vista, Seb'.  But I must say, I haven't had the problem in XP (AVG).


Mo 

[Sebby]

Glad to hear you've (potentially) sorted it.

[Sebby]

iTunes 7.7 released, I believe mainly to add support for the iPhone 3G and its software's new features. It's only 56MB.

[Rik]

Oh good.

[Inactive]

Opera 951 available, however it would not download properly from the update link, I went to Opera Home Page to sort, all OK.

[Rik]

Thanks, In. 

[Noreen]

Update for SIW. http://www.gtopala.com/siw-download.html

[Rik]

Thanks, Noreen. 

[Noreen]

I see that this includes the standalone version (which I use).

[Rik]

TBH, I've never seen the point of the installed verson.

[Rik]

Mozilla has issued an update for Firefox 2, recommending all Firefox 2 users install it immediately to ensure their security.

Firefox 2.0.0.16 contains a number of changes to improve security and stability including command-line URLs launching multiple tabs when Firefox was not actually running.

The company warned that support for Firefox 2 would not be carried through into 2009 and urged surfers to upgrade to its new browser.

"Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008. All users are encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3," the company said on its blog.


www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-older.html

[Gary]

Firefox 3.01 has been released. Critical security fix.

[Inactive]

Thanks gary, it didn't take long before FF3 needed a fix.. 

[Simon]

No, but it would have taken Microsoft months to provide the same fix for IE. 

[Gary]

Thanks gary, it didn't take long before FF3 needed a fix.. 

They new the issue was there pretty soon after release, In

[Gary]

No, but it would have taken Microsoft months to provide the same fix for IE. 

Can't argue with that

[Noreen]

New version of IrfanView. http://www.irfanview.com/index.htm

Version 4.20 ( - CURRENT VERSION - ) (Release date: 2008-07-16)
Basic Unicode support added (Properties->Misc 1, thanks to Christophe Paris!)
New zoom options; improved relative zoom (Properties->Viewing)
Thumbnails can be sorted manually using drag/drop
GIF animations can be played in fullscreen/slideshow mode
New Advanced batch options: Fine rotation, Blur, Median ...
Option to show TIF Annotations created by Kodak Imaging (Properties->Viewing)
New JPG save option: Set file size (PlugIn: thanks to Lucian Sabo)
New save menu: Save for Web (PlugIn: thanks to Lucian Sabo)
New thumbnails options to disable or configure info text on mouse over
New edit menu: Auto crop borders (remove outside lines/rows of same color)
New feature in Canvas dialog: negative border sizes are allowed (border crop)
New option in Capture dialog: Capture desktop on current monitor only
New options in Custom selection dialog: Set custom ratio; Save values
New slideshow option (window mode): Set window position
New Fullscreen display options: Fit to screen width/height (Hotkeys: 5/6)
IPTC data in TIF files can be showed (no editing yet)
Fixed Thumbnails crash on multi core CPUs
New command line option for EXE Slideshow: /window=(x,y,width,height)
Option to set Status bar text using placeholders (Properties->Misc 3)
Option for proportional paste into selection (Properties->Misc 3)
Support for EXR format (PlugIn)
Support for MAG format (MAKI, Formats PlugIn)
Default display option is now: Fit only big images to desktop
Expanded Copy/Move dialog (4 more folders)
New Edit menu: Maximize and center selection (hold CTRL to center only)
New option in Edit Palette dialog: Click on image to find color index
New Thumbnails menu: Remove selected thumbs from list, Hotkey: Ctrl+Del
New Thumbnails menu: Save selected files names as TXT
New Thumbnails menu: Start Panorama dialog with selected files
The Enhance/Correct colors dialog can be resized/maximized
Enhanced TIF-LZW saving with 24 BPP images (smaller files are created)
New command line option: /jpg_rotate=(...values...)
JPG lossless rotation, see i_options.txt for examples
New command line option: /transpcolor=( r,g,B )
Set transparent color: can be used for GIF/PNG/ICO saving
New Hotkey: SHIFT + F = Fit only big images to desktop
New Hotkey: SHIFT + W = Fit images to window
New Hotkey: NUM-PAD 5 = Scroll to image center
New Hotkey/Menu: CTRL + N = Open current file in another IrfanView window
New Thumbnails option: Auto scroll during creation
New option in JPG IPTC/Comment dialog: Append text to old text
Scan dialog: 'Skip existing files' works also for multipage TIF files
Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions
http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm
Some minor bugs/features fixed/added (scrolling)