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It seems much faster to me. Firefox has seemed very bogged down to me lately. - TonyatMATC

Might have to start using a hosts file type adblocking as chrome is just getting nicer and nicer. I forget how quickly a browser can work. It's sad that a small quick browser was the original plan for firefox. - Daniel Johnston

Daniel: Don't that adblocking solution mean slower speeds? - Manuel Mas

I heart Chrome, but not working in Win 7 is major fail. - John Denver

Probably. Ive never really looked into it, as I have always had adblock plus. I wouldn't want to update the hosts file myself either, so I'd have to have a TSR updating the hosts file (preferably with a form of the easylist) - Daniel Johnston

I think Google purposely slows down their own sites if you are using IE I have tested this out on both firefox and IE8 and it is markedly faster on firefox. - Rustic Thoughts

Works on Win 7 for me - TonyatMATC

@John Shue: Maybe, just maybe, IE is actually slower? Shall we say, markedly slow? - Byron McCollum

John Shue: IE is slower than either Safari or Chrome on a variety of sites I visit, sometimes dramatically slower. - Robert Scoble

CHROME SuX, But i luv it:d - Amir

Amir: That doesn't make any sense... - Manuel Mas

Native adblock + Chrome = winner winner chicken dinner. - Tech Introvert

I mean Sometimes Sux and Crash - Amir

Eastern Kentucky - Chuck Adams

out for me, Vegas. I am and some of my clients have called with no or really slow access. - William Kapes

Google Reader working for me... Orange County, CA - John Denver

Yes. In Central New Jersey. - John Federico

Everything working fine for me in STL - Ryan

Yes, trouble accessing google from central Virginia - jcunwired

SF, CA - Mekuria Getinet

Fine here - Fraser Valley, BC, Canada :) - WorldofHiglet

fine in MPLS - chad calease

back up for me, Las Vegas - William Kapes

This Week in Geek pr0n - John Denver

Item 2: New high-end gaming PC, the Digital Storm 950 Si system * Video review: http://www.pcper.com/comment... - Leo Laporte

Definitely out of my price range - Matthew

Plus wheres the fun if you're not building it yourself. - Matthew

Item 3: Are you ready for 6? Istanbul 6-core AMD Opteron CPU * http://www.pcper.com/comment... - Leo Laporte

Not Constantinople... - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Item 4: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Processor * http://www.pcper.com/article... - Leo Laporte

Would you guys talk about the $500 Crysis computer on this show? - Matthew

Item 5: Core i5 Delays * http://www.pcper.com/article... - Leo Laporte

Item 6: Contest for 9800 GTX watercooled * Poll Q: what price would you pay for your next system upgrade? Including CPU or GPU? * Subject "upgrade" in email - Leo Laporte

Item 7: Contest two for show name * subject "show name" in email * doesn't have to use "This week in" moniker, but it can * prize will be cool, trust me! :) - Leo Laporte

I agree with putting them on back to back. This gives you overflow possibility. Blending one into the other where one might need more time than another. I also agree with it making it viewable live for me. Both back to back at 6:00 PST. By the way TWIT is developing a fine reputation for food and wine live, Perhaps have dinner live like Leo. - Newell Unfried

Its not this week. You are talking about the future. You typically are discussing the advances in the design of hardware which will benefit the consumer. Advances in Digital Hardware Design - Newell Unfried

Ubuntu is fabulous - I have it set up dual bootup for Ubuntu and Windows XP on my desktop and my laptop. It is almost cathartic to not see the blue screen or the pain in the backside programs that won't shut down when you reboot like you see with Windows allll the time :) - Renee Hendricks

I may have to use Ubuntu as a work machine. I'm a little worried that I'm going to be a little bit lost without my system wide keyboard shortcuts. - Paul Grav

I've always hated that the default screen resolution during installation is so high that it fails to display on older monitors and LCD's. Had that happen again the other day and had to abort the install. Bummer. - John Denver

@paulgrav, there is plenty of ways to set shortcuts in ubuntu, system->preferences->keyboard shortcuts - Kyle Weller

Thank you for this! I am virtualizing a DC right now and we need CHEAPER and open solutions! :) - Susan Beebe

VMWare is another example of a victim of technology sedimentation: if a technology should be packaged with the OS layer, it will end up there. - Christophe Pierret

how it this a such a good thing? they are only releasing the client as open source. The client only allows you to connect to a virtual machine. The other really open source visualization tools allow you to do everything from actually hosting the virtual machines to management and connecting to them - Mihai Secasiu

Technically, they're using open source in this instance as a way to improve market take up of an existing - proprietary - infrastructure product. In this case, the open client simply allows the use of Linux hosts to view a Windows (or other) virtual desktop hosted on a backend VDI infrastructure. Now, the real response to changing market conditions was the release of the (free) ESXi... more... - Mike Holland

Mike has the situation about right. The title of that piece isn't insightful - this move is about offense, not defense. This is a step towards enabling everywhere access to your desktop in the cloud. - John Troyer

VMware has a HUGE installed base--I wouldn't say their backs are to the wall. Still, if they are feeling a bit of heat from the competition that can only be good for us! - Steve Kaiser from twhirl