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Here’s how to get ready for Windows Vista Service Pack 1, due from Microsoft in March, with its much needed performance enhancements, security upgrades, and compatibility revisions.
After a little more than a year in the wild, it’s high time for Windows Vista to receive the service pack it deserves. While Service Pack 1 won’t change the way Windows Vista looks or feels, for the most part, it will improve many things about the way it runs, based on both Microsoft’s internal testing and the feedback of tens of thousands of users.
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SP1 has been both heavily anticipated and badly needed. While the gold release of Vista was for the most part solid enough to use as a production system, there were still many frustrating rough edges.
In the light of these problems, one of the most commonly repeated canards about using Vista was, “I’ll just wait until SP1 comes out.” Well, SP1 is now almost out. A release candidate, which is the version we tested, was made available towards the end of last year. More recently, Microsoft officially released SP1 to manufacturing in February to TechNet and MSDN customers. The actual, wide public release to users at large is expected sometime in March.
What’s In The Box?
Vista Service Pack 1 is a cumulative collection of all the fixes — performance enhancements, security updates, and compatibility revisions — published or created for Vista since its release. As with an artist’s greatest-hits collection, some of it is “previously released material” — but that absolutely doesn’t mean you shouldn’t apply SP1. Otherwise you won’t get the full benefit of all the changes made.
Keep in mind that SP1 will be large — quite necessarily so. The standalone installer for SP1 will weigh in at anywhere from 450 Mbytes (for the five-language edition) to 550 Mbytes (the all-language edition), and you’ll need at least 5 Gbytes of temporary space on your system to perform the install. Most PCs capable of running Vista right now should not have a problem sparing that much room, but if you do, then a cleanup — or maybe even a new hard drive, if it’s already time for one — is in order. (Note that there are ways to ameliorate both the storage and download requirements; see “Express” on page 3 for details.)
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Craigslist’s Erotic Services section, where we counted 1700 ads on one afternoon may be put to an end by do-gooders. But Craigslist hardly has an exclusive handle on the Bay Area sex trade. The numbers show there’s plenty going on elsewhere.
The erotic services category on Craigslist serves mostly entry-level prostitution, kink and webcam work. A girl can post an ad today and be out of town — or back to her day job — tomorrow. The real pros are found elsewhere.
* 446 ads: Eros Guide gets the real freelancers — women who’ve invested time and money in their profession. Good photos are required, as well $100 to $200 for a one-month listing, unlike Craigslist where ads are often deleted before the nominal seven-day timeout. These women are the stable middle class of the Bay Area sex industry, and as of this writing, there’s 275 escorts, 47 pro dommes, 18 Tantrikas, 91 massage providers, and 15 Fetish/Fantasy performers with ads.
* 835 ads: Cityvibe is overflowing. I started to count the hundreds at Lovings as well, but realized there were lots of duplicates.
* 4,200 ads: MyRedBook is the most Craiglisty option remaining. It offers free, non-expiring classified ads with photos. Right now there are 4,200 ads up for the Bay Area alone, plus side sections for Sacramento and Reno. Just keep telling yourself: “No one I know does this. No one I know does this.”
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