Has anyone else installed Chrome and found out that, all of the sudden, there is a new process running (even when Chrome is not running), called "GoogleUpdate(r?).exe"? Doing who knows what, sending them who knows what information about us... Not to mention that, in the license of instalation, we have to agree that all content submited through Chrome gives Google the right to .. basically have the rights to exploit that content as they like (or did i misunderstood it?). I am really, really, really starting to not like Chrome/Google at all. If i wasn't a web developer, i wouldn't have even passed through the "EULA" and installed it. Google is starting to sound more Microsoft than ever...

Windows is just as secure as Linux (when shielded with a Firewall, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and disconnected from the Internet). Windows has even better performance than Linux (when running without Firewall, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spywayre).

At the site Casa.Sapo.pt we use Resource files to store texts for internationalization (one with the portuguese texts and another with the english texts) and we are considering using a HashTable, a Dictionary or a class directly containing strings. In the first performance tests, i simply accessed the text's references into a String reference. The results were these: - Resources: 1238 ms - HashTable: 1910 ms - Dictionary: 1968 ms - Class of Strings: 12 ms As expected, all took 100+ times more time to access the strings than the class with the Strings. But in here came the first strange result. The HashTable performed better than the Dictionary, which i find extremely strange. Then, i tested loading user controls which access strings (a combination of inline accesses "<%%>", using ASP:Literal.Text and others). Now came the really strange results: - Resources: 150 ms - HashTable: 146 ms - Dictionary: 256 ms - Class of Strings: 227 ms Everything is completely «wrong»... User controls accessing the class of String (by a long far the fastest) now is one of the slowest??? The HashTable performs better than all the rest??? The Dictionary, that should be faster than the HashTable, is the exact oposite, it is the slowest!? Can anyone try to explain these strange results? I can't seem to make any conclusion out of these results because i don't understand what is happening to give such strange results and i am left clueless as to if i can really substitute the usage of Resource files to handle internationalization.

Windows is just as secure as Linux (when shielded with a Firewall, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and disconnected from the Internet). Windows has even better performance than Linux (when running without Firewall, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spywayre).

No... Haven't found any solution that is even close.

Windows is just as secure as Linux. When shielded with a Firewall, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and disconnected from the Internet. Windows has even better performance that Linux. When running without Firewall, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spywayre.

How does one person searches strings for characters disregarding special characters? For example, in portuguese we have the word "Àgua" and i need to do 2 things: - Arrange a list of those strings that start with "a", "b", etc, where "à" and "À" should both be considered as "a". - Do some kind of search with the same consideration, that is, someone searching for "agua" should also find "Àgua". Anyone knows?

Windows is just as secure as Linux. When shielded with a Firewall, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and disconnected from the Internet.