Folsom High had it all going: revenge, a first-quarter advantage and a 29-game win streak. But Monte Vista countered with perhaps its best game of the season keyed by a 23-2 run in a 63-42 CIF NorCal Division I victory at St. Mary's College on Thursday night. As usual, senior point guard Brian Barbour led the way with 21 points, but Tyrelle Phillips, a 6-foot-3 senior, added 17 points and 11 rebounds and Zach Ertz and Taylor Brewster combined for 18. Monte Vista (28-3), the second seed, will play top-seeded McClymonds in Saturday's 8 p.m. final at Arco Arena in Sacramento.

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today via their Customer Preview Program. It's avaliable to anyone interested in testing SP2 for Windows Vista and/or Windows Server 2008 prior to the final release.
You can download the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 RC from the Microsoft Customer Preview Program site or install through Windows Update using their Windows Update Experience Kit. Remember, you will have to uninstall previous versions of the Service Pack before installing the RC and you will have to uninstall the RC version before installing the final version.

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Microsoft has rolled out the release candidate of Windows Vista SP2. Beginning to end, installation of Microsoft's Windows Vista SP2 RC takes just under half an hour on a fresh Vista Ultimate VM, assuming the computer has the requisite components preinstalled and enough hard drive space to complete the job.

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In January, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes put together 23 real-world scenarios to see if the 32-bit operating system out of Windows 7 build 7000, Windows Vista SP1, or Windows XP SP3 would be the quickest to complete all of the tasks (as opposed to using benchmarking programs). The Windows 7 beta build won by a landslide. Now, ZDNet's Kingsley is back with the 64-bit versions of Windows 7 build 7000 and build 7048, as well as eight additional tests, bringing the total number to 31. Again, the results are very interesting.

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I resisted moving from Windows XP to Windows Vista for more than a year, but I ditched Vista for Windows 7 as soon as the first public beta was released. I put it on my primary home machine, the one I had used to write in detail about Vista, and frankly, even in beta, Windows 7 is already better than Vista in just about every way I can think of. But Windows 7 still feels like Vista, and that's likely to bother many people.

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Three bulletins covering eight vulnerabilities in Windows - that's the score for this month's Patch Tuesday. While one bulletin is rated critical, none of the issues have the highest exploitability index.
Microsoft has issued three security bulletins this month, one rated critical and two important. The critical issues are in the Windows Kernel and affect Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista and Server 2003.
According to Microsoft, exploits of these problems are more likely to cause crashing rather than allowing functional code execution.

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School officials in Vista voted unanimously Thursday night to keep smaller class sizes for grades one through three. About 200 teachers and other school employees packed the multipurpose room at Foothill Oak Elementary School to urge the Vista Unified School District board of trustees to reconsider last week's vote to increase class sizes. "The decision you make today will last a lifetime for these children," Tracy Karaffa, a kindergarten teacher in the district, said before the vote. "Think of those children."

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In the Sep. 25, 2008, edition of the Windows Vista Report (How do I ... use the Vista Check Disk tool for hard disk analysis?) I showed you how run Vista's Check Disk tool in analysis mode. As I did mention, to run Check Disk in full repair mode, you select both the Automatically Fix File System Errors check box and the Scan For And Attempt Recovery Of Bad Sectors check box, as shown in Figure A, and click Start. When you do, the Check Disk GUI will schedule the DOS version to run at startup and prompt you to restart.

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The download pages and TechNet website are now updated with the SP2 RC information. Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Release Candidate is an update to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
UPDATE: On March 4th the Release Candidate build (16670) was released to our CPP participants for testing. If you have the prior version of Service Pack 2 installed (Beta build 16497) you will need to un-install it before installing the newer RC build(16670) from the links below. For details on how to un-install please see Things to Know about SP2 RC .

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Drivers for the nVIDIA GeForce, Geforce 2, GeForce 3 + 4, the 'Ti' range of cards, GeForce FX and some Quadro cards. Visit the nVIDIA website for a full list of supported products. Is it too much to ask of driver writers to maintain consistency for dual-monitors when installing these driver updates? There's always something amiss. i.e. my vista gadgets get moved, or desktop icons, or the screen that an app starts on. ALWAYS!

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It's a downgrade from its predecessor, introduces no killer features and is regarded by some as a cynical attempt by Microsoft to squeeze more money from us. The release of a new desktop operating system (OS) is always a hot topic among PC enthusiasts, but this time Microsoft has failed to provide us with a major incentive to make the switch. Furthermore, those who've taken the plunge have expressed their dislike for the interface and reported incompatibilities with essential software.

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I am using pro tools 8 on a windows vista ultimate system. I have an athlon 4850E dual core processor and 4 GB of ram. When pro tools runs it runs absolutly smoothly, the only thing that buggs me is the fact that windows often shuts down totaly unexpectedly when in the midst of something. I get gthe annoying blue screen and then windows restarts. This happens at some point both if I am mixing or if i am simpley just recording something into pro tools. When windows has restarted it tells me that windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown.

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As expected, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 RC and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 RC is now available to general public for download. You can download the SP2 RC for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 below:
* ISO for Windows Server 2008 x86/x64/ia64 and Windows Vista x86/x64
* x86 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista x86
* x64 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista x64
* IA64 for Windows Server 2008 ia64.

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As expected, lawyers for the plaintiffs in the long-running "Vista Capable" lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. have asked a federal judge to reinstate the case's class-action status. In a motion filed with U.S. Judge Marsha Pechman on Thursday, attorneys asked her to certify a smaller class of plaintiffs than the group she rejected a week ago. Then, Pechman said that the plaintiffs had not provided sufficient evidence that all consumers who purchased PCs labeled "Vista Capable" in the months leading to the release of Windows Vista had been harmed.

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Microsoft® continuously improves the Windows Vista® and Windows Server® 2008 operating systems by providing ongoing updates while working with software and hardware vendors to help them deliver improved compatibility, reliability, and performance. These updates are provided to customers by Microsoft’s hardware and software partners, as well as directly from Microsoft in the form of regularly distributed updates delivered via Windows Update. Updates to Windows are also delivered directly to some affected customers and preinstalled by PC manufacturers.

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