Friday, March 18, 2005

Of the Athlon 64, Outlook, and SpamBayes

Of the Athlon 64, Outlook, and SpamBayes

The solution? I added Outlook to the Data Execution Prevention list in Windows, and it stopped. For some reason, it occurred to me that the Athlon 64's NX-bit support might be causing these applications to have problems when they interact. Once I setup Outlook as an allowed DEP application, the problem stopped, instantly. Furthermore, I could now install SpamBayes, and it works perfectly. I'm still not sure why IHateSpam didn't have this problem, though.��

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...