I have dual boot Vista and Ubuntu for my DIY PC now in use at work. I have no time for Linux at work so I wanted to remove the ubuntu installation. In dual boot GRUB has taken over the MBR so I have to remove it. Something that I haven't done for ages so I googled it.

This post showed me how, i.e. must have my Vista disk ready, boot up with the DVD then choose command line.

bootrec.exe /fixmbr

It's that simple!

I then deleted and reformatted the partitions to NTFS. I also changed the drive letters around.

This was taken by the new Canon last week in Stanley.

I signed up Site5 on 21 September 2005 and said goodbye to them on 3 September. I'll have to pay $143.4 if I renew on anniversary, I can't find any good use of it yet so I decided to quit.

As a shared hosting they have done a good job for the last 3 years. There were problems from time to time but they have served me well in fixing issues and people are friendly.

Before Site5 I have also tried DreamHost and Yahoo if I ever want shared hosting again Site5 will be the one that I would return to.

Is this good enough for a beta?

I don't know if Google intends to have Chrome to be 100% compliant. By the way Safari scores 77/100 (using same Webkit rendering engine), FF3 scores 71/100 and IE8 beta 2 scores 21/100. If you like putting browsers on a race track see also this post for javascript benchmark test results. I also look forward to trying Safari 4 which allegedly could score 100/100.

Chrome has the simplicity I like on the outlook. It doesn't come with the font rendering I like in Safari but I think in due course those eye candy features will come either in the core or from plugins.

At first start up it didn't impress me because it took a long time to render Google's personal home page and crashed. Once a few pages are cached it was alright. In Task Manager I see few instances of Chrome, one for the chrome itself then one for each tab. There is also one for default functions such as shockwave flash etc. You can try ending those processes one by one and you'll know what has been terminated and taken away.

I have yet to see if it may suffer memory leakage so I'll start this for the whole day. Edited: I think Google is ready to show off. Chrome has its own Task Manager (press Shift+Esc) below and you can see which process is consuming how much. It's like Windows' Task Manager and you could end any naughty process that may be causing problem.

Try open a new tab and enter 'About:memory' in the address bar you'll see more about memory usage. Google is ready to show off, i.e. putting Chrome side-by-side with other browsers running. They know you'll be comparing are you not doing that right now?