MEMORyAL 4.3 - Unleash Your RAM
MEMORyAL 4.3 is a Indicator control system resources and memory speed.
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4.1.2009 The Vista RAM puzzle: Is 2GB enough?
A couple weeks ago, my buddy Dwight Silverman asked whether he should be tempted by low, low prices to bump the RAM in his Windows Vista machine from 2GB to 4GB.
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13.8.2007 See Windows Vista Run with 0 (Zero) RAM
That's right! Windows Vista can run using a total of zero system memory. Well, bear with me, it will all make sense in the end.
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5.10.2007 OS X versus Vista, RAM division
As I noted earlier this week, I’ve begun using a MacBook (the basic white model) and keeping a log of my experiences.
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26.10.2008 Vista RTM tells a RAM graphic tale
WE GOT out hands on Vista RTM and we have a few key points to share with you. First of all, Half Life 2 episode one works great on the Radeon X1950XTX. We wanted to give it a try with G80, EVGA Geforce 8800 GTX but we still don't have any drivers for this card.
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18.11.2006 Crack Available to Install Windows Vista with Only 256MB RAM
Want to perform the impossible with Windows Vista and install the operating system on systems with only 256 MB of RAM? vista_nomem.exe is a patch that promises to deliver just that, enabling you to deploy Vista even if you only have 256 MB of memory.
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8.2.2007 256 MB RAM Windows Vista Crack
Want to perform the impossible with Windows Vista and install the operating system on systems with only 256 MB of RAM?
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8.2.2007 Analysis: Vista's Ready Boost is no match for RAM
There's a new way to enhance your cache in Vista - simply plug in your Flash memory stick. But how much performance gain can you really expect? TG Daily ran an average PC through a benchmark parcours and discovered that the old rules still apply: There is no substitute for an adequate amount of system memory. Period.
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13.2.2007 32-bit Windows Vista Eats Up RAM
Windows Vista is a system resource hog. There is little doubt as to that. But to go from there to Windows Vista actually eating up RAM... Well, in fact you shouldn't blame Windows Vista for
missing RAM in a certain scenario.
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17.3.2007 Vista SP1 Installed System Memory RAM
One of the aspects that Service Pack 1 changes for Windows Vista is the way that the operating system reports the amount of installed system memory.
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13.6.2008 Windows 7 - Maximum Supported RAM is 192 GB
Windows 7 will take the maximum amount of supported system memory well beyond the limits of Windows Vista.
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27.4.2009 Update: Re-Testing Vista w/2GB RAM, Office 2003
Many of our members have requested that we re-test Vista SP1 with 2GB of RAM instead of the 1GB we used in our original tests.
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28.11.2007 Windows 7 Drives RAM Ccapacity Explosion; Vista SP2 Usage Rising
Windows 7 will drive the average PC RAM capacity to 4GB in the next 18 months. That's the conclusion of researchers at the exo.performance.network who are monitoring the ramp-up to Windows 7's launch on October 22.
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23.9.2009 Minimum System Requirements? Just Feed 8 GB (!) of RAM into Vista SP1 and then Watch it Fly
Want to talk performance in a comparison between Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3?
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1.12.2007 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Windows Onecare Now Available for Anyone to BETA Test
So what's Windows OneCare?
It's the new antivirus, firewall and and backup solution being provided by Bill.
The BETA version is now available to everyone that speaks english
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16.12.2005 XP Minimal-Requirement-Test
The target of this project was to find the weakest system where you can run Windows XP.
Keep in mind, that Microsoft official requirements are a CPU with 233 MHz an 64 MB of RAM.
But that had to be beaten!
First try: Socket 5, Pentium 100 MHz and 64 MB RAM
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29.1.2006 Vista vs. XP in Performace Test
Our user thepodest on
his blog compare performance tests of Windows Vista and Windows XP on his computer. Here are the results.
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22.5.2007 Windows 7 beta 1 performance test
How does Windows 7 beta 1 compare to Vista and XP in terms of performance? That’s a question that’s been hitting my inbox regularly over the past few weeks. Let’s see if we can’t answer it!
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2.1.2009 Microsoft Expands OneCare Beta Test
Microsoft is expanding its Windows OneCare beta program, opening the door for more testers to trial the company's comprehensive PC protection and maintenance package. Initially OneCare will include antivirus and firewall protection, an automated PC tune-up, and backup and restore functionality.
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Windows update without Microsoft Genuine test
Two weeks ago, I posted simple javascripts to circumvent the dreaded Windows Genuine Advantage system for the sake of my and others clicky-finger. It was this day, or maybe a few days later, that Microsoft's PR looneys acknoledged the fact it can be worked around and will be patching up the holes in the "next version".
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Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive
Overview
The Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive includes essential tools that can help you transform the way you create, share, and manage ideas and information using all four Office 2004 for Mac programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage. After you install the Test Drive, you can use it for 30 days. It includes almost all of the features found in Office 2004. For details about the Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive, see the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive Read Me.
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4.12.2005 New Windows Vista Test Drive Website
"The Windows Vista Business test drive allows you to try this latest operating system from Microsoft..."
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6.1.2007 Windows Vista ReadyBoost Test Round-up
ActiveWin has posted up a review of 3 Windows Vista capable ReadyBoost USB sticks.
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15.1.2007 Microsoft OneCare fails virus test
Independent security certification body Virus Bulletin tested 15 security suites on Windows Vista against a set of malware from the WildList database.
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6.2.2007 Hard disk test 'surprises' Google
The impact of heavy use and high temperatures on hard disk drive failure may be overstated, says a report by three Google engineers.
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19.2.2007 Google Launches Test Of AdSense For Video
The system lets publishers insert streaming video ads in online video content on their Web sites.
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23.5.2007 New Test Version of Windows Vista SP1 Available
But you won't get a download! Microsoft made a new test version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available. The Redmond company is in full throttle with the development of the first service pack for Vista as the refresh will be delivered for download to MSDN and TechNet subscribers by mid September.
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4.9.2007 Test drive the new Windows Live suite
You’ve probably already read about some changes we’re making to Windows Live, and have seen some of your services change over the past few weeks. Starting later today, you'll be able to test out the new suite of Windows Live software at http://get.live.com/wl/all.
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5.9.2007AMD's 65nm ramp struck by leakage problems - report
You have probably been
wondering where the new AMD
65nm chips are, or at least
where they are above 2.6GHz or
so. The reason you you
haven't seen any, according
to one SI, poster is leakage.
If you read
this,
you will see that the lower
the bin goes, the vastly
higher the leakage goes as
well. This means that AMD is
more or less binning 65nm
parts based on leakage alone,
and power consumption is the
overriding factor limiting the
new processes ramp.
Until the firm gets the
process under control, it will
not be able to meet or exceed
the clock speeds achieved on
the 90nm process. This also
has some pretty ugly
implications for Barcelona's
ramp, and AMD in general. It
is looking like AMDs 65nm
process will be about as
universally loved as Intel's
90nm ones...
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25.07.2007Update: Re-Testing Vista w/2GB RAM, Office 2003
exo.blog: Many of our members have requested that we re-test Vista SP1 with 2GB of RAM instead of the 1GB we used in our original tests. So, without
further delay, we present our revised results table:
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28.11.2007First Penryn Chips With 'Reinvented Transistor'
Intel on Monday will begin shipping its Penryn line of processors to OEMs, who are all expected to announce product availability as well. On the
outside, Penryn isn't a huge change to the Core 2/Xeon line of desktop and server processors, but underneath it all, it's a huge change for
Intel.
For starters, it marks the beginning of the end of the silicon dioxide layer that gave the Silicon Valley its nickname. In
January, Intel
announced a new manufacturing process
involving the element
Hafnium, which helped better control the electrical
leakage as Intel was shrinking its processors.
The silicon dioxide layer in the processor had been whittled down to just five
atoms, causing the electrical leakage. That in turn caused the heat. "If there is no leakage and all the current is absolutely used to process
instructions, you wouldn't even need a heat sink, but there will always be leakage," explained George Alfs, a spokesman for Intel.
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11.11.2007You Want 4 GB RAM on Your Notebook?
The question of how much RAM you really need is discussed roughly once every two years, and with every launch of a new Windows version. While there
are so-called sweet spots at any given time, factors such as the operating system and popular applications have an influence on the ideal amount of
RAM as well. 512 MB RAM can be considered the minimum memory capacity to execute Windows XP or Windows Vista today. However, anything less than 1 GB
will have a noticeable performance impact, as the operating system will swap data onto your hard drivewhich brings down performance and battery
runtime on notebooks. Given that, we looked at the opposite end of the equation: what would happen if you went for a comfortable 4 GB RAM capacity on
your notebook?
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01.05.2008Intel Revamps Technology
Chips for handhelds, phones
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21.09.2005WinXP SP3 Yields Performance Gains Over Vista SP1 Again
exo.blog has at
the request of their members re-run
the
original OfficeBench test, this time with 2GB of RAM in the test system. Unfortunately the outcome is unchanged bar a 4% improvement on the
previous score. One can argue that Windows XP system requirements are quite a bit lower than its successor, and thats probably got a lot to do with
it. This, coupled with claims that Vista SP1
will
not improve on performance but will in fact be all about stability and reliability instead, doesn't offer much hope for those people on older
systems.
Make of it what you will, I personally don't have performance issues at all. I use Vista with 2GB of RAM and I have a Sandisk
2GB memory stick that is used for the "Ready Boost" feature, maybe they should re-run the test with that scenario.
Chris Pirillo
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28.11.2007New RAM technology could drive portables, desktops
German engineers and physicists have made a prototype of an advanced RAM system that nears the theoretical speed limit for the process.
According to a
NewScientistTech report, this technology “ known as Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) “ is
claimed to be faster and more efficient then RAM currentlyavailable. Some companies speculate the capabilities and low power consumption of MRAM may
push the mobile market in the years to come. So far, however, the technology is in experimental stages at the moment, and is not available for
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14.08.2008Intel Looks to Bring HD Video to Handheld Gadgets
Intel researchers are trying to create small, integrated chips that will be able to run high-definition 1080p video on portable devices, though it
could take them five to eight years to do so, a senior Intel engineer said Monday.
One of the main issues the researchers have to
overcome is that of power leakage in processors, said Shekhar Borkar
, an Intel fellow, during an interview Monday. Intel engineers are trying to
reduce that power leakage while also scaling graphics performance on chips to bring richer multimedia content to smartphones and other portable
devices.
winbeta.org - 10.02.2009
Qimonda Samples GDDR5 Graphics Memory
Qimonda announced today that it has begun sampling its new
GDDR5 graphics RAM to customers. The GDDR5 RAM is available in 512MB capacities and will see duty in graphics cards hopefully in the near future.
Currently the vast majority of video cards on the market from ATI and NVIDIA are still running GDDR3 RAM. ATI uses GDDR4 in two of
its video cards. I have to wonder with the big video card makers not jumping on GDDR4 if the adoption of GDDR5 memory will happen very quickly.
Qimonda says that the GDDR5 standard is nearing finalization in JDEC. The RAM will be available with data rates up to 20Gytes/s per
component. That speed is more than double the bandwidth of the fastest GDDR3 modules commonly used today. The first GDDR5 using products are expected
in 2008.
winbeta.org - 01.11.2007
Memory test - Firefox 2.0.0.9 vs Firefox 3.0 b 1
Does Firefox 3.0 beta 1 do a better job of handling memory than earlier versions? In a test put Firefox 3.0 beta up against Firefox 2.0.0.9 in a
series of tests.
Before I go any further, a few disclaimers and notes. First off, I’ve carried out this test on a single system
running Windows Vista Home Premium on which Firefox had not been previously installed. The system has 2GB of RAM. Both Firefox 2.0.0.9 and Firefox
3.0 b 1 were installed fresh using a standard install. For each test I visited the same web pages and did my best to make the browsing the same on
both versions.
OK, with that out of the way, on with the tests. I simulated three different browsing scenarios:- Loading a five
pages into the browser
- Loading a single page and leaving the browser for 10 minutes
- Loading 12 pages into the browser and wait 5
minutes
neowin.net - 21.11.2007
DOJ Investigating Sony for RAM Price-fixing
Add to the extraordinarily
long list of woes afflicting
consumer electronics giant
Sony the revelation today that
the US Dept. of Justice will
be investigating it, along
with market rivals Mitsubishi,
Toshiba, Samsung, and Cypress
Semiconductor, in conjunction
with a probe into alleged
price fixing in the static RAM
(SRAM) market...
betanews.com - 01.11.2006
Latest Firefox beta passes Acid2 test, IE8 claims to pass also
After a screenshot on MSDN appeared to show an IE8 beta passing an accepted Web standards test, some came to the only conclusion they could: that the
test had to be broken...
betanews.com - 21.12.2007
Windows Vista ReadyBoost Test Round-up
ActiveWin has posted up a
review of 3 Windows Vista
capable ReadyBoost USB
sticks.
We have
been running a number of
Windows ReadyBoost tests on
various USB Drive Sticks that
have come out recently. Not
only do we have a list of
those that work, and those
that don't! We have also
started to go in-depth with
some of them. ReadyBoost is
designed to improve small
random I/O for people who lack
the expansion slots, money,
and or technical expertise to
add additional RAM. This
isn't a replacement for RAM
upgrades; it's simply the
chance to speed up your Vista
machine very slightly and very
easily.
neowin.net - 15.01.2007
Informal Windows Vista SP1 vs XP SP2 Performance Tests
Mikael at the Futuremark Forums ran a few benchmarks of Windows Vista SP1 (presumably the latest RC Refresh) vs. XP SP2 with some surprising results.
It seems that having 8GB RAM with SuperFetch enabled doesn't hurt...
I just reinstalled Vista Home Premium 64-bit and thought
I'd run some tests. These are just a bunch of quick benches I did to satisfy my own curiosity, but I thought I'd share them with you guys. The test
config is as follows:
Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.2GHz (8*400)
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3
8GB DDR2-800 4-5-4-15
GeForce 8800GT 512MB (stock)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB <--- Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP1
Samsung SpinPoint T166 320GB
<--- Windows XP Professional SP2
Some excerpts from the conclusion:
- The general usage tests are either
faster or equal to XP. However, Vista is on the slower drive (the WD), so it only makes the results even more impressive.
- Crysis was almost
certainly not cached into RAM during the test, but still loaded faster than in XP.
- The horrendous file copy performance has been fixed.
Performance is definitely higher than in XP. Also gone is the sometimes irritatingly long file delete times. File deletion seems instantaneous now,
just like it's always been in XP.
- Crysis: Performance is down 5-8% when looking at DX9 32/64-bit benches and DX10 is even worse off. The CPU
test is also curious with a WinXP performance lead of 15%! This was definitely unexpected and something that would be interesting to research further.
- Loading the image for the Photoshop test was about twice as fast in Vista compared to XP and it was the first time that file was loaded so it
couldn't have been cached.
- Gaming performance is still a let-down and it seems we'll have to live with it.
- SuperFetch has a very
large impact on program load times.
winbeta.org - 17.01.2008
Win7 Build 6596 Gets Benchmarked
While it's not really fair to benchmark a beta version of an operating system, it's still fun, and it's good to compare the differences to see how
far they've truly come in terms of speed and resource usage.
Adrian over at ZDNet has created a great overview of the tests. He used
this machine to perform them:
- Phenom 9700 quad-core processor
- ATI Radeon 3850 graphics card with 256MB RAM
- ASUS
M3A32-MVP Deluxe motherboard
- 2GB (2 x 1GB) Corsair Dominator CM2X1024-8500C5D RAM
- Western Digital Raptor 10,000RPM 150GB primary
hard drive
- Western Digital Caviar 7,200RPM 500GB secondary hard drive
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Click the
"Read more" link to view some of the results.
In terms of boot-up, one of the main areas of concern when it comes to
benchmarking, Windows 7 took about 20 seconds to load the desktop to a usable state. Not bad - especially when compared to Vista SP1 which chugs in at
31 seconds.
On the PassMark test, Windows 7 only scored between 6 and 20 points more than Vista; on the PCMark Advantage test, it scored
5233, while Vista SP1 was way back at 4762.
The Windows 7 CINEBENCH Test Results:
1CPU Score: 2076
xCPU Score: 7370
Multi-proc speedup: 3.55x
OpenGL: 3183
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It's quite remarkable that Windows 7 was able to beat
Windows Vista in so many aspects, even in this very early state. It's safe to say that we're going to see even more improvements by the time RTM and
even RC rolls along. Looks promising!
(It's also funny to note that in most of the tests, Vista RTM beat the install with SP1 running.)
jcxp.net - 11.12.2008
Blueprints drawn up for quantum computer RAM
In the fundamentally fuzzy world of quantum mechanics, it can be difficult to keep clear memories, and that could be a problem for future quantum
computers.
Now three physicists in Italy and the US have proposed a method for retrieving quantum information from memory that
should make total quantum recall more reliable.
Quantum computers have the potential to do some kinds of calculation with
unprecedented speed, as small-scale demonstrations have confirmed. However, to perform most of these calculations effectively these machines will
eventually need to access something resembling random access memory (RAM) “ a large store of quantum information that can be selectively accessed.
Ordinary RAM contains a large array of memory cells, each holding one bit of information “ a binary 0 or 1. To check the contents of
particular cell, a computer accesses it using its address “ a string of bits that identifies the cell's location.
winbeta.org - 22.08.2007
Yahoo to test running Google ads alongside its search results
In what appears to be a very carefully considered, strategically phrased statement this afternoon, Yahoo said it will actually test carrying Google's
ads on its own pages, calling the test a "strategic alternative."..
betanews.com - 10.04.2008
Samsung unveils the first 32GB DDR3 RAM module
Technology just keeps on increasing at a fairly speedy rate, and the glorious folks at Samsung are here to help us along with the next improvement;
according to I4U, they have just revealed their latest RAM module, this one packing a modest 32GB. The memory is DDR3, as mentioned, and is actually
designed for servers; it's constructed using Samsung 50nm 4Gb DDR3 chips, and operates at 1.35 volts, whilst supporting the trend of keeping data
center power usage to a minimum. I4U states that these modules manage to reduce power consumption by 20%, when up against 1.5V DDR3 modules, which can
save a vast amount of money when you consider the size of data centers.
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neowin.net - 19.06.2009
Windows 7: Not only faster than Vista, XP too
Instead of using benchmarking programs, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDNet put together 23 real-world scenarios to see which operating system would be
the quickest to complete all of the tasks.
He tested the 32-bit versions of Windows 7 build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400, Windows Vista SP1,
and Windows XP SP3. Two separate test machines were used:
An AMD Phenom 9700 2.4GHz system fitted with an ATI Radeon 3850 and 4GB of RAM
An Intel Pentium Dual Core E2200 2.2GHz fitted with an NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS and 1GB of RAM
Neither of these computers is top of the
line, but Windows 7 managed to outperform both Vista and XP on both. Kingsley gave a 1 to the operating system that finished each test first, a 2 for
second place, and a 3 for third. Windows 7 scored 25 points on both systems, placing first in 21 tests, and second in two other ones. On the AMD
system, XP scored 61 points and Vista scored 52, while on the Intel system, XP scored 56 points and Vista scored 57.
jcxp.net - 03.01.2009
Windows 7 vs Snow Leopard benchmarks
CNet.com has benchmarked Windows 7 and Snow Leopard using the same hardware to test both operating systems. The performance test ran using software
available on both operating systems including iTunes 9, QuickTime, Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare and Cinebench R10; testing multimedia multitasking,
shutdown time, boot time and iTunes encoding. The laptop used was a 15-inch MacBook Pro with 2.5Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM with a 512MB Nvidia
GeForce 9600M GT video card. Snow Leopard was installed on a stock 320GB hard drive (Hitachi model HTS543232L9SA0), while Windows 7 64-bit was
installed on a 320GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue (model WD3200BEVT).
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neowin.net - 17.10.2009
