Top 10 Windows Vista Speed Tweaks
10 Speed Tweaks that can make a huge difference in Vista performance.
Archive for August, 2007
IGN Gives Lair a 4.9! A “Sixaxxis Suckfest”
Looks like a very painful game. I really hate the Sixaxxis gimmick. Read on!
Linux.com :: The two-edged sword: Legal computer forensics and open source
Good story on computer forensics and open source tools used.
Swedish vote on OOXML annulled
(Sorry, article in Swedish). The Swedish Standardization Institute, SIS, has decided to annul its ballot on OOXML, since at least one member seems to have been using multiple votes. This is against the SIS rules and calls for a revocation. Last Monday, SIS voted YES on OOXML after questionable vote stuffing by Microsoft.
Bittorrent 2.0: Harvard Develops Client That Uses Bandwidth as “Currency”
Harvard researchers have teamed up with the Tribler team to work on a P2P client with BitTorrent support that uses bandwidth as a global currency. They released Tribler V4.1 yesterday.
Viacom: It’s Not Copyright Infringement When We Do it to You
In a rather interesting turn of events, Viacom has been called out for copyright infringement. That’s right. The same company that’s suing YouTube for a whopping $1 billion has done some dirty business of its own.
AMD announces 128-bit (GPU-oriented?) SSE5 extensions to x86
AMD wants to x86’s vector capabilities to catch up to AltiVec (almost), so they’re proposing a major new set of vector extensions that they call SSE5. Will this be a repeat of x86-64, or of 3DNow!?
Interview: The Making of Sony’s Warhawk
In-depth interview with Warhawk’s lead producer Dylan Jobe. He talks about the game, the future of downloadable content, the technology behind Warhawk, and surprises from the beta.
HP launches Red Hat Linux desktop PC
Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, has announced it will start selling Linux-based PCs from $AU600 in Australia.
Top 10 Ways to Clean Up Your PC
Over time it’s easy for Windows to accumulate cruft
—like programs you never use but that automatically start up anyway, temporary or duplicate files, multiple desktop shortcuts or gigabytes of data you forgot about hogging up your hard drive. Scrub that old PC up all shiny and new again with today’s top 10 ways to clean up your PC
10 Must Have Online Office Apps
Building your online web office? Take a look at Read/WriteWeb’s list of the top 10 must have web applications in the categories of word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, calendar, email, groupware, file storage, RSS, contact management, and to do list.
Making Ubuntu boot in 19 seconds
FTFA: “I started to take it upon myself to speed up the boot process of my secondary workstation, but I decided I needed a way to quantitatively measure the boot process. I wanted to document my results in a way that could be reproduced, and I wanted to be very methodical in the process.”
Ends up booting in 19 seconds.
