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Life!
Couple of new posts up on the Other LJ. (I flag 'em 'cos this one has a lot more Friends. Hope that's OK.)
Playing with virtualisation
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One big social network
Back when I was with Heise, I signed up with Digg and Reddit which I'd only previously been reading, so that I could promote Heise stories there occasionally ( Read more... ) -
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
Last weekend, I gave away an old Digital Audio Mac G4. Yesterday, after weeks of missing one another, a lady from Freecycle took away an old Gateway Pentium/150 which I'd done up. Another chap came round and collected an old AMD motherboard and an AthlonXP 2200+ CPU I had lying around, and I delivered jamesb's old PC, restored, refurbished and installed ( Read more... ) -
Curious MemoryStick problem - help!
Anyone familiar with these little Sony Flash storage cards ( Read more... ) -
Words
Windows 7 - O RLY?
The version of Windows that follows Vista (which internally calls itself Windows 6.0) is to be called Windows 7 - but that version number doesn't quite tally up with the history of the product...
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Words!
Actual original article on Heise. Do please feel free to Slashdot it or whatever. :-)
Intel's new six-core CPUs highlight Windows' limitations
Modern PC specifications are starting to hit some of the fundamental limits of current operating systems - both architectural and licensing-imposed.Be a knock-off Nigel
In recent weeks, I've been experimenting with a nifty little "product". It's TinyXP: a sort of Windows distribution, a hand-rolled version of Windows XP that you can download via Bittorrent, burn onto CD and bung on your PC ( Read more... )Save Bletchley!
One for any British readers with an interest in the history of computers and Britain's part in their early development.
Bletchley Park is the site of the main British efforts in WW2 to, for instance, decrypt the Nazi's Enigma codes and it is now the home of a museum to these efforts.
However, it's lamentably underfunded and is struggling to ( Read more... )Novell / Red Hat acquisition: pictures at 11
Or, PC World Australia's James Turner doesn't know his arse from his elbow.
Linux examined: OpenSUSE 11.0
This latest edition has some updates and improvements, but is not for the faint-of-heartApparently, Red Hat's Fedora is based on Novell's OpenSUSE rather than, say, Red Hat's own Red Hat Linux. Who knew ( Read more... )