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A little parable about design choice and parochiality
As I've doubtless bored people silly with for years, another of my non-computery interests is languages and linguistics. One subsection of this is conlangs: constructed languages, as opposed to natural languages ( Read more... ) -
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... )I'm having a Field Day
(As befits a Field Engineer, perhaps.)
Another challenging callout tonight, to a faulty PC in Barnet. The "fault" being that he'd turned it off at the wall. Another fierce test of my technical skills there.
However, this gave me a chance to run an errand and collect a Freecycled UK101, which has aroused so much interest on ClassicCmp that I plan ( Read more... )The Third Fox
So you've upgraded to Foxy Three and it's all lovely and shiny... But. You had some essential add-ins or extensions that you simply can't live without, and they don't work in FF3.
Well, all is not lost. Here are a few things to try.
[1] Go look for the latest versions yourself and manually update.
For instance, one of my favourites is Linky. ( Read more... )