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HardOCP has spent 30 days using Linux a la Morgan Spurlock. Complaining about Windows Vista is a national past time on Internet forums these days. Windows Vista "costs too much," "has onerous product activation," "requires too much hardware," etc. These complaints are often followed up by a very simple boast: "I'm just going to switch to Linux (or Mac)." But in today's landscape, how viable is that statement?
HardwareSecrets has delved into some processor based security features and how to enable them. This technology – known under names that vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, such as NX (No eXecute), EVP (Enhanced Virus Protection), XD (eXecute Disable), or DEP (Data Execution Protection)
Xbitlabs has taken a look at hardware video accelerators, targeted towards HD playback on PC's. Playing video on the PC used to be a non-trivial task in the past. A hardware decoder was required even to play such a simple (by today’s measures) format as MPEG-1 at a resolution of 352x288 pixels. It is only after some considerable growth in the computing capacity of CPUs and after the release of graphics cards capable of hardware scaling and YUV/RGB color space conversion that the playback task could be transferred to the CPU and graphics card.
Although Youtube has almost total market domination, it is struggling to monetise its success. Google moved some of its top executives to YouTube to reach deals with media companies to put their videos on the Web site and share ad revenue, but at least one major deal recently fell through. YouTube promised to roll out technology to prevent copyrighted material from appearing on the site; in the meantime, pirated clips continue to pop up. Unhappy with YouTube's terms, Viacom decided to forgo YouTube and instead strike out on its own online-video ventures.
Uni students can get Office 2007 for $75 in a program set up by Microsoft. Discussion can be found here. Microsoft sells the premium version of its new Office 2007 software suite for $1150, but in a new promotion it is offering the package to Australian university students for just $75. The almost 95 per cent discount for Office 2007 Ultimate is offered through a website made specifically for the promotion, itsnotcheating.com.au.
DigitalTrends has posted an article about migrating your data to Vista easier. What can you transfer? In brief, everything. Your files and folders, pictures, music and videos, programs and user settings, e-mail messages and settings, even your Internet settings, including favorites, can all be sent over.
AutoSpeed (online performance car magazine) is giving away their 2006 articles for free It's that easy. Just fill in the details below and you'll get free access to all 50 issues published by AutoSpeed during 2006. That's over 350 articles absolutely free. No credit card details required.
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