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“Bricked” - What Is It ?

I got an email from a friend this morning who has been reading about the Apple iPhones and the controversy surrounding some iPhones being ‘bricked’. Which made me wonder how many people know what the term ‘bricked’ actually means?
Normally the term is used to describe some type of a software update that makes the hardware […]

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Security Updates As Of Sept. 30, 2007

Make sure your system is up to date and that you have the latest protections in place.

AVG anti-virus: 09/29/07
Norton anti-virus: 09/26/07
McAfee anti-virus: 09/26/07
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 09/27/07
Spybot Search and Destroy: 09/26/07
Microsoft Windows Defender: 09/25/07
Nod32: 09/28/07

Updates as of September 30, 2007 6:00am CDT.
Tags: avg, norton, mcafee, lavasoft, spybot, defender, nod32

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Microsoft Should Abandon Vista?

Over at C/Net a writer by the name of Don Reisinger has written a scathing article in which he documents why he believes that Microsoft should abandon Vista. Some of what Don says has been batted around the Internet ever since Vista was released such as a high price tag, DRM and lack of Extras […]

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Ubuntu 7.10 Beta Released

The folks over at Ubuntu have released their beta version 7.10 for testing. On their site they state the following:
The Ubuntu developers are hurrying to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software that the open source and free software communities have to offer. This is the Ubuntu 7.10 beta release, which brings a host […]

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India Now Outsources Its Own Outsourcing

Are you a recent college graduate and looking for some additional programming training? Well many are now heading to India for a six months and then returning to the US. India is now a world model of outsourcing and other countries are standing in line to get their people trained from what may be considered […]

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Gateway Makes An Apple Clone

A few weeks ago I mentioned that the desktop box was boring and it needed to be replaced with a new design. In walks Gateway with their new One ZX190 model. Sleek, slim and a beauty, this new system rivals Apple in style. Gateway describes their new system as:
Never before has the PC world seen […]

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Microsoft Extends Sales Of Windows XP Until June 30th, 2008

Microsoft is extending the sale of Windows XP for an additional five months in response to customer demands. OEM’s will be able to offer XP to both consumer and business customers until June 30, 2008. Support for XP Starter Edition for emerging markets will be extended until June 30, 2010.
In a statement Microsoft states:
While we’ve […]

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Another Technology Patent Case To Digest

The US Supreme court is going to have to decide on another technology patent case involving Intel, LG and Quanta which is a Taiwanese computer maker. The particulars of the case involve whether once a patent is licensed for use, can this licensing be passed on to a third party? When first ruled upon a […]

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Is It Time For Computers To Be Sold Without An Operating System?

I had previously reported that the Globalisation Institute in a report they made to the European Union last week, had recommended that the lack of choice for a operating system was keeping Microsoft in a monopolistic situation, and that computers should be sold with no operating system. When one thinks about this recommendation, […]

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Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 Beta Part #2

I m happy to report that SP1 really has improved the performance on my Vista Ultimate system. The performance is not so much about the system operating faster, but that it is now equal to the performance of XP.
Some examples.
Deleting files was slow before SP1 beta. I’m talking pokey slow. No more. It is just […]