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2009 November 02

Windows 7 Service Pack Already On the Burner

That’s the word from a fairly reliable source of Windows unannounced information.
Though I would say this has been perhaps the second smoothest release of Windows (Windows XP being the best, though not generally acknowledged, the minor whinings about XP were mostly just that – not based on any real install or usability problems) to date, [...]

RIAA Employees: Listen Up! You Don’t Want to Miss This!

Though I am not in that preferred 18-34 demographic any longer, I find that those I interact with are like myself (that is, regardless of age) and still purchase music on CD. It is something a bit more tangible than a download – we that have been around no how easily hard drives crash, and [...]

AMD Changing The Players on the (CPU) Team Again

If you think that there are too many CPUs today, from both AMD and Intel, with features and performance too close to each other to make much difference, you are not alone.
Back in the old days, we used to have distinct grades of CPU lines, and they were clearly defined by speed and performance changes [...]

Support Firms, Independent Observers, Encourage Wait and See Attitude Toward Windows 7

Knowing that change is always a problem, and that the size of any problems is directly proportional to the amount of change, it is no wonder that many independent voices are coming up with cautions on the upgrade to Windows 7.
As someone who learns the lesson vicariously each time Windows is updated, I would say [...]

Using Desert Lands Productively

In Europe, a consortium of 12 companies are beginning a solar project to be situated in the Sahara Desert, with power to provide 15% of the needs of greater Europe by the year 2050.
This is use of the land to best advantage, as we currently have no economical means of transforming such a vast wasteland, [...]

Clutching At Straws – The Newest Apple Tactic Against Cloners

During the time I have been involved with computers, there have been several would-be competitors to Apple, but none has held on as long as Florida company Psystar.
In the early days, the cloning revolved around building a similar motherboard, and then actually physically copying the ROMs  of the Apple machine. Though I never was interested [...]

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