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| | Google looks like the next thing it's going to do is take over the world. Or at least, Microsoft. I'm sure you've all heard the rumors about Google creating an operating system, but is it really happening? I just found this [URL="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nono/369373656/"]screenshot[/URL] of a supposedly-leaked upcoming version of GooOS. Kind …  |
 | Just recently, the development group that I work with decided to adopt Linux as our standard operating system for the server-side of our project. Linux is a great choice of server OS for many obvious, and not-so-obvious, reasons. It's extremely flexible, stable, and secure, and works on just about any … |
| | Red Hat last month [URL="http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/11/1841241"]released[/URL] the Fedora Core 6 LiveCD. The tools used to create it can also be used to create your own custom LiveCDs. It's designed to look identitical to the full release of Fedora Core 6, having Gnome 2.16 and X.org 7.16. Very nice. But how come … |
| | According to [URL="http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/the-second-xbox-360-revealed-codename-zephyr/"]Engadget[/URL], the second version of the Xbox 360, code-named "Zephyr" has had a photo leaked from a Xbox insider. It looks quite interesting; the only picture provided was a backside of the console. It's still white, but has some extra ports on the back. It seems like Microsoft … |
 | Almost everyone has it, Adobe Acrobat Reader. But which version. Security staff are reporting that there is a bug in past versions of this popular piece of software. The bug is infact in the browser plugin for the reader that allows users to view pdf documents inside their browser. This … |
| | It's what we have all been waiting for, a flash based solid state memory form that is comparible to a hard disk. Sandisk has launched it's new 32GB hard drive with the use of flash memory. Sandisk claims that this new type of hard drive is faster and it will …  |
| | VMWare has finally jumped on the Intel Mac virtualization bandwagon by releasing [URL="http://www.vmware.com/whatsnew/macsignupform.html"]VMWare Fusion[/URL], a program that competes with Parallels' previously released [URL="http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/"]Parallels Workstation for Mac[/URL]. VMWare has previously had virtulization products available for Linux and Windows, but this is the first time that they've released the workstation product for … |
| | I have always been fascinated by the fact that, in most areas of technology, physical size is constantly shrinking. The one exception being LCD displays, of course, which seem to get bigger every year. So I was excited by two pieces of news to cross my desk this week, the … |
| | Well, yes, if you believe the Sony hype then the [URL="http://www.dynamism.com/g1/main.shtml#"]Vaio VGN-G1LAP[/URL] at just 1.98 pounds is indeed the world’s lightest lappy. The carbon fiber body helps considerably, meaning that despite the low weight you still get the benefit of a 12.1” 1024 x 768 screen rather than the only … |
| | Well the spec is hardly earth shattering for starters, a clock speed of 1GHz, 256MB of DDR memory and a 40GB hard drive. No Intel Inside either, or AMD for that matter. Instead your cheap PC will be driven by the BLX Godson CPU, a chip whose architecture is very … |
| | Since writing [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry846.html"]here [/URL]about the release of a new 'privacy preserving web browser', I have now had a chance to test [URL="http://www.browzar.com"]Browzar [/URL]for myself and can make the following additional comments: I do not buy the 'Browzar is adware' comments that have been doing the rounds of the blogosphere, at … |
| | American chip maker [URL="http://www.freescale.com"]Freescale Semiconductor[/URL] has today announced the development of a magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) chip which can maintain data using magnetic properties and not the traditional electrical charge methodology. Think of it in terms of storing data more like a hard drive, albeit a very small one indeed, …  |
| | The new [URL="http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html"]Apple MacBook Pro[/URL] is 17" of all new system architecture, but at what price? Every single benchmark I’ve seen rates applications using the Apple ‘Rosetta’ dynamic software translation technology as running slower than they do on PowerPC based Macs. A lot slower. How about Photoshop CS2 being 50% … |
| | Although Vista isn’t expected to go on sale until next year, Microsoft has thoughtfully announced the minimum requirements for the new OS so you’ll have plenty of time to save for the necessary upgrades. Just to muddy the waters and confuse the public, Microsoft seems to be adopting an Xbox …  |
| | Sony used to have game. Its hold on the console market anything but inscrutable, being down to a long standing dedication to technical innovation, game play and pricing. But could that all be due to change following the debut of the PlayStation 3, dubbed PayStation, at E3 last week? Not … |
| | Fedora Core 5, the next version of software based on RedHat Linux of long ago, was released in Mid-March to the masses. I am sure that others have looked at the alpha and beta releases -- I waited until the the official release before looking at the software. Initial reactions: …  |
| | As many of you already know, Apple has released a new line of computers with Intel chips inside -- namely the new iMac, and the MacBook. I took delivery of my new one the last week of February, and it was a wonderful new tool to take me into the …  |
| | In the past, Apple Computer has used San Fransisco's MacWorld Expo to release new hardware and software. What's next on the list? The highly anticipated Intel-based computers, as Apple migrates away from the PowerPC architecture, and into Intel's chipset. At least one Apple-News website has credible information that Apple is …  |
| | Sleek. Powerful. Graphic. Capable. Stable. Portable. Clean-design. This new iMac G5 Rocks. At a special event today (Oct 12, 2005), Apple Computer released two new awesome pieces of hardware -- an iPod that can play video, and a new awesome iMac G5. Let's talk about this new G5 and why … |
| | Are you running out of room on that notebook's hard drive? Hitachi Global Storage Technologies have released an 'upgrade kit' that just might be the answer you're looking for. It wouldn't surprise me to see other manufacturer's offer similar kits in future. [img]http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/binary/com.epicentric.contentmanagement.servlet.ContentDeliveryServlet/hgst/products/Retail%2520Products/images/ts_uk_contents_230x160.jpg[/img] The [url=http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.6e185ca3ee5b04d2fce80bd5eac4f0a0/]Notebook PC Upgrade Kit[/url] includes a …  |
| | Toshiba announced last week that they are producing a 1.8" hard drive using perpendicular recording to allow hard drive storage capabilities to 40 GB on a single platter. These types of drives are found in small hand-held devices such as Apple's iPod MP3 player. Computers typically use 2.5" hard drives. … |
| | Mid last week, Intel and Matsushita announced that they are working on an 8 hour notebook battery solution featuring Intel's low-power consumption technology powered by Matsushita's lithium-ion battery solutions. Currently, (pardon the pun) laptops range anywhere from 3 - 6 hours, depending on what the users's power settings are. Users … |
 | Get simple information like serial number, bytes/sector, sectors/cluster, free and total disk space of your hard drive using Windows API calls. |
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| | After formatting four times, a Maxtor diamondmax 9 6Y080MO using MSI-PM8M2-V motherboard with a celeron D 2.93, the hard drive is not recgonized to reinstall XP home. What can be done for Windows to see the HD. Here's another problem: I have two 6Y080MO HD's. I have one running on … |
| | Hi all My summer job is working in a PC repair shop and we have just had a lady drop her laptop off and the hard drive is screwed. We just went to re-install the OS when we realized that we don’t know whether it is XP Home or Pro. … |
| | Had visual web developer 2008 installed and was instructed to download and install SP1 all kinds of problems and now can't install at all. machine is running Vista Home Premium. I am baffled and have used these products for several years now. Here is a list of the errors and … |
| | I was thinking of upgrading my little bro's computer as its out of date a short specification is: [B]Dell Dimension 4600[/B] Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz 512MB DIMM DDR NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Maxtor 6Y160M0 160GB Microsoft Windows XP Professional I've installed RAM before on my PC and put in … |
| | I had a hard drive failure, prior to this happening my sound was working perfectly. Replaced my hard drive, and reinstalled WinXP Pro and updates, all drivers, including SoundMax, from motherboard CD (ASUS P5B) thought I added everything back but my sound is only partially working. If I play a … |
| | ive already tryed somthing but it's ovusly failed my computer some how's crashes the apps that I'm useing then it crashes the whole the computer. I've already formated the computer hard drive but it didn't work any idea guys and it had it's hard drive replaced a few weeks ago …  |
| | Ok so what ive done was back up all my files that i want to keep on a second hard drive so i could install another windows. all worked fine, installed windows everything working fine until i go to put the other hard drive in thats got all my stuff …  |
| | Hi A couple of days ago, my hard drive completely died. I didn't back up my work files, and would like to get them back. Is there any way I can get them back? The hard drive is absoluetely unrecognized. The SATA cables are in perfectly but the hard drive … |
| | Hi guys! I badly need your help! Yesterday, I caught something while surfing (I opened an .exe file like an idiot, without thinking about it!). Moments after that, 3 porn icons appeared on my desktop and my antivirus (avg) went crazy with many notifications of infections. I was getting a …  |
| | Hello, I am attempting to create a minfilter, or possibly something else. I will explain the problem and hopefully someone will be able to point me in the right direction. I need something that will intercept requests to a certain harddrive from windows, weather this is through windows explorer, or … |
| | pressing power, my psu fires up, and the fans start on my cpu and my video card. i get power to my hard drive and optical. but nothing happens. no post, no boot. also, no power to USB or PS2 while in this state. fans spin, drives initiate, but nothing … |
| | I have a AMD Athlon 64 3500+ in a DFI's LANParty UT NF4 SLI-DR mother board with 991461 DDR EM3200 3-3-3-8 2x1GB ram and a nvidia 9800 gt with a seagate 500 Gbyte hard drive but the thing wont show on the screen. The fans all spin the lights flash … |
| | I was using Windows OneCare and now i am not using it at all (i mean i removed it from my system) but i still have backup folder which i want to delete. When i tryed to delet it say i can not delete windows OneCare. So please help me … |
| | Hi All, actually in my web application there is downloading link.When a user click the link a folder is creating in the hard drive with a pdf file which can be accessed by the user.I want restrict the accessing of the file after 7 days from the generation and also … |
| | after i turn on my computer, and it starts up and then freezes. it has given me a stop error code ox0000000A. i have also ran a memory diagnostic tool and hard drive diagnostic tool, both passed. |
| | I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate RTM on my system and had a peculiar experience. I was running Windows 7 Ultimate RC and decided to blow it for the RTM. My first hard drive is 250 Gigs with one primary partition (40 Gigs) and the remainder in the second partition. … |
| | I have a older Dell Latitude that won't recognize the hard drive. When I run diagnostics, I get the following: Start DST Short Test Test Results: Fail Error Code: 1000-0141 Message: No Drive Detected |
| | Hey I currently have Ubuntu installed on one of my PC's, and it's the only operating system on the PC, and was wondering how do I take off Ubuntu and install Windows XP to it? Whenever I try to install Windows XP it gives me some error that it can't …  |
| | Hello I have an antec power supply. When I turn on the computer it seems to start powering up but then I get beeping. It one long beep followed by 3 shot ones the the computer shuts down. The Monitor starts to turn on, the hard drive does as well. …  |
| | Hi Fellow Daniweb IT members, I am currently thinking to buy the Dell inspiron 546 MT with the AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core 5200+ (2.7 GHz and 512Kx2 cache), and the 64-bit Windows Vista Home Premium, 6144MB Ram, 640GB Hard drive and a 512MB ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics card. …  |
| | Recently, I noticed in the Windows Task Manager that a spurious svchost.exe appears and always uses about 50% of the CPU resources. I 'End the process', but it will appear later. If I don't initiate a new activity the greedy svchost does not appear. One thing for sure that will … |
| | I have messed with computers for years. I can tell I have nothing on any of you. But, as many times as I've seen this problem since i've been here, I must point something out, and it seems if anyone can explain this , it would solve alot of peoples … |
| | a few months back i noticed the light for the power button had stopped working, but the comp turned on. this happened on and off. a short time later, the button stopped starting my computer reliably. but heres the strange part...i could press the button and the comp would start … |
| | greetings! i just bought a new samsung 320gb 3.0gb/s HDD. unfortunately, i didn't know that my MB only supported SATA-I. i connected the HDD to 2nd sata(primary) slot, turned on my computer, but when i checked my bios it said that it didn't detect any hard drive. so i placed … |
| | A lightning strike fried my mother boad and I moved the hard drive to another machine about the same vintage. Yea it's kind of old. I was running 98se but now it won't boot to windows but I can access the hard drive. Problem is I am trying to backup … |
| | I inherited a Gateway 825GM Media Center Edition. It had Windows XP Pro installed from Gateway before that had become hopelessly corrupted. After reformatting and installing a new copy of the XP Pro, any further installations of software restarted numerous problems of such varying degrees it was incredible. Sent it … |
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