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 | In what could prove to be of major importance to the future of motherboard and component data transfer rates, the Photonics Technology Lab at Intel has announced a silicon laser modulator that can encode data at 40Gb/sec. According to [URL="http://blogs.intel.com/research/2007/07/40g_modulator.html"]Dr. Ansheng Liu[/URL], Principal Engineer with the Intel Corporate Technology Group … |
| | Is Blu-Ray dead in the European water? Independent pan-European research by GfK has today revealed that Blu-Ray may not be winning the high definition race after all, despite much brouhaha. In fact, according to the report on the state of the standalone high definition player market in Europe, HD DVD …  |
| | It has always been something of a running joke here in England, where you have to buy a license from the government in order to watch TV (I kid you not, it helps fund the good old BBC), that blind people get a 50 percent reduction on the annual £135 …  |
| | As reported [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1490.html"]here[/URL] last week, three security flaws had been discovered that impacted upon the 2.6.x Kernel. A NULL-pointer dereference within netfilter when handling SCTP connections with unknown chunk types that could be exploited to crash the kernel; a cpuset_task_read() function in /kernel/cpuset.c which had an underflow error that could …  |
| | [URL="http://www.sapphiretech.com"]Sapphire Technology[/URL] has announced a new addition to the HD 2400 and HD 2600 graphics accelerator families scheduled for a July release, the completely passively cooled HD 2600 XT Ultimate Edition. As fans of the Sapphire Ultimate Edition family will already be aware, these are renowned for not only being … |
| | [URL="http://www.hitachi.com"]Hitachi Global Storage Technologies[/URL] has announced the world’s highest-capacity, highest-performing notebook hard drive and it will feature in Dell and Alienware systems. The 2.5”, 200Gb, 7200rpm, Travelstar 7K200 brings twice the capacity of its predecessor as well as a 22 percent performance hike. Using Hitachi’s third-generation perpendicular magnetic recording technology, … |
| | As Intel and AMD continue to war for control of the desktop microprocessor market, a recent announcement made by HP shows that a third company, VIA, is still a contender. HP has chosen VIA microprocessors for new Compaq thin-client PCs for sale in China. They're cheaper and more energy efficient … |
| | Wireless networking has, in my rather sadly predictable geeky opinion, made computing not only a whole lot more accessible but sexy as well. In fact, I might even go so far as to say that the social Internet service explosion would not have happened, or certainly not happened as quickly, … |
| | The MHW2040AC Parallel 2.5-inch mobile hard disk drive has a capacity of just 40 GB, a rotational speed of 4,200 rpm and an 8Mb buffer size, so why is [URL="http://www.fujitsu.com/global/"]Fujitsu [/URL]making such a fuss about it? Perhaps it has something to do with the temperature tolerance, this thing will comfortable …  |
| | Just as the games console which has the honor of being at once both one of the most innovative entertainment devices to arrive in our homes and the most stupidly named, the Nintendo Wii, arrives on the market so a lawsuit starts that attacks the very heart of that innovation: … |
| | 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 … |
| | About five years ago the BBC carried a news story about a chap in Australia who had taken advantage of a new law which meant that patent applications only needed to innovation rather than invention. He registered a patent application for something known as a ‘circular transportation facilitation device’ or … |
| | Although it sounds too good to be true, Toshiba Europe has released details of what it claims to be the first rewritable printer in the world. Yes, you read that right, a printer that can print onto the same piece of paper as many as 500 times. In what may …  |
| | Although it sounds like some kind of fantasy computing game, and in a way that sums it up pretty nicely, a 40 core supercomputer for your desktop will be a reality from January 2007 thanks to [URL="http://www.tyanpsc.com"]TyanPSC[/URL]. The next generation personal supercomputer from Tyan Computer Corporation was launched today, with … |
| | It looks like NVIDIA really means business, announcing it intends to attack the Intel integrated graphics processor market with an ICP of its own. Now that is some target, given that Intel is pretty much the heavyweight champ when it comes graphic chip manufacturing and sales by the numbers. No … |
| | Dell has today announced the addition of its ninth-generation PowerEdge servers, the first to be powered by Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors. Not only is this good from the performance perspective but also when it comes to bang for your buck in the enterprise, with up to 40 percent enhanced performance … |
| | 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 … |
| | Toshiba have announced the first notebook HD-DVD Write Drive, which can read and write HD-DVDs as well as standard DVD and CD. Of course, announcements and availability are completely different beasts, so do not expect to see this little beauty until nearer the end of the year. The SD-L902A, don’t … |
| | 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 … |
| | Hey All, I've got a little question/problem regarding 3D graphics. Im running a PAE-LowLatency kernel for recording Audio stuff, and I'd like to be able to also use ATI's proprietary 3D driver for hardware acceleration on a STANDARD 486 kernel. Note I do NOT need both 3D and LowLatency at … |
| | Hi all, Iam new to unix. I want to know the series of events that takes place when creating a directory. I mean If I type a command like [CODE] mkdir mydir [/CODE] what is the exact thing that takes place within the *nix operating system?  |
| | hi everybody, i have choosen a project as my fyp,the project which can change the priority of any process. It is just like nice command. So can anyone suggest me how to proceed in this project. the reffrencial book if any. |
| | hey i just installed this freewear and theres no sound im not a coputer expert but i know a little can anyone help me on this i have an on board sound thanks my email is <EMAIL SNIPPED> |
| | Hi, I am using USb cdma modem to surf net in Windows. but I want to use same device in Ubuntu for surfing net. How can I do that? I tried but while scanning modems ubuntu displays the message that no usb modems were detected. Now please provide me the … |
| | I've been running a linux box with a quad core for nearly a year now. I've managed to make work most of everything I set my mind to except for one very important thing: the four cores. As I gather, I would need to compile my kernel with "the right … |
| | I have an Asus Eee 900A with Ubuntu NBR 9.04 installed. When I installed the system, I made one partition on the internal SSD and mounted as /. I left 32 MB for swap space. I mounted the /home directory to a 16GB SD card installed in the memory card … |
| | Hi, I am using a wide screen laptop and my lcd does not support 1024x768 display or atleast it does not take up the full screen because of the display ratio. I did not like the 1280x768 display which ubuntu was showing by default so I used the virtual screen … |
| | Can anyone tell me how to configure wireless driver in ubuntu and knoppix?? In knoppix the eth0 is detected but then its asking IP address and subnet mask... will this be same as in windows....or different??  |
| | This is atep by step tutorials how to setup Debian server this includes Debian Installation FTP Server Setup in debian Webserver Setup in Debian Samba Server Setup in Debian Database Server Setup in Debian Time clock sync for debian server Mail Server Configuration in Debian VNC Server setup in Debian … |
| | Hi friends, My GNU Screen(process) is struck at write() system call. I tried to attach strace to the process. here is the output. *************************************** $ /usr/bin/strace -ivx -p 5477 (screen pid) Process 5477 attached - interrupt to quit [008fb7a2] write(4, "\x0d\x1b\x5b\x33\x39\x42\x1b\x5b\x37\x6d\x53\x77\x69\x74"..., 4020 <unfinished ...> Process 5477 detached *************************************** Can somebody … |
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