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Ryan Orser’s Windows Vista Review
I have been using Windows Vista for over a week now. Why I chose to review Windows Vista I am unsure, but for reasons unknown I installed it. In the future I will review Windows Vista SP1 even though it’s likely the changes will be small. The specifications of my laptop are as follows: AMD…
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Mandriva One 2008.0 Review
This installation of Mandriva 2008 only took about 20 Minutes. I installed the KDE Live CD onto my laptop harddrive. Mandriva has its ups and downs though this is the first distro that I have used in the last few weeks that will actually configure your wireless and nvidia graphics card for you, and the…
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2007/11/06 Smart Monitoring PC Hardware Launched By NVIDIA
Smart monitoring….article from slashdot.org: Smart Monitoring PC Hardware Launched By NVIDIA Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 06, @10:04AM from the i-see-you’ve-been-playing-some-portal dept. MojoKid writes “NVIDIA has just introduced a new open-industry standard for real-time monitoring and control of PC power supplies, chassis, and water cooling systems. Dubbed ESA, which stands for Enthusiast System Architecture,…
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2007/07/26 Slashdot: Dell is asking for Better ATI drivers on Linux!
Now here is a story with a better voice for the greater good of Linux: Open Source IT writes “According to a presentation at Ubuntu Live 2007, Dell is working on getting better ATI drivers for Linux for use in its Linux offerings. While it is not known whether the end product will end up…
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2007/07/12 Its BERYL Time!
I just started using beryl 2.1.1 which is great. When I last had it on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04 latest one at the time of writing) I could not see the themes!!!! Now using Fedora 7 I have been able to get the themes and all the desktop effects! its so Awsome! Here is…
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2007/06/26 Dell Scraps Dimension Desktops!
Instead of having Dimension Desktops Dell has come out with Inspiron Desktops which support both AMD and Intel chipsets. They also Made a huge improvement to the Laptop line which Dell has brought back the 1400 line of 14.1 ” notebooks! They have also made 2 new 15.4 ” notebooks the 1520 and the 1521,…
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2007/06/22 Nvidia PC Processors!
The Tesla as it is code named will be released in August. Anyway here is the story from PC World: Nvidia Expands From Gaming to High-Performance Chips Known for graphics processors designed for video gaming, the company now enters the market for high-performance PC processors. Part 1 of a special five-part series. Robert Mullins, IDG…