Buying second-hand products is always cheaper and friendly to the environment, but it
’s easy to be discouraged by the stories of broken laptops purchased from eBay. To quell these fears and make green computing easy for everyone, here is a 10-step checklist on how to avoid high-tech lemons.
Category: general
VirtualBox update brings improved performance + 64-bit
Sun has released the first update to its recently purchased desktop virtualization program, now called Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0. While not a major update, it does bring improved performance and 64-bit operating system support to the popular open source virtualization program.
Cray\’s Windows-Based Supercomputer: 64 Cores in Your Desk
Why should UNIX nerds have all the fun? Cray and Microsoft announced today a partnership to produce the CX1, a $60,000 (on the top end) supercomputer that runs the forthcoming Windows HPC Server 2008
—MS\’s answer to the high-performance *nix server systems run by most heavy servers.
Build a Skype phone out of the old wireless phone you have just laying aro
Good Idea but don\’t know how particle this is if I had a weekend free I might give it a try
VLC media player 0.9.2 IS OUT!
this my fav media player. very light waight and works with any media
Dropbox (GDrive Killer) finally launches, plus Linux+iPhone!
Damn useful thing.. if you\’ve been waiting for invites, go get it. Windows, Mac and now Linux!!
/etc/grub.conf explained
/etc/grub.conf explained
Mozilla Updates Firefox 3.1 With Lot More Goodies
Hmm looks like firefox is not going to give up the fight. I like FX but using Chrome at the mo
Game Console Architecture In-Depth
Ars takes you back in time and deep inside the inner workings of three popular game consoles: the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
Revealed: The Internet\’s Biggest Security Hole
Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency. The demonstration is the latest attack to highlight fundamental security weaknesses in some of the web\’s core protocols.