Category: Science & Geeks
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Microsoft gives USB keys away
Right! If you go to the web site of the Redmond company and you ask for information about the Microsoft licenses, they will offer to send you a USB key containing all the needed information. This is certianly not a 1GB USB drive, but nothing will stop you from formatting the USB key once you…
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New technologies: Updated availability schedule
If we look quickly, here are a few of the significant availability dates for some important technologies for PC computers around us: Windows Vista: awaited for the first week of October HD-DVD: announced for March 2006, but probably without write capacity (because DRM will not be implemented yet) Blu-Ray DVD: announced for May 2006 at…
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A low-priced Home Cinema configuration
Willing to install a Home Cinema configuration (that was an old dream of mine), I decided to buy according to my limited budget. Here is how it turned to be and how you can do the same. Video projector I started by buying a fairly good video-projector. You should always be sensitive to what is…
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A tutorial on printing
Beware, this web site will not be overflowing with images and colors. It is about the technicalities of printing technology. Interesting anyway. A tutorial on printing.
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Windows Vista: Marketing techniques
Microsoft just announced that there will be a grand total of 6 different versions of Windows Vista. This is an approach well known of marketing specialists. A product is on a competitive market, the price goes down (or up) according to the laws of free market. If the market is not competitive, the price may…
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Button Maker, your small button for free
The Adam Kasley web site draws images of the small buttons that you may need for your own web site. Simple and easy. Merely what you want without knowing where to look for it.
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DRM creeps into our hard drives
The Trusted Computing Group announced it will be publishing a specification describing how hard disc drives will include Digital Rights Management (DRM) to support the Trusted Platform that is being pushed in preparation of PCs that will be completely secured against free flow of information and to avoid hackers and pirates to steal information. This…
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Trusted Computing Platform – Not for the consumer
Trusted Computing Platform is an initiative that is going to help the media companies (music, movies, etc.) securing the media they sell in a strong way. Essentially, it’s intent is to keep everything encrypted to avoid users to have a direct access to it. This approach promises to stomp out pirates. The problem is that,…
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WSPR will tell you the power of your PC
This is a rather good surprise for the normal users of PC. Microsoft is rumoured to prepare a rating to evaluate if a PC will be able to provide a good, bad or excellent experience with Windows Vista. A PC rated 1 will be providing a minimal experience, a PC rated 5 will be near…