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Submission + - MS updates BSOD to Black SOD

Submitted by quippe on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @08:18AM

quippe writes: Some Windows users are greeted with a black screen of death at login, ever since they installed this month's patches. One security company thinks it has a solution. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers debate what's going on.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/15170/black_screen_of_death_fix_for_windows_xp_vista_7
http://www.pcworld.com/article/183335/

Submission + - Nokia Releases Qt 4.6 (nokia.com) 2

Submitted by Lawand on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @08:13AM

Lawand writes: Nokia today released Qt 4.6, the latest version of the cross-platform application and UI framework. Featuring new platform support, powerful new graphical capabilities and support for multi-touch and gestures, and this is the first release to include significant code contributed from the community
This release introduces support for the Symbian platform with integration for the S60 framework, expanding the addressable market for Qt applications by over 130 million Symbian devices.

Comment KKK (Score 1) 483

by Lawand on Friday October 23, 2009 @06:17PM (#29852361) Attached to: Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7

I guess I'll get shot for using the latest version of Kubuntu, Code-named Karmic Koala!

Comment Alternative site (Score 1) 377

by Lawand on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @12:57PM (#29810459) Attached to: Sneak Preview of New OpenOffice 3.2

Here is a list of the new features (in case you can't access the page like me, because the server is busy)

Comment Agree 100%! (Score 1) 240

by Lawand on Friday October 02, 2009 @05:20PM (#29621403) Attached to: Sony Prototype Sends Electricity Through the Air

This is Sony.

Comment Backwards with 1.1 ? (Score 1) 191

by Lawand on Thursday September 24, 2009 @04:30PM (#29532955) Attached to: First-Ever USB 3.0 Hard Drive

Is USB 3.0 backwards compatible with USB 1.1 ?

Comment Re:Cost? (Score 1) 295

by Lawand on Thursday August 20, 2009 @04:59PM (#29139025) Attached to: A Video Ad, In a Paper Magazine

Wait, the battery is rechargeable? If this is an ADVERTISEMENT in a paper magazine, why would you want to recharge it beyond the novelty? What good is this, and with a battery of 70min, wouldn't they ALL have no power by the time you get it off the shelf?

The battery might be charged using solar energy

Comment Super Mario Bros. (Score 1) 346

by Lawand on Saturday August 08, 2009 @07:09AM (#28995067) Attached to: Finding New and Unintended Ways of Playing Games

Ever played Super Mario Bros.? In this video, the dude can live without knowing what lies behind the flagpole!

Comment Re:Success? (Score 1) 213

by Lawand on Friday July 24, 2009 @07:00PM (#28814209) Attached to: The Battle Between Purists and Pragmatists

Simply, you succeed when you reach the goal you had in your mind earlier.

Comment Re:Thats a mouthful (Score 1) 501

by Lawand on Thursday July 23, 2009 @05:52PM (#28800779) Attached to: Stroustrup Says New C++ Standard Delayed Until 2010 Or Later

How about C++++

Comment Knowledge and experience comes first (Score 2, Insightful) 399

by Lawand on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @02:36PM (#28185719) Attached to: What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use?

Due to the variety of types of errors and possible causes of data loss, I find that -throughout the recovery process- the more options you set by yourself (requiring knowledge and experience in hard drives and file systems) the more efficient the process is. So, no matter the tool you choose, try to provide as much info to the tool as possible, and don't rely on the software developer(s) to choose a best general case which will always work...

Comment Don't think so (Score 5, Interesting) 194

by Lawand on Saturday May 23, 2009 @02:32PM (#28068415) Attached to: Microsoft Blocks Messenger In Five Embargoed Countries

I don't think that MS really wants to lose tons of users, because I am from Syria and switching the country in my profile re-granted my access to the Messenger service.

Comment For some mysterious reason, (Score 1) 429

by Lawand on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @07:09PM (#27765727) Attached to: Microsoft To Disable Autorun

I got a feeling that ideas like this and like the "XP mode" are related to Bill Gates no longer being the CEO.

Comment Re:screenshots? (Score 1) 871

by Lawand on Friday April 24, 2009 @11:34AM (#27702463) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X

They say that a word is worth a thousand pictures. Wait

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