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Comment Re:BSOD (Score 1) 725

by Gentlewhisper on Thursday December 18, 2008 @05:58PM (#26165967) Attached to: British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows

Ockham's Razor: "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." Heinlein's Razor: "Do not attribute to malice what could be more easily explained by stupidity" Gillette's Razor: "The closest a man can get"

Comment Re:They make pills for that... (Score 1) 379

by Gentlewhisper on Thursday July 24, 2008 @04:39AM (#24315869) Attached to: Ubuntu Is Hyper-Active At OSCON

www.vmware.com Next?

Submission + - DirectX10 drops Hardware Acceleration for Audio.

Submitted by

shrewd

on Sunday February 11, 2007 @06:42AM

shrewd writes: ""Imagine your surprise when you fire up one of your favourite games in Vista — say World of Warcraft or Prey — only to find your fancy EAX-endowed soundcard and 5.1 surround speakers are dribbling out flat, unenhanced stereo sound. Then, in a vain attempt to spruce up the audio by enabling EAX, you get a nice taut error message saying EAX is not detected on your hardware. What's going on? Welcome to the world of Vista audio. And a brave new world it is.""

Submission + - 7 reasons to use Windows Vista in a SMB environmen

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 11, 2007 @06:27AM

An anonymous reader writes: A blog asks the question if you should use Windows Vista or not — and answers it with a yes.

The Article shows 7 reasons why you should adopt Windows Vista, while mentioning that Vista isn't a revolution, but just a natural progression of Windows development. The focus is on the SMB market, ignoring home users and enterprise users altogether.

Submission + - Capitol Records must pay DebbieFoster's Legal Fees

Submitted by

TechForensics

on Sunday February 11, 2007 @04:23AM

TechForensics writes: "From a Wired article at http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200702080 21454284, it seems that the RIAA has finally bitten the big one in its headlong and heedless push to crush the life out of the meaning of our copyright laws: Capitol records has been ordered to PAY ATTORNEYS' FEES to Debbie Foster for refusing to relinquish its "untried and untested" theory of vicarious copyright liability, nameley, that a householder is on the hook for infringements conducted from the household, regardless of who may have performed them. Is this the beginning of the end of **AA brutality?"

Journal Journal: Spotlight Upgrades in Leopard 356

Journal by anaesthetica on Sunday February 11, 2007 @03:26AM

Mac OS 10.5 Leopard is set to feature several new enhancements to Spotlight, Apple's desktop search, according to ComputerWorld. These include searching across multiple networked Macs, parental search snooping, server spotlight indexing, boolean search, (sorely needed) better application launching, and quick look previews.

Dell Laptop Burns House Down 405

Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 11, 2007 @12:48AM from the dude dept.

Nuclear Elephant writes "The Consumerist is running a story about a house burned down by a Dell laptop. 'My 130-year-old former farm house was engulfed in flames, with thick dark smoke pouring out of the windows and roof... Hours later, after investigation the fire marshal investigator took me aside asked me if I had a laptop computer. Yes — I told him I had a Dell Inspiron 1200.' It was determined that the laptop, battery, or cord malfunctioned after its owner left for work, leaving the fire to spread through the entire house. All attempts to contact Dell have failed. 'I have tried to call Dell to at least notify them of my problems, but each time I have called I get transferred into an endless loop of "Joe" or "Alan" all speaking a delectable version of English I presume emanates from Bangalore. I have been outright hung up on each time I get someone who speaks a reasonable version of English, or sounds like they might be in charge of something. Promises of call backs have gone, of course, unreturned.'"

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