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Comment Volting! (Score 1) 377

by Darren Foong on Friday October 03, 2008 @01:46AM (#25242657) Attached to: Can Static Electricity Generate Votes?

Static electricity cannot generate volts!

How Kernel Hackers Boosted the Speed of Desktop Linux 380

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 02, 2008 @04:17PM from the mild-claims dept.

chromatic writes "Kernel hackers Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok showed off Linux booting in five seconds at last month's Linux Plumbers Conference. Arjan and other hackers have already improved the Linux user experience by reducing power consumption and latency. O'Reilly News interviewed him about his work on improving the Linux experience with PowerTOP, LatencyTOP, and Five-Second Boot."

How Aftermarket Inkjet Ink Holds Up After a Year 152

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @09:58AM from the or-lays-down dept.

An anonymous reader writes "About a year ago I found a link on here for a test of inkjet printer inks. The article compared original manufacturer inks against much cheaper third party stuff and the results were surprisingly in favour of third party products. They've now published the final part of this study, examining the prints produced a year ago. This time the printer manufacturers have come out far better, with some third party prints having disappeared completely! Cartridge World ink still seems worth a try though, if you don't want to pay manufacturers' inflated prices."

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