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Can BootCamp mess with your Mac's PRAM?

Can BootCamp mess with your Mac's PRAM?Not seeing thisI have not seen this on any of my Intel Macs. I have also not seen an issue reported with having Windows on a FAT32 drive and not showing up in the boot manager. Shows up fine for me (option key at...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, PERIOD!!! BootCamp, Bootcamp, Apple Macintosh, PRAM, Apple Mac OS X, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-08

Can BootCamp mess with your Mac's PRAM?

A continuing thread in an Apple discussion board says that Windows running in the Boot Camp utility can sometimes "pervert" certain settings stored in the Intel-Mac's parameter RAM and interfere with video when rebooting into Mac OS X. Here's the description of the problem by Coelacanth64, who...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Video, Computer, PRAM, Corporate Communications, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Marketing, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Perfect RAM flash memory opens the way to faster devices

Perfect RAM flash memory opens the way to faster devicesLooks good but...[b]PRAM has greater read/write lifespan, by up to 10 times![/b]I will take this part with a grain of salt. When CD-R's first came out they touted something like a 100 year life span, then backpedaled and said it was...

Tags: Memory, PRAM, flash memory, Perfect RAM flash memory, Perfect RAM

Discussion threads 2006-09-12

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News to know: AMD; IT spending; Google; Microsoft Mesh; ULPCs

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Google App Engine: When will Microsoft field a competitor? Garett Rogers: Google announces App Engine: Should Amazon worry? Michael Krigsman: Heathrow T5 failure: What really happened Larry Dignan: AMD: Sales weak; Layoffs on tap ...

Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Jason O'Grady, IT-spending, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Printers, Fuel Cells, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Bad Leopard, bad!

Bad Leopard, bad!RE: Bad Leopard, bad!stick with Tiger!quickSilver works perfect for me...not sure what version i'm on but i'm pretty sure it's the latest- can't use my miglia AlchemyTV DVR though since it uses the APE GUI enhancements software... my update went fine even without removing this software... miglia says...

Tags: Firewalls, Desktops, SECURITY, OSX, Leopard

Discussion threads 2007-11-02

Viacom sues GooTube for $1Billion

In what could be described as throwing its toys out of the pram, Viacom has slapped Google with a $1Billion law suit, accusing Google-owned YouTube of "massive intentional copyright infringement". In addition to compensation, Viacom has asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for an...

Tags: Google, Video Sharing, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-03-13

Adobe, Symantec ask EU to ban Vista bundling

Adobe, Symantec ask EU to ban Vista bundlingAnd, why is MS afraid to compete on the merits? Could it be they don'thave a product that could dislodge the current players without bundling? Kind of like the browser when they realized that they needed to leverage Windows to dislodge Netscape. Well,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Adobe PDF, Adobe Systems Inc., Symantec Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-09-21

Perfect RAM flash memory opens the way to faster devices

Yesterday Samsung announced a working prototype of what it calls Phase-change Random Access Memory PRAM flash memory, nicknamed "Perfect RAM", amid claims that they expect PRAM to replace high-density NOR flash memory within a decade. The prototype has a capacity of 512 Mbit (64MB) so it doesn't represent any kind...

Tags: Memory, Phase-change Random Access Memory, flash memory, Perfect RAM

Blog posts 2006-09-12

Will the Apple corps follow?

Will the Apple corps follow?They will get over it.Do you think they went quietly when Apple hooked up with IBM after Jobs spent so much time and money telling everyone that IBM was the evil big brother?I refuse to get over it.This is the biggest slap in the face from...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Jobs & Co., Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2005-06-07