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- Dell's Throttlegate: Is a defect turning a 2.2GHz CPU into 100MHz?
- Dell = Junk always has always will beJust return it and get another computer from a vendor that does not sell junk. Ie: not Dell.RE: Dell's Throttlegate: Is a defect turning a 2.2GHz CPU into 100MHz?I am glad this was posted! I have had an E6400 since June, and...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Dell Computer Corp., Throttlegate, Is-a, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- New ransomware attack blocks Internet access
- If the user accepted the EULA then I guess it's all legal, right?If the EULA says the software demands payment then the user has no option but pay.Wait, a virus blocks itself from transmitting?LOL, and I thought only ISPs blocked your network access if you were infected.Not trueKaspersky and Mcaffee...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Internet access, attack, Linux, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6 beta 4 (Mac)
- Firefox 3.6 Beta is built on Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run on small...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Firefox, Beta, Mozilla Corp., Firefox 3.6 Beta, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows CE, Channel Management, Internet, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- Exploit published for critical IE 7 zero-day flaw
- Do you mean:"The vulnerability was confirmed on fully patched Windows XP SP3 systems with Internet Explorer 6 and [b]7[/b]."Also how effective is the exploit with Protected Mode and limited user account usage? I'd like to see more information on how these two mitigation techniques work against exploits. I suspect the...
- Tags: Web browsers, EXPLORER, Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Internet Explorer, critical IE 7 zero-day flaw, IE 7 zero-day flaw, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, zero-day bug, exploit
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Gateway DX4822-01
- Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.Although we weren't fans of Gateway's midrange Gateway DX4300-03, the $520 DX4822-01 makes a more convincing argument with budget-minded features like a spacious hard...
- Tags: Video cards, DVD, Consumer electronics, Semiconductors, Processors, Gateway Inc., Intel Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-11-20
- Which antivirus is best at removing malware?
- Run a Linux distro or a MacIt is funny, when you 'weld' a web_browserinto an operating system and viruses/worms/malware/trojans and spyware come in from outside sources it is amazing how insecureit makes an Operating System.Say what you will, Linux distro's power theInternet with Bind dns, dhcp, routers/switchesand they do not...
- Tags: Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, MSE, antivirus, operating system, malware, Linux Distro, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Two Views of the Software Market
- A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...
- Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- DateControl 3.8 (Mac)
- The DateControl is a REALbasic control plugin to create a Date-picker. The Control is displayed according to control panel date settings, or in exclusive mm.dd.yyyy, exclusive dd.mm.yyyy or exclusive SQL format mode. "NULL" dates or what some would call no selection is supported. The control uses Native Windows control on...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Einhugur Software, DateControl, Control, Apple Mac OS, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-04
- Windows 7 reliability scorecard - looking good!
- It's very easy to keep reliability highwhen you change very little but what's on the surface. It's like an automobile say a Corvette that changes the body style every two years, but the same small block V8 for the most part has been in use for over 50 years. Very...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Can Linux beat the bloat
- I think the whole "bloated" thing is hogwash.There's no such thing.Neither Windows nor Linux are "bloated". Nor is OS/X. You want functionality you have to pay for it. One man's lean and mean is another man's anemic.Functionality simply isn't free.How many lines of code did USB take? How about multi-threading?...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu 9.04, Linux, Ubuntu, OS/X, Linus, bloat, kernel, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- Google Chrome Frame ... Chrome performance for IE users!
- Global governments should move this forwardGlobal governments should take the lead, to promote open web standards, by requiring all government agencies still utilizing IE to install this plug-in (or alternatively, upgrade to a modern web browser).This would:1. Bring government browsers into compliance, with the latest modern web standards.2. Increase agency...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Chrome, Web browser, IE Users, Chrome performance, Web, performance, Google Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- EC reveals details of Intel antitrust breaches
- investigation should be expandedThis does not surprises anyone since Inhell had M$ as a mentor.I'm wondering if M$ had sabotaged AMD too, through delays and poor code quality on AMD systems.here we go aggainOnce aggain MS haters launch another crusade aggainst their percived devil.... regardless of the fact that the...
- Tags: Corporate law, Intel Corp., Intel antitrust, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., antitrust, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- CyberMotion 3D-Designer 14 (Windows)
- CyberMotion 3D-Designer is an integrated 3D-graphics program for modeling, animating and rendering photorealistic 3D-scenes, terrains and characters. It features a vast number of 3D modeling tools, a landscape designer including complex atmospheres, 3D-fonts, subdivision surfaces and boolean operations, hierarchical animation, inverse kinematics, skeletal deformation skin and bones, global illumination rendering...
- Tags: 3D, Microsoft Windows, Reinhard Epp Software, CyberMotion 3D-Designer, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2009-09-16
- Blender 2.49b (Windows)
- Blender is the open-source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. It is available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.Mostly a bug-fixing release, but it also adds a few new features like subsurface scattering SSS support and two new composite nodes....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Blender, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-09-03
- 10 Windows XP services you should never disable
- Guest post from TechRepublic's 10 Things blog. There are dozens of guides out there that help you determine which services you can safely disable on your Windows XP desktop. Disabling unnecessary services can improve system performance and overall system security, as the system’s...
- Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Service, Computer, Network Connections Service, Play, Network Location Awareness Service, Productivity, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Der Frankenputer: A Last Hurrah at System Building
- It all started with two extra Opteron CPUs and RAM and a bunch of hard drives which I had lying around, that mushroomed into a Build-Your-Own monster PC project. Like a modern day Victor von Frankenstein, who digs up bodies in graveyards in order to bring his...
- Tags: PC, AMD Opteron, Amazon.com Inc., Power Supply, CPU, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- VR-Render 0.8 (Mac)
- A medical image viewer freeware. It is an interactive system for planar and volume visualization which enables practitioners to quickly explore and analyze 3D medical or scientific data on a standard PC (Windows, Linux, MacosX). This software uses fast OpenGL graphics (ATI/NVidia) and is able to load a series of...
- Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Image Processing, Tool, IRCAD, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management
- Software downloads 2009-07-01
- VR-Render (Windows) 0.8 (Windows)
- A medical image viewer freeware. It is an interactive system for planar and volume visualization which enables practitioners to quickly explore and analyze 3D medical or scientific data on a standard PC (Windows, Linux, MacosX). This software uses fast OpenGL graphics (ATI/NVidia) and is able to load a series of...
- Tags: Image Processing, Tool, IRCAD, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Management
- Software downloads 2009-07-01
- Why is there no Windows 7 E upgrade for Europe?
- Why is there no Windows 7 E upgrade for Europe?Can't blame Microsoft for doing what the EC wanted. ntntRE: Why is there no Windows 7 E upgrade for Europe?And this is the impact of the supposedly "consumer protecting" EC. Way to go EC, you just forced us to buy...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Windows 7 E, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- More questions (and even a few answers) about Windows 7 E
- More questions and even a few answers about Windows 7 E"What else are you interested in knowing about Windows 7 E?"Of course, the main question is, who will ever see this version? The EU threw a hissy about MP a few years ago, and insisted on a version of...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 E, More Questions, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-06-18
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