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Windows Vista is Microsoft’s current flagship operating system for consumers. The operating system launched in late November for OEMs and was released to consumers on January 30.
Microsoft has long-touted the operating system as a revolutionary product for desktops and notebooks — a product that would leave no consumers longing for the […]

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Intel’s largest architecture overhaul in decades is less than a year away
It wasn’t that long ago that predictions of doom and gloom pinned Intel between a rock and a hard place.  The company’s NetBurst architecture didn’t scale and its Itanium architecture didn’t sell; it looked as if for the first time in history, Moore’s Law […]

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AMD today updated its roadmap with another multi-core processor, to slot between its dual and quad-core processors – Phenom triple-core processors. The new Phenom triple-core processors feature three processing cores on a single die and based on AMD’s Barcelona architecture, which launched last week in Opteron form.
The new triple-core processors will feature similar specifications as […]

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After the merger between Compiz and Beryl, a new windows manager is re-born! It was named CompComm at first but changed to Compiz Fusion later (for the better!). With the two together, you can expect the best! And the best windows effect (in my opinion) is slowly showing in their updates/plugins, almost to industry/professional level. […]

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(AMD’s New Barcelona architecture) 
AMD today announced its new x86-instruction set to improve performance in everyday computing tasks and applications – SSE5. AMD’s new SSE5 instruction set aims to improve performance in high-performance computing, or HPC, multimedia and security applications.
The new SSE5 instructions are available to developers today, but will not make it into AMD products […]

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Unlike some of the previous threads, this is fairly a simple process which is absolutely easy for even beginners. First, you’ll need to choose a program which can burn CDs on Ubuntu. By default, Ubuntu does not come with a CD/DVD burner software. There are a few reputable ones out there (for example, Gnomemaker) but […]

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