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Some of my past HOW-TOs (Fiesty & Dapper) on desktop eye candy effects are based on Ubuntu distros. With the release of ATI´s new driver and Gutsy, installing desktop effects on Ubuntu is now a breeze for ATI users!
Fedora 8 (released early this month) included desktop effects in their distro package, similar to what Ubuntu´s […]

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A Canadian computer science grad is mapping the way the human brain works to technology that will power a search engine for visual images to be launched mid next year.
The University of Ottawa said master’s student Kris Woodbeck was working with the government’s Technology Transfer and Business Enterprise (TTBE) office to secure a patent on […]

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Madison (WI) - A national telephone survey of American households, compared with a sampling of 363 leading nanotechnology scientists, has revealed an interesting factoid:  scientists are more concerned over the potential health and environmental hazards from nanotechnology than are regular citizens.  Are their concerns justified?
The study, published last Friday in the Nature Nanotechnology journal, is […]

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An expert has released a proof-of-concept program to show how easy it would be for criminals to eavesdrop on the VoIP-based phone calls of any company using the technology.  
Called SIPtap, the software is able to monitor multiple Voice-over-IP (VoIP) call streams, listening in and recording them for remote inspection as .wav […]

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Ninety percent of 961 IT professionals surveyed said they have concerns about migrating to Vista and more than half said they have no plans to deploy Vista.
“The concerns about Vista specified by participants were overwhelmingly related to stability. Stability in general was frequently cited, as well as compatibility with the business software that would […]

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After Hotmail increased its storage limit to 5GB last August and Yahoo claims that it is offering unlimited e-mail storage, Google seems to be somewhat overtaken as the e-mail provider with the best e-mail storage capacity. Once considered the best e-mail provider for online storage of archives, it was loosing its place at the top.
However, […]

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Despite the long wait for the release of Windows Vista early this year, it came (not surprisingly) with numerous bugs that needed immediate attention. Some bugs were glaringly disgusting while others aren’t easily seen.
Mircosoft released its Service Pack 1 beta to a selected number of testers late last September. This update fixed most of the […]

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Pittsburgh (PA) - Penn State University professor of electrical engineering, Mohsen Kavehrad, has been researching the possibility of transmitting extremely high speed data over copper.  He’s looking at 100 Gigabits per second on Category-7 wire at distances in excess of 100 meters.  Imagine a home or office network using inexpensive copper, one that could transmit […]

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As more sophisticated tools for traffic shaping are unveiled, the question soon becomes which service providers aren’t throttling customer traffic

Adding itself to the small-but-growing list of ISPs that admit to traffic shaping, Canada-based Bell Simpatico has confessed to using “traffic management” on heavy users “during peak hours.”
“We are now using a Internet Traffic Management […]

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Nissan is truly doing wonderful things in the automotive arena. The company recently unveiled its highly-anticipated 2009 GT-R. The vehicle pumps out an impressive 473 HP and an equally impressive 434 lb-ft of torque from its twin-turbocharged 3.8-liter V6 engine.
Now that development is winding down for what is likely Nissan’s most advanced road car ever, […]

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