Articles Archive for April 2008

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1
Posted in Uncategorized on 22 April 2008

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the first Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release. Among these is the incredibly fast package management (libzypp), KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.3, GNOME 2.22.1, a beautiful new installer, installable live CDs and much more.
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Half-life (orange box) being ported to Linux?
Posted in Uncategorized on 22 April 2008

title says it all folks, someone claiming to be a valve employee entered #ubuntu-offtopic looking for win->linux porters, just directed them to job description and asked them to email valve, jobdescription: http://www.valvesoftware.com/job-SenSoftEngineer.html
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Tags: digg, game, games, job, Linux, mail, nix, orange box, Red, series, Software, Ubuntu, UNIX, wordpress, X

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The 500,000 GB MP3 Player
Posted in Uncategorized on 22 April 2008

Scientists at the University of Glasgow have created a nanotechnology breakthrough that could increase storage capacity by 150,000 times. It could mean 500,000 GB on a single chip and inch square.
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Tags: Chip, digg, DIGITAL, gadget, gadgets, Hat, Mp3 player, news, scientists, storage, storage capacity, technology, Trend

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Intel cuts quad-core price by 50 percent
Posted in Uncategorized on 22 April 2008

Intel posted price cuts on Sunday that included reductions of 50 percent on select quad-core processors. The chipmaker also introduced new Celeron and Core 2 Duo processor models.
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Tags: Chip, Core, digg, Duo, Hat, Intel, NET, news, processor, Quad, Red

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Rack-Soft Announced a New Version of 4PSA Total Backup 2, the Popular Backup Solution for Parallels Plesk Servers
Posted in It news on 22 April 2008

April 22, 2008 - Rack-Soft launched today the latest version of the backup solution for Parallels Plesk. 4PSA Total Backup 2 is a Parallels Plesk add-on that automates the server backup processes and maximizes hosting server availability. This release of the popular 4PSA backup solution comes with new features and design enhancements oriented to improve [...]

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Ruckus Wireless Unveils Industry’s Simplest, Most Cost-Effective 802.11n SmartMesh™ Wireless LAN
Posted in It news on 22 April 2008

Plug-n-Play SmartMesh Technology Changes the Economics of Extended WLAN Deployments by Eliminating New Cabling and RF Planning Costs
SUNNYVALE, CA, April 21, 2008 – Ruckus Wireless today introduced the first Smart Wi-Fi meshing technology, called SmartMesh, which enables enterprises to deploy extensive wireless LANs (WLANs) in half the time at half the cost, and get three [...]

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The Power of SEO Ranking
Posted in Adsense on 21 April 2008

SEO ranking is the measure of how high a website is listed in search engines. The better your site is ranked, the higher you are listed and the more traffic you will receive.
If you do not improve your SEO ranking you are giving your competition a huge edge, as they are more than likely working [...]

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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition Released
Posted in Linux on 21 April 2008

LONDON, April 21, 2008 – Canonical Ltd. announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition for free download on Thursday 24 April. In related news, Canonical also announced the simultaneous release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition.
Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) provides a stable platform for software and hardware vendors, developers and [...]

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Is CAPTCHA Useful?
Posted in Security on 21 April 2008

CAPTCHA or the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart is widely advertised but one wonders if it is really useful or not. But, before we discuss its practical utility, let us see what CAPTCHA is all about. It is a test, which helps the computer to distinguish between machines and [...]

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Spyware versus Adware
Posted in Security on 21 April 2008

Have you ever had pop up after pop up on your computer screen? Or have you ever seen it happen on someone else’s? This is something that is happening everyday. What is it? It is either Adware or Spyware.
What is Spyware?
Spyware is a program that monitors or spies on what computer users do on their [...]

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