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Sorry for the slow delay on my blog for tech feeds as I've just started work and not much time to Digg. If you would want to see what I digg from time to time, here's my digg profile:

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I promise that I'll get back as soon as possible

Beginners Guide to Linux Desktops

So you use Linux, but have you ever used a different desktop environment than the default? Surprisingly, there are too many to even count, but we are taking a look at a few of the most popular and explain advantages of each one.

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Firefox 2.0.0.1 Final is here!

Firefox 2.0.0.1 Final - The award-winning, free Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence - Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It's easy to import your favorites and settings and get started. Download Firefox now and get the most out of the Web.

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Review: NVIDIA GeForce 8800

A few short weeks ago, NVIDIA unveiled the GeForce 8800 series of graphics cards and the nForce 600 family of core logic chipsets on the very same day. The flagship parts in each of these product categories, the GeForce 8800 GTX and the nForce 680i SLI, made the basis of what NVIDIA has dubbed their "Ultimate Gaming Platform".

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Ubuntu: Features vs. Freedom

Jono Bacon, official Ubuntu Community Manager, speaks out about the debate about the inclusion of binary graphics drivers by default for desktop bling. Spoken by a truly honest and respectable guy, he brings some sanity back to the discussion.

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Do I need the processes running on my PC?

This freeware has all the answers... download, scan and get all the details in one page! bye bye ugly task manager. Never seen anything like it.

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Trying to understand the situation

It has been very hard to get an ISP (Internet Service Provider) in my country to fix the problem that I’ve been facing for about half a year. High latency problems, traffic shaping (wouldn’t blame them as the trunk to other links may be too small for the country itself) and a lot of complications between the user and the service provider.

Everybody has been talking about Quality of Service (QoS) that this particular ISP is serving. Is it poor? Is it good? Or is it just average? I’ve asked myself that questions many times just to see how good it is. As of 6 months ago, I’ve willingly comply with the high latency matters. But it was not solved until recently for a short while. And then, it just came back on! I was wondering, “What happened to the fix?” With that, I waited for a few weeks more and I couldn’t bare it anymore. I rang them up at their Customer Service hotline and asked to speak to a supervisor so that I can get stuffs to the higher levels.

In fact they did. Thank you for once. And one of their higher level teams did ring me up. As what I’ve told them, I’m a UNIX user (Linux in particular) and I’m also a Windows XP user. I asked them about a lot of questions, telling them all the information that I could supply them. I won’t deny that they have to do traffic shaping but high latency has been a major problem to me. As they have told me, traffic shaping may not come off or it might just come off in about 5 years time.

A little sidetracking. Tech in my country has never been a very good industry. It is sometimes influenced by money, mostly politics and also economics of the country. Part of the reason why they took up traffic shaping is that broadband penetration is only about 20+% of the population in my country.

Back to what I was talking about earlier. I’ve forgotten about getting traffic shaping and taken it out of my mind. But sometimes when it comes a time I want to get a certain file fast out of P2P (legit files), I really want them fast and I really want to utilize the bandwidth that I’m leased to (1.5Mbps, it’s slow, I know). Time to forget about that.

Moving on, lately, I’ve been trying out some stuff to overcome traffic shaping for this particular ISP. Tried proxy, worked for a while, tried encryption, didn’t work at all, and I’m thinking of SSH tunneling! WHAT AM I THINKING OF!? Is that really necessary? But I’ve just rang them up again, threatening them that I would tunnel their server for bandwidth. And I’m still wondering if it works. I do hope that they respond.

What do you think? Should I really go through what I’m sitting through now? Or should I just send them a lawsuit claiming for compensation? And should I send them a lawsuit for controlling an honest user? Who do torrent for legit files such as Linux distributions? And also legal podcasting items? Here’s more information. I’ve not been able to any of my subscribed podcast ever since that problem. Should there be any readers our there who are working with other ISPs, place get in touch with me, I’m trying to understand the situation. Just leave a comment and I’ll get back to you. If it’s possible, e-mail me, and I’ll get back to you privately.

dd - the most useful command in Linux

This tutorial describes to you the gazillion uses for dd - it's more useful than you think.

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100 Keyboard shortcuts (Windows)

Title says it all =)

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Firefox Reaches 25% Market Share

According to these stats across over 4,000 websites, one in four web users browses with Firefox.

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Sweet hack for FF and IE users. Make web pages load much faster.

Make web pages load lightning fast.. A must-see tweak for Firefox and Internet Explorer users. Most browsers are configured for dial-up.. Tweak the settings to boost surfing speeds and minimize page load times...

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How to enable DVD playback : Ubuntu

DVD playback is not a feature that is installed by default due to license restrictions. In my opinion the restriction is stupid, very restrictive and violates my rights (of course I am not a lawyer so don
’t listen to my rants.) This tutorial will show you how to install DVD playback capability on your Ubuntu linux machine.

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Intel vs AMD - Integrated Graphics Shoot-Out

Who's best for games - and Windows Vista?

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Open source is where the action is in 2007

The pace of change in the open source software business is likely to accelerate in 2007 as developers climb up the software stack from the operating system and databases to applications.

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Metal Gear Solid 4 - another LOST PS3 exclusive, coming to Xbox 360!

Straight from a dev source on the game, MGS4: Guns of the Patriots will be hitting 360 a few months after the PS3 version, simply because Konami doesn't believe there'll be enough consoles out there. Blu Ray diode failure appears to be the issue that publishers believe hinders market penetration.

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5 Things You Can Do With Old Hard Drives

Projects include: a Hard Drive Speaker, Tesla Turbine, Hard Driver Domonoes, HDD Grinder, and a Hard Drive Computer Case

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New logo for Mozilla Firefox browser.

Proposal for new Mozzilla Firefox logo is really nice. Check this out !.

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Henry Gomez is new CEO of Skype!

The eBay makeover of Skype is complete. Henry Gomez, a former eBay executive and a veteran marketing professional is the new chief of Skype. He takes over from Alex Kazim1, till recently the president of Skype.

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Mark Cuban Suggests How to Kill the iTunes Store

Cuban wants Google or Microsoft to offer the music industry more than they earn from Apple's online music store. Then he thinks GOOG or MSFT should just give the music away and make money on the ads. Crazy? Or what the Industry should have done six years ago when 80 million people were using Napster?

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Thunderbird 2.0 beta 1 Reviewed

Mozilla has released the first beta for version 2.0 of its popular email client, Thunderbird. The initial release is still a little rough around the edges, but it boasts a host of promising new features.

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Ars Technica's first look at Firefox 3.0

The recent release of Firefox 3.0 Alpha 1 provides insight into the future of the popular open source web browser. With the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine, Firefox 3 now leverages the powerful Cairo vector drawing library and passes the Acid 2 test.

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AMD On Track For Shift To 45-Nano Manufacturing

Last manufacturing switch took 26 months, but at least one analyst says AMD will make its current deadline.

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Mac Sales 4X faster than Global PC Market; closing in on 3rd Place in U.S.

Apple's Macintosh unit sales are growing more than four times faster than the global PC market and have Apple closing in on 3rd place in the U.S. PC market. While iPod sales contribute nearly 40% of Apple's revenue, Mac sales still kick in more than half, which means the product's renewed vigor is goosing Apple's sales and bottom line.

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Netherlands pulls plug on analog tv, first nation to switch to digital only

Dutch government will save around $14 million annually from the switch, the cost it used to pay to broadcast the free antenna service that was used by only 74,000 households. In US, whose digital target is 2009, about 21 million people use antenna service, & another 20 million would need digital converters. I say bring on IPTV!

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Deck the halls with... WiFi blocking decorations?

"That's the word from AirMagnet, Inc., a company that develops and sells WiFi networking analysis and troubleshooting tools. The company says that it monitored office WiFi health before and after holiday decorations were deployed, and their survey found that Old Saint Nick has some splainin' to do."

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New SVG Features in Firefox 3 Alpha

Tim Rowley, SVG developer in Mozilla, updates us on the latest new features in Firefox 3, including rendering performance enhancements, vector-based printing output, better standards support, etc.

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Ubuntu: King of Distros for 2006

"According to Google Trends, but also according to Distrowatch, our own statistics here at OSNews and overall sense of the industry during 2006, Ubuntu has a big leap in mind share ahead of its competition."

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Mozilla Ships Alpha Release of Firefox 3.0

Mozilla today hit an early milestone on the road to the next version of its open-source browser, but the final product is still a year away, developers say.

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A helpful HDTV chart: Viewing distance to screen size

Some people can take advantage of the extra lines of resolution but sometimes, it's an unnecessary cost. Simply locate your viewing distance on the right hand side and screen size on the bottom, connect the two lines and bam, your optimal screen resolution.

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Mozilla commits to collaborating with Linux distros

The foundation says it will work directly with representatives of all interested Linux distributions to manage patches, create distro-specific packages, and make collective decisions on policy.

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Firefox use continues to rise in Europe

According to research, the browser is now used by some 23.2 per cent of European PC web surfers - up from 19.4% in April. A detailed percentage-by-country map is at the link.

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Firefox use continues to rise in Europe

According to research, the browser is now used by some 23.2 per cent of European PC web surfers - up from 19.4% in April. A detailed percentage-by-country map is at the link.

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Optimus Keyboard Goes Back To Color

The team scrapped the black and white release to instead wait to release in full color. The team will concentrate on making a color Optimus-103 with OLEDs.

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Super Mario 3 Stop-Motion Video Made From LEGOS!

I originally found this through WIRED's Game|Life blog by Chris Kohler: http://blog.wired.com/games/2006/12/
stopmotion_lego.html#comments. Chris writes, "Reader Jaime Wells sends along some stop-motion recreations of video games made with Lego blocks. I think I may have linked the Donkey Kong animation here before, but I'd never seen Metroid."

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Microsoft Kills Front Page

According to FrontPage
’s own home page, “After nine years of being an award-winning Web authoring tool, FrontPage will be discontinued in late 2006.” -quote from dvorak.org
This comes as microsoft prepares to release its vista operating system along with office 2007, o well for microsoft's attempt at html editing

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Boot MacOS X86 from USB Pendrive

Have you ever dreamed about carrying in your pocket,
your favorite OSx86 install. And boot it everywhere.
When dreams come true... Full tutorial @ MacGeek's blog :-)

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How Microsoft fights off 100,000 attacks per month...

Microsoft may be the biggest target out there for hackers. Here's what the company does to protect itself from the continuous onslaught of probes and intrusion attempts.

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Want To Save Money On A High-End Laptop? Buy A Mac

"If you're like me you've probably always heard Apple Macs carried a price premium over machines from companies such as Dell. I decided to put that belief to the test by comparing the prices on two similarly configured notebook computers."

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Which Blank DVDs Should I Buy?

Ever wonder who actually makes the blank media that HP, Imation, or Memorex sells? What are the best brands for archival? It's all right here in this handy list along with the % reliability of each.

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Pirates crack Vista Activation Server

Pirates have released another ingenious workaround to Vista's copy protection: a hacked copy of Microsoft's yet-to-be-released volume licencing activation server, running in VMware.

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Disney's "Pirates" sells 5 Million DVDs the first day. Good News for Apple?

Movie studios are thought to share the opinion that downloadable movies means the death of DVDs and their profit margins, However, “Pirates” is available at retailers as a DVD purchase and on the iTunes store. Apple could use this success in negotiations with other movie studios, showing them that downloads and DVDs can coexist

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Xbox 360 VS. PS3: Graphics Comparison

You'd think that the PS3 versions would be exactly the same or slightly better than the Xbox 360 versions, since many of these games appeared on the 360 months ago, but it seems like developers didn't use the extra time to polish up the graphics for the PS3. We found that the 360 actually had better graphics in the majority of the games compared.

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Major labels beginning to offer DRM-free MP3 sales

After years of selling online music digitally wrapped with copy and playback restrictions designed to hinder piracy, major music labels are beginning to make some songs available in the unrestricted MP3 file format.

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Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Alpha (Today Released) Screenshots Gallary

here you go Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Alpha (Today Released) Screenshots Gallary and small bug screenshot

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Clear Your Windowsxp Memory With A Single Click!

Tired of running a slow WindowsXP? Create this shortcut to clear your memory with 1 Click! easy, useful and handy. You'll be done in seconds...!

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HOW TO - Build your own Laptop Watercooler

While most people's response to an overheating laptop would naturally be to send it in for repairs, Instructables member "Jack Ruby" decided to do things a little differently and take matters into his own hands, creating a water cooling system that is at once highly impractical and oh so right.

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Gmail now open. No invitation or cell registration required.

I know most diggers probably already have Gmail accounts but still this is news. Gmail is no more closed beta. Anyone can now signup with no need to invitations or cell registration. And yes, this is not Google Accounts registartion. It's the real thing.

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The BEST GADGETS of 2006

CrunchGear’s editors searched far and wide for the best gadgets of 2006. We
’ve included devices from our own pages and some things we picked up over the year that made us smile. Read on for everything we loved this year.

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Samsung's All White Apple Style LCD Reviewed

The Samsung SyncMaster 960BF is an all white 19 inch LCD monitor. The panel sports a 4ms pixel response time and 700:1 contrast ratio. This colour scheme is reminiscent of a Mac Mini , and this monitor along with a Mac keyboard and mouse would like quite nice next to such a unit..

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AMD in chip top 10 for first time

AMD can kiss goodbye to its scrappy underdog status after forcing its way into the world chip rankings top 10 for the first time...

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Ten things to consider before taking the Vista plunge

While Windows Vista is now available for big businesses, organizations vary widely in their plans for adopting the new operating system.

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Consumers warned about no-swipe credit cards

No-swipe credit cards that use radio waves to relay their data put consumers at increased risk of identity theft, Sen. Charles Schumer said Sunday.

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Yahoo to launch brand sites with mixed content from delicio.us, Flickr, etc

If you like the Wii, you
’ll love Yahoo’s new Wii portal, which aggregates Flickr photos, games, avatars with custom Wii gear, links from del.icio.us and MyWeb, stories from Yahoo’s Games section, Wii-related questions from Yahoo Answers and links to buy consoles and games on Yahoo Shopping. It’s the first of many sites in Yahoo’s "brand universe"

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AMD's QuadFX (a.k.a. 4x4) disappoints

The reviews are in, and 4x4 doesn't look so hot. Ars Technica takes a close look at the results, and talk about what went wrong.

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Wanna find a linux equivalent to a windows app!?

Database of popular windows apps and their linux equivalent

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