Go green: Energy-cutting apps for your PC
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- Go green: Energy-cutting apps for your PC
- Dead PC tycoon’s estate eaten up by credit card debts
- Mac v PC: it’s pistols at dawn
- Congress to probe P2P sites over ‘inadvertent sharing’
- AMD says “Fusion” chip looks good but is 2011 too late?
- Linux Migration for the Home PC User Part 1
- What racle Sees in Sun
Go green: Energy-cutting apps for your PC
CNET News
com%2F8301-11128_3-10214315-54. html Earth Day may or may not appeal to your eco-conscience but keeping the reins steady on your computer’s carbon footprint and energy consumption makes good technological and financial sense. Reducing your energy output can prolong the life of your hardware–especially a. This collection of environmentally friendly software lassos together these apps plus a few others to help understand and appreciate our planet’s cities flora and outer space neighbors.
Dead PC tycoon’s estate eaten up by credit card debts
Register
?Forsyth ? who had remarried and been using the name Peytchev-Forsyth since his release from prison in 2006 ? had been jailed for his part in the collapse of Personal Computer Science (PCS) which crashed in 1999. In 2001 Forsyth fled the UK eventually being extradited from Australia to serve his sentence. Forsyth had left a trail of destruction through the PC industry of the late 1980s and 1990s with the collapse of a string of companies ? an Edinburgh Apricot Computerworld franchise PC makers Northern Technology Systems (NTS) East Lothian-based PC vendor Multiplex which collapsed in the mid-1990s and finally Yorkshire-based PC-builder Personal Computer Science (PCS) which imploded in 1999. He used the companies as ?cash cows? to fund a high-rolling lifestyle that included a string of classic cars and a yacht. Had Forsyth lived he would have inherited the title Baron Ethie and feudal rights to a large estate in Scotland which will now pass to his brother. Charles Forsyth was married twice and had three sons by his first marriage.
Mac v PC: it’s pistols at dawn
Brisbane Times
Microsoft clearly hates and hasbeen damaged by those devilishly clever Apple TV ads (. It was airedonly once but has lived on in YouTube (.
Congress to probe P2P sites over ‘inadvertent sharing’
CNET News
House of Representatives has reopened a probe of Lime Wire and other peer-to-peer file-sharing companies over the issue of “inadvertent sharing. ” The move comes nearly two months after it was alleged that Iran took advantage of a computer security breach to obtain information about President Barack bama’s helicopter.
AMD says “Fusion” chip looks good but is 2011 too late?
ZDNet
These are all designed for mainstream notebooks though Llano which will have up to four CPU cores will also be used in mainstream desktops. AMD currently manufactures desktop and server chips at 45nm but it has not yet released a 45nm mobile processor. By reducing the complexity of PC designs these APUs should enable computer makers to smaller and less-costly laptops and desktops. In theory by putting the CPU and GPU on the same chip you can also distribute computing tasks among the cores more efficiently–what Chekib alluded to as “the more interesting optimizations possible with the two different types of cores. ” Both Intel and Nvidia have made similar comments about the opportunities for “repartitioning” the work handled by CPUs and GPUs. Llano will arrive some five years after AMD closed its $5. 4 billion acquisition of ATI and immediately announced the Fusion project.
Linux Migration for the Home PC User Part 1
pen for Business
Could Linux on the desktop be right for you?A major element in understanding these users is realizing while they aren’t cheapskates they hope to minimize the investment of time and resources into their PCs. If it consumes too much it’s more trouble than it’s worth. There are trade offs involved but the most important thing to understand is the computer is just a tool not the central function not even a hobby. This is no place for purists and zealots. Nor will this series be of much use to those who must run specialized applications on those computers. The primary use pattern is common documents standard communications and research with a minor concern for mere entertainment. Why would you consider migrating from Windows to Linux? In my work as a volunteer computer service technician the one thing which finds traction is the impending death of XP.
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What racle Sees in Sun
BusinessWeek
The tension wasn’t lost on Sun’s new owner racle (RCL) which on Apr. 20 said it will purchase Silicon.
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