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Taiwanese integrator E-Way Technology Systems is shipping a tiny, 200MHz x86-compatible mini PC for $99, in single quantities. The TU-40 is passively cooled, comes with 128MB of RAM, and can run lightweight versions of Linux, such as Puppy, the company says.
The TU-40
E-Way says the TU-40 is suitable for use as a low-end embedded system, industrial controller, set-top box, or thin client. It could also be used in vertical applications, such as electronic signage and industrial control, the company suggests. Cost drops to $85 in large volumes, the company adds.
The TU-40 is based on an unspecified 200MHz processor said to be x86-compatible -- possibly an SiS550. It comes standard with 128MB of RAM, of which up to 8MB can be shared by the integrated graphics processor.
The TU-40, shown with optional serial ports and coax connector
I/O includes:
15-pin D-type female VGA connector
10/100 Ethernet
44-pin EIDE interface header
CompactFlash Type I/II slot
1 x front and 2 x rear USB ports
PS/2 keyboard and 6-pin mini-DIN mouse port
AMI BIOS
Battery-backed RTC (real-time clock)
AC-97 V2.1 compliant CODEC
MIC-in & line-out phone jacks
0 to 108 deg F (0 to 60 deg C) operating range
Additionally, the system is optionally available with pre-installed flash and microdrives, a mini-PCI slot, and an 802.11b/g WiFi module.
The TU-40 appears to be physically identical to another sub-$100 PC announced last month, and said to be capable of running Puppy -- NorhTec's MicroClient Jr. (pictured at right). However, the TU-40 has a 200MHz CPU, instead of the 166MHz CPU previously reported available in the NohrTec PC.
Like the MicroClient Jr., the TU-40 is housed in a tiny, square case 4.5 inches (11.5cm) to a side, and 1.4 inches (3.5cm) high. It weighs 1lbs., 2 ounces (500grams), draws up to 3 amps of 5-volt power, and comes with an AC adapter. The TU-40 system is CE and FCC certified, and complies with RoHS requirements, according to E-Way.
E-Way president Stephen Frieberger said that the company started six years ago, as an embedded Linux consultant to customers that included "the world's top three notebook manufacturers, the top two Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturers, the Taiwan Phone Company, and many top tier factories including Acer, Tatung, [and] Gigabyte, and even the Taiwan Air Force." The company developed its own embedded Linux kernel, Frieberger said, which can auto detect hardware and boot in about 25 seconds, while supporting systems as slow as 166MHz, with 64MB of RAM.
Availability
The TU-40 is available now, at $99 in single quantities, with pricing as low as $85 in larger quantities.
Source: linuxdevices.com
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QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt, .3gp and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages.
Features of QuickTime Alternative 1.81 :
- Media Player Classic [version 6.4.9.0 rev 611]: this is a full-featured player which has internal decoding support for DVD, MPEG-2, MP3, MP2, AAC, AC3 and DTS. It also has internal support for opening Matroska and Ogg containers. Media Player Classic is also capable of playing QuickTime and RealMedia content if those codecs are installed.
- QuickTime Codecs [version 7.1.6.200]: required for playing QuickTime content.
- QuickTime DirectShow filter: allows you to play QuickTime content in all DirectShow enabled players.
Without this filter QuickTime content can only be played in Media Player Classic.
- QuickTime plugin for Internet Explorer: allows you to view QuickTime content that is embedded in a webpage. It is installed together with the QuickTime codecs.
- QuickTime plugin for Opera/Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape: allows you to view QuickTime content that is embedded in a webpage.
- Extra plugins for QuickTime: plugins for viewing some special formats that are sometimes used on webpages.
- CoreAVC: is an external filter for Media Player classic
- CoreAAC: is an AAC DirectShow filter decoder based on FAAD2.
Features of QuickTime Alternative Lite 1.81 :
- QuickTime Codecs [version 7.1.6.200]
- QuickTime plugin for Internet Explorer
- QuickTime plugin for Opera/Mozilla/Netscape
- Extra plugins for QuickTime
- DirectShow MOV parser
- DirectShow QuickTime decoder wrapper
- CoreAVC
- CoreAAC
The only difference between the regular and lite versions is that the lite version does not include Media Player Classic.
Works only on Windows 2000/XP/2003/XP64/Vista.
Download QuickTime Alternative 1.81
Download: QuickTime Alternative Lite 1.81
Homepage: www.codecguide.com
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Windows Live Mail Desktop is an application that will let you get e-mail from multiple accounts in one place.
You can add multiple accounts, both Web-based ones (like MSN Hotmail, AOL and Gmail), and POP3- or IMAP-enabled accounts (the kind of e-mail you usually get on your desktop with an e-mail client like Microsoft Office Outlook).
Powerful security features will help protect you against junk e-mail, viruses, and fraudulent
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This is a very useful site. This may serve as an online dictionary where you can easily get the results about the topic you are searching for in less time.
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Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 Beta is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web. The Silverlight 1.0 Beta has a go-live license that implies it can be used for commercial purposes.
For Developers only: Download Silverlight 1.1 Alpha
Note: This is a pre-release version of Silverlight that developers can use for evaluation.
Silverlight 1.1 Alpha is intended for developers and designers interested in learning more about how to build experiences with Silverlight using both managed code and Microsoft JScript.
Both the Silverlight 1.0 Beta and Silverlight 1.1 Alpha are available for download at:
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Sorry! :angel:
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When you want to put a document online, or distribute it via e-mail, and you need it to look exactly the way it looks on paper, then PDF is the way to go -- and the standard application used to view PDF files is, of course, Adobe Reader.
Unfortunately, according to Adobe, Vista doesn't support older versions of Reader, and the current version, Adobe Reader 8 (released in November, 2006), will be updated for Vista sometime "in the first half" of 2007. So what's the story in the meantime?
Problem: Adobe Reader 8 doesn't work with Vista.
Well, if you're a Vista user and you decide to install Reader 8, the first hint of any problem may come when you get an error message like "The temp folder on a drive was full . . . " or "The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. . . ."
Generally, says Adobe, the problem is that you've turned off Vista's massively annoying User Account Control (and who could blame you?). There are two possible solutions, according to a tech note on Adobe's Web site:
You can re-enable User Account Control.
You do this in the Control Panel. Choose User Accounts and click "Turn User Account Control on or off." Check the box to turn User Account Control on, restart your PC, and run the Reader 8 install. (It's okay to turn User Account Control off again after you successfully install Adobe Reader.)
You can run the installer in XP Compatibility Mode.
When you download the Reader installation file, save it to your desktop. Once the download is finished, right-click the file, and open its Properties, and click the Compatibility tab. Under Compatibility Mode, check "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" and choose Windows XP (Service Pack 2) from the drop-down list. Click Apply, and then choose OK to close the Properties window. Then double-click the file to start the installation.
If you still get an error message rather than a clean installation, there's one more thing to try: Several people have reported that they successfully copied the folder containing the Reader install files from the temp directory where it is unzipped -- the path will be C:\Users\{username}\AppData\LocalLow\Netopsystems\temp -- to the root directory and ran it from there.
Solution: Re-enable User Account Control or install in XP Compatibility Mode
Installation Isn't The Only Problem
Even if you successfully install Reader, you may not be out of the woods yet. Reader 8 on Vista may fail to start, give you a runtime error, or hide behind a "please wait while the document is being prepared" message for way too long before it displays the PDF.
Both these problems, which also affected previous versions of Reader on Windows XP, are likely to be related to problems with plug-ins. If Reader won't start at all, find the plug-in called Updater.api (it's in the Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\plug_ins folder) and disable it -- rename, move, or delete it. You'll lose some reader functionality that you probably seldom use anyway. If Reader takes an agonizingly long time to index the PDF before it displays it, try disabling the Accessability.api file in the same directory.
And keep an eye on Adobe.com for the promised update to Reader 8 that should fix all these problems.
Source: InformationWeek
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The Microsoft .NET Framework is a software component that can be added to the Microsoft Windows operating system. It provides a large body of pre-coded solutions to common program requirements, and manages the execution of programs written specifically for the framework. The .NET Framework is a key Microsoft offering, and is intended to be used by most new applications created for the Windows platform.
The pre-coded solutions that form the framework's class library cover a large range of programming needs in areas including: user interface, data access, database connectivity, cryptography, web application development, numeric algorithms, and network communications. The functions of the class library are used by programmers who combine them with their own code to produce applications.
Programs written for the .NET Framework execute in a software environment that manages the program's runtime requirements. This runtime environment, which is also a part of the .NET Framework, is known as the Common Language Runtime (CLR). The CLR provides the appearance of an application virtual machine, so that programmers need not consider the capabilities of the specific CPU that will execute the program. The CLR also provides other important services such as security mechanisms, memory management, and exception handling. The class library and the CLR together compose the .NET Framework. The framework is intended to make it easier to develop computer applications and to reduce the vulnerability of applications and computers to security threats.
More here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa569294.aspx
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The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 1 is a preview release of the latest version of the .NET Framework. Many ISV
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Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing.
The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for installation and shell-integration related functionality.
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The next generation of the Windows Server operating system gives you more control, greater flexibility, and increased protection for your server infrastructure while reducing time and costs. And when you download or order the beta software, you're automatically registered to access valuable beta resources assembled in one convenient Beta Central location.
Please review Windows Server "Longhorn" system requirements and compare editions before you proceed. Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration.
Editions available for download:
Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" Beta 3 Standard Edition
Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" Beta 3 Standard 32-bit Edition
Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" Beta 3 Enterprise Edition
Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" Beta 3 Enterprise 32-bit Edition
Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" Beta 3 Datacenter Edition
Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" Beta 3 Datacenter 32-bit Edition
Windows Web Server Code Name "Longhorn" Beta 3
Windows Web Server Code Name "Longhorn" Beta 3 32-bit
Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" Beta 3 for Itanium-based Systems
The Windows Server "Longhorn" beta software is available in the following languages:
English, German, and Japanese
Download: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...hs/default.mspx
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Oh my GOOD!
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After a year-plus of rumors, Activision confirms the next installment in its first-person shooter series will leave WWII behind; game to be officially unveiled this Saturday during NFL Draft.For months, rumors have raged that the Call of Duty series would follow in the footsteps of Battlefield, its biggest rival in the military shooter genre, into the modern era of warfare. Today, the franchise's publisher, Activision, made it official. Developed by COD creators Infinity Ward, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare will eschew the franchise's traditional World War II setting in favor of a fictional conflict set during contemporary times.
Unfortunately, the setting is about all that's known about COD4. No details--including platforms--were revealed to the press. Instead of issuing the typical press release, Activision has decided to unveil the game via a trailer that will be shown during the NFL Draft on ESPN at (10 a.m. PDT /1 p.m. EDT) this Saturday April 28.
Although Activision is holding back on the details of COD4, its announcement was not unexpected. This month, gamers were tipped off to the unveiling of something on developer Infinity Ward's Web site. The tease came just over a year after the first rumors about a modern-day Call of Duty first surfaced in the gaming press.
By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot UK
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The Deskstar 7K1000 is best suited for home gaming and media center PCs, as well as external storage for digital entertainment.
Hitachi on Wednesday said it has begun shipping to retailers a one-terabyte hard drive for PCs.
The Deskstar 7K1000, introduced in January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, has just recently become available through retailers. CDW is among the first companies to offer the new product.
The Deskstar, which has a retail price of $399, is best suited for gaming and media center PCs and external storage devices. The hard drive features a 3 Gbytes-per-second Serial-ATA interface and a 32-Mbyte data buffer.
Driving the demand for bigger hard drives is the growing use of PCs in the home for storing and managing digital content, such as photos, music, and video. "Consumers' desire to create and share digital entertainment is the primary accelerator for capacity and performance increases in desktop PC hard drives," Shinjiro Iwata, chief marketing officer for Hitachi, said in a statement.
The Deskstar has a maximum media data rate of 1,070 Mbytes per second, runs at 7,200 RPMs, and weights 1.5 pounds. To help ensure data integrity, the drive features a ramp load and unload design to increase shock protection, and thermal fly-height control (TFC) to maintain a consistent fly-height during the read/write process.
Key Features
Size: 3.5 inches
Capacities: 1 TB
750 GB
Speed: 7,200 RPM
Interfaces: SATA 3.0 GB/s
Seek Time: 8.5 ms read
9.2 ms write
Legacy Drives: Hitachi
IBM
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Samsung 4GB DDR2 RAM: You call that a stick?
Samsung has released the lab hounds, as it says it can now create DRAM memory sticks of behemoth-esque proportions, all thanks to a fancy new tech.
It calls them 'stacked memory packages,' and Samsung says it can now create single DIMM sticks of DDR2 system memory, each measuring four gigabytes, with one of these new stacks of memory modules.
These "wafer-level-processed stacked packages" are each made up of four 512Mb (megabits) -- or 64MB (megabytes) -- chips worth of high density DDR2 DRAM memory. Stacked on top of each other, it says these form a single module with a total of just over 2Gb, or 256MB.
The individual 512Mb modules are joined together in this manner with the help of lasers. These form vertical micron-sized holes that are then filled with copper in order to connect their circuits.
Presumably, sixteen of these stacked memory modules -- eight on either side of the DIMM stick -- form the basis of this unholy 4GB stick of DDR2 RAM.
Not only can Samsung now create such an insanely-packed DIMM, but it also says that this is a technology that "will soon result in memory packages that are faster, smaller, and consume less power," all of which is a perfectly buzzy promise.
All of these advancements are thanks to a thing called 'TSV.' This is not the Doctor Who fan publication, Time Space Visualiser, but rather a technology called 'Through Silicon Via,' whose name also leaves us hanging for one more word.
This is all very clever, as a challenge with increasing the amount of memory on a stick has to do with how many modules can ultimately fit alongside each other. This also shortcuts the tricky process of increasing chip density.
Samsung mentions its "new stacked package design supports the rapid industry demand for high density, high performance semiconductor solutions that will support next-generation computing systems in 2010 and beyond," so presumably we'll have to wait.
Source: apc
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Microsoft has been touting the new Windows Firewall in Windows Vista, which it says for the first time includes an outbound filter as well as an inbound filter. Outbound filters are important, because if you've been infected with a Trojan or similar software, it makes an outbound connection without your knowledge, letting someone else take control of your PC. Some malware can also turn your PC into a spam-spewing robot, sending out email without your knowledge.
Unfortunately, the outbound filter in Windows Vista is, in essence, turned off by default. And as a practical matter, it's impossible to manually configure it to block malware making outbound connections. That's where the free VistaFirewallControl comes in. Install it, and whenever an application tries to access the Internet, a screen pops up, with the application name, the publisher, and similar information, as well its path and file name. You can enable or disable inbound or outbound connections it tries to make, either permanently, or just this one time.
If you're not sure if the program is malware or not, go to www.processlibrary.com and do a search for the file name, for details. All in all, VistaFirewallControl is a great way to make sure your PC isn't making unwanted outbound connections
License Type: Free
Price: Free
Date Added: Apr 2007
Operating Systems: Windows Vista
File Size: 815KB
Author: Sphinx Software
Download Vista Firewall Control
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 2 is now available for download here.
Some of the new features of this release include:
- New UI (similar to System Center Operations Manager 2007, Service Desk and System Center Essentials)
- Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) Support (for Windows Server 2000 or Windows Server 2003)
- Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) Support (VMware to Virtual Server)
- 64-bit VMM server support
- Full PowerShell support with documentation
- Better overall performance and scalability
- Many minor tweaks, fixes and improvements
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The discovery was announced yesterday by a team of European astronomers, using a telescope in La Silla in the Chilean Andes.
The Earth-like planet that could be covered in oceans and may support life is 20.5 light years away, and has the right temperature to allow liquid water on its surface.The new planet, which orbits a small, red star called Gliese 581, is about one-and-a-half times the diameter of the Earth.
It probably has a substantial atmosphere and may be covered with large amounts of water - necessary for life to evolve - and, most importantly, temperatures are very similar to those on our world.
It is the first exoplanet (a planet orbiting a star other than our own Sun) that is anything like our Earth.
Read more: Daily Mail
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Yup :upsidedown:
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VMware Workstation 6 Beta Program
Release Candidate | 4/19/07 | Build 44426 | 273 MB
Workstation 6.0 includes exciting new features, such as:
Support for Windows Vista
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Unreal Tournament 3
Published by: Midway Games
Developed by: Epic Games
Genre: Shooter
Release Date:
US: September 3, 2007
Europe: October 1, 2007
Available On: PC, PlayStation 3
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Here is a tut about creating Bubbles using Photoshop
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What, iPod or AK 47?
Giveaway of the Day - RemoteObserver
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