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the oracle 4 hours ago
The newest revision of Auslogics Disk Defragmentation utility is gaining functionality that once was the domain of paid programs. Where it once only defragmented files, it now defragments files, consolidates space, and will move system files to the beginning of the drive – essentially most of what Diskeeper revision 6 did a few years back. For most people, this is more than enough, as some are so oblivious to what defragmentation is, and does for them, that it makes little difference anyway. Those that do understand, and want to save some money, are certainly going to welcome this latest revision. gHacks takes a look at the progress of this program - Auslogics Disk Defrag is a hard disk defragmentation software for the Windows operating system. Recently version 3 of the software program has been released; Reason enough for us to take a look at the improvements in this new version. At its core stands the option to defragment all connected hard drives of the computer ...Ron Schenone 7 hours ago
Back on November 21, 2009, I wrote and article about Rupert Murdoch and his threats to Google and how he was going to pull his news content away from search engines. [ See my post here ] So this morning I read a comment from a reader that stated the following: You and everyone who blogs is a jerk. You steal the content of others and claim it as your own. Mr. Murdoch is correct in trying to protect real journalists as well as their news content. Get a real life. With the advent of the Internet one can no longer cite just the U.S. Constitution when it comes to Freedom of the Press. Instead I located what is called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights over at Wikipedia, which was established after World War II, and states the following: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference, and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers” The words ‘everyone ...
the oracle 13 hours ago
Something not reported in the usual places, this week Microsoft lost a suit in China over the fonts used in Chinese copies of Windows from Windows 98 to present. Coming right at the launch of Windows 7 this has to really hurt early adoption there. The news of this comes by way of the ITWire, which tells us the rest of the story - Microsoft was successfully sued for copyright infringement by the developer of the Chinese fonts used in almost all versions of Windows. In a judgement handed down by Beijing’s No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court earlier this week, Microsoft has been banned from selling all versions of Windows from Windows 98 onwards in China. In a statement on their website, Zhongyi Electronic said that the agreement signed with Microsoft permitted the use of their Chinese character fonts in Windows 95 only; Microsoft clearly disagreed with that. Microsoft immediately announced they would appeal the ruling. “Microsoft respects intellectual property rights,” ...the oracle 18 hours ago
There are a few case designs that are very nice looking, and accomplish all the things that a case is designed to do. The case is designed to hold all the components, without letting them flex too much, become dusty, or overheat. That last part is becoming harder all the time, as people try to stuff too many heat-producing devices in too small a space. Multiple graphics cards that use the power that used to be enough for an entire system, CPUs that are using less power at idle are still using more power than ever when stressed, and no way to get every system using liquid cooling because of expense and complexity means that some things need to change. One of the things that could help is that the common computer tower could be widened from approximately 7 – 8 inches to 10 (on average) would allow more systems to use the larger heatsink and fan combinations being engineered by the more aggressive designers. The newest style for CPU HSF combinations is the tall vaportube and fin ...the oracle 23 hours ago
Those unhappy with, or simply not that excited about, Windows 7, got a good bit of news today, as Microsoft released a roadmap for Windows 8, and how it will fit into the delivery of other products. Giving a 3 year run for Windows 7 means the end of 2012 will be the projected release date for Windows 8, which will give holdouts that much more time to become accustomed to the idea of moving away from XP. It will also give Microsoft time to see how it might need to change plans according to he numbers still using XP. Is Microsoft finally switching to a different programming model? It used to be that we only had previous Microsoft efforts to judge how much could be accomplished in each unit of time, but now, with the various large distributions of Linux we can see how much can be accomplished by a loose woven group of programmers, and wonder what Microsoft could accomplish if pressed. gHacks fills in the blanks - Microsoft has released two roadmaps at this years Professional ...
