ATI Proprietary Linux Release Notes > Resolution of an XGL startup issue that prevented users from starting XGL on display :0. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22841 Woho. No more fiddling with :1 to get Xgl running. If only they would support bigger than 2048×2048 blits I could actually finally start using [...]
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XM faces legal action from the RIAA
XM faces legal action from the RIAA - The Digital Music Weblog > Although usually such good friends, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Satellite radio provider XM have just fallen out over a new portable digital music player and they’re airing their dirty laundry in public with a multi-million dollar law suit. [...]
Mouse and IP-Phone in one? Genious!
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Man sues Apple over potential hearing loss
Man sues Apple over potential hearing loss > SAN FRANCISCO – A Louisiana man claims in a lawsuit that Apple’s iPod music player can cause hearing loss in people who use it. > Apple has sold more than 42 million of the devices since they went on sale in 2001, including 14 million in the [...]
Nokia 770 Review
Nokia 770 Review – Mobile Gazette – Mobile Phone News > We recently received one of the first Nokia 770 Internet Tablets to be released by Nokia – after giving it a thorough going over for a week, we decided it was type to share our findings with you! Seems they had some networking problems, [...]
Creative’s new Zen Vision:M (with video)
Creativeââ¬â¢s new Zen Vision:M (with video) – Engadget – www.engadget.com Looks nice. 30Gb hard-drive, 4 hours of battery time when watching videos, 11 hours of listening to music, supports MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, WMV, and MJPEG. 2.5 inches 320×200 color screen. Doesn’t list the audio formats it supports, but I’m sure it’s good enough. Maybe it’s [...]
Microsoft sued over alleged Xbox 360 glitch
Microsoft sued over alleged Xbox 360 glitch – Yahoo! News > LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Chicago man who bought Microsoft Corp.’s new Xbox 360 has sued the world’s largest software maker, saying the new video game console has a design flaw that causes it to overheat and freeze up. Microsoft has launched a product [...]
How to bypass US IVR systems
IVR Cheat Sheet to Find a Human really helps you out if you’re living in the US and want to talk to a human on the phone instead of punching numbers and speaking to a machine. They’re not all that much used here in Norway, instead you get “You’re currently number 76 in the queue” [...]
Hyperthreading hurts server performance
ZDNet has a story about how hyperthreading isn’t working like it’s advertised. > Intel had stated that hyperthreading’s performance advantages would show once threaded software became available, but it appears that in some cases the opposite is true It seems that most developers of heavily multi-threaded software are suggesting that hyperthreading be disabled to improve [...]