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Operating Systems
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Windows 8 Can Do A Cold Boot In 8 Seconds Flat
10 Oct 2011 by Andrew Kalinchuk
We said what everyone was thinking. A coat of paint on a sub-par system does not a successful operating system make. Okay, my colleague said it better than that, but the message is the same. Regardless, we’d still like to give credit where it’s due and highlight something that Microsoft has done really, really well so far: Start-up time. Praise be to whoever made this miracle happen, b...
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Windows 8: Better Built From Scratch?
30 Sep 2011 by Dave Parrack
Windows 8 is rapidly taking shape, and on the surface it looks fantastic. On the surface. Only on the surface. Under the hood things are a little messier, because at its heart Windows 8 is still Windows, the same Windows that we’ve known, and loved and hated in equal measure, since it debuted under Bill Gates leadership in 1985. The question that really has to be asked is whether Microsoft w...
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Apple Updates MacBook Air and Mac Mini; OS X Lion Released
20 Jul 2011 by Craig Lloyd / 1 Comment
Today is a big day for Apple. They’ve released updated versions of their MacBook Air and the Mac Mini along with finally unleashing the Mac OS X Lion into the Mac App Store. Their new MacBook Airs are now equipped with newer Sandy Bridge chips, Thunderbolt ports, and backlit keyboards. The 11-inch model includes a 1.6GHz Core i5 processor, 64GB of solid-state storage, 2GB of RAM, and starts ...
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How to Partition Your Hard Drive for Ubuntu and Windows
23 Feb 2011 by Kevin Ivanca / 1 Comment
Let’s say that, hypothetically, someone read a Techerator article on the new features of Ubuntu 10.1 and decided that they wanted to try it out. After messing around with the Live CD, they opted to do the Ubuntu install inside Windows (Wubi) so that they could still play around with both operating systems without messing up their hard drive. Now let us assume, hypothetically, that this perso...
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Progress Bars use Optical Illusions to Appear Faster
04 Jan 2011 by Evan Wondrasek / 7 Comments
I’d rather not think about how many hours I’ve spent staring at progress bars in my life. They’re a lot faster than the used to be because of better processors and internet connections, but we still have to wait patiently while transferring large files, downloading video games on Steam, or streaming videos online. Have you ever wondered why modern progress bars have become so muc...
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Ubuntu Updated to 10.10; Can Now Solve the Ultimate Question to Life, The Universe, and Everything
20 Oct 2010 by Kevin Ivanca / 4 Comments
As an exclusive Windows user (with two computers running Windows 7, one running XP, and a Vista boot disk just in case), I find myself in a comfort zone. Windows has been the bread of my computing life; starting all the way back to good ol’ Windows 95. But just because I feel safe in the arms of Microsoft, that doesn’t mean I am naïve. To be frank, the Windows XP installation on m...
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Gather Information About Your Client’s PC with Support Details
07 Apr 2010 by Dustin Patterson / 1 Comment
Building websites that function properly across multiple browsers can be a time consuming process. Most of that time is put into backwards compatibility to support outdated web browsers – I’m looking at you, IE6. If a client or end-user of your website is experiencing a problem, it can be a difficult task to ask all of the questions necessary to pinpoint the cause of the problem. Sup...
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Windows 7 RC Will Auto-Shutdown Every Two Hours Starting March 1st
16 Feb 2010 by Evan Wondrasek / 4 Comments
This is an important reminder to anyone still using the release candidate version of Windows 7 – even though it doesn’t officially expire until June 1st, 2010, Windows 7 RC will begin to auto-shutdown every two hours starting March 1st, 2010. Microsoft warns that your work will not be saved when these automatic shutdowns occur. You can check out Microsoft’s official statement b...
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Jolicloud: A Fresh Netbook OS
20 Jan 2010 by Dustin Patterson / 2 Comments
With the increased popularity of netbooks in the last year, most PC manufacturers started producing their own line of netbooks, trying to condense high resource systems into small form factors. Many users began looking for a way to get the most out of the sometimes limited system resources with netbooks. The first instinct many netbook owners have is to upgrade system resources with a larger har...
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EeePC 900A: Add More Hard Drive Space with a SDHC Card
07 Dec 2009 by Dustin Patterson / 2 Comments
If you’re looking for a small, cheap, and powerful netbook, the Asus Eee PC 900A is a great buy. Included by default in the 900A is a 4GB solid state hard drive (called a SSD). Although the SSD is large enough to run the included Xandros Linux operating system, you may find yourself running into storage space limitations if you install a mainstream flavor of Linux. (Note: I am focusing on ...
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