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    Mac Intel, EFI and Linux Distros.

    A friend of mine will go to Europe and he haves an Intel Based Mac he want to sell. But, sorry for him, some people invaded his job late at night and in a robbery removed some of the peripherals of the Mac, including keyboard and Mouse, and the original Box with the CD-Roms and all of the...
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    Ubuntu 7.04, you can be happy too

    Last week I have installed Kubuntu 7.04 in my system, froma fresh Install. and I can say that distro is getting close to nirvana. JFS simple and easy, only two bugs found and fastly corrected by the Canonical team, easy access to all of the things I need to work, starts with 123 MB ! YES ...
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    Damn Nvidia drivers, Damn ATI drivers.

    Thanks for the damn closed source drivers, every step forward in linux gains a step backwards by ATI and Nvidia. Recently I´ve tried to install Kubuntu 7.04 with the same simple instructions as I´ve used in Kubuntu 6.10. Damn lost time, they did a mess with their f*&!cked closed source drivers...
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    O.S. Losless compression format for pictures.

    Here in my work we faced a new challenge for standardization of our assets inside our doors. I did a study for most of the O.S. native file formats with and without loss of quality compression, but, there is somethings that we need to be cleared to decide the situation. All of our work is made...
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    New WGA spying your computer

    Here in Brazil in some of enterprises, the WGA starts to print a message calling that the validation will occurs periodically , and , interesting, they didn´t tell to you the dates of the period or the information that is got from your computer, nor any EULA. Besides, WGA now make a permanent...
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    Windows Vista Downgrade.

    Some of My Clients already bought Laptop systems with Vista Embedded, but with only 512 Mb and the XP Visual at the Maximum. They asked me to do a full downgrade for their laptop systems. But there are 5 Vista Versions. What is the correspondence between the Vista Versions and Xp, 98 or 2K...
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    Daniela Cicareli shoot youtube out of order in Brazil

    Look at this, Daniela Cicareli did something that wasn't to be public but a suck of paparazzi that did not have anything really interesting to do, spots her at a beach in spain and publicize the video. Nothing new as the whole majority of famous person are spoted everywhere doing normal things(...
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    Try to MAC INTEL With Linux

    Anyone knows if MAC accepts the New Xeons quad ? Anyone did it ? I will ask if some of you tried to switch the processors in the MAC, cause I want to do this: Change the processors to quad core. Put 8 Gigs of RAM A Ge Force 8800 GTX Run Kubuntu Linux 64 bits. I know that here isn´t a...
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    Is there some way to revive Irix ?

    A friend of mine tells me that Solaris, Irix and FreeBSD are true posix systems, well, I am using Linux in all but one machine in my work, some said that the Solaris is the best, but I have some difficulties setting up hardware like Nvidia cards and so on. I never tested FreeBSd yet on any...
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    ATI Drivers for Linux, a headache

    Well done, I have a machine as I describe : 2xOPTERON 244 K8ND-L (NVIDIA CK804) 4 GIGS OF RAM DVD WRITER 200 GIGS OD HDD I put more memory to use Linux, course, 2 Gb per app does not satisfy the apetite for Blender with big mapps and big renders. Windows Limits to 2GB per App. (even...
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    SMB 1.0 and SMB 2.0, interoperability.

    Windows Vista has a New SMB/NMB flavor ( SMB 2.0 ), and Microsoft is doing at Linux side a propaganda that they will make Vista interoperability with other Systems as well. SMB 1.0 was not open ( U.E. is sueing them for this and not for another things really ). SMB 2.0 is being launched and no...
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    Microsoft + Suse + Xen = Conspire to survive

    Microsoft + SUSE + Xen = Conspire to survive. Xen source: Test Windows Vista under a VM, and assures that a hash generated cannot be cloned or cannot be generated by software sources that gives pure virtual hardware to the instalation of Vista. This can guarantee that Vista cannot be moved to...
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    HDMI, HDCP what is the REAL advantage for us ?

    Why Microsoft Windows Vista bother us with the HDMI, HDCP Monitor Mandatory ? Whats the Real advantage ? I see one BenQ and LG and no difference in HDV Vídeos 1080P with a normal flat panel so why they are trying to push more limitation now on the monitor ? Microsoft are trying to lower...
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    Vista changed EULA to appease enthusiats.

    After protests and more protests of the users, and the people like me really changing to Linux, Microsoft decided to abandon the poison it launched to users they call pirates of their software, The enthiusiasts. Well , we just turn back to the point we was in XP, but... The consequences will...
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    Windows Vista and the trash your license in 2 uses.

    Is it an kind of new hoax that Windows Vista FPP ( Boxed version ) will be installable only twice ? I cannot believe that a very expensive software will present the consumers with the trash of our money in 2 uses. A condom at least have a reason to not be used twice... It´s cheaper...