i was beginning to wonder why vlc would pause playing a video whenever i launch firefox and log in to yahoo. i figured something has to be sucking cpu resources to make a program pause for a second or two. so i did some testing of my own. i fired up taskman and started launching [...]
i wanted to find out if my computer is ready for vista. microsoft has this utility that you can download called the windows vista upgrade advisor to check if my computer can run their new operating system. warning: the utility does not work on windows 98, 2000, xp pro x64 editions. so i downloaded the [...]
i was reading an entry of adrian’s over at zdnet and i agree on most of the points presented. gaming yes, there is a dearth of great games that can run on linux and wine doesn’t really cut it. yet. i can probably go and run windows virtually and run the game off it but [...]
its seems that microsoft has been moving about in the open source space. there’s a partnership with zend, a company formed to commercialize php and then there’s one with novell which would simplify running linux on windows and vice versa. strangely enough, this makes microsoft a reseller of suse linux and would provide support for [...]
yahoo! recently released an updated beta of their web mail service. this time the free account stays in the new beta mode while the business mail accounts stays with the old design. they did say that they will be moving the business mail users to the new design as soon as its ready. i got [...]
