How to fix your Windows MBR with an Ubuntu liveCD

Something happen to a windows Master Boot Record (MBR) that you’re responsible for? Want a very quick, very easy way to restore it with nothing but your craft, native intelligence and a liveCD?

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3 Ways To Access Linux Partitions (ext2/ext3) From Windows

If you have a dual-boot Windows/Linux system, you probably know this problem: you can access files from your Windows installation while you are in Linux, but not the other way round. This guide shows 3 ways to access your Linux partitions from within Windows: Explore2fs, DiskInternals Linux Reader, and the Ext2 Installable File System for Windows.

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Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project

Will more than triple the number of current OpenIDs.

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Google's Answer to Wikipedia

Google's Knol project aims to make online information easier to find and more authoritative.

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Interview: Why Warner Went Full Throttle With Blu-ray

Warner announced earlier today it was 100 percent Blu-ray. We just talked a bit with Warner about some of the whys behind the decision. In a sentence: Because the format war is killing regular DVD sales on top of hurting sales of both HD formats.

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New Apple MacBook Air Is World's Thinnest

It's real and I want to buy one and lick it. The fabled MacBook Air actually exists. It's ultra-thin, has a solid state drive and, except for a couple ports, it's all about wireless connectivity.

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5 Things You'll Love About Firefox 3

Some of the new features in Firefox 3 are not immediately obvious -- at least, not to the casual user. Among other things, Mozilla is incorporating new graphics- and text-rendering architectures in its browser layout engine (Gecko 1.9) to offer rendering improvements in CSS and SVG; adding a number of security features, including malware protection

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Mobile Hard Drives Hit 500GB

New Hitachi drive represents a giant leap forward in notebook storage.

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Art Lebedev kills us with Optimus Tactus keyboard concept

Yeah, you thought the Optimus Maximus was the holy grail of keyboarding -- then you saw the Optimus Tactus, a giant touch sensor display tablet keyboard that could do all the sorts of crazy stuff the Maximus can't even touch, like playing movies and being a gigantic color swatch.

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Sony Stops Taking it in the Rear

Sony is dropping its money-losing rear-projection TV business worldwide to focus on two flat panel technologies — liquid crystal display and organic light-emitting diode, the company said Thursday.

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The perfect computer memory: quantum dots?

Flash storage is the component that makes low power electronics so flexible. Unlike RAM, flash memory will stay written for about 10 years without power. However, we pay for that convenience in access times, which are much slower than those for RAM.

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The perfect computer memory: quantum dots?

Flash storage is the component that makes low power electronics so flexible. Unlike RAM, flash memory will stay written for about 10 years without power. However, we pay for that convenience in access times, which are much slower than those for RAM.

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