Amazon S3 - World's most reliable web service is DOWN

The most reliable storage on the net been down for over 30 minutes and counting. This might not seem much, but think how many sites now rely 100% on Amazon S3 to keep their sites running - such as SmugMug and PageFlakes. These sites are losing revenue right now...

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GeForce 8 cards to gain PhysX support via software dowload

Nvidia completed its acquisition of Ageia yesterday, and it has revealed that it will soon introduce PhysX physics processing support into all of its GeForce 8-series graphics cards through a simple software download. PhysX support will allow the cards to accelerate physics effects in games.

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AMD delaying quad-core Phenom 9700 and 9900 once again?

The sun just refuses to shine on AMD -- according to several Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers, AMD is saying that the quad-core Phenom 9700 and 9900 are going to be delayed yet again, this time to the end of Q3. Apparently there's a buffer-related glitch in the original design, so AMD is actually "canceling" the two chips and [...]

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Google intoxicates Linux users with Wine improvements

Improvements to Wine sponsored by Google have made it possible to run Adobe Photoshop and Dragon Naturally Speaking on Linux.

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From Windows to Linux - and back again

Seven years ago, Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, which is situated in a suburb of Melbourne, took a step that made it stand out from other educational institutions.he school decided to adopt Linux on the desktop on a fairly large scale, with about 350 workstations being installed with the free operating system.

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From Windows to Linux - and back again

Seven years ago, Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, which is situated in a suburb of Melbourne, took a step that made it stand out from other educational institutions.he school decided to adopt Linux on the desktop on a fairly large scale, with about 350 workstations being installed with the free operating system.

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Run Linux inside Windows

andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista [32-bit only]). andLinux is not just for development and runs almost all Linux applications in Windows without modification. It supports quick launch icons, start menu, system tray, Explorer shell extensions and file type associations.

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Impressive Eye Candy: 3D OpenGL Transitions for OpenOffice.o

PowerPoint's push-down transition has done its 15 years of service, and it's time for something new. Do the sleepy faces in your meetings agree? OpenOffice.org Impress 2.4 upstages PowerPoint with ten 3D transitions rendered in OpenGL.

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Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices

Virtualization is the technique of running a "guest" operating system inside an already-running OS; for example, Windows inside Linux, or visa-versa. This article compares four virtualization products available for Ubuntu Linux: the free, open source Qemu; the closed-but-free versions of VirtualBox and VMware-Server, and the commercial Parallels.

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69 Linux-Unix cheat sheets - The ultimate collection

The ultimate collection of cheat sheets for linux users. Enough to fill up your whole wall with commands yielded by the geek gods!Be sure to digg this so more people can have the opportunity to get ahold of all these in one place.

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how to increase fontsize in Firefox and Opera

Firefox:

keep control button pressed.
scrolling mouse wheel forward will make the text smaller
scrolling mouse wheel backward will make the text larger.

Opera:

keep control button pressed.
scrolling mouse wheel backward will make the text smaller
scrolling mouse wheel forward will make the text larger.

create a shortcut for locking ur computer in Windows XP

the command used is

rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

here i assume that u already know how to create a shortcut.