According to spys at some motherboard makers AMD has recently notified its partners that it plans to launch two triple-core CPUs (Toliman) in February 2008.
In computing we are so used to things going up in 2s. 256Mb of memory, then 512Mb of memory and so on… 1 core, 2 cores, 4 cores… It is refreshing to see the number 3 again… Of course there is not technical reason for not having 3 cores, or 5 cores or 7, the underlying OS doesn’t need an even number of cores or CPUs …

Do you wnt to see what iLife looked like circa 1994? This is an Apple advert from the ninety about Mac, a video camera and a VCR… All very analog! Not a DVD in sight!
See the add here.
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There is a great post over at the wine-review blog about getting DirectX 9c working on Linux with Wine.
There are also some great screen shots which at first make it look like the DirectX 9 demos are broken but in fact the author points out that “the cube looks bad because its spinning at about 10,000 fps so fast its just a blur. and thats how the screenshot comes out.”
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The creator of Linux is excited about solid-state drives, expects progress in graphics and wireless networking, and says the operating system is strong in virtualization despite his personal lack of interest in the area.
All this and more is revealed in an interview with Linus here.
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TechSmith is giving away two of their most popular screen capture and screencasting programs: SnagIt and Camtasia Studio.
Along with snapping screenshots, SnagIt can capture scrolling long web pages, extract text from windows, annotate images and so on: quite a way from a regular Windows Print Screen.
While there is a catch (both apps are not the latest version but a decent version nonetheless), you can download them, and after you request your serial number, you can upgrade to the latest versions at a sensible discount.
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We told you it’s coming, a few days ago, you could smell it. Here it is, still steaming, the fourth release of sidux, named Ερως after Greek mitholgy! Another snapshot of debian’s unstable branch (AKA sid) spiced up with sidux’s own scripts and the ever so up-to-date slh-kernels, all this as sidux is approaching it’s first birthday. You can download the images, for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in a ≈445 MB KDE lite and a ≈680 MB KDE full flavour. You will love it, just as it loves you, …

One of my clients’ Linux server got hacked somehow recently and after discovering the hacker’s files on the server I proceeded to re-securing the system and removing all traces, files, programs of that user. While doing this I stumbled upon this nice article on how to remove a user and lock down all files and access for that user on your system. Maybe it’s a former company employee or like in my case, a hacker, you can take these steps to make sure that user cannot log in again… after …

Less than a month away from its launch, Apple’s Leopard switches version to 10.5.1 with a fresh update that works out some of the annoying bugs and problems, including password management, nat issues and the annoying (to some developers, including me) file uploads via flash.
Apple has also launched the newest version of Final Cut Express, namely version 4. Final Cut Express 4 lets you edit footage captured in the most popular formats — including AVCHD (but only for Intel-based Macs). FCE4 also supports “Open format Timeline” (why big companies nowadays …

Still your eyes on the little beauty called EeePc? There’s some cooking happening, Debian style, aiming to run Linux on the cutie. No much content yet, but hey, Asus’ small portable just recently made it into our homes! Hopefully this project will become real and alive ASAP. We will monitor this, as it seems something that makes a real tech-heart pump.
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That’s right, snapshot! ‘Cause sidux is a “rolling release”, always fresh from the latest in the debian/sid repos. It has been from it’s early days one of our fun-and-work environment, we only can recommend it. The second preview of sidux 2007-04 “Ερως” is already out and being reviewed, there are no major reasons for delay, except the state of the pool. “…a turbulent week behind the scenes of Debian sid, with an accidental glibc upload, a broken openssl version (#449200) affecting wpasupplicant and ries.debian.org (ftp-master) breaking down due to filesystem …