Titus Andronicus writes “Years in the making, the major new release of VideoLAN’s media player has better support for multicore processors, GPUs, and much, much more. From the announcement: ‘Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos. It supports many new devices and ...
An anonymous reader writes to point out reports that Asus is “working on a new laptop that will include Kinect gestures and will be compatible with Windows 8,” and adds, “What does this mean for the consumer? Portable gestures in Windows 8!” Wired has an article based on the same report, which mentions also the ...
Windows vs Linux Web Hosting One of the options many consumers must complete while determining on web hosting company they are going to keep with in the time to look is about the Web hosting running system. While hither are tons of running systems a web hosting corporation peradventure will run internally, or as a ...
There’s been a lot of attention to the way Windows 8 looks; reader aabelro writes with an interesting look at one way it behaves. The article begins thus: “Microsoft has created a new mechanism for sharing information between applications in Windows 8 called Windows Share. Apps can share text, bitmaps, HTML, URI, files, and other ...
Windows 8′s Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot protocol could lead to eight-second boot times, but it could also be used to keep users from loading Linux on a Windows 8 PC, warns a Red Hat developer. Meanwhile, Casio signed a Linux-related patent agreement with Microsoft. DesktopLinux.com ...
New submitter Tonyd0311 writes “Microsoft has just released the Windows 8 Developer Preview in both x86 and x64 formats. The download includes an SDK for Metro-style apps, and 28 example apps. It also has ‘developer preview’ versions of Expression Blend 5 and Visual Studio 11 Express.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. Slashdot ...
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andLinux is a Linux distro with a difference. It’s based on a port of the the Linux kernel to Windows coupled with an X server and other software. In short, it allows you to run Linux software seamlessly on the Windows desktop without recompiling it or using a virtual machine. more>> Linux Journal – The ...
CWmike writes “Machines running the decade-old Windows XP make up a huge reservoir of infected PCs that can spread malware to other systems, a Czech antivirus company said. Windows XP computers are infected with rootkits out of proportion to the operating system’s market share, according to data released Thursday by Avast Software, which surveyed more ...
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theodp writes “Working calmly in broad daylight and filming their efforts for YouTube posterity, a fake construction crew attached a large Microsoft Windows logo to the black facade of a soon-to-open Hamburg Apple Store. Neat hack in the MIT vein, but next time the crew might want to take along a pic of the Windows ...
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jfruhlinger writes “I’m a Mac guy. When our 2004-era Windows XP laptop, which was used primarily by my wife, died last summer, I got myself a new MacBook Pro and she inherited my still servicable 2008 MacBook. But after about six months, she hasn’t gotten used to it, and wants a Windows machine. I don’t ...
Dear, I installed a HP LJ printer in windows os and shared, Now i want access that printer into linux OS (RHEL 5). plz help me, how i can access. LinuxQuestions.org ...
Trailrunner7 writes “There appears to be an actual email worm in circulation right now, using the tried-and-true infection method of sending emails containing malicious executables to all of the names in a user’s email address book. The worm arrives via emails with the subject line ‘Here You Have’ or something similar, and the messages contain ...
Wine runs many Windows programs nicely these days, including more and more serious music applications. Dave profiles some of those applications running under the latest & greatest Wine 1.2 more>> Linux Journal – The Original Magazine of the Linux Community ...