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The lack of personal space is something that affects us all, since the size of our houses, especially in crowded areas, is becoming smaller and smaller. And since Japan is one of the countries with the smallest living space (in square meters) per inhabitant, the people from Yamaha have come up with the very intelligent idea of creating a speaker that can take advantage of this situation, and use the walls in order to create a surround effect. Enters the Yamaha YSP-900 digital sound projector, a device that, according to its manufacturers, is actually capable of simulating different audio modes, such as 2.1 or 5.1, without requiring any extra-speakers. ...

Windows Vista is on the shelves! Available for the general public, not only for enterprises, everyone can upgrade the current Windows XP or buy the brand new OS from Microsoft. Due to different reasons like high hardware requirements, software incompatibility or the price, some people cannot afford to do the migration, at least not in the near future. Of course there are also the conservative users who attached themselves too much to the XP that now they hesitate to make the move believing in its endurance. ...

Kaspersky regards the Kernel Patch Protection introduced in 64-bit Windows Vista as a joke. Alisa Shevchenko, Virus analyst, Kaspersky Lab, claims that PatchGuard can “hardly be viewed as providing serious protection against rootkits.” In this context, Kaspersky has revealed that the Windows Vista kernel, for 64-bit platforms only, is just “allegedly” immune to modifications. “It is, by its very nature, vulnerable, as is demonstrated by the existence of documented methods for disabling protection. The major vulnerability within PatchGuard is architectural: the code which ensures protection is executed at the same level as code which it is both designed to protect, and to protect against. This protection has the same rights as a potential attacker, and can be evaded or disabled. Ways in which PatchGuard can be exploited or disabled are already known,” explained Shevchenko. ...

Taken from Mehul’s Blog. I had almost given up blogging but came across this nice incident so had to post it. This is a true incident that happened with my friend rahul, who’s been looking to try linux but he’s a dumbhead when it comes to technology. This dude, Utsav came on digit forum and announced that he was selling linux 10 cd’s for Rs. 1500 each. But that thread was locked by the Admin before he could get to talk with the fellow ...

Microsoft Office is surely the most popular office suite in the entire world, providing extremely useful applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and many other tools that are making our computers work much easier. At this time, Microsoft’s solution is challenged by a similar product available for free, OpenOffice representing a tool that is chosen by millions of users from all around the world. Nowadays, Google owns the most powerful search engine technology in the entire world, being challenged by similar services provided by other companies. Microsoft is trying to win the battle with Google’s search engine by improving Live Search, a similar technology that allows users to search the internet. ...

Everyone who has used openSuSE 10.2 must have come across the animated boot screen. But the problem is that its not permanent. It comes sometimes, and doesnt come at other times. Im writing this tutorial for all you penguin lovers who would like to see the animated boot everytime! 1. In the terminal (from your home folder) type mkdir new 2. Type cp /boot/message new 3. Now type cd new 4. Type cpio -i < message 5. Dont close the terminal, and open the folder new in your home folder (from konqueror or nautilus) and edit “gfxboot.cfg” file in kwrite/gedit 6. Change “penguin=-1” to “penguin=100” and save the file 7. Now delete the message file in the new directory by typing rm message 8. Now type ls . | cpio -o > message 9. Now type sudo cp message /boot, enter your root password if required. ...

My hutch connection was disconnected yesterday without prior notification on the basis of “verification”. I cannot make any outgoing calls and SMSs even though i have a balance of around 1800 Rs. Incoming calls do not show the caller ID. Now even though i have submitted the required documents (not that i didn’t submit them when i bought the connection, i did submit a photocopy of my Driver’s License!), my connection has not been activated. There are problems with the network too. Calls get dropped, network congestion. I cannot dial Hutch Care “111” from my mobile. It always shows network busy. So if i need to talk to customer care, i need to dial “9811098110” from my landline and pay for it while i listen to “you and i” for an hour! ...

INTEL has showcased at CES a system capable of hosting 8 cores onto a single motherboard. While many knew that this was actually possible, it is a surprise nevertheless. To give you some details, let me say that the “V8” platform that was showcased today is similar to the one that is being used in Apple’s Mac Pro systems. Last year when the Macs were launched, the idea was to offer real quad core systems motive for which two dual-core Xeons were used to turn the concept into reality. At the moment, quad-core Xeons existed only on papers but when they came out, users replaced the older dual cores with the newcomers and obtained eight-core home computers. ...

With Windowsultimate.com, a website dedicated to Windows Vista Ultimate, Microsoft is offering a life experience outside the box. “Welcome to the new website for Windows Vista Ultimate. This is a space where we, the people who make Windows Vista Ultimate and Ultimate Extras, can talk to you about what we’re doing”, reads Microsoft’s welcoming message. The Redmond Company informed that it plans to introduce a high frequency rate of updates to the website and therefore has made available an RSS feed that would enable users to stay up to date with Windowsultimate.com. ...

Wishing all the readers of my blog a very happy and prosperous new year!