HOWTO Change Windows XP Home to Windows XP Pro - Gizmodo

HOWTO Change Windows XP Home to Windows XP Pro - Gizmodo: "It sounds pretty simple to do (just some registry changes), but you can’t install Service Pack 2, so you might try to slipstream in the changes to your modified install disc (if that’s even possible)."

Intel And Microsoft Say They'll Back Nishida's Toshiba - Forbes.com

Intel And Microsoft Say They'll Back Nishida's Toshiba - Forbes.com: "After sitting on the fence for months in the battle between the warring formats, the software colossuses have signed up to the HD DVD Promotion Group--meaning that PCs running Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system or Intel's Viiv entertainment technology will support HD DVD drives."

Cooperative Linux

Cooperative Linux: "Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine. For instance, it allows one to freely run Linux on Windows 2000/XP, without using a commercial PC virtualization software such as VMware, in a way which is much more optimal than using any general purpose PC virtualization software."

Mobile phones allowed in European skies | The Register

Mobile phones allowed in European skies | The Register: "British Midland and TAP Air Portugal will permit passengers to use their mobile phones in the air next year, the two European airlines said this week.

Both companies will use base-station technology developed by OnAir, the Airbus-backed rival to Boeing's Connexion. OnAir uses pico-cell base-stations from Siemens, coupled with software from TriaGnoSys. The kit will be installed in 2006 with a view to commencing a trial service late in the year."

Networking Pipeline | Florida Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal

Networking Pipeline | Florida Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal: "ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Police have arrested a man for using someone else's wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice.

Benjamin Smith III, 41, faces a pretrial hearing this month following his April arrest on charges of unauthorized access to a computer network, a third-degree felony.

Police say Smith admitted using the Wi-Fi signal from the home of Richard Dinon, who had noticed Smith sitting in an SUV outside Dinon's house using a laptop computer."

OldVersion.com

OldVersion.com: "Sometimes upgrading to a newer version can be a good thing. Other times, your computer may not be compatible with the new version, the new version is bloated, or all the good options are no longer available. OldVersion.com has been supplying the online community with old versions of various programs since 2001. The service is utilized by thousands of users every day and has been featured in newspapers and magazines as well as on radio and television."

Top 10 products - CNET.com

Top 10 products - CNET.com: "Gadgets of every description have flowed through the doors of CNET for 10 years. Picking a list of the 10 best is an exercise in healthy but vocal arguments. Everyone has a different idea of what is meant by best. You can make great arguments for the Diamond Multimedia Rio 300, Mac OS X, the Sony PSP, and many more gadgets that aren't on our list."

SLAX webconfig page

SLAX webconfig page: "Everything you modify, create or download during a Live-CD session is kept in memory until the computer is rebooted; then it's all lost. More precisely, it WAS lost until SLAX came out and the new era of portability began... Don't carry your settings along with you anymore, just remember a secret pass phrase!"

we make money not art: Light transmitting concrete

we make money not art: Light transmitting concrete: "A wall made of LitraCon has the strength of traditional concrete but thanks to an embedded array of optical glass fibers, view of the outside world, such as the silhouette of trees, houses and passersby, are transmitted inside the building."

Howto Create an RSS 2.0 Feed

Howto Create an RSS 2.0 Feed: "If you can learn HTML, you can easily learn how to build your own RSS 2.0 feeds. I'll take you through the steps to creating an RSS feed from scratch."

the jackol’s den » htaccess Cheatsheet - Mikhail Esteves

the jackol’s den » htaccess Cheatsheet - Mikhail Esteves: "Here is a simple cheatsheet for the .htaccess file"

USATODAY.com - Rebuilt New Orleans could be cutting edge

USATODAY.com - Rebuilt New Orleans could be cutting edge: "Ugly as she was, Katrina may have given BellSouth a rare opportunity: the chance to turn one of the oldest cities in the USA into a showcase for 21st-century communications.

Talk of how New Orleans could look some day may seem fanciful considering it may take years to make the city livable again.

Assuming New Orleans rises again, a city rebuilt from the ground up could boast the best voice, data and video communications infrastructure in the nation, says Bill Smith, BellSouth's chief technology officer."

Tech Manifesto » Screenshots of the GoogleOS?

Tech Manifesto » Screenshots of the GoogleOS?: "This Chinese site indicate that they claim to have possession of the rumored Google OS.

Doubtful, I would except to say that it looks fake to me. Not only does Google have a secret OS in the works, but we’re supposed to believe that they’ve got a spreadsheet app and a word processor to boot? They appear to be using a simple transparent theme too."

REVIEW: New Yahoo! Mail Beta - The Unofficial Yahoo! Weblog - yahoo.weblogsinc.com _

REVIEW: New Yahoo! Mail Beta - The Unofficial Yahoo! Weblog - yahoo.weblogsinc.com _: "Gmail is suddenly looking a little clunky. The new Yahoo! Mail is a sleek, finely wrought piece of interface design. The overall look is an Outlook-styled, three-pane window with folders in the left vertical pane, headers top right, and a message preview pane below the headers. Thus, Yahoo! becomes the first major e-mail provider to keep the Inbox in view while reading a message. That alone is news, but it’s not, in my opinion, the biggest news."

Samsung to play safe with dual HD DVD/Blu-ray rig

Samsung is to harness consumer confusion over which next-generation optical disc standard to back by offering a player that supports both HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD).

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Search Engine Journal » Google Talk Goes Wireless with MessageVine

Search Engine Journal » Google Talk Goes Wireless with MessageVine: "Google Talk Goes Wireless with MessageVine

It was only a matter of time before someone took Google Talk wireless. MessageVine today announced the release of the first Mobile Instant Messaging solution for Google Talk, Google’s Instant Messaging and VOIP messaging system. MessageVine’s Mobile Instant Messaging client for Google Talk is an always-on, secure real-tInstant Messaginge communication application based on rich presence information. MessageVine’s Mobile client offers the same friendly and intuitive user experience as offered by the Google Talk’s PC client."

CNN.com - Internet-based TV starts making inroads - Aug 2, 2005

CNN.com - Internet-based TV starts making inroads - Aug 2, 2005: "Television delivered via Internet technology looks set to give consumers a choice in much the same way they choose their broadband connection provider.

Internet Protocol television -- or IPTV -- is where television images are broadcast using the same fiber optic technology used to bring broadband Internet connections into homes."

Macworld: Feature: Tiger Secrets: System settings, Page 1

Macworld: Feature: Tiger Secrets: System settings, Page 1: "Secret shortcuts. Hidden helpers. Mysterious menus. You could spend months tracking down all the undocumented features tucked away in Mac OS X 10.4, Apple’s newest operating system. But chances are, you’re too busy using Tiger for more-important tasks—such as doing your job. So Macworld sent in a team of specially trained spies to uncover Tiger’s deepest, darkest secrets."

Keep the Computer Browser Service Humming

Keep the Computer Browser Service Humming: "In 'The Computer Browser Service,' June 2002, InstantDoc ID 24879, I explained that the Microsoft Computer Browser service maintains lists of your network's Windows-based domains, workgroups, and computers, as well as other network equipment that supports the NetBIOS protocol. These browse lists are the source of the information that users see when they expand Network Neighborhood in Windows Explorer. In Windows 2000—based networks, Active Directory (AD) replaces the Computer Browser service. However, mixed Win2K—Windows NT networks that maintain pre-Win2K domain controllers (DCs) and networks with some clients that aren't AD-enabled still use the Computer Browser service."