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THX hears the call of consumer electronics | CNET News.com

Little
known fact: THX was founded by Star Wars director George Lucas in 1983 to help
theater owners adjust their auditoriums for maximum impact — and in doing so
became an iconic brand for AV technology, even if no one really knew what THX
is or does. Well, the company is now using that expertise to take on a new home
theater challenge:

Hotmail Fails To Deliver Up To 81% Of All Attachment Emails

“It has long been suspected that there is a silent policy that makes Hotmail automatically delete the majority of attachments
to save on bandwidth and internal disk space. Therefore it really
doesn’t matter if every client has access to 2GB of storage since they
don’t deliver the attachments to fill that space up anyway. If that
truly is the case,

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500 billion moves later, computer solves checkers

After 13 years of brute-force computer analysis examining all 500 billion possible board positions, researchers announced Thursday they had solved the centuries-old game of checkers.

The result?

FileHamster – A Personal Revision Control Solution for Content Creators

FileHamster is a version tracking application for developers, graphic artists and other content creators that frequently modify existing files.

FileHamster provides real-time backup and archiving of your files while you work. It enables you to monitor specific files on your hard drive and automatically create incremental backups whenever those files are modified. It also enables you to store notes about the changes that have been made, allowing you to quickly locate a specific revision or provide a detailed account of the work you’ve done on a project.

It has many features, but is very easy to use and does not require any technical expertise – just point it to the directory or file you want to monitor/backup and it will do the rest.

Slyck News – Capitol Records Ordered to Pay Attorney Fees

“Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire…” Many file-sharers may see today’s staggering news as reminiscent of the opening scroll of Star Wars, as a small force has emerged victorious against the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). For the first time ever, the RIAA has been ordered to pay attorney fees in the “Capitol Records, Inc. vs. Debbie Foster and Amanda Foster” case.

PageDefrag v.32

One of the limitations of the Windows NT/2000 defragmentation interface is that it is not possible to defragment files that are open for exclusive access. Thus, standard defragmentation programs can neither show you how fragmented your paging files or Registry hives are, nor defragment them. Paging and Registry file fragmentation can be one of the leading causes of performance degradation related to file fragmentation in a system.

PageDefrag uses advanced techniques to provide you what commercial defragmenters cannot: the ability for you to see how fragmented your paging files and Registry hives are, and to defragment them. In addition, it defragments event log files and Windows 2000/XP hibernation files (where system memory is saved when you hibernate a laptop).

10 US Laws Every Domainer Needs to Know

After the overwhelming popularity of our first ecommerce law article, ‘12 US Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know‘ it became clear that there is a lot of demand for concise, plain talk, tech related legal information. In this, our second installment, we cover ‘10 US Laws Every DOMAINER Needs to Know.’

The Local – Sigbritt, 75, has world’s fastest broadband

A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books – with the world’s fastest internet connection.

Dell fixes Ubuntu laptop pricing

Dell
confesses it made a mistake with its pricing and is now offering the Inspiron
1420 laptop with Ubuntu and a full 2 gigabytes of RAM and a 160GB hard-drive
for $50 less than the same system with Windows Vista and not $225 more as had
been the case last week.