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Well, Im closer to becoming a distribution. PC/OS is wrapping up forartwork and functionality. If you have been lucky enough to get a copystay tuned. Im going to answer some questions here.* What users I dohave are all happy with the results thus far. Why start your own distribution? None of the distributions out there fit me. I would have to spend a couple of hours making the system fit. Why XFCE and Xubuntu? I decided not to double my work. I could utilize the Ubuntu systemwhere the developers would provide the updates and kernel fixes and Iwouldn’t have to spend what little free time debugging kernel code. Ichose XFCE because its very modular. For the server system XFCE went ona diet and I removed everything that wasn’t necessary on a serversystem and added server specific tools. This could also appeal to otherWindows Server and Netware users who want to use a GUI as well as command linetools. XFCE on a client desktop is a good desktop without the overheadof GNOME or KDE. Its got good basic tools and is very simple to modify. read the rest Link More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I just found a FREE DVD conversion tool for my Nokia N82: ) I got my Nokia N82 a few days ago and wanted to put a few DVD movies on it. I did found a lot of tools but all of them aren’t free except one called Daniusoft DVD to Mobile Converter. It used to be not free, but they are doing a promotion now and giving this software for free from Feb 20th to March 5th. I downloaded a copy and it worked great for me. Here is a little description of this program copied from their website: Daniusoft DVD to Mobile Phone Converter is a powerful and very easy to use program that can convert DVD to 3GP, MP4, AVI and WMV for different cell phones such as Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Palm, LG, Pocket PC, and Sony Ericsson and so on. It also has multiple functions to edit DVD movies so you can watch them on your cell phone with the best quality. And some Key Features: Convert DVD to Mobile video formats. Merge several DVD chapters or titles into one file; Crop Video - Crop off the black edges of DVD video. Select output aspect ratio – Select an aspect ration from Keep original, Full screen, 16:9 and 4:3; Trim Video - Set the Start time and End Time to trim DVD movie length. Set Video Effect - Convert DVD with flexible video and audio settings: adjust video Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and audio volume; If you are looking for a DVD to cell phone conversion tool, why not try this free software? : ) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm aware of a number of algorithms for working with arbitrary-precision (i.e. bignum) numbers, like Schonhage-Strassen, Karatsuba, and Toom-Cook, (and a few others), but for a simple bignum implementation to solve a problem (I can't use IntX) which set of algorithms is the simplest? I only operations I'll need to perform are the major arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and possibly exponentiation with natural powers, but that's just multiplication on steroids), oh, and Modulo (as in, remainder-of-division). I'm after the algos which are the simplest to implement in a C-style language (pointers are okay), I'm not after the tightest BigO performance figures, this is just to prove something. And I need to have it done within a week too :) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

At least, that's what the index is telling me. I swear, it said 3.2 prior to SP1. Either that, or I came awfully close to Max's 5.9 $4K computer without even trying. http://lh6.google.com/minh.ngoc.truong/R7zOFMvtq4I/AAAAAAAAAE0/9IuWY4KIHQc/perf_index.gif?imgmax=720 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft yanks Vista SP1 update causing endless reboots PC World Magazine, Australia - 5 minutes ago Even after White posted the company statement to the Vista blog, Darrell Gorter, a Microsoft employee, was asking users to send him system logs. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft/Windows Microsoft Pulls Vista Update To Fix Endless ... Top Tech News, CA - 6 minutes ago Posting on the Windows Vista Blog on Tuesday, product manager Nick White downplayed the problem. "Immediately after receiving reports of this error, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I accidently deleted my sound driver. Yes I know, I'm an idiot. My computer savvy friend looked at my computer to help me fix it, to my surprise I don't have a sound card. I bought my computer second hand and had to erase the hard drive when I got home, and reinstal the drivers with out disks(I got them off line). I've tried Gateway which is the man. of my computer,*and Dell which made the speakers. Nothing is of use... any suggestions? BTW I don't have the money to buy a sound card. If you don't have a sound card how can you have sound? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ IT PRO <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft goes public with second XP Service Pack test IT PRO, UK - 5 minutes ago Microsoft Windows sustainability release programme manager, Chris Keroack wrote in a TechNet blog posting: "XP SP3 RC2 includes all previously released ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Pulls Vista Pre-SP1 Update bMighty.com, NY - 11 minutes ago It was described as "necessary to successfully install and to remove Windows Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1) on all versions of Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Pulls Vista Update Files After Glitches CRN, NY - 1 minute ago In a Wednesday post to the Windows Vista team blog, Nick White, a product manager with the Vista team, acknowledged the issue and said Microsoft has ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2008/02/20/announcing-xbox-live-community-games.aspx Awesome. Submit your XNA games for peer review, and if they pass the terms of service and are appropriate enough, they end up on Xbox Live Marketplace. And you get paid for them. Self-publishing through XBLM? Yeah, that sounds awesome. This might just turn the whole hobbyist game development thing upside-down. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Appscout <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Alerts Users about Vista SP1 Bug Appscout, NY - 7 minutes ago It appears that Microsoft's woes with Vista aren't quite over yet. According to the company's official Windows Vista blog, a bug in the SP1 update is the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Pulls Vista Update To Fix Endless Reboot Glitch Sci-Tech Today - 37 minutes ago Posting on the Windows Vista Blog on Tuesday, product manager Nick White downplayed the problem. "Immediately after receiving reports of this error, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Pulls Vista Update Causing Reboot Problems Redmond Channel Partner, CA - 4 hours ago ... of the update to avoid further customer impact while we're investigating the problem," wrote Nick White on Microsoft's Windows Vista Blog on Tuesday. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Computerworld <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> XP SP3 RC2 first look: Be prepared to be underwhelmed Computerworld, MA - 1 hour ago WPA2 is already available in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 with SP2. For more details about XP SP3 changes, see Microsoft's Release Notes. ... UPDATED: Microsoft releases latest version of XP service pack IT PRO all 21 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Pulls Buggy Windows Vista SP1 Files InformationWeek, NY - 7 minutes ago "We made the decision to temporarily suspend automatic distribution of the update," Vista program manager Nick White revealed in a blog post Tuesday. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ DailyTech <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft pulls Vista SP1 update CNET News.com, CA - 1 hour ago One irate Windows Vista Ultimate user replied to White's blog post, saying the prerequisite had corrupted a PC and resulted in the need to reformat the hard ... Microsoft yanks Vista SP1 update causing endless reboots Computerworld Vista SP1: Release To Mob InfoWorld Microsoft Pulls Vista Update bMighty.com all 36 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Releases Office Binary Formats Slashdot - 4 hours ago It was faster and integrated better with Windows. by ozmanjusri (601766) Microsoft implementation of Java wasn't buggy: far from it, it was actually ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Pulls Vista Update That Caused Reboot Problems ADT Magazine - 10 minutes ago ... of the update to avoid further customer impact while we're investigating the problem," wrote Nick White on Microsoft's Windows Vista Blog on Tuesday. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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MS Announced that we'd be able to create games for the Zune using XNA. And not just any games. Multiplayer games. Oh the beauty! p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;text-underline:single;} .MsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} Permalink More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft fixes Vista SP1 update problems, not soon enough for some engadget, CA - 25 minutes ago Specifically, the SP1 update process took it upon itself to automatically a prerequisite Windows Update, which apparently caused some folks' PCs to dive ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Wall Street Journal <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Can Superheroes Save Microsoft’s Vista Glitch? Wall Street Journal - 7 minutes ago A glitch in a program that preps PCs running Windows Vista for an important update is causing some computers to reboot constantly. Microsoft has pulled the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft pulls Vista SP1 update CNET News.com, CA - 5 minutes ago One irate Windows Vista Ultimate user replied to White's blog post, saying the prerequisite had corrupted a PC and resulted in the need to reformat the hard ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

That's no typo, either, I do mean 20th.* It wasn't until recently I knew this, but apparently, my fine state was not allowed to use the term 'Evolution' in its science textbooks.* Now, of course, we get to use the term, but we have to have 'the theory of' just before it to avoid the delicate fundy sensibilities. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds