Now a days, laptops are shrinking in size, on popular demand from the mobile, laptop lugging crowd. There are a slew of 10" laptop models available in the market from various manufacturers like Samsung, Acer, HP and so on.
I have found that most of these laptops which, by popular parlance are known as netbooks or mini notebooks, come with 1 GB of memory. And they are mostly powered by an energy efficient Intel Atom processor.
We will never kill Mono - Says Microsoft
July 11, 2009
Microsoft has applied the Microsoft Community Promise to it's C# initiative. What this means is - anyone can develop a C# compiler and use it to create applications in C#.
In layman terms,here is how the Microsoft Community Promise work -
In layman terms,here is how the Microsoft Community Promise work -
VideoLAN - VLC 1.0.0 has officially been released
July 09, 2009
VLC media player - A universal media player which plays video and audio files of any known format has reached the version 1.0 milestone. I especially have a liking for this media player because it is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BeOS and BSDs. And, in my experience, I never ever had to hunt for media codecs once I installed VLC on my machine. Heck, it even plays Flash (.flv) video files.
Google Chrome OS to officially make it's debut in 2010
July 08, 2009
Google has eventually come out with the announcement that it is developing a unique Operating System - called the Google Chrome OS.
It will be Open Source, light weight, speedy, simple and secure. Google says the new OS will be targeted at Netbooks and will make it's debut sometime next year (2010). As the name suggests, Google Chrome OS will in all probability be a browser centric OS; in that, most applications will be residing in the cloud. The OS will run on x86 and ARM architecture.
Really exciting news for sure.
[Source : Official Google Blog]
It will be Open Source, light weight, speedy, simple and secure. Google says the new OS will be targeted at Netbooks and will make it's debut sometime next year (2010). As the name suggests, Google Chrome OS will in all probability be a browser centric OS; in that, most applications will be residing in the cloud. The OS will run on x86 and ARM architecture.
Really exciting news for sure.
[Source : Official Google Blog]
Ksplice Uptrack - Update a Linux Kernel Without a Reboot
July 04, 2009
Each time you update the Linux kernel, your system prompts you to reboot for the changes to take effect.
Not anymore.
Enter Ksplice Uptrack - a technology that allows you to update the Linux kernel in real time.
Not anymore.
Enter Ksplice Uptrack - a technology that allows you to update the Linux kernel in real time.
