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On it.Wikipedia: It’s a latin expression that means “simply, it’s that”. Used in order to emphasize that the things are in this way and there is nothing that needs a clarification. Here, the Microsoft Unveils Windows Vista Product Lineup. A nice extract: The Windows Vista product lineup consists of six versions, two for businesses, three for consumers, and one for emerging markets: Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Vista Starter. The number of offerings is the same as the number of offerings currently available for Windows® XP. More important, the lineup is designed to deliver clear value to a broad range of customers, each product tailored to meet specific needs of various segments of customers — home PC users, small and medium-sized businesses and the largest enterprises — and is aimed at bringing 64-bit, Media Center and Tablet PC functionality into the mainstream. ...

Download and watch all the best internet TV shows and videos in one powerful application. New channels arrive daily in the built-in Channel Guide. Stop squinting at tedious web videos– sit back and watch big, high resolution videos one after another. It’s so easy to use that you’ll be watching interesting videos in moments. It’s name is Democracy TV (DTV). It’s an Internet TV Platform TOTALLY Opensource. Now, a Windows version is also available (before this, DTV was only for MacOSX). ...

On Geekpatrol.ca there is a comparison between… Mac Mini 1.42 GHz 512 KB L2 cache 167 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR 333 SDRAM iMac G5 2.1 GHz 512 KB L2 cache 700 MHz system bus 1.5 GB DDR2 533 SDRAM. iMac Core Duo 1.83 GHz 2 MB L2 cache shared between cores 667 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR2 667 SDRAM. iMac Core Duo 2.0 GHz 2 MB L2 cache shared between cores 667 MHz system bus 512 MB RAM DDR2 667 SDRAM Power Mac G4 Dual 1.25 GHz 256 KB L2 cache per cpu 2 MB backside L3 cache per cpu 167 MHz system bus 1.75 GB DDR 333 SDRAM Power Mac G5 1.6 GHz 512 KB L2 cache 800 MHz system bus 768 MB DDR 333 SDRAM Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz 512 KB L2 cache per processor 900 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR 400 SDRAM. Power Mac G5 Dual Core 2.0 GHz 1 MB L2 cache per core 1000 MHz system bus 2.5 GB DDR2 533 SDRAM Power Mac G5 ‘Quad’ 2.5 GHz 1 MB L2 cache per core 1.25 GHz system bus 1.5 GB DDR2 533 SDRAM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (2.2 GHz) 512 KB L2 cache 800 MHz system bus 1 GB of DDR 400 SDRAM. Intel Pentium 4c 2.4 GHz HT 512 KB L2 cache 800 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR 400 SDRAM Intel Xeon Dual 3.2 GHz HT 1MB L2 cache per CPU 800 MHz system bus 1 GB DDR2 400 SDRAM … using Geeckbench Preview: a opensource benchmark running on MacOSX and Windows by now. ...

Thanks to Treviño for the howto (in italian). But, for high-speed ubuntu/debian users, click here for the .deb.

Windows Vista website have a new amazing layout (no Ajax, sorry) to present in the “right way” the content of the next M$ Operating System. I’m interested in the BIG REVOLUTION that it must start (:lol:). Hey hey, one more thing: see at the “home oriented” software that will be available with Vista. Remember you anything?

… a Windows “feature” created in the 1990, in win 3.0, is STILL ALIVE! 8O The problem? This “feature”, the function SetAbortProc, is used by windows when a print-job must be stopped. 1990! We are in 2006! We (YOU) are on Windows XP! 8O Source? Start from the 2cents of Neminis.org.

Via OSSBlog.

… The company has already announced to developers that most drivers, including graphics, will run in user mode - which means that they don’t get access to the privileged kernel mode (or Ring 0). At this level, a process can do anything it likes, including overwriting memory that doesn’t belong to it. The result of such overwriting by (usually) buggy code is often a system crash. So the move should result in greater reliability, because crashing drivers cause some 89 per cent of system crashes in Windows XP, according to Microsoft. When run in user mode, they won’t be able to bring down the entire system… ...