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It appears that the format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray are over with Toshiba conceding defeat.
A source from Toshiba, quoted by Reuters, said “We have entered the final stage of planning to make our exit from the next generation DVD business”.
Large retailers in the US they would cut their support for HD DVD by […]

I purchased a new laptop computer for $699. For a Celeron, it works fine as an office suite I can take on the road.
It came pre-installed with Microsoft Vista Home Basic which worked fine. With one small tweak, it worked even better - I downloaded Fedora 8 as a live CD, booted up and it […]

bzip2 (.bz2 files) is a free and open source (BSD-style license) lossless data compression algorithm and program developed by Julian Seward.

Warner Brothers are now releasing movies exclusively on Blu-ray discs. It now appears that Blu-ray will be the winner of the format wars betweeen Blu-ray and HD DVD.
Movie titles released on Blu-ray from Hollywood Studios Blu-ray Sony/MGM, Disney, 20th Century Fox, New Line, Lionsgate and now Warner Brothers, will have over 70% of the DVD […]

I recently purchased the Microsoft Desktop 7000 Wireless Keyboard and Mouse because I got tired of changing batteries on my other wireless mouse which seemed to be every couple of weeks. I selected the Desktop 7000 because it was the only one available with a rechargeable mouse (the Desktop 8000 also has a rechargeable mouse […]

Tar is a unix (linux, freeBSD, Sun Solaris etc.) command line program and file extension. It stands for Tape ARchive. If you have had the pleasure to work with tapes such as reel-to-reel or cartridges you know how frustrading it is to find and retrieve a file. Tar made life a little easier - sometimes. Now days, tar can be used to backup or archive files on any media including CD’s, DVD’s, USB storage devices, remote webservers and Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices.

I found a great Windows program which runs a PABX (PBX). 3CX offers a free version of the PABX software (as well as a pro version with additional features).
3CX is easy to install and configure through a web browser GUI. Using Linksys IP Phones (SPA941), I have setup 2 ip phones to connect to […]

I just compared the web server stats from a website I manage and using awstats and webalizer, I got vastly different results.
 I know that awsats breaks up page views in to “Traffic viewed” and “Traffic not viewed”, that is pages viewed by a person and pages viewed by a search engine. But the problem is, […]