Archive for the ‘Tech Related Stuff’ Category

Survey shows Hong Kong’s websites the worlds riskiest

Hong Kong websites are the most likely to hit visitors with unwanted ads, viruses and spam, research from McAfee has found.
According to McAfee more than 19 percent of websites using the “.hk” domain pose a security threat to visitors. China based sites are the second most risky with 11 percent, while those from Finland and [...]

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Games Consoles ‘not green enough’

Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are not doing enough to eliminate potentially harmful chemicals and metals from their games consoles, according to environmental watchdog, GreenPeace. The body examined materials used inside PS2, XBOX 360 and Wii. Greenpeace said that while all three machines complied with European laws the consoles still contain harmful materials that “needed to [...]

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Linux Wins, Vista and Mac Loses

 At the PWN2OWN contest this year, hackers were given an open invitation to hack the three most popular Operating systems in use. Windows Vista, Mac OS X and Ubuntu 7.10, these were installed on separate laptops, VAIO VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10, Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1, and a MacBook Air running OSX 10.5.2, the [...]

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CEO Microsoft Corporation using apple notebook

It really does amaze me how some people can be so stupid. Now why on earth would the CEO of Microsoft be using a Mac and in such a public place? His presentation notebook choice really puzzles us.

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Why wait for Hardy Heron?

Every where I go I see the same count down, 5 days to go, 3 days to go, 2 days to go. Every one I see is waiting for the release date of Hardy Heron.
Yes I know it is only 2 days away, but we all know from experience what happens on the release date. [...]

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Windows Error Codes

A complete list of Windows Errors, and what they mean.
WinErr 001
Windows Loaded - System in Danger
WinErr 002
No Error - Yet
WinErr 003
dynamic Linking Error - Your Mistake is now in every file.
WinErr 004
Erroneous error - Nothing is wrong.
WinErr 005
Multitasking attempted - System confused.
WinErr 006
Malicious error - Desqview found on drive.
WinErr 007
System price error - [...]

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Cyber-Chat Phone By SongEdisson :D

No, there is nothing wrong with the title, it is supposed to spell that way :).
Lets start by saying what do I hold in my hand??

Mobile lovers will immediately say that is the all new cyber shot phone K810i by Sony Ericsson. But you guys are so wrong. Look at the brands above and below [...]

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Nvidia Launches another powerhouse, GeForce 9800 GX2

Yes its here, the long awaited powerhouse of a graphic card is now up for grabs for all the game fans out there. This monster will set you back by $600 to $700.
The reason I am constantly calling it a monster or a powerhouse is because of it’s amazing specs, from the specs it appears [...]

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China’s Firewall Strikes again!

Yes China has blocked yet another website, this time the victim of the all powerful firewall was youtube.com, for showing several videos about protests in Tibet and the Lhasa demonstrations
Youtube, which is normally available now shows a blank screen to all of their Chinese visitors.
On the other hand popular Chinese video websites such as 56.com [...]

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Play The Latest Windows games on Linux

Yes now you can play the latest games on Linux and I’m not talking about Wine. You can now play all your favorite games on PlayonLinux . PlayonLinux is an open source Python-scripted front end that helps you install and play tons of Windows games.
PlayonLinux is actually based on the popular Wine. PlayonLinux aside from [...]

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1 Million Dollars adds an ’s’ to an internet address

A British travel company has paid 560,000 Pounds (1.1 Million dollars) for the domain name cruises.co.uk, a price that is effectively 1 Million dollars just for the letter ’s’ since it already owns the address cruise.co.uk.
The sum shatters the previous record for a .co.uk domain of 300,000 dollars paid in October last year.

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