A litle belated news but for many people quite important - on 12/18/2007 Microsoft released for public testing third service pack for it’s so far most favourite operating system Windows XP. You can download it here -  it’s 336MB. It doesn’t include any new functionality and is just a rollup of all hotfixes and updates since 3+ [...]

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IBM unlike MS provides (well, not anymore) fixpaks in the form of diskette images. Because floppy disks are notoriously unreliable, slow  and expensive these days, it is much better to install FixPaks using other method - extract the content of all the diskette images to hard drive and then apply it to your OS/2 installation.
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If you were trying to assemble small computer that would fit into sexy case that looks just great in your living room and could act as a multimedia center PC to play music, DVD and even some simple games, until recently there was only one option - all-in-one mini-ITX boards from VIA. These included VIA [...]

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I know it is a stupid thing to use two 160GB drives in a pseudo-hardware RAID0 array for storing 300GB of important data. It all started as experiment to see how the array will perform and compare the performance with standalone hard drive. My MSI K8T Neo2-F mainboard has two SATA ports included in the [...]

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Internet Explorer 7 has built in search and by default it uses Live Search by Microsoft. You can however choose from a list of other providers that is available at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-en/default.mspx
Recently I was looking for some movies and TV series on Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) and I thought it might be nice if I am [...]

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