I’m the family’s computer guy and it is slowly spreading to family friends and even neighbors as well thanks to recommendations of family members. Recently my mum told my grandmother’s neighbors that I could take a look at their computer which was showing a bluescreen during startup and well, it’s hard to say no to your mother so I took the computer to analyze the problem that was leading to the bluescreen message.
Read more »We revisit last week's story about the piracy occurring on the Olympic Games' official website, describing the most blatant example.Read More...
Read more »We are coming closer to the finish line. I’m thinking of making the purchase of the new PC components in the next month or the month thereafter. I would like to thank everyone for their great and valuable comments which pointed me into the right directions concerning some components.
Read more »I’m keeping track of every change to Ghacks for about a year now which means that I write down the time of the change and what I did change, e.g. advertising position or links. This is invaluable to be able to reconstruct a previous state if something goes terribly wrong. If advertisement revenue goes down I can check the log and see if I made any changes to the positions in that time.
Read more »According to Digital Inspiration that’s the case if you are using Windows XP because leaving the password blank makes it impossible to connect to the computer remotely. The link given in the article which points to the Password Strength & Password Security page at Microsoft.com is unfortunately not available at this point.
Read more »Europe should force cell phone subscribers to pay for incoming calls, says one research group, and require both parties to share the cost of the call. It may not sound like a good deal to European cellular subscribers, but the researchers say it would reduce costs all around and allow for further development of next-generation networks.Read More...
Read more »We played with OCZ's "brain mouse", looked at ASUS' HDMI equipped sound card that will enable high definition audio codecs over HDMI from a HTPC, saw some more 4-series motherboards and much more in our day 2 coverage from CeBIT.
Read more »In November 2007 I called these three CAPTCHA implementations "unbreakable":
Google(unbreakable)
Hotmail(unbreakable)
Yahoo(unbreakable)
2008 is shaping up to be a very bad year indeed for CAPTCHAs:
The Samsung SGH-i450 is a truly innovative music phone that offers a dual slider design and touch wheel music navigation. When the i450 slides up, the mobile phone supports powerful smartphone features with Symbian S60 OS. Running the Symbian S60 3rd Edition operating system, the i450 provides advanced download application and multitasking features in fast speed through HSDPA connectivity. When it slides down, the phone activates as a music player with touch wheel navigation, which enables the users to control the multimedia menus easily.
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