From the monthly archives:

September 2006

ExtremeTech has published Performance for Intel’s newest quad core processor, the Core 2 Extreme Quad E6700. After running through the gauntlet of 3DMark and content creation tests, among others, the quad core CPU boasts impressive performance results, particularly in video and 3D tests. According to the article, video creators and 3D animation artists should [...]

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This is extremely dangerous Exploit.
Using simple command line tools on a machine running Windows XP we will obtain system level privileges, and run the entire explorer process (Desktop), and all processes that run from it have system privileges. The system run level is higher than administrator, and has full control of the operating system [...]

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This is quite easy. In order to start or stop a service in Windows 2003:
=> Click on Start
=> Select Admin Tools
=> Select Services
Now you can view the service names, description, status etc.
Task: To start or stop service
=> Select service name
=> Right click on a service name
=> Select Properties.
=> Now select Start or stop per [...]

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Water, coffee, tea and soda are among your laptop’s worst enemies. Just a little bit of such a liquid on your laptop keyboard can damage or destroy your machine or cause you to lose data.
The best way to prevent damage from a mix of liquid and electronics is to keep them as far apart as [...]

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There is absolutely no prerequisite, except, you win a writing competition to work at Google India.
If you have a clear, concise style and can use words to inform and persuade consumers, Google would like to hear from you. Google is looking for exceptional individuals to join the Google team in India, and organising a [...]

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MacGeekery has a short but insightful piece with examples on how to use a malformed Installer package (.pkg) on Mac OS X to ‘insert user accounts with administrator rights and change root-owned system configuration or binary files without prompting the vast majority of Mac OS X users for a password of any kind.
From the article: [...]

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For some reason, Microsoft decided not to activate the Copy To and Move To menu items in Windows XP Explorer as they did for Send To. This Microsoft Windows Registry hack adds Copy To and Move To to the right-click context menu of Windows Explorer.
Adding Copy To and Move To functionality to the Windows Explorer [...]

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Color vision deficiency (color-blind), in humans is the inability to perceive differences between some or all colors that other people can distinguish.
It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or due to exposure to certain chemicals. (see wikipedia article for more info)
According to the medical [...]

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Great news, finally Dell started to roll out new AMD based system.
Dell today announced four new desktop computers with choices of sizes, processors and graphics that help make it easier for customers to personalize PCs for specific needs ranging from entertainment to office applications.
Check out Dimension E521-specific: AMD SempronTM , AMD Athlon 64 [...]

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