Now a days new processors are coming with extreme power, they can perform many calculations at once, can give you real life quality gaming experience. But what about the Power consumption ? A normal Intel pentium 4 processor consumes about 70 - 80 Watt of power, where as high performance Pentium D Processors may go upto 130 Watt !!!
[See all processor list with there power consumption at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation ]
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Just few days ago, i installed UBUNTU 8.04 LTS on my laptop, as i am user of BSNL Broadband, i connected BSNL Broadband [Dataone] to my laptop for surfing the net, but i think few people face few problems while connecting to BSNL Broadband [Dataone] in Ubuntu Linux. so i am providing a quick guide or tutorial for new users to start there BSNL Boradband on Ubuntu Linux.
[Note: This guide is for LAN connection only, and not for the USB connections as many modem manufacturer doesnt provide drivers for Linux versions.] Continue Reading...
Recently, i upgraded by Laptop to 1GB of RAM [Previously it was 256MB,though Ubuntu's min. system requirements
are 256MB RAM]. So i decided to give a try for installing Ubuntu on Laptop. I choose Ubuntu's Latest flavor Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Also know Hardy Heron).The Operating system is superb, installing is very easy and quick, it takes about 15 Min. to install. While installing the ubuntu i came to know that ubuntu doesn't have my city Nagpur in there time zone list, not even Mumbai or New Delhi, so i selected Kolkata.
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The new IBM Lotus Symphony - A free office suit for Windows and Linux users. using IBM Lotus Symphony you can create spreadsheets, presentations. It also have nice text editor for word processing. You can handle your e-mails too.
If you are from India, then you can get Free disk of IBM Lotus Symphony directly from IBM at your doorsteps. Click here to [Free of cost]
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Do you know, you can use your favorite Mozilla Firefox not just for browsing the Internet, but it can be used for File browsing too. !!. I was just accedently hold the Drive icon and put into the Firefox, and it shows this
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You can enhance it, are you tired of multiple windows [by using standard Windows Explorer]!! ??
Just install Plug-in in Firefox called IE Tab and Switch the rendering engine, and open your Drives in Firefox, and use Multi-tab functionality of firefox in browsing your computer !!! [NOTE: Click on ...
When Mozilla launched its Firefox 3 version, i was exited. but due to its some features i uninstalled Firefox 3, and stuck to Firefox 2. But now, after some days Firefox stopped developing its 2.x.x version and started encouraging to use Firefox 3, by forcing users to update to Firefox 3. So i planned to try Firefox 3 again, and now i am using it. Lets see what happens. Hope i will love it.
Though currently it looks better, now allmost all my plug-ins have Firefox 3 support and they are running fine. Looks are also cool. and i about ...
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