Touchscreen desktop ASUS Eee on November
Touchscreen ASUS EEE is due on Novebmer, it has very sleek design.
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Touchscreen ASUS EEE is due on Novebmer, it has very sleek design.
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Hope that this may reduce the number of terrorists being raised.
One of OLPC's partners in Afghanistan, PAIWASTOON, is looking for in-country volunteers to help with university outreach and software/tool development.
They especially need two software developers to help build their team.
OLPC in Afghanistan have over 10,000 XOs to work with in the coming months, and PAIWASTOON can offer basic travel and living stipends. Below is the original call for assistance from Svetla, one of their program organizers, and a leaflet they have made.
You can contact her directly (svetla >at< paiwastoon.com.af ) for more information, or follow up on the grassroots mailing list. Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested!
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Picture of the HTC handset, said to be called the HTC T829, have leaked out and, unless some good-quality Photoshop trickery’s involved, a series of pictures online show the device connected to a wireless network at 13.8Mb/s. This is a wireless speed that far surpasses the connection capabilities of HSDPA 3G, which top out at no more than 7.2Mb/s.
Various icons on the mysterious HTC device also appear to show it connected to a network called Yota, Russia’s 802.16 WiMax network that – as of early October – covered central Moscow.
Another picture shows how the phone’s WiMax connection can be switched on and off at will.
In addition to WiMax connectivity, the T8290 is also rumoured to be able to connect over 802.11g Wi-Fi networks. Although it would be disappointing if the device couldn’t connect over 802.11n.
The phone’s said to have a 3.8in, 800 x 480 display and sport Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity too.
Please don't mix this HTX with Nokia N80 WiMax capable series , as the Nokia N770/800/810 are Personal Internet Communicator and not Mobile phone (in other words, they dont have GSM module)


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I welcome all of you to add me, so we can know/see each other.
My mail there is as my name samer azmy separated by a dot on the gmail , or u just can search for Samer Azmy and write me that u r my blog reader and I would love to confirm our friendship
See you all there
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Asus has admitted that some of the its Eee Box desktop mini PCs have shipped with a virus.
But while the company has only admitted the infection was present in machines shipped to Japan, Register Hardware can confirm that other territories may be affected too.
According to an email sent out by Asus, PC Advisor reports, the Eee Box's 80GB hard drive has the recycled.exe virus files hidden in the drive's D: partition. When the drive is opened, the virus activates and attempts to infect the C: drive and an removable drives connected to the system.
According to Symantec, the malware is likely to be the W32/Usbalex worm, which creates an autorun.inf file to trigger recycled.exe from D:.
Fortunately, the infection was spotted and removed by Microsoft's most recent malware removal tool update.
Coincidence? That seems likely, given the different virus and the fact that the disk image used to prepare the Japanese Eee Boxes will almost certainly be different from the one used to image English-language product.
But at this stage it remains unclear whether the infection we found was present from the start, or accidentally added by a previous reviewer
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Abu Dhabi will pay $700 million for a stake in a new company that will own two plants in Germany and build a factory in New York, newswire Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
The new company, which will assume $1.2 billion of AMD's debt, will receive as much as $6 billion from Abu Dhabi to expand plants and get $1.4 billion in operating capital.
Abu Dhabi will also pay $314 million to double its stake in AMD to 19%, AMD said today in an e-mailed statement.
The cash infusion is a lifeline for AMD, which is forecast to report a third straight annual loss this year and is falling behind on investments needed to keep up.
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This release marks a milestone for PC-BSD, by moving to the latest FreeBSD 7-Stable and also incorporating the KDE 4.1.1 desktop. Users will immediately notice the improved visual interface that KDE 4.1.1 offers, as well as a large improvement in hardware support and speed from the update to FreeBSD 7-Stable. PC-BSD 7 also offers a large and growing library of self-contained PBI files available for installation, and improvments for other locales on our PBI Directory website. This release also offers new methods of installation, including a DVD, USB and Internet/network install.
PC-BSD 7.0 Screenshots are h3r3
Note: Here is an interview with the lead developer of PC-BSD.
FreeBsd HandBook is h3r3
Spread BSD Campaign link is h3r3
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The VIA ARTiGO, a Pico-ITX build kit from VIA (for those who don't know Pico-ITX , please check this WikiPedia link) , makes the possibilities of low power, small form-factor computing. The Artigo comes with just about everything you need to build an energy efficient computer based on the VIA C7 processor except a 2.5-inch hard drive (IDE for this version) and a DDR2 533MHz SO-DIMM memory stick (up to 1GB, with a recommended density of 2Rx16).


shown here is also the back of the unit showing the rather simple and straightforward nature of the Artigo. Just a video, LAN, and screen connectivity appear here. I wish they had put 2 USB ports on the rear so the front of the Artigo wouldn’t be so cluttered with USB cables and that would allow for the keyboard and mouse to be connected via the rear for a nice clean desktop setup.
VIA does provide a circular cutout right near the power jack to install optional included cables that extend the functionality and versatility of the unit, included optional connecting hardware are:
* DVI Video Out Cable
* Serial port cable
* PS/2 KB/Mouse cable
* External PSU input cable (if you elect not to use the internal DC-DC PSU PCB)
* 2.5” IDE Ribbon Cable (I don’t much see the point in this since they already provide a PCB for linking the HDD to the mainboard inside the unit)
Inside the Artigo, there is a SATA port for adding an external SATA HDD but VIA doesn’t give you a way to cleanly set this up. You are left to find your own solution for adding the HDD and setting it up with the Artigo. I wish VIA set up an e-SATA port to simply plug into the mainboard SATA connector like they did with the USB and audio, that would certainly amplify the geek appeal of the box even more and provide an easy and clean way to add an external disk drive.
Though VIA’s website mentions that Windows XP is supported, I preferred to install Ubuntu Linux on the Artigo kit. In this article, I wanted to gauge how the Artigo performed as an energy efficient desktop computer for internet surfing, email, webcam-ing, and music. I must say on all tasks, I was pleasantly surprised the by the capabilities of such a lightweight processor as VIA’s C7. For the most part, general application performance was acceptable considering the hardware things were running on–the app launch speeds were certainly reasonable and did not make it unpleasant to use. As I write this article for publication, I have several windows open, I’m pulling in my favorite internet radio stream, and the machine seems to still perform with good response. At idle, the Linux OS only chews up about 170MB of the 1GB of ram, and generally uses 2% processor time. The following screenshot of the htop tool shows this below, except there was a 5% spike when the screen capture fired so that’s why we see 7%.

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~ GO Placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they, too, have their story.
~ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter;for there will always better as well as worse than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
~ Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world
is full of trickery.But do not let this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideas; and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of aridity and disenchantment it perennial as the grass.
~ Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But go not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
~ You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars, you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
~ With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
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