Archive for September, 2009

Howtoforge: “Installing NVIDIA drivers on Debian Lenny requires a little extra work compared to doing so in other distributions like Ubuntu, due to the lack of some required packages in the default installation.”
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Qnap Systems is shipping a DLNA-ready device billed as a cross between a set-top box and a network-attached storage (NAS) server. Designed to catalog and play networked media content on a TV, the NMP-1000 offers HDMI and gigabit Ethernet ports, plus up to 2TB of storage, says the company.
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Windows/Mac/Linux: The official, actually-made-by-Google Chrome OS won’t hit netbooks until late 2010, but you can try out a custom-built Linux distribution that’s somewhat stripped down and puts…
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Southern Miss coach Larry Fedora gave more details Sunday on the injuries suffered by three key players during Saturday’s loss to Kansas, but was still unable to say what their status would be for Thursday’s game against UAB.
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An anonymous reader writes “Phoronix has brought benchmarks comparing the FreeBSD 8.0-RC and Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6 operating systems. FreeBSD rather ends up taking a wallop to Ubuntu Linux, but there are a few areas where FreeBSD 8 ran well. They also posted benchmarks comparing this near-final FreeBSD 8.0 build to that of FreeBSD 7.2 to show performance improvements there but with a few …
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