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So Scoble commented on the whole China blocking the main search engines, despite people in China like Blognation's David Feng saying it was not true. Within his entry he suggests the US pulls out of the Olympics, fine more medals for everybody else, of course it would rob US athletes who in many cases for years have been looking forward to and training for the games. But never mind them, just use them as part of a political stunt, like in 1979 in response to a war you lot started....

I picked up a copy of Windows Home Server a couple of weeks back, saw it on Overclockers and ordered it with a new 500GB hard drive, I was originally going to have this finished a day or two after installing, but things got in the way. Microsoft announced Windows Home Server back at the CES in January, it was very well received and I managed to get onto the beta program a couple of months later, so I come at this review having used it for 6 months or so already....

On the 4th of October 1957 @ 19:28:34 UTC Sputnik launched, about 98 minutes later it was heard on the radios at Baikonur - confirming that it had completed one successful orbit. We had made something travel so fast, nearly 30,000 kph, that it took months to fall back to the Earth. To quote a French newspaper from the following day "Earth's gravity has been conquered". 50 years ago we made the single greatest technological achievement since the development of agriculture....

This question pops up quite a lot in online forums nowadays. Before I could quite honestly tell somebody if you need to ask, you have 32-bit. That's not true anymore, you can buy machines with 4GB of RAM in them, and increasingly they are being loaded with 64-bit Windows Vista, so the system can make use of all the memory. The following works for Windows Vista and Windows 7: You can find out by going to Control Panel -> System and Maintenance (System and Security for Windows 7 users) -> System....

So Microsoft held their biannual BlueHat security gathering last week, as they've been doing for a couple of years now, inviting outside security researchers to have a chit chat with Microsoft developers on security.  The press aren't invited to these (officially it's an internal Microsoft event), and so what details emerge is usually from the blogs of researchers who were involved. Halvar Flake, from Sabre Security was invited to write up his thoughts on the BlueHat blog....

Just a quick rant about the state of ATI's video drivers before I call it a night. Sleep mode isn't working, not even from hibernate. These are basic computer functions - a graphics driver should not be hanging the resume process. How did the 7.9 drivers get approved for release in this state? This isn't the only problem I've been putting up with, since the 7.4 drivers I've had to deal with washed out colours....

Ofcom has said the BBC launching an HD channel would not cause a "significant" negative effect on commercial stations and green lighted the move to launch BBC HD on Freeview. However due to lack of space on the radio spectrum it will only be for four hours a day, between 02:00 and 06:00. Something that won't change until we stop wasting bandwidth on analogue transmissions, which is planned nationwide for 2012, although some more advanced, modern and developed regions of the country will be doing it in 2008 and 2009....

OK so the pressure has been building for a while for me to join one of these social-network things. Catherine said I should join MySpace, which I did, but being owned by King Murdoch and having no improvements made to it in years, and the bad UI, and that stupid astrology nonsense being forced down your throat with no way to turn it off, I just never bothered doing anything with it....

Check out this nonsense. Only Gutmann comes close to spreading this number of lies and FUD. Upgrading to Windows Vista has been banned by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), technology giant Texas Instruments and other corporations and government agencies False. They said they would not be upgrading to Windows Vista for X number of months. I notice you used and underlined the word banned, indicating to me that you're lying....

So this error message has been doing the rounds lately. This application has failed to start because d3dx9_32.dll was not found. Or other error messages around d3dx9.dll, dxdx9d.dll, d3dx10.dll, xinput.dll, xact.dll, d3dx10_33.dll, d3dx9_40.dll and other variations being missing, not being found or installed. These are all optional components to DirectX that may not be installed with the version of DirectX you already have on your system. Typically these will be installed when the game installs DirectX, however for historical reasons a lot of gamers, knowing they had the latest version of DirectX didn't bother (I never do either)....