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This will make sharing things here at ThreeGeeks with friends A LOT easier!
Enjoy!
-Gabe
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Not-So-Normal Geek Stuff
Sony is now loading Google Chrome onto all VIAO Machines.
Starting September 1st, all machines labeled as VIAO’s from Sony, are going to be Pre-Loaded with Google Chrome. Internet Explorer will still be there.
I for one am glad to see Sony taking the right step towards better and safer internet browsing, since we all know Internet Explorer is the Devil in software form.
Opera 10 has been released.
Opera 10 browser released
Opera Software, the Norwegian developer of the Opera web browser, has released a stable Opera 10 update. The new update promises to provide its users with faster downloads and browsing, along with new features. The company said that Opera 10 is significantly faster than the competition on resource-demanding pages such as Gmail and Facebook. One of its new features is new full thumbnails of open tabs.
[cNet] Gmail outage blamed on capacity miscalculation
by Tom KrazitGoogle’s nearly two-hour Gmail outage Tuesday was the result of a miscalculation regarding the capacity of its system, the company said late Tuesday. Read more
I’ve surpassed 1000 plays on Last.fm / I love Foobar2000
http://www.last.fm/user/murderbymodem
I’ve only been a member since August second. It’s kind of neat that I broke one thousand plays on September second. I love my music.
[Distrowatch] Kolibri – a desktop operating system in under 3 MB
How much memory and disk space do you need for an operating system? If you’re running the latest offerings from Microsoft, you probably want several gigabytes of both. For the larger Linux distros, the answer is probably a bit smaller. For mini versions of Linux one might want a few hundred megabytes of disk space and nearly that much RAM. But what if I told you that I was recently running a modern operating system that requires about 5 MB of disk space and about 10 MB of RAM? That sounds like a stretch, doesn’t it, even for Tiny Core Linux?
Linux is on my TV!
That’s a screenshot from my TV tuner. My cable TV seems to be out atm, it’s all fuzz on the normal TV, but for some reason my TV tuner picks this up? The normal TV does have the digital box though, I supposed that has something to do with it just being fuzz and then going to a blue screen instead of getting this Linux broadcast. I’m getting this on most channels. Some are working fine, some are just showing a still image of whatever was on, some just get no signal, but most just have this Linux terminal
