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Linux Genuine Advantage™

02/06/2007  II
Relevance: 6.57
Linux Genuine Advantage™ is an exciting and mandatory new way for you to place your computer under the remote control of an untrusted third party![Be sure to check out"Linux Genuine Advantage™ has been cracked by computer hackers!" at the bottom of the page. - TC]
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Benefit of Microsoft and Novell"interoperability"

12/29/2006  IIII
Relevance: 5.86
Companies such as Deutsche Bank AG, Credit Suisse and AIG Technologies have been taking advantage of Microsoft's recent agreement with Novell.[Aren't these the same companies that have been taking advantage for a couple months now? Is this really news? - dcparris]
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Take advantage of multiple CPU cores during file compression

02/14/2008  II
Relevance: 5.51
With the number of CPU cores in desktop machines moving from two to four and soon eight, the ability to execute computationally expensive tasks in parallel is becoming more important. The mgzip tools that can take advantage of multiple CPU cores during file compression, while pbzip2 uses multiple cores for both compression and decompression.
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VMGL brings 3-D effects to VMs

12/06/2008  IIIIII
Relevance: 5.43
Virtualized computing environments can take advantage of built-in virtualization support in modern dual-core processors, but when it comes to 3-D acceleration in virtual machines, almost all fall flat on their faces. VMGL is a little-known application written as part of Google's Summer of Code 2006 program that lets OpenGL apps running inside a virtual machine take advantage of the graphics hardware acceleration on the host. It has limitations, but if you want 3-D in VMs, VMGL is your best bet.
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50+ open source/free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat

12/20/2007  I
Relevance: 5.34
Adobe Acrobat is expensive, but that doesn't mean you have to live a life without portable documents. What many people don't realize is that PDF is a Federal Information Processing Standard, which means the specifications behind the format are widely published. Numerous developers take advantage of this fact and create programs that offer effective alternatives to Acrobat. Check out our list of these programs and take advantage of these tools that are full of some of the best PDF features and functions.
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Windows Genuine Advantage not such a plus

08/26/2007  I
Relevance: 5.31
Late last night Ars Technica started receiving reports from readers experiencing problems with Windows Genuine Advantage authentication. Windows XP and Windows Vista users wrote to say that they could not validate their installations using WGA, and one user even said that his installation was invalidated by the service. Microsoft is telling users they should"try again" later, with some support techs telling readers that Microsoft is aiming to have a fix in place by Tuesday, August 28.
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Microsofts Genuine Advantage

09/18/2006  IIIIII
Relevance: 4.13
A lot of managers are afraid to use Open Source Software, because it doesn't come with any support. Of course that isn't true. It is a classical piece of FUD. And then again, how much is support worth?
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Linux's Performance Advantage

04/11/2008  I
Relevance: 4.07
Hardware is always getting faster and with it Windows increases it's system requierments, but Linux does not. In time, this could be an important factor driving Linux's success.
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DVD Jon to play fair with Apple's DRM?

10/07/2006  III
Relevance: 4.02
Famous for his reverse engineering, an author of the DeCSS content de-scrambling software"DVD Jon" is playing a slightly different tune now. Rather than working against DRM as he has been known to do, he is now apparently experimenting with the idea of using DRM to his and supposedly customers advantage.
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.NET to LINUX conversion

09/07/2007  II
Relevance: 4.01
Last weekend, we completed the move from .NET ASP to LINUX/PHP. We did this to take advantage and contribute to the open source community and to prepare for scalability down the road.[Performance improvement table is included] - Abe
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