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my laptop has had a screen resolution of 1280×768. i always wondered “why?”
hmmm, today i found an explanation or it… it’s in this picture

looks like the designer wanted to accomodate both XGA and HDTV resolutions in the same screen without having to resize the video … hmmm kool isn’t it

picture source : wikipedia

Rumors are surfacing that GM and Ford have recently been engaged in talks that would form an alliance, possibly even a merger, between the two financial troubled automakers.

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Bob Gleichauf, the chief technology officer in Cisco Systems’s security technology group, has raised concerns that integrating Vista into a complex IT infrastructure could present problems.

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A chat with AMD’s CTO about the upcoming K8L Quad Core AMD processor gives us some new insight as to just how AMD is looking to handle the newly competitive market served up by Intel’s Core 2 Duo and beyond.

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If the move from Windows to Linux, which the government of the south Indian state of Kerala has been making a noise about, actually does come off, then it would be the largest such migration ever seen. Kerala has a population of around 28 million and the natives of the state are generally educated and left-leaning.

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Software development company Tachyon Technologies’ phonetically-driven Quillpad released this month enables users to email in three Indian languages with more planned to be added.

itz an awsome tool http://www.quillpad.com/ (too bad, it works with IE only)

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When you can’t afford the real ipod dock, you get creative…
It opens up like a case to put your ipod in it too

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This is a valid link to an article on the English Wikipedia which is not vandalism nor defacement, a joke, etc. If you don’t believe me, click the link, and you’ll just have to see. One example of why Wikipedia is so much better than Britannica.

Note: Doesn’t really fit into any section properly, but is cool enough to merit a submit anyway.

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You’d probably think that there would be a Home and Professional version of Vista like there is for XP, but that would be too easy for us to understand. Instead, we’re faced with Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate.

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Orkutting may be the in-thing today, but the nightmare is fast catching up with complaints of harassment, sleaze
and twisted psyche.

For three girls it has already turned a nightmare. Talking to UNI, Kolkata Deputy Commissioner Detective Department Gyanwant Singh said: “The city police have probed at least three complaints the last of them from Bilaspur (Madhya Pradesh) where jilted lovers and spurned friends had turned to Orkut.com with vengeance, creating obscene profiles and lewd albums, making life a living hell for the victims.”

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