Intel shows off new laptop chip package to counter rival AMD – Yahoo! Canada News

Intel Corp. rolled out a new batch of chips for laptops Monday that promises longer battery life and better graphics-rendering abilities, the company’s latest salvo against smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Both companies are posturing to capture the attention of computer buyers looking for crisper high-definition video playback on their laptops and less battery drain, a difficult balancing act.

The Government of Canada has angered those who believe that a proposed copyright law threatens the country’s open source business model. Russell McOrmond, a member of the Canadian Software Innovation Alliance (CSIA), says that Bill C-61, the proposed copyright legislation unveiled by the government last month, ignores just about every recommendation made by CSIA, a coalition of open source businesses and supporters, in a white paper.

Don’t mess with the Canadians they take their rights seriously, Baldy

Canadian open source community upset over proposed copyright law

For those of you using ZoneAlarm who installed the windows updates
today, you probably already know that your internet connection has
died. It appears that KB951748 made changes to the networking files
that ZA doesn’t see/recognize.

After two hours of messing
around, I found an inelegant solution that will work temporarily …
set the Internet Zone Security permission slider from high to medium. The connection will be restored.

I
discovered this after I finally figured out ZA was blocking my internet
connections, and turned it off. Once everything worked again as normal,
I started playing around and hit on this lowered permission setting.

I imagine the ZA forum will be full of better solutions, but thought this would get you back up and running in the short term.

Another fine kettle of fish brought to you by Billyware! And yes it is a bug that really is a pain in the rump.

Okay folks here is a e-mail that I got from some idiots that are so dumb they can not even set up a phishing e-mail right. But I include this copy so if you receive one you can forward it to Mchsi.

Dear Mchsi.com Subscriber,

This message is from Mchsi.com  messaging center to all Mchsi.com  email account owners. On Mon, Jul 8th, 2008, from 12:00am until 12:00 PM, all Mailhub systems will undergo regularly scheduled maintenance. Access to your e-mail via the mail client will be unavailable for some time during this maintenance window. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center see homepage. We are deleting all Mchsi.com  email account to create more spacefor new accounts.

To complete your Mchsi.com  Webmail account, you must reply to this email immediately and enter your password here (********) Failure to do this will immediately render your email address here(**********)deactivated from our database. You can also confirm your email address by logging into your Mchsi.com  account at https://commcenter.mchsi.com/wmc/login

Thank you for using THE Mchsi.com  TEAM"

The bad thing that I noticed with this is that the return address is a google account!Have fun and watch your mail.

July 7, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. today said that it would begin pushing Windows XP Service Pack 3 to most users “shortly.”

The announcement, made by Nick MacKechnie, a senior manager for Microsoft’s New Zealand operations, was not unexpected, since the company had previously said that it would release Windows XP SP3 to Automatic Updates sometime in the “early summer.”

“We would like to remind you that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) will be released to Automatic Updates shortly,” said MacKechnie in a post to a company blog Monday.

Individuals or companies that want to block the automatic deployment of Windows XP SP3 can download and use the Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit, which provides the means for stopping the service pack from reaching client PCs through April 2009.

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Reuters – The first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season formed on Monday, hundreds of miles (km) away from the United States, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Hang on to your hats folks, we have one more chance for Bush to show us “correct” hurricane rescue tips

First hurricane of season forms in Atlantic (Reuters)

Why doesn’t free trump expensive? Every Microsoft product has a free, open source counterpart created by dedicated programmers who loathe everything the company stands for. The free stuff is darn good. Yet companies and individuals continue to buy billions of dollars worth of Microsoft products. To be fair, Microsoft software is sometimes better than the competition’s. But quality isn’t the only factor: The company has spent years digging moats around its castle, building digital walls to keep other vendors out and users in.

What’s Holding OpenOffice Back?

All I want to say is be safe and have fun but don’t drink and drive folks. Enjoy your holiday even if gas prevents you from traveling, time with your family is good no matter where it is spent.

Well, the Fourth of July is just a few days away, and all good citizens of the nation we call America must naturally be thinking of the birth of this great land. Not content to be just great, our founding fathers wanted independence as well, and that value is still held dear today. Indeed, one might argue that there are few areas of society today in which that’s more true than the open source community. After all, what is Linux if not a technology that enables independence — from Microsoft or any other proprietary technological world?

You know I had to do it, don’t you? Baldy

 

Linuxy Declarations of Independence

Canada Day formerly Dominion Day, is Canada’s national day, a federal statutory holiday, celebrated on July 1 annually by all Canadians. Canada Day observances take place not only throughout the nation, but also internationally.

Frequently referred to as “Canada’s birthday”, particularly in the popular press,[1][2][3] the occasion marks the joining of the British colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada into a federation of four provinces (the Province of Canada being divided, in the process, into Ontario and Quebec) on July 1, 1867.

I guess while hanging around up north I really learned something. Ha and they say it is imposssible to teach a old dog new tricks. Any way Happy Birthday Canada