Archives for May, 2008

Photoshop CS4 on Steroids


Photoshop to get GPU and physics acceleration (read all)
UPD: nVidia releases videocard with 1500 MB onboard memory
“Adobe is at the forefront of the Visual Computing Revolution,” said Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at NVDIA.
“CS4’s GPU features are sending shockwaves through the creative industry.
“Photoshop users are always looking for maximum performance, and we recognized that tapping [...]

UEFA Champions League


Lyrics

Ils sont les meilleures equipes
Sie sind die allerbesten Mannschaften
The main event

(repeat)

Die Meister
Die Besten
Les Grandes Equipes
The Champions

Une grande reunion
Eine grosse sportliche Veranstaltung
The main event

Ils sont les meilleurs
Sie sind die Besten
These are the champions

(repeat)

Infinite Printing, thanks to SSC


Great utility for Epson inkjet printers..

Internet in Moscow: Spring’08 prices


Substantial decrease in pricing of major Moscow Internet providers just occured.  Home users may get online via Corbina, for example, as quick as 12.5 Mbit for 24 €/month (traffic unlimited) or browse at a maximum 100 Mbit speed for 18 €/mo (22 Gigabytes traffic).

Perfect speed with SATA AHCI driver


Small change of Windows XP driver from IDE to AHCI made friend’s workstation blazingly fast and quiet, though it required some registry-level tweaking.

Vista security credentials tarnished in malware survey


Windows Vista is better at protecting against malware than XP but more easily infected than Windows 2000, according to a study by Australian anti-virus firm PC Tools.
The survey calls into question Microsoft’s oft-cited claims that Vista is its most secure operating system.
Recent research based on malware scans of more than 1.4m PCs running PC Tools’ [...]