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 into the power of the GPU is one way to give it to them,” said Kevin Connor, vice president of product management for Professional Digital Imaging at Adobe.
“Thanks to NVIDIA’s efforts to optimize the Quadro …

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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).

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.

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’ ThreatFire security technology over a period of six months turned up 639 threats per 1,000 PCs running Windows Vista compared to 1,021 threats per 1,000 Win XP boxes and 586 for 1,000 machines running Windows …