Gigabit audio to run on Ethernet
Cirrus Logic is developing Gigabit Ethernet audio chips, with the aim of sending hundreds of uncompressed audio streams over the wire at the same time.
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6.1.2007 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008 New Vista AutoPatcher - Vista update toolkit Alpha
Vista Update Toolkit Alpha (Windows Vista Updates Downloader) is a FREE program which downloads updates directly from Microsoft. All files are very useful with vLite!
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26.9.2008 Vista SP1 – Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less – Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007 Vista SP1 Rolling Over for Vista SP2
Vista SP1 did not do the trick for your RTM copy of the operating system? While such a scenario is highly unlikely, Microsoft is getting closer and closer to taking Windows Vista to the next level, again.
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7.12.2008 Vista SP1: Indictment of Vista 1.0?
Microsoft’s announcement that it is preparing a Vista Service Pack 1 beta in two weeks is curious on many levels. Although Microsoft delivers improvements via service packs I can’t help but consider Vista SP1 a do-over.
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30.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP2
We are all well aware of the limping start of Vista on the OS market. Despite the fact that its launch had been highly anticipated for a good while, contrary to all Microsoft expectations, Vista was received with great reluctance and unwillingness on the part of XP fans.
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13.12.2008 Microsoft: Vista! Vista! Vista!
Microsoft has a single generalized answer to all life's problems, but especially end user protection, and that answer is of course Windows Vista.
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14.8.2007 Windows XP SP3 Twice as Fast as Windows Vista – Leaves Vista SP1 in the Dust
Forget about Windows Vista. And forget about Windows Vista SP1. Microsoft's latest Windows client has been quite sluggish to begin with. This in both consumer adoption and in terms of the performance it delivers.
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27.11.2007 Windows Vista Wow! Forget about Vista SP1, XP SP3 and Windows 7!
That's it, forget about Windows XP Service Pack 3, about Windows 7, the next iteration of Windows and even about Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
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1.2.2008 PC buyers: 'Vista Capable' machines weren't Vista capable
How misleading was Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" campaign? Misleading enough for a judge to approve a federal trial.
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9.8.2007 Yes, You Can Turn 32-bit Vista into 64-bit Vista
Yes, you can turn the 32-bit SKUs of Windows Vista into the 64-bit editions of the operating system. But it will cost you...
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29.1.2008Netgear moves toward SMB-grade gigabit switches
At the Interop show in Las Vegas this week, Netgear continued its focus on SMB customers with its rollout of a new 802.11n wireless access point, a
ReadyNAS storage solution, and three gigabit Smart Switches...
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02.05.2008Belkin reveals world's first Gigabit Powerline adapter
The technology that allows you to stream data through your house's existing electrical circuits is interesting. Not only is it interesting, but
it's mighty secure and extra stable, and companies know this... and they sure want consumers to know it too. Belkin have a range of what they call
"Powerline" adapters, products which plug directly into your electrical socket and can communicate to other adapters throughout the house. Just
today, however, they have release a new product in this line, collectively called the "Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit adapters", and as you can
imagine, they can transfer some pretty slick speeds.
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23.06.2009Realtek WHQL Vista network drivers silently corrupt data
One of the three most dreaded
words in the computer world is
œSILENT DATA CORRUPTIONœ.
Your data gets corrupted just
enough that it isnt readily
detectable by most
applications and operating
systems and you think your
datas good until you actually
need to use it.
This weekend as I was
doing some routine maintenance
tasks on my home computer and
moving some data over my
Gigabit LAN (now cheap and
common), I got bit badly by
silent data corruption.
My Realtek
network adapter which is one
of the most ubiquitous
on-board Gigabit Adapters in
the world was the culprit and
it had been causing me some
massive grief for months and I
just didnt know it. Almost
every modern Desktop
Motherboard I know uses this
particular on-board Gigabit
adapter and I have to wonder
how many millions of people
are being affected by this
issue and I have to wonder if
this problem exists in any of
the Server-based adapters from
Realtek. More specifically,
Realtek driver version 6.191
was the culprit.
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29.07.2007Hynix to scale DDR3 DRAM down to 40 nm
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09.02.2009D-Link's Gig wireless box forgets the 'and'
D-Link's announced a Gigabit
wireless router - but don't
get too excited, as it's not
some ten-fold breakthrough in
radio bandwidth. Sadly, the
Gigabit bit is only on the
wired side, with the box
having a four-port Gig switch
built in.
What it
does show is how fast Gigabit
Ethernet is reaching the
desktop - in smaller
businesses and homes, at
least, where new PCs now come
with it as standard. The
DI-724GU Gigabit office router
includes all the other
features we've come to expect
from a wireless router,
including 54Mbit/s 802.11g
Wi-Fi, a firewall, Web
filtering to block access to
inappropriate URLs, and a USB
print server.
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08.12.2006Understanding how multimedia playback moderates Vista's network transfer speeds
Mark Russinovich, one of our Technical Fellows and a prominent member of the Windows community,
posted today on a topic that's received much
discussion in the past few days -- that being the manner in which Windows Vista throttles network traffic on gigabit Ethernet networks when the user
is engaged in multimedia playback.
As Mark puts it, "many people have correctly surmised that the degradation in network
performance during multimedia playback is directly connected with mechanisms employed by the Multimedia Class Scheduler Service (MMCSS), a feature new
to Windows Vista." This throttling of network traffic is mainly apparent on networks with infrastructure allowing gigabit throughput and is
experienced by a user receiving, as opposed to sending, data.
The explanation is quite technical and rather esoteric, but the
gist is that when receiving data on faster networks, the number of system interrupts is increased and because network-driven system interrupts are
handled at higher priority than media playback, multimedia playback can be affected if the number of network-driven interrupts outpaces content
refilling the multimedia playback buffer. Mark's full explanation is quite a bit more detailed -- I've only described it here in outline.
While this behavior is by design, the throttling parameters as shipped caused greater-than-anticipated degradation on gigabit Ethernet
systems. In addition, there's also a related bug we've identified in scenarios involving multiple NICs but for which we're scheduling a fix. If
you'd like all the details in their technical glory,
visit
Mark's blog. He'll have more news on this topic as it develops.
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28.08.2007Intel brings datacenter advances to server networks
Later this year, Intel will
help server network interfaces
take advantage of the major
recent advances in
datacenters: multiprocessor
systems, multicore processors,
and virtualization.
The company unveiled at
Cisco Systems' Networkers
user conference a pair of
chips for server network cards
or motherboards. The Intel
82598 10-Gigabit Ethernet
Controller is set for
production in September, and
the 82575EB Gigabit Ethernet
Controller is shipping now to
system and component vendors.
The company did not disclose
pricing.
New and
emerging technologies are
boosting datacenter processing
power and helping enterprises
take advantage of the systems
they've invested in, but
network connections are still
catching up. They have become
the bottlenecks of new, faster
datacenters, said Sunil
Ahluwalia, a product line
manager in Intel's LAN access
division. The chips introduced
Monday include multiple
queues, virtualization
capability, packet
prioritization, and new
storage networking features to
break that bottleneck...
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24.07.2007McAfee Unleashes 'Fastest Ever' 10GigE Network IPS
At Interop on May 22
McAfee unveiled an IPS that
cranks up to 10G bps—good
enough to cover 10GigE
Ethernet and next-generation
IPv6 networks, the company
said.
On an
Interop day full of network
security "we did it
first's" (IBM said its newly
announced 6G bps intrusion
prevention appliance can clean
service provider pipes of
malware with "unsurpassed"
throughput), McAfee said that
its new IntruShield 10 Gigabit
Ethernet platforms are the
"first and only network
Intrusion Prevention System
appliances to deliver
performance of up to 10G bps
and the highest gigabit
port-density available in the
industry."
When
asked whose claims to
"fastest network IPS ever"
people should believe, John
Vecchi, McAfee's director of
product marketing for network
security solutions, said while
sitting at McAfee's booth at
the conference that not only
is the 10G bps claim "very
real," but also that the
appliance was sitting a few
feet from him, churning
through packets at 10G bps, as
advertised, without any packet
drop, while having viruses and
other scumware hurled at it
nonstop. ..
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23.05.2007Toshiba doubles its embedded flash capacity to catch up with Samsung
Thumb drives and portable music players may continue their rapid capacity increase, thanks to #2 flash supplier Toshiba introducing 32 gigabit chips
this fall. It's a big gamble, though, for a catch-up player in a declining market...
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08.08.2008Install Windows Vista from a high speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive
Why would someone want to
install a client OS from a
thumb drive instead of a
DVDROM or over the network?
One reason: Performance.
Installing Windows
Vista from a high speed USB
flash drive is in my
experience the easiest &
fastest way to complete a
Windows Vista install. This is
much faster than using a DVD,
gigabit ethernet, or possibly
even some external USB 2.0
hard drives, due to
differences in access speed &
transfer rate. To put this
into perspective, y'know how
installing Windows on a
Virtual PC virtual machine
from an .ISO CD image is
really, really, really fast?
Imagine something
roughly just as fast, except
for doing installations of the
OS on to actual
workstations.
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01.03.2007MCI Progresses with 40 Gbps
Network
In order to bring on-demand
video and other Internet based
services such as VoIP to
households around the world,
the network infrastructure
must first be in place. On
Monday, MCI announced it had
successfully transmitted 40
Gigabit per second over 3,040
km of fiber, moving one step
closer to high-capacity
Internet...
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12.12.2005Samsung Reducing Mobile Memory Density
In a move that could lead to
the integration of such
features as inline linear
editing on camcorders
conceivably as soon as 2008,
Samsung announced today it
will begin mass production of
a single-chip one-gigabit (1
Gbit) low-power
double-data-rate (DDR) DRAM
package, for use in mobile
handsets and small digital
camcorders, as soon as the
second quarter of next year...
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27.12.2006Gigabit audio to run on Ethernet
Cirrus Logic is developing
Gigabit Ethernet audio chips,
with the aim of sending
hundreds of uncompressed audio
streams over the wire at the
same time. The chips will
supercharge the company's
existing CobraNet audio
networking technology, and
enable heavyweight audio users
to aggregate as many as 600 or
700 professional-grade sound
channels onto a single
connection. "The current
generation uses 100Mbit/s
switched Ethernet, and allows
64 channels in and out of each
network node - many facilities
now want bigger networks
though," said CobraNet
marketeer Steve Bassett.
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06.01.2007Samsung: 32GB Flash Memory
Coming
Samsung on Monday unveiled a
new high density flash memory
chip that paves the way for
portable devices with much
larger capacities. The
16-gigabit NAND chip is
equivalent to 2GB of storage,
and can be packaged in
quantities of 16 to create a
32 gigabyte flash memory
product...
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13.09.2005Peering Through the Confusion Over IBM's 160 Gbps Optical Transceiver
After IBM released its initial
teaser yesterday touting its
demonstration of an optical
transceiver with a theoretical
160 gigabit per second (Gbps)
throughput speed this upcoming
Thursday, press sources seized
upon this phrase: "fast
enough to reduce the download
time for a typical high
definition feature-length film
to a single second compared to
30 minutes or more."..
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28.03.2007Report: 40 Gbps DWDM in 1/3 of fiber optic networks by 2013
Networking and Telecommunications researchers The Dell'Oro Group published a report yesterday forecasting the next five years for DWDM in long haul
fiber optic networks that expects the market for 40 Gbps wavelengths to grow by 50% every year. Short for Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing, DWDM
is an optical technology used to fit more traffic (thus making it "dense" with signals) on existing fiber optic backbones.
This
week, General Cable Corp and Fujitsu
won
their bid for a 1,000 mile long haul submarine fiber optic cable project connecting the Indonesian islands of Kalimantan and Sulawesi. That
project is scheduled for completion in mid-2010.
"While the near term outlook is for the total optical market to contract 9 percent due
to factors such as the economic downturn, " Said Jimmy Yu, Director of Optical Transport research at Dell'Oro, "There continues to be an
opportunity for technologies that will help service providers reduce their capital expense while still expanding their network capacity...40 Gigabit
is one of those technologies as the price per bit of a 40 Gbps wavelength starts to be lower than that of a 10 Gigabit wavelength in a DWDM Long Haul
system."..
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30.01.2009Vista SP1 will deliver big network speed boost
Ed Bott: I downloaded the release candidate of Vista Service Pack 1 yesterday and was prepared to wait till
its public debut next week before writing about it. But after upgrading a few machines here and
doing some tests, I changed my mind. If Microsoft’s decision to
ditch the WGA kill switch in
SP1 didn’t convince you, would you be interested in a 300% increase in network file transfer speeds?
Forget the reports you
might have read about
SP1 resulting in no performance boost. That story was based on a
silly artificial benchmark involving scripting of Office applications. Back here in the real world, where gigabit network connections are now
commonplace, you’ll see at least one huge improvement when transferring files over network connections.
In its original
release, Vista had some design problems with its networking stack, resulting in slow file transfers, especially when connecting to computers running
Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Home Server (all three of these products share a great deal of their code base, including core networking
components). In Vista SP1, file transfer speeds are dramatically improved. In this post, I’ll describe what I saw.
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06.12.2007Buy More Vista Licenses, Save 10%
Microsoft has launched the
appropriately named Windows
Vista Additional License
program, which will enable
customers to save a bit of
money if they want to install
Windows Vista on multiple
computers. Before, users had
to purchase a completely new
copy of Vista...
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28.03.2007The AMD 690G: first fruits of AMD/ATI merger
AMD has announced the AMD 690G
chipset with integrated
graphics, essentially an
ATI-designed product that has
been rebranded and renamed in
light of the merger. The
690G's integrated graphics
processor (IGP) is the DirectX
9-compatible ATI X1250, and
going by TR's benchmark
results, it is fairly
powerful. With support for
VGA, dual-link DVI, and HDMI
(+ HDCP) output, the new
chipset may be a good fit for
a home theatre PC. Other
features of the new chipset
include PCIe x16, SATA2,
gigabit Ethernet, and
6-channel HD audio. The 690G
is also among the first
Vista-certified IGP products,
and motherboards based on it
should be available soon from
the usual roster of
motherboard makers.
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01.03.2007Vote For The Best Windows Vista Website!
WinVistaClub, in association with 'Windows Vista - The Official Magazine', has organised a contest to recognise some of the Best Windows Vista
Blogs and Websites.
The following 10 websites have been being declared by the Judges, as the Top 10 Vista websites and have been put up
for a public vote.
MintyWhite Windows Guides
Vista Revisited
Windows Vista Update
Windows Vista For Beginners
Tweaking With Vishal
MaximumPCGuides
Windows Vista Forums
The Road To Know Where
Windows Vista Weblog
Vista & XP Media
Center Support Community
Click
HERE to cast your vote for your
favourite Windows Vista Website, and in the process also get to know some other real good ones !
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