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Yesterday, this YouTube vid got dugg by over 5000 users, though there was nothing new about it. I have seen it for the first time a long time ago, and it is on YouTube for 7 months now. After seeing it for the first time, I started wondering how practical could such a desktop environment be. Except for the people that usualy have their desktop full of icons, there’s no practical need for it.
This video found on NetBoy’s page caught my attention: here’s something that’s not spreaded and popular as it should be - XGL. Now that’s something I can use and find is useful: dividing your applications on a number of desktops and sorting them by type or by usage or by anything you may want. The best thing about it is that it’s free.
For all I care, I would love the first 30 minutes of play; I wouldn’t use all the features or at least most of them on a day-to-day basis, but it would definitely ease my works more than BumpTop. Real life doesn’t always apply to desktops.
Fujitsu is developing a technology that allows creating hard drives with a data density of 1TB per square inch (5 times more than what’s today on the market), thus making possible to create 5TB HDD for the desktop users and 1.5TB for nootebooks.
Today’s record for HDD data density is held by Seagate, with a density of 421GB/square inch.
“Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen a number of attempts at workarounds for Vista product activation. As of now there are at least two distinct workarounds that have worked to some degree, but I’m sure there are more on the way. One of these workarounds we have affectionately named “frankenbuild” because it involves cobbling together files from an RC build and with an RTM build to create a hybrid that bypasses activation. The other workaround involves the use of some virtualization technology and our practices for activating larger business customers.”
The Windows Update client (former “Automatic Updates”) will request a revalidation of the copy of Vista. The validation will fail because it will use a blocked RC key, after which the user will have 30 days to activate Windows using a valid key.
Samsung announced a prototype 0.82mm thick QVGA (240×320) LCD display, which makes it the thinnest display in the world, 0.07mm thinner than the panel previously reported to be the world’s slimmest. A typical mobile LCD screen has a 2-3mm space before adding a reinforced plastic sheet to protect it.
In Samsung’s new i-Lens process, a shock-resistant protective sheet is fastened directly to the LCD module, thereby eliminating the space between it and the panel surface.
The display has a contrast ratio of 500:1 and a luminosity of 300nits. Mass production is scheduled to begin in the second half of 2007.
The Korean manufacturer Woojin revealed Tenubo, a 19-inch LCD monitor with a smaller screen mounted on top of it. The monitors are meant to be used for separate purposes like watching a movie while browsing the web or doing some work. The 19-inch screen has a contrast ratio of 700:1 and a native resolution of 1280×1024. The smaller screen has a native screen resolution of 800×600 and a contrast ratio of 350:1. The prices and details regarding the date of launch anywhere outside Korea are unavailable.
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