[In memory of Don LaFontaine, please read the following paragraph in as gravelly a voice as you can muster - ed.] In a world where anyone can ask, but few can respond ... they compress standard-out o read more » DiscussBury
According to the Engineering Windows 7 blog, Windows 7 has a team dedicated to focusing on startup performance. But how important is startup performance? read more » DiscussBury
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:Dennis Howlett: Breaking: Oracle’s Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?Adrian Kings read more » DiscussBury
Microsoft SVP Satya Nadella has announced that the company has expanded its deal with Facebook to integrate Microsoft’s Live Search into the social network. There are few details at this point read more » DiscussBury
On those infrequent occasions when you need to reboot Linux, you may find that the process takes longer than you’d like. Jack Wallen shares a number of tricks you can use to reduce boot times. read more » DiscussBury
A way around disk encryptionThe security researcher who demonstrated the 'cold boot' attack has released the source code for the hack. The attack, first demonstrated in February, uses a set of utilit read more » DiscussBury
You turn on your trusty old Linux box, and things are going well as you pass through the boot loader, until the disk check reveals that your hard drive partition table is corrupt, and you are unable read more » DiscussBury
Phoenix Technologies is working on a new mini-OS called HyperSpace that will load in four seconds while the rest of your larger OS in continuing to load in the background (e.g. Windows, Linux, Mac OS read more » DiscussBury