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Windows only: Bootloader tweaking utility EasyBCD makes dual booting between Windows, Linux, and even OS X an easy task, and the latest version updates with support for Windows 7 and newer Ubuntu versions with grub2. More »

Intel set to overhaul desktop CPU range with new models, lower prices

This might be about as shocking as sunny weather in España, but Intel appears set to slash some prices and bump some speeds in its desktop CPU portfolio this quarter. According to DigiTimes and its beloved motherboard maker sources, the desktop dominator intends to introduce a six-core Core i7-970 chip, at a $885 bulk purchase price that should bring the hexacore entry price down from the i7-980X's $999 perch, along with a 2.8GHz i5-760 priced at $205, and -- intriguingly -- a quad-core i5-870S designed specifically for small form factor machines and costing an appropriately inflated $351 a piece. Finally, there's word of a most welcome price tumble for the 3.06GHz i7-950, which moves down to the $294 slot currently occupied by the 2.8GHz i7-930. All this crazy talk seems to reiterate earlier suggestions coming out of HKEPC, so we advise hitting both source links and drawing your own conclusions.

Intel set to overhaul desktop CPU range with new models, lower prices originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:27:00 EDT.

How to Report Cyber Crime/Abuse/Spam/Phishing

Cyber Crimes like Stalking,Password Hacking,IdentityTheft,Cyber Frauds,Child Abuse..etc can be reported to
Indian Computer Emergency Response Team: www.cert-in.org.in or

Email: incident@cert-in.org.in

Phone: +91-11-24368572
Fax : +91-1800-11-6969

To report in your region visit Cyber Crime Investigation Cell:

http://www.cybercellmumbai.com/links/

To report a global spam send a copy of the unsolicited email to

spam@uce.gov Or Simply fill out the online form located at

http://www.ftc.gov/  [Federal Trade Commission]

You should also send an email to your internet service provider. Normally, their abuse desk will have the email address abuse@theirispname.com, or postmaster@theirispname.com. This will atleast alert them about the problem and they can block such emails. If possible also send an email to the ISP of the sender.

Customize Task Manager colors with Task Manager Modder

You may not call Task Manager up all that often -- and if you do, you've probably grown accustomed to its green-on-black color scheme. If, on the other hand, you're a customizer of all things Windows, you might want to tweak those defaults to something which coordinates better with your overall desktop theme.

Task Manager Modder is just the tool for the job. Launch it, adjust the sliders (or enter hex codes) until the color scheme meets your particular needs, then apply the changes. You can also load a custom .BMP for the memory and CPU bars. To fall back to the Windows default, just click the Restore Task Manager button.

As with any tweaking tool, it's a good idea to create a system restore point before making any changes.

Customize Task Manager colors with Task Manager Modder originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:00:00 EST.

Intel: GPUs aren’t 100 times faster than CPUs, just 14 times. Nvidia: Oh no!

This is pretty funny. You’ve probably seen some of the propaganda over the last year or so about how GPUs are orders of magnitude faster than CPUs at certain tasks, due to their parallel processing engine. Intel got tired of hearing about it, I guess, and decided to debunk the myth. They set out to disprove the notion that a GPU can be 100 times faster than a CPU. They kind of did it, but I think this is what is termed a Pyrrhic victory.

Interestingly, they chose a rather old GPU and a comparatively new CPU to compare: an Nvidia GTX280 and a Core i7 960. Maybe they chose on price parity? Whatever the case, they found that while indeed the GPU advantage was not as great as suggested, it was significant: 2.5 times faster on average and up to 14 times faster in certain situations.

Nvidia took the opening for all it was worth:

It’s a rare day in the world of technology when a company you compete with stands up at an important conference and declares that your technology is only up to 14 times faster than theirs.

To be fair: we can’t really expect unbiased judgment from either side, and the tests in the paper are too complex to be boiled down to a “oh it’s this much faster” talking point. I just think the drama is hilarious.

[via TG Daily]

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Firefox 3.6.4 Protects Against Crashing Plugins

After some delay, Mozilla has finally released the bits for Firefox 3.6.4. Users can download the new code with the Check for Updates feature or by downloading it from here.
According to the release notes the main change in 3.6.4 is a stability enhancement which keeps the browser up and running when a major plugin crashes. Other stability and security enhancements are also noted.
This page in the Mozilla wiki describes this new plugin protection as 'Crash Protection.' Mozilla estimates that '...as many as one in three browser crashes are currently caused by problems with various third-party plugins.' Crash protection runs plugins out of the Firefox process, making it easier to close the tab on which the plugin is running. When it crashes, the plugin goes away and content controlled by it is disabled. Reloading the page reloads the plugin.
Crash protection initially is available only for the Windows and Linux versions of Firefox. Implementing it on the Mac is a tougher task, and Mozilla is promising it for version 4 of Firefox. The beta of Firefox 4 is due any day now, but the release code isn't due till the Fall.
It also appears that the initial Crash Protection only works with a few specific plugins: Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime and Microsoft Silverlight. There's no specific schedule for other plugins to be added.
Version 3.6.4 also fixes 10 vulnerabilities in 7 updates, 4 of them critical. MFSA 2010-26 addresses 4 vulnerabilities, all crashes with evidence of memory corruption, Mozilla's policy is to treat these as exploitable code execution bugs without definitively proving it. The other critical fixes address freed object reuse across plugin instances, a heap buffer overflow and an integer overflow. Two moderate and one low-severity bug are also fixed.
At the same time Mozilla released Firefox 3.5.10 for those who won't upgrade to the 3.6 branch, although Mozilla strongly advises users to do so. There is not, for example, nor will there be, crash protection for the 3.5 versions.

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