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Ubuntu Linux 8.04 can install from Windows

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Jack O’Brien sent in this article from Ars Technica:

One of the most significant new features added in alpha 5 is support for Wubi, a new installation mechanism that makes it easier for Ubuntu and Windows to coexist on the same computer. Wubi provides a complete Ubuntu installer that can be run in Windows from the Ubuntu Live CD. It installs Ubuntu into a folder on the Windows file system and sets up a boot menu so that users can choose between Windows and Ubuntu when the computer starts.
Unlike a regular dual-boot configuration, Wubi doesn’t require users to create a partition on their hard drives for Ubuntu. When Ubuntu is installed with Wubi, it can be uninstalled directly from the Add/Remove Programs utility in Windows.

ShellRunas v1.0, Autoruns v9.13, Process Explorer v11.10 Released

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Sysinternals Freeware updates and 1 new program:

ShellRunas v1.0: ShellRunas provides functionality similar to that of the Runas tool to launch programs as a different user via a convenient shell context-menu entry. This makes it more convenient than Runas for heavy Explorer users.

Process Explorer v11.10: This Process Explorer update adds a number of enhancements, including support for high DPI, display of paging and standby list sizes on Vista, and display of cycles consumed on threads tab on Vista. It also reports the COM object running inside of Dllhost processes and the tasks running inside of Vista Taskeng host processes in the process view hover tooltip.

Autoruns v9.13: Fixes bug where Autoruns could crash when looking at the icon properties of third-party DLLs.

Jalbum releases new site for personalized photo sharing

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Jalbum sent over this Press Release:

Today, Jalbum.net launches a new site for sharing of photo albums. The new site will enable the extensive Jalbum community to share their created albums, connect with others and explore thousands of album appearances.
Albums can have any look
The endless customization possibilities of Jalbum’s web album software has attracted millions of users who enjoy the control of the output of their online photo presentations. Since Jalbum albums can have any look, the new site will be a place to browse both great photos and the multitude of presentations that users produce with the software.
Photo albums can be placed on any site
With Jalbum, the photo albums can be entire web sites by themselves. Once an album is created, users may publish them to Jalbum’s free hosting alternative or any other site. The new community site will display albums that are hosted anywhere. Jalbum users will always have control of their content which includes the ability to move albums from one site to another. Jalbum will never copyright user images.
“- The Jalbum community is passionate about the presentation of photos. With the release of our new site, we are providing a better way of sharing albums created with our software. As our users often express an interest via images, this site will make it easier for them to connect with likeminded” said David Ekholm, Jalbum’s founder.

Random Musings: 23 February, 2008

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The same guy that did the Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2 – Benchmarked article did another round of benchmarks. Vista: 32-bit vs. 64-bit & RTM vs. SP1 The one quote that really matters: “All of the systems showed a decline in benchmark scores after installing SP1.”

In a related note, Ed Bott asked, “How do you benchmark real-world work?“. My short answer, You Can’t. As someone who has done his fair share of benchmarks in the past (actually, way too many benchmarks) I learned a long time ago that benchmarks have many, many problems. It is hard enough to benchmark hardware but benchmarking software (including OS’s) is even worse.

On a personal note, a big thank you to everyone who commented in If you built or bought a computer right now… I haven’t made up my mind about what I’m gonna do yet but you all came up with some solid options.

Off Topic
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I have always made a point of keeping politics and/or social issues out of my site content. But. The race for Prez, the candidates, and the wall-to-wall coverage of the coming election is enough to make me barf. To quote Forrest Gump, “That’s all I have to say about that.”

My wife and I were supposed to go to see Van Halen last night in Charlottesville, VA. It was to be a much needed break. We had a hotel room for the night and plans for a night on the town. The concert was canceled. While there is no official word as to why, I think it is because one selfish little…’person’ decided to open her mouth about stuff that isn’t anyone’s biz. I’m sure that breaking news just made Wolfie feel swell. Note to Valerie: When you have a kid you take stuff like that to the grave. Real classy move.

Oh, and I’m still not rich.
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Freaking fantastic: Microsoft updates list of apps that can cause WHS data corruption

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While I’m picking on Microsoft…

You know, it’s been two long months since Microsoft revealed a data corruption bug in Windows Home Server. And while we don’t have a fix yet for this very serious problem, the company this week updated its knowledge base article about the issue, adding a list of new applications that might also cause the error.

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No data corruption on my FREE Linux server.
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More Core's

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Interesting reading for Geeks.

Virtualization – Intel Hexes AMD
While AMD stumbles around trying to get its first errata-free Barcelona quads out two years behind Intel, Intel is off planning the launch of its six-core Dunnington microprocessor, a hex, if you will, the last of the expected Core 2-based Xeon server chips before it switches over to the Nehalem microarchitecture capable of supporting eight or more cores.

Intel, Microsoft, Uncle Sam sink big money into multicore
“With multicore, it’s like we are throwing this Hail Mary pass down the field and now we have to run down there as fast as we can to see if we can catch it.”…That’s a pretty good summary of where the software folks are at with the rapidly increasing core and thread counts that are coming out of the hardware side of the computing industry, which is why two recently announced research institutes are hoping to cook up a steroid injection that will boost the metaphorical runner’s speed.

AMD Pushes Multi-Threaded Computing With Open Source Move
To maximize the performance of multi-core processors requires multi-threaded code. “Going multi-core won’t automatically raise application performance,” Forrester analyst James Staten told LinuxInsider. “Single-threaded applications that are not multi-core-ready will not benefit much from the new generation of processors.”