Technical Difference Between Q9450 And X3350

March 28th, 2008 by kwong

It has been almost two weeks since the speculated shipment dates for the Yorkfield 45nm processors.
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Where Are the 45nm Quad Cores?

March 18th, 2008 by kwong

Last week, all the news source speculated the imminent launch of three 45nm Quad Core Processors from Intel.
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NTFS Partition Recovery With Linux

March 16th, 2008 by kwong

Over the years, I have formed the habit of keeping an up-to-date backup copy of all my critical data on a regular basis.
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Thoughts on “Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?”

February 9th, 2008 by kwong

I recently ran across two very interesting articles (Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?, Who Killed the Software Engineer? (Hint: It Happened in College)) discussing how the current university education has become inadequate in terms of producing highly qualified software engineers and developers.
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Recent Email Scam

January 19th, 2008 by kwong

It seems that the desperate scammers have been really working hard devising different schemes trying to steal people’s identities.
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GRUB Error 17, LILO Rules

December 9th, 2007 by kwong

Ubuntu and OpenSUSE have been my top choices of Linux distros over the years.
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On Microsoft Windows Home Server

October 16th, 2007 by kwong

I am not quite sure why  would any one purchase a computer that serves solely as a home server or put $190 to get a copy of Windows Home Server.
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First Take: Windows Server 2008 Beta 3

October 8th, 2007 by kwong

Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 (build 6001) has been out for a week, and during the weekend I downloaded the bits and gave it a spin.
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A Physical to VM Backup Strategy for Ubuntu Server

October 5th, 2007 by kwong

One benefit of using a Linux environment is that the whole system back up is extremely easy.
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On OfficeLive Beta

October 1st, 2007 by kwong

After reading Mary Jo Foley’s article on ZDNet, I thought that I would give OfficeLive a try. Of course, my first experience was not all that impressive.
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