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Commentary: Safari has taken the lead by performing about twice the speed of its nearest competitors, Chrome and Firefox. Opera, the once champion of the speed test, has fallen from its throne to the second-to-last position. Perhaps the most surprising is how much worse IE8 fared relative to its competitors — it was 2-3 times slower, but now is performing almost five times slower. Commentary: I really expected Google Chrome, which was released today, to do much better than it fared in the test results.
Run Benchmark - JSBenchmark
A brief history of Findory
Findory was a personalized news site. The site launched in January 2004 and shut down November 2007. A reader first coming to Findory would see a normal front page of news, the popular and important news stories of the day. When someone read articles on the site, Findory learned what stories interested that reader and changed the news that was featured to match that reader's interests. In this way, Findory built each reader a personalized front page of news.
In 1997, a new technology emerged that brought digital sound and video into homes all over the world. It was called DVD , and it revolutionized the movie industry. The industry is set for yet another revolution with the introduction of Blu-ray Discs ( BD ) in 2006. With their high storage capacity, Blu-ray discs can hold and play back large quantities of high-definition video and audio , as well as photos, data and other digital content. In this article, HowStuffWorks explains how the Blu-ray disc works and how it was developed, and we'll see how it stacks up against some other new digital video formats on the horizon. A current, single-sided, standard DVD can hold 4.7 GB ( gigabytes ) of information.
How Blu-ray Discs Work"
Internet Archive: Free Movies, Music, Books & Wayback Machine
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
Keep It Simple - PCWorld
Illustration: Michael Witte When something annoys you, you might choose to get mad, or to get even. But there is a third path: Simplification.
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16-bit Programs that Call to GlobalAlloc for Large Memory Allocations Cause Programs to Hang Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 288165 - 16-bit programs that use the GlobalAlloc() API call for multiple large (1.5 to 8 megabyte) memory allocations in succession can cause programs to stop responding (hang). Active Directory MMC Tools Are Slow to Initialize Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 270915 - Active Directory Microsoft Management Console (MMC) utilities may be slow to initialize and run.
Troubleshooting Windows 2000 Hang Conditions
Your Ideal PC - PCWorld
It's easy to forget just how good we PC and technology fans have it. Sure, the cryptic acronyms, evolving standards, and boneheaded salespeople can be annoying, but if you think they're bad, try shopping for furniture some time. This sofa's almost perfect, but the color doesn't match your décor. This other one's the right color, but the style's all wrong. Want to add on another seat to accommodate a growing family? Forget it.