Movie Format Wars

Technology | July 9th, 2006

There is a long and distinguished history of format wars in the home entertainment industry. Even the original analog record was a showdown between Edison’s cylinder and Columbia disc record. Like any good format war, consumers were unable to exchange these media between two different types of hardware and eventually one of the formats won.
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Installing Windows XP Using Ubuntu

Technology | July 4th, 2006

Despite my better judgement, I pulled my XP Home Edition CD out of the closet and decided to reformat my Shuttle XPC SN25P. We have another Windows computer for games but it has been running an OEM version of Windows 98 that came with the machine. It seemed like it might be a good idea to get onboard with XP for our gaming PC.
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