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Indian Broadband revolution via Indian Railways

June 27th, 2008

BSNL revolutionized the Indian approached to Internet by introducing DataOne service via ADSL technology. It is seen to many as revolution because of the area covered by BSNL. BSNL happened to be the largest PSTN service provider of India by virtually having RJ-11 telephone wire every where in the county. Hence they were able to [...]

Choto Cheeta My Life, Web Development

Difference between 45nm Core 2 (Duo / Quad) and 65nm Core 2 (Duo / Quad)

June 18th, 2008

New PC buyers would be facing one major questions, though its quite confirm that it would be a Core 2 (Duo / Quad) processor but now there is 2 versions of it. The 65nm Conroe batch and 45nm Penryn batch.
Many would be thinking whats the difference between these 45nm Core 2 Duo / Quad vs [...]

Choto Cheeta Hardware

Windows Vista problem - SATA HDD running under PATA mode via BIOS emulation

June 9th, 2008

Many of computer users who are early adapters of Windows Vista likes to have both their previous version and newer version of OS under dual boot mode.
One common problem with newer hardware and older Microsoft OS such as Windows XP is the incompatibility of SATA controllers.
Most of the newer desktop and notebooks are now days [...]

Choto Cheeta Hardware, Windows

Microsoft to spend USD 20 million in India on computer literacy

June 4th, 2008

A report at PC-World suggests that Microsoft corporation is planing to spend USD 20 million on computer literacy programs in India.

Incidentally, company has already spend USD 20 million since 2003 under project Shiksha, providing basic computer knowledge and training to over 2,40,000 Indian government / NGO employees / teachers / educators.
Over next 3 to 5 [...]

Choto Cheeta My Life, Windows

ATi XGP - External graphics card for NoteBooks / Laptop

June 4th, 2008

A couple of years back, ASUS announced the XG station. Which was meant as an external heavy duty graphics card solution for NoteBooks / Laptops via express card connectors. However it never made it to the mainstream retail market.

Where as now its AMD which is carrying the dream forward with their latest ATi XGP platform. [...]

Choto Cheeta Hardware

Acer launching ultra portable 8.9″ Aspire One

June 4th, 2008

Soon after Dell shows off their plans for these 7″ ultra portable notebook (NetBook) segment, it is now Acer, who is officially launching their version of vision for NetBook segment, the Acer Aspire One.
Powered by Intel Atom processor and price at around USD 400 (for Linux version with SSD) certainly looks a good deal.

Certainly with [...]

Choto Cheeta Hardware

Re-Birth for Windows XP ??

June 3rd, 2008

Microsoft Windows XP finds a new life via these ultra portable 7″ / 8″ / 10″ NetBook devices.
Today at Computex currently running at Taiwan, Microsoft has issued a press bulletin stating that company is in work with 20 different OEM PC manufactures, including Dell / HP / ASUS / GigaByte / Lenovo / Acer to [...]

Choto Cheeta Hardware, Windows

HP VooDooPC CTO cuts birthday cake with Apple MacBook Air

June 2nd, 2008

It seems people are simply not willing to let go the humors relating to the Sharp Edges of MacBook Air. As recently HP’s VooDooPC CTO cut his birthday cake with MacBook Air.

Voodoo CTO Rahul Sood apparently have used his birthday present MacBook Air as a knife to cut the birthday cake. Farther on he writes [...]

Choto Cheeta My Life

Save Steve Ballmer from the “Egg-Attack”

June 2nd, 2008

Recently on 20th May, WinVistaClub carried out a news stating,
The Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer, was speaking at Corvinus University when a protester interrupted and started throwing eggs at him.
and today the author of WinVistaClub, pointed me towards this web site allowing users to play a game based on that Egg throwing incident.

Egg-Attack.com is allowing [...]

Choto Cheeta My Life

ASUS motherboards to support 140w AMD Phenoms X4 Quad Core processors

June 2nd, 2008

ASUS to be the 1st motherboard makers to support the new 140W TDP AMD Phenom X4 (9900) AM+ processors. The company has issued a press bulletin listing the motherboards which would support the power hungry performance processors from AMD Phenom X4 (Quad Core) line up.
The list of motherboards to support the upcoming 140W AMD Phemon [...]

Choto Cheeta Hardware

Explosion knocks 9000 servers off-line at The Planet Houston H1 facility

June 2nd, 2008

The Planet, one of the largest operator in US lost their Houston H1 data center facility on 31st of May due to electrical fire.

As per their official forum, the primary transformer suppling power to the facility caught fire and actually exploded. The explosion caused serious damaged to the buildings electrical system. It was so powerful [...]

Choto Cheeta Hardware, My Life, Web Development