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Mod Your PC for Triple Boot: a PC for All Seasons

Install, configure, and boot Windows XP, Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux on a single machine

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Lucky you; you just received a brand new shiny PC for your [fill in the occasion: birthday, anniversary, graduation, holiday]. Unfortunately, your new rig almost certainly came preinstalled with Windows Vista, and youve got a ton of legacy software that require an older 32-bit Windows OS for operation. Whats a poor Vista PC to do?

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Sony Preparing an AppleTV Killer?


Where Apple goes, Sony is soon to follow. Or vice-versa. So
Apple has its wireless gadget for getting iTunes video to your TV. And so will
Sony, maybe.

A chance encounter on the train from Makuhari station to Tokyo, I overheard talk
about a possible video-streaming system for Sony Vaio PCs that uses
ultrawideband to send uncompressed high-def video to TVs. On the PC end, it
requires adding a wireless chip. On the TV end, there will probably be a
wireless adapter that simply plugs into the HDMI audio/video port.Watch for it in the next couple years.—Sean Captain

 

 

 

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