Sky One makes return to Virgin Media
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Virgin Media and Sky have finally come to an agreement over Sky’s basic packages – bringing the likes of Sky One and Sky Sports News back to cable on November 13.
A press release from the two companies confirmed that an agreement had been reached – which interestingly does not include Sky’s HD offerings.
“The [...]
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How does Core i7 do in the real world?
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There’s absolutely no doubting that Intel’s new Core i7 processor tears through the usual geek-pleasing benchmarks at a stupendous rate. But what difference do all those threads, channels and flops make to real-world performance?
In other words, forget floating point throughput and raw memory bandwidth. How much better is a PC powered by Core i7 for [...]
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Tips and tricks to tune up KDE 4.1
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Have you been clinging to KDE 3.5 like a polar bear to the last Arctic ice shelf?
If so, now’s a good time to consider jumping on to the mainland. The recently released KDE 4.1 is a vast improvement over the original.
Hundreds of bugfixes and refinements mean that the KDE desktop is now a [...]
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