Windows 7 How to: Update Your NVIDIA & AMD Graphics Drivers

September 28th, 2007 Fedora Core 6 has recently been updated to Kernel version 2.6.22.5-49. When you depend on compiled kernel modules, as in the case of nVidia drivers from Livna, you have to update them too.

April 12th, 2007 nVidia provides linux drivers from its website. Unfortunately it doesn't work with recent kernels.

March 31st, 2009 To help customers face the most challenging visual computing problems, NVIDIA has come with its set of Quadro(R) professional GPU solutions. This new lineup, with the flagship Quadro FX 5800, will surely set the path of next generation graphics card designs and their powers to show extremely rich in visual graphics easily.

June 3rd, 2007 Linux comes with automatic setup for dual-monitors like windows. However I found the gnome applet rather buggy and unusable.

September 14th, 2009 Before you read, here is a bit of warning: Do not install the nVidia driver that you can download from nVidia.com. The driver may install fine but may not work as you expect.

April 11th, 2007 Today while setting up and trying new application I found that one of the Gnome panels containing Applications, Places and System menu (taskbar for Windows users) wasn't displaying. After restarting the Gnome session I found an error message along the lines of: Error panel already running will exit panel.

April 29th, 2007 I started using dual monitors (SyncMaster 740N) on Linux (Fedora Core 6) about a month back on my new dream computer. I used GeForce 6200 LE with 256 MB RAM which provides for dual monitors with a VGA and DVI output.

October 16th, 2008 When it is about coming out with updated versions, you can trust Steve Jobs. He takes not more than 1 month to present to you a superior version of your newly bought gadget.

January 28th, 2009 While using Windows 7 for last couple of months and tearing it off every day to find anything latest which can be found to give you a better experience, I was hoping to have a one time solution. How is that? A Windows 7 download file which will have all the patches in-built with extra themes, sound packs, enabled with hidden features, extra gadgets and hacks.

May 13th, 2008 Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground- and space-based telescopes to enable seamless exploration of the universe. It is a desktop observatory, allowing you to explore the sky with multi-wavelength views, stars and planets within context to each other, the ability to zoom in and out, and the capability to create and share a tour of the universe.

April 13th, 2008 I am using Linux (Fedora Core 6) on a pretty high end hardware (at least when I bought it) - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz (4M shared L2 Cache) with 2 GB DDR2 RAM, nVidia dual-head graphics card for over a year now. And yet a simple change made it at least 20-40% faster.

October 15th, 2005 My computer, running Windows 2000, was having garbled display. First the mouse droppings which the refresh wasn't eliminating.

April 11th, 2007 Anaconda has a well documented defect where it installs i586 based kernel in i686 machines. It causes problems with several drivers including nvidia drivers.

January 15th, 2009 Malware have become very prevalent in the internet these days. You do not know where they may come from, you don't know how, and to add to it you don't know how to prevent them from damaging your computer or deleting your important data.

May 5th, 2009 So the first big news of the day is, Windows has come out with its major and speculatively the last significant release candidate of Windows 7, build 7100. The software was slated to be made publicly available on Tuesday.