Archive for May, 2014
Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
Ubuntu 32-Bit or 64-Bit ?
I often get asked this question 32 or 64-Bit? In the past I have told people to stick to 32-Bit because of compatibility issues but things have changed now. Quoting for Phoronix which recently did a benchmark test between 32-Bit and 64-Bit. Going back years we have run 32-bit vs. 64-bit Linux benchmarks. While the […]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
Seven Out Of Ten People Don’t Use Microsoft Office Anymore
If your usage is not much, use LibreOffice and save on your licensing costs. If new data are true, Microsofthas a big problem. According to a study done by SoftWatch, seven out of 10 employees don’t use Microsoft Office to any extent. The three-month study involved 148,500 employees at 51 global firms. SoftWatch found that  most employees […]
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2014
11 years of blogging!
Thanks you, to all my blog readers. Today 3rd May 2014, I am celebrating 11 years of blogging! Wow, I too can’t believe it! I still remember, Rajesh Jain with whom I used to work then, encouraged me start a blog. And that’s when it all started. Before that I used to write articles, and found a […]
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Thursday, May 1st, 2014
ARM-based AMD Opteron A1100 processor
The global announcement of AMD’s first ARM-based server SoC (system-on-chip), otherwise known as the Opteron A1100, happened end of January 2014 with Suresh confirming that the first samples would be shipped by end of March 2014 with full production happening by the end of the year. Née “Seattle”, this part, which is part of the […]
