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I read an artical a short while ago about Microsofts plans for Windows 7 and notebooks, it explained how they intend to give a version of the operating system that can run a certain number of applications at one time and if more is required they could upgrade. My initial thought of this was it wouldn’t happen, Microsoft would realise it’s a bad idea and not move forward with it.

However another article cropped up and apparently it’s called Windows 7 Starter, which will only be able to run 3 applications and have some of the limited features of Windows 7. Now I don’t have a problems with the concept of a cut down version of Windows 7, it makes perfect sense because lets face any weight we can cut out of the Windows OS would be a great idea to save resources on the netbook.

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Tags: Linux, Netbooks, Windows
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I just finished an avatar that I made in Maya and texture mapped using GIMP.

anyway just posting these up to show them off

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We got the results from IBM’s thinkpad challenge and the University of Bristol came 5th out the 18 attending universities (Discovered there were 18 not 15 universities attending from my lecturer).

Tags: Bristol, IBM, University Team Challenge
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I was lucky enough to be invited to the IBM University Tem Challange 2008 event, formally known as “IBM Thinkpad Challenge”.

I was in a team of four to represent the University of Bristol amongst many other universities such as Oxford, Durham, Southampton, Warwick, York etc, roughly 15 other Universities were attending this event.

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Hi everyone,

Welcome to my new blog, after changing hosts with some helpful advice from the folks at forums.overclockers.co.uk, I decided a blog would be useful (more…)

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