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The most common editions of the operating system are Windows XP Home Edition, which is targeted at home users, and Windows XP Professional, which offers additional features such as support for Windows Servers, domains and two physical processors, and is targeted at power users, business and enterprise clients. Windows XP Media Center Edition has additional multimedia features enhancing the ability to record and watch TV shows, view DVD movies, and listen to music.  Windows XP is known for its improved stability and efficiency over the 9x versions of Microsoft Windows.  Windows X64-bit Edition for IA-64 (Itanium) processors and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition for x86-64 There is also Windows XP Embedded, a componentized version of the Windows XP Professional, and editions for specific markets such as Windows XP Starter Edition.

VISTA

Windows Vista is a line of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on personal conclusions including home and business desktops, laptops, Table PCS, and Media Center PCs. Prior to its announcement on July 22, 2005, Windows Vista was known by its codename “Longhorn.”^[4]Development was completed on November 8, 2006; over the following three months it was released in stages to computer hardware and software manufacturers, business customers, and retail channels. On January 30, 2007, it was released worldwide, and was made available for purchase and download from Microsoft’s website. The release of Windows Vista came more than five years after the introduction of its predecessor, Windows XP, the longest time span between successive releases of Microsoft Windows desktop operating systems.  Windows Vista contains many changes and new features, including an updated graphical user interface and visual style dubbed Windows Aero, improved searching features, new multimedia creation tools such as Windows DVD Maker, and redesigned networking, audio, print, and display sub-systems. Vista also aims to increase the level of communication between machines on a home network, using peer-to-peer technology to simplify sharing files and digital media between computers and devices. Windows Vista includes version 3.0 of the .NET Framework, which aims to make it significantly easier for software developers to write applications than with the traditional Windows API.

UBUNTU

Ubuntu is composed of free and open source software distributed under various licenses, especially the GNU General Public License so that users are free to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Ubuntu is sponsored by the UK based company Canonical Ltd, owned by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. Instead of selling Ubuntu for profit, Canonical creates revenue by selling technical support. By keeping Ubuntu Free software and open source, Canonical is able to take advantage of the talents of outside developers in Ubuntu’s constituent components without developing the entire operating system itself.

BeOS

 was an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Inc. in 1991. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware. BeOS was optimized for digital media work and was written to take advantage of modern hardware facilities such as symmetric multiprocessing by utilizing modular I/O bandwidth, pervasive multithreading, preemptive multitasking and a custom 64-bit journaling file system known as BFS. The BeOS GUI was developed on the principles of clarity and a clean, uncluttered design. The API was written in C++ for ease of programming. It has POSIX compatibility and access to a command line interface through Bash, although internally it is not a Unix-derived operating system.

Mac OS X

is a line of computer operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc., and since 2002 has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems. It is the successor to Mac OS 9, the final release of the “classic” Mac OS, which had been Apple’s primary operating system since 1984. Mac OS X, whose “X” represents the Roman numeral for “10″ and is a prominent part of its brand identity, is a Unix-based operating system,^[4] built on technologies developed at NeXT between the second half of the 1980s and Apple’s purchase of the company in early 1996. Its sixth and most recent version, Mac OS X v10.5 is certified UNIX 03 while running on Intel processors.

The first version released was Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999, and a desktop-oriented version, Mac OS X version 10.0 followed in March 2001. Releases of Mac OS X are named after big cats; for example, Mac OS X v10.5 is usually referred to by Apple and users as “Leopard”. The server edition, Mac OS  Server, is architecturally identical to its desktop counterpart, and includes tools to facilitate management of workgroups of Mac OS X machines, and to provide access to network services. These tools include a mail transfer agent, a Samba server, an LDAP server, a domain name server, and others. It is pre-loaded on Apple’s Xserve server hardware, but can be run on most of Apple’s computer models.

Things about this year

I would like to accomplish having a better year in school then I have recently, and to pass grade 11 math unlike my brother has failed to do.  Maybe get on honor roll, and be the first kid in my family and grind down harder on school work and pay more attention in class.  I’d also like to do better in football, and go injury free,  obviously hasnt happened, im too prone to injury.

Im interested in gaming technology, Ipod’s, phone’s etc.  Because they all help me through the day, I would die without my phone its an absolute nessecity, and games are always nice to have to keep me at bay when there’s nothing to do.  Without my Ipod i would also be nowhere because having your music with you whenever you need it is always helpful, and always a nice thing to just have.

Like I said in the before, I could not live without my phone, I need it, i’m always text messaging and I always need to make calls to keep in contact with my family, without phone’s we would be nowhere, and I definately need mine, I would go insane without it.

I would like to learn about how to create video games, and how to use the computer more efficiently.

Christmas Palm Treo

A new palm treo the 680 is coming out this Christmas, hitting the shores of Australia.  It should prove to be  competition for the blackberry which has been doing very well, and hopefully has less errors then it’s past, and proves to offer more then the BlackBerry’s have been.  It seems to say it will, but actions will speak louder then words can when it finally comes out next month.

Mophie Juice Pack GBTV

The Mophie Juice Pack is a pretty good idea, the idea of having even double the battery on your phone/ipod touch could come in handy in so many ways.  Where the pain of a system always dying on you while your listening to music/playing games or are on an important call effect you.  This pretty much seals that away from happening, adleast the phone conversation, and for the games/music you dont have to listen and play so sparingly.

Where as business people have their phones stocked full with information, data and memory, it causes the phones to die out at a very quick pace compared to a phone with less memory being used up, cause not as much has to be used.  With the battery pack it could take away that threat and help the phones last just as long as any other, and having it die out on you while you need it not be a factor.

It extends all these things, why you could see it as useful.

Standby Time – Up to 250 hours

Audio Playback – Up to 24 hours

Talk Time – Up to 8 hours

Video Playback – Up to 7 hours

Internet Use – Up to 6 hours

Digg.com

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-mtv-smacks-youtube-posts-almost-every-music-video-ever.html

1)Its relevant to me in the way that, all the website will contain is music, if im looking for a certaint video, opposed to youtube, where i would get loads of other junk that may be completely unrelevant.  This site should be able to just give me music, because that’s what its built for.  I think its a good and solid idea, and the facebook app to have music on your profile is a good idea as well.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/26/is-your-username-taken-usernamecheck-will-tell-you/

2)This could be useful in ways,  so I can check if the name I want is taken before I even try to go through it all.  Even though, I dont think it is that much of a nessecity or anything, it can find a purpose.  Not that much too this idea at all other then checking to see if your username is available or not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2X3XPw9vP8
3) I think the idea is a very clever one, and the globe itself is a cool idea, and whether or not you even need something like that, you just want it.  How you can touch and enlarge images, flick your finger and throw it out of site , and just drag another in all on this round surface.  Is a cool idea all in itself.

Definition

Hard Drive: is a non-volatile storage device which stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating platters with mangnetic surfaces.

CPU: (Central Processing Unit): a description of a class of logic machines that can execute computer programs.

Mother Board: A motherboard is the central or primary printed circuit board, making up a complex electronic system, such as a modern computer.

Power Supply: Power Supply is a referance to a source of electronical power. A device or system that supplies electronical or other types of energy to an outpout load or group of loads is called a power supply unit or PSU.

PCI: The peripheral component interconnect or pci standard( commonly PCI), specifies a computer bus for attaching peripheral devices to a computer motherboard.

PCI Express: officaily abbreviated as PCI-e or PCIe, is a computer expansion card interface format introduced by Intel in 2004.

USB: Is a serial bus standard to interface devices to a host computer.

Firewire: The IEEE 1394 interface

IEEE 1394: interface is a serial bus interface standard for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer, frequently used ina  personal computeR (and digital and digital video).

LCD: A liquid crystal display (LCD) is an electro-optical amplitude modulator realized as a thin, flat display device made up of any number of color or monochrome pixels arrayed in front of a light source or reflector.

Plasma: a common application of plasma(physics), a flat-panel electronic visual display technology.

HDMI: is a compact audio/video connector interface for transmitting uncompressed digital streams.

RAM: is a type of computer data storage, today it takes the form of integrated circuits that allow the stored data to be accessed in any pie order, ie at random.

flash memory: is a non-volatile computer memory that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed.

AGP- The accelerated Graphics Port( also called advanced graphics port, often shortened to AGP) is a high speed point to point channel for attaching a graphics card to a computer’s motherboard, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.

DVD: is a popular optical disc storage media format.  It’s main uses are video and data storage.