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A look at Google Chromium OS
22 years ago
“Chromium OS is an open-source project that aims to build an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more
secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web.”
A lot of people are looking forward to the final release of Google’s new operating system, based on it’s browser, Chromium OS. Although aimed to be lightning fast so users can have the lengths of the internet at their fingertips, it’s still currently in VERY early stages of development. You can already find various copies of Chromium OS all over the web, either in VM format, or images you can burn directly to a USB drive and boot from. (more…)
Getting Johnny Castaway to run on Windows 7 x64
32 years ago
For some of you, Screen Antics (aka Johnny Castaway) might be a little before your time. It’s even before my time, but it was introduced to me by my dad back when I was a little kid, and I thought it was the coolest screen saver ever. To this day, anyone who knows what Screen Antics is, would agree that it’s probably the best screen saver in existence. But there’s a problem: Screen Antics was originally written for Windows 3.1 – it’s a 16-bit program.
While Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 all have 32-bit versions which will run 16-bit applications, Microsoft didn’t find the need to include the 16-bit subsystem on x64 systems. Fortunately, there is still a way to get Johnny to run on your machine if you have a 64-bit Windows installation. (more…)
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