wen, addanton sabali a music format a mabalin a sumukat iti mp3 format.

ket koreano ti nangimbento.

New MP3 Revolutionizes Way You Listen to Music
By Cho Jin-seo
Staff Reporter

If you are a serious guitar-master wannabe and you want to focus on the tune of Brian May’s guitar and don’t want to hear Freddie Mercury’s voice and Roger Tailor drumming in Queen songs, then this may be what you have been looking for.

Korean computer engineers are introducing a new digital music format that has separate controls on the sound volume for each musical instrument, such as guitar, drum, base and voice — an ideal tool for music lovers of different tastes as well as karaoke fans.

The new format, which has a file extension format of MT9 and a commercial title of Music 2.0, is poised to replace the popular MP3 file format as the de facto standard of the digital music source, its inventors say.

The MT9 technology was first conceived by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and is being shaped into commercial use by venture company Audizen. It was selected as a candidate item for the new digital music standard at a regular meeting of Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG), the international body of the digital music and video industry, held in France late April.

“We made presentations to the participants and they were all surprised to see it. They immediately voted to make it a candidate for the digital music standard,'’ said Ham Seung-chul, chief of Audizen. He is expecting it will be formerly selected as an international standard in the MPEG forum’s next meeting to be held in Germany June.

The distinctive feature of MT9 format is that it has a six-channel audio equalizer, with each channel dedicated to voice, chorus, piano, guitar, base and drum. For example, if a user turns off the voice channel, it becomes a karaoke player. Or one can turn off all the instruments and concentrate on the voice of the main singer as if he or she is singing a cappella.

Ham says that the music industry should change its attitude to the market as music is becoming a digital service, rather than a physical product. MT9 is the ideal fit for the next generation of music business because it can be used for multiple services and products, such as iPhones, PCs, mobile phones and karaoke bars, he says.

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are both interested in equipping their mobile phones with an MT9 player and their first commercial products are likely to debut early next year, he said.

If selected as an international format, the MT9 technology can earn big for both Audizen and ETRI, a governmental research institute. ETRI said that it holds three international and six domestic patents for the technology and is planning to file two more this year.

The MT9 files are served in an album package. Audizen is currently selling a limited choice of albums at 2,000 won to 3,000 won on its Web site. More albums are being recorded in the format and even very old albums, such as Queen’s or Deulgookhwa’s, can be made into MT9 files if they have a digitally re-mastered music source, Ham said.

Unlike other digital formats exclusively used by big companies such as SK Telecom, Audizen allows users to copy the MT9 files, making it a more attractive format. “It’s like having a CD or cassette tape. Once you buy it, you can lend it to your friends. We don’t want to be too fussy about DRM (digital right management),'’ he said.

The 500,000 GB MP3 Player

Can you even imagine an MP3 player with a 500,000 GB capacity? It’s pretty much beyond belief. The most generous player today can only hold around 40,000 songs – they’d hardly make a dent on this.

The thing is, it could easily happen. Scientists at the University of Glasgow have created a nanotechnology breakthrough that could increase storage capacity by 150,000 times. It could mean 500,000 GB on a single chip and inch square.
The Glasgow scientists worked to create the molecule-sized switch that’s at the heart of it all.

Professor Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow said, “What we have done is find a way to potentially increase the data storage capabilities in a radical way. We have been able to assemble a functional nanocluster that incorporates two electron donating groups, and position them precisely 0.32 nm apart so that they can form a totally new type of molecular switching device. The key advantage of the molecule sized switch is information / transistor density in traditional semi-conductors. Molecule sized switches would lead to increasing data storage to say 4 Petabits per square inch. This breakthrough shows conceptually that this is possible (showing the bulk effect) but we are yet to solve the fabrication and addressing problems. The fact these switches work on carbon means that they could be embedded in plastic chips so silicon is not needed and the system becomes much more flexible both physically and technologically.”

Coming soon: superfast internet
Jonathan Leake, Science Editor
From The Sunday Times
April 6, 2008

THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.

At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.

The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web, the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call.

David Britton, professor of physics at Glasgow University and a leading figure in the grid project, believes grid technologies could “revolutionise” society. “With this kind of computing power, future generations will have the ability to collaborate and communicate in ways older people like me cannot even imagine,” he said.

The power of the grid will become apparent this summer after what scientists at Cern have termed their “red button” day - the switching-on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the universe. The grid will be activated at the same time to capture the data it generates.

Cern, based near Geneva, started the grid computing project seven years ago when researchers realised the LHC would generate annual data equivalent to 56m CDs - enough to make a stack 40 miles high.

This meant that scientists at Cern - where Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the web in 1989 - would no longer be able to use his creation for fear of causing a global collapse.

This is because the internet has evolved by linking together a hotchpotch of cables and routing equipment, much of which was originally designed for telephone calls and therefore lacks the capacity for high-speed data transmission.

By contrast, the grid has been built with dedicated fibre optic cables and modern routing centres, meaning there are no outdated components to slow the deluge of data. The 55,000 servers already installed are expected to rise to 200,000 within the next two years.

Professor Tony Doyle, technical director of the grid project, said: “We need so much processing power, there would even be an issue about getting enough electricity to run the computers if they were all at Cern. The only answer was a new network powerful enough to send the data instantly to research centres in other countries.”

That network, in effect a parallel internet, is now built, using fibre optic cables that run from Cern to 11 centres in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe and around the world.

One terminates at the Rutherford Appleton laboratory at Harwell in Oxfordshire.

From each centre, further connections radiate out to a host of other research institutions using existing high-speed academic networks.

It means Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the grid system – so that any student or academic will theoretically be able to hook up to the grid rather than the internet from this autumn.

Ian Bird, project leader for Cern’s high-speed computing project, said grid technology could make the internet so fast that people would stop using desktop computers to store information and entrust it all to the internet.

“It will lead to what’s known as cloud computing, where people keep all their information online and access it from anywhere,” he said.

Computers on the grid can also transmit data at lightning speed. This will allow researchers facing heavy processing tasks to call on the assistance of thousands of other computers around the world. The aim is to eliminate the dreaded “frozen screen” experienced by internet users who ask their machine to handle too much information.

The real goal of the grid is, however, to work with the LHC in tracking down nature’s most elusive particle, the Higgs boson. Predicted in theory but never yet found, the Higgs is supposed to be what gives matter mass.

The LHC has been designed to hunt out this particle - but even at optimum performance it will generate only a few thousand of the particles a year. Analysing the mountain of data will be such a large task that it will keep even the grid’s huge capacity busy for years to come.

Although the grid itself is unlikely to be directly available to domestic internet users, many telecoms providers and businesses are already introducing its pioneering technologies. One of the most potent is so-called dynamic switching, which creates a dedicated channel for internet users trying to download large volumes of data such as films. In theory this would give a standard desktop computer the ability to download a movie in five seconds rather than the current three hours or so.

Additionally, the grid is being made available to dozens of other academic researchers including astronomers and molecular biologists.

It has already been used to help design new drugs against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills 1m people worldwide each year. Researchers used the grid to analyse 140m compounds - a task that would have taken a standard internet-linked PC 420 years.

“Projects like the grid will bring huge changes in business and society as well as science,” Doyle said.

“Holographic video conferencing is not that far away. Online gaming could evolve to include many thousands of people, and social networking could become the main way we communicate.

“The history of the internet shows you cannot predict its real impacts but we know they will be huge.”

padasek manen a regular nga updaten, a.

windows vista? adtoy kano man ti source code ti vista. bassit la a balbaliw manipud iti sigud a code ti win95, win98, xp. hehe!

vinediok dagitoy dua a dumaddadakkel a pusami iti panarimaanda nga aggangantil. impanko iti youtube. ket adtoy man:

mabalinyo a buyaen dagiti dadduma a youtube videok ditoy (pasensiaanyon, agpasikat dagiti annakko a babbai a trying hard a kumanta piman).

Kastan, Pluto….

MVEMJSUNP. Malagipmo pay dayta? Iti asignaturam iti siensia idi iti elementaria, ikabesam dayta a mnemonic wenno akronim tapno malagipmo ti umno a nagan ken panagsasaganad dagiti siam a planeta iti Solar System: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune ken Pluto. Nalabit insuro pay kenka ni mistram idi ti maysa a sentence a panglakaam a mangikabesa, ti “My Very Eager Mom Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas.”

Ngem itay nabiit, kalpasan ti aganay a 76 a tawen a pannakabigbigna, naikkat ti kinaplaneta ti Pluto ket napagbalin laengen a kas “ansisit a planeta” wenno dwarf planet. Walwalo metten dagiti naan-anay a planeta iti Solar System, ti laengen Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ken Neptune. Adda ketdi nainayon a tallo a baro a dwarf planet, ti Pluto, ti Ceres a sigud nga asteroid, ken ti baro a takuat a nainlangitan a bagi iti labes ti orbit ti Pluto a naawagan iti 2003 UB313 ken nabirngasan iti “Xena,” a nadiskubre laeng idi Hulio 29, 2005.

Saan ngaruden a MVEMJSUNP ti nasken a maikabesa itan no di ket MVEMJSUN. Wenno MVEMJSUN PCX, no iraman dagiti dwarf planet.

PASALSALI A KAKAARRUBA

Itay Agosto 24, iti taripnong dagiti astronomo ken sientista a nangaay idiay Prague, Czech Republic, iti maika-26 a General Assembly ti International Astronomical Union (IAU), ti sangalubongan a gunglo a mangtamtaming iti pannakaadal ken pannakanagan dagiti matakuatan a bambanag iti law-ang, napagnanamingan ken napasingkedan dagiti baro a depinision ken alagaden iti no ania ti makuna a maysa a planeta.

Kas sagudayen ti binukel ti IAU a resolusion, tapno maawagan a kas planeta ti maysa a nainlangitan a bagi iti sakup ti Solar System, (1) nasken nga addaan iti bukod nga orbit iti lawlaw ti Init; (2) nasken nga addaan iti naan-anay a kinadakkel a mamataud iti naan-anay a grabitasional a puersa a mamagbalin itoy a nagtimbukel (sphere); ken (3) nasken a “maraatanna kadagiti kaarrubana” ti bukodna nga orbit.

Ti maikatlo nga alagaden ti nakatnagan ti Pluto. Ania man a bagi iti Solar System a saan a bulan wenno satellite, a di makatungpal itoy nga alagaden, segun iti maysa pay a resolusion ti IAU, agtinnag a kas “dwarf planet,” wenno kas “Small Solar System Bodies.” Iti kaso ti Pluto, adda ngamin daytoy iti paset ti Solar System a maaw-awagan iti Kuiper Belt iti labes ti Neptuno a pakasarakan iti adu a kasla naiwaris a babassit ken dadakkel a nainlangitan a bagbagi wenno bambanag a maawagan iti Kuiber Belt Objects (KBO) wenno kas Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNO). No koma kano maysa a naan-anay a planeta ti Pluto, segun iti baro nga alagaden ti IAU, kabalinanna koma a wayaan wenno dalusan ti bukodna nga orbit wenno panagrikus iti Init manipud kadagitoy a pasalsali a bambanag iti asidegna.

Tapno makuna a planeta ti maysa a planeta, awan koma ti sawsawir iti dalan ti pagrikusanna nga orbitna malaksid kadagiti bukodna a bulan wenno satellites a kaluyluyogna ket kabaelan ti bileg ti grabidadna a sagepsepen wenno padisien dagitoy a sawir wenno makasali iti orbitna. Agsipud ta bassit laeng ti Pluto (agarup 1,600 a milia laeng ti diametrona ket basbassit pay ngem ti bukodtayo a Bulan), saanna a kabaelan nga iwalin wenno iduron dagiti asideg a kakaduana a bambanag iti Kuiper Belt. Kinapudnona, adda panawen kabayatan ti naunday a 248-a-tawen a panagrikus ti Pluto iti Init nga agbasakbasak pay iti bukod nga orbit ti Neptuno iti uneg ti 20 a tawen.

Uray ti kattakuat a UB313 (Xena) a masarakan met laeng iti Kuiper Belt, uray no amang a dakdakkel ngem ti Pluto, saanna met a madaeran dagiti pasalsali a kakaarubana gapuna nga agpadada iti Pluto a nadasig laeng kas “ansisit a planeta” ken kas KBO. Manamnama idi a mapagbalin ti UB313 kas maika-10 a planeta iti Solar System. Iti isu met la a taripnong ti IAU idiay Prague, naisingasing pay ketdi ti 12 koma a planeta a mangbukel iti Solar System. Malaksid iti UB313, nainominar kas planeta ti asteroid a Ceres ken ti mismo a maysa a bulan ti Pluto, ti Charon.

‘PLANETA X’

Nadiskubre ti Pluto idi Pebrero 18, 1930, aganay a 84 a tawen kalpasan a madiskubre ti Neptuno. Ni agdadamo idi nga astronomo nga Amerikano Clyde Tombaugh ti nakasirip iti eksakto a lokasion ti Pluto kalpasan ti no mano a tawen a panagsapsapul dagiti beterano nga astronomo iti maikasiam a planeta kalpasan a masarakan ti maikawalo, ti Neptuno.

Ni astronomo a Percival Lowell, babaen ti impasdekna a Lowell Observatory iti Arizona, ti kangrunaan a nangirusat iti panagsukisok iti law-ang tapno masarakan manipud kadagiti riniwriw a bituen ken nainlangitan a bambanag ti maikasiam a planeta nga inawaganna iti “Planeta X.” Inrugina ti proyekto idi 1905, ngem agingga a pimmusay ni Lowell idi 1916, dina nasarakan ti “Planeta X.” Intultuloy latta ketdi ti obserbatorio ni Lowell a sinapsapul ti “Planeta X” agingga a nabirokan met laeng ni Tombaugh idi 1930. Napanaganan iti “Pluto” ti baro a planeta manipud iti didiosen ti uneg ti daga iti mitolohia ken iti “PL” nga inisial ni Lowell.

Buklen a kangrunaan ti bato ken danum a yelo ti Pluto ken aganay a 5,906,380,000 a kilometro ti gagangay a distansiana iti Init. Naiduma ti panagrikus ti Pluto iti Init ta immitlog ti orbitna a saan perpekto a sirkulo. Addaan iti tallo a bulan: ti Charon a naduktalan idi 1978, ken ti Nix ken Hydra a kadduktal la idi 2005.

Siguden a mapagduaduaan no maysa a naan-anay a planeta ti Pluto nangruna idi mapartuat dagiti kabaruanan a ramit iti astronomia ken dagiti nabibileg a teleskopio ken idi maduktalan dagiti Trans-Neptunian Objects iti Kuiper Belt a dandani kas kadakkel ti Pluto, kas iti 5000 Quaoar a nasarakan idi 2002 ken ti 90377 Sedna a naispatan idi 2004. Saan a dagus a nadasig kas planeta dagitoy a KBO/TNO. Adda pay dagiti nasarakan a TNO, ti 2003 EL61 Santa ken ti 2005 FY9 Easterbunny, a dandani pumadis iti kadakkel ti Pluto.

Ngem ti pannakasarak iti Xena, a dakdakkel ngem ti Pluto, ti nangpadegdeg iti pannakaipababa ti kasasaad ti Pluto. Ti ngamin Xena ti kadakkelan a bagi a nadiskubre iti Solar System manipud 1846 a pannakadiskubre ti Neptuno ket daytoy koma ti rebbengna a maawagan kas naan-anay a planeta ket ti Pluto koma ket maysa laeng a minor a planeta.

PANANGATUR

Iti pannakaikkat ti kinaplaneta ti Pluto, pakarikutan ita dagiti nadumaduma a sektor ti edukasion, publikasion, media ken dadduma pay a maseknan nga institusion ti pannakabalbaliw wenno pannakaatur dagiti nadumaduma a rekord ken pasilidad. Masapul a makorehir dagiti textbook, ensiklopedia, museo, planetarium ken dadduma pay tapno masurot ti pannakaikkat ti titulo ti Pluto kas maikasiam a planeta a mangrikrikus iti Init.

Iti Filipinas, impalgak ni Undersecretary ti Departamento ti Edukasion (DepEd) Fe Hidalgo ti mabalin a pannakabalbaliw dagiti science textbook nga us-usaren ti agarup 17 milion nga estudiante iti publiko nga elementaria ken haiskul. Saan pay a nairaman ditoy dagiti dadduma pay a libro ken materiales a pagisuro nga ar-aramaten ti riwriw met nga estudiante iti pribado nga eskuela a nasken a makorehir.

Saan ketdi nga awaten ti dadduma nga astronomo ken sientista ken dadduma a tattao ti pannakauksob ti kinaplaneta ti Pluto, iti nagduduma a rason a sientipikal, praktikal wenno emosional. Adu pay laeng nga astronomo ti di umanamong iti baro a depinision ti maysa a planeta nga inyetnag ti IAU ket itultuloyda a bigbigen ti Pluto kas maikasiam a naan-anay a planeta.

Uray ni Dr. Alan Stern, daulo ti mision iti law-ang a “New Horizons” a proyekto ti NASA a mangdanon iti Pluto inton Hulio 2015, dina bigbigen ti resolusion ti IAU. Kunana a no suroten ti alagaden a nasken a “panangiwalin iti kaarruba,” uray ti Daga, Mars, Jupiter ken ti Neptuno a mismo kano ket saan a makatungpal ta uray dagitoy a planeta ket adu met dagiti agkaiwara nga asteroids iti orbitda.

Ipetteng met ti dadduma a saan latta koman nga ibabawi ti kinaplaneta ti Pluto ta maysan a tradision ken paseten ti pakasaritaan ti siensia kas maikasiam a planeta. Indawat met ti dadduma pay a kas pangipagpagapu ken ni Tombaugh, mabigbig latta koma kas planeta ti Pluto kas pammadayaw iti nakadiskubre itoy.

Iti met biang ni Cynthia Celebre, hepe ti Astronomy Research and Development Division ti Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) ken ti pannakabagi ti Filipinas iti naangay nga asemblia ti IAU, maseknan iti kadakkel ti magastos iti pannakabaliw dagiti textbook nangruna iti Filipinas ken kasta metten iti pannakataginayon ti historia gapuna nga ayonanna a masalimetmetan koma ti kinaplaneta ti Pluto.

PASET TI PANAGDUR-AS TI SIENSIA

Uray dagiti astrologo, mistiko, mammadles ken dadduma pay a mangam-amiris iti signo dagiti bituen ken planeta, dida met kanunongan ti pannakaiwaksi ti Pluto kas planeta. Maysa ngamin a kangrunaan a paset ti Pluto iti astrolohia ken horoscope kas maysa a kadagiti tradisional a siam a planeta.

Iti ketdi biang dagiti mangayon iti pannakabalbaliw ti status ti Pluto, maysamaysada a mangiganetget a para amin daytoy iti agtultuloy a panagdur-as ti siensia ken teknolohia ken yaadu ken yaaddang ti pannakaammo iti uniberso. Naipalagip a saan a daytoy ti umuna a pagteng a ti maysa a maipagarup a planeta ket mabaliwan ti kasasaadna. Nadakamat a ti asteroid a Ceres a nadiskubre idi 1801 iti nagbaetan ti Mars ken Jupiter ket naibilang kas planeta iti agarup kagudua ti siglo sakbay a natakuatan nga adu pay gayam ti kapadpadna nga asteroid iti lugarna.

Kas naagapad ni Richard Binzel, propesor ti Planetary Sciences iti Massachusetts Institute of Technology ken kameng ti palanet definition committee ti IAU, baliwan ti yaabante ti siensia ti amin kabayatan ti pannakasangat kadagiti baro nga inpormasion. “Ti napateg ditoy ket pasingkedan dagiti kabarbaro a takuat ken kabarbaro a siensia nga adda naidumduma a bambanag maipapan iti Pluto kadagiti walo a planeta ket kabayatan ti yaadu ti itden ti siensia a pannakaammo, adu ti masagraptayo a kabarbaro a resulta ken kabarbaro a konsiderasion.”

“At-aturen laeng ti siensia ti bagbagina,” kuna met ni Mike Brown, ti astronomo a nakatakuat iti Xena, iti panagtallugodna iti resolusion.

Pudno, paset amin ti idudur-as ti siensia ken pannakaammo ti pannakabaliw ti sasaaden ti Pluto iti Solar System tapno mawayaan dagiti maiwayat pay a panagadal ken panagtakuat iti masakbayan. Saan met a napukaw wenno naikkat ti Pluto iti bukodna a puesto iti law-ang, adda latta pay sadiay. Planeta pay laeng no planeta a talaga, ti la opisial a depinision ti kinaplaneta ti nagbaliw, ansisit man no ansisit, planetanto met latta. Ngem ketdi pay, saan a mabaliwan ti kina-Plutona kas Pluto nga ammotayo a kameng ti pamilia dagiti nainlangitan a bagi iti lawlaw ti Init.

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kabarbaro a pagpaapal ni steve jobs:

specs:

Two 2GHz, 2.66GHz, or 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5100 series processors
Intel Core microarchitecture
4MB shared L2 cache per processor
128-bit SSE3 vector engine
64-bit data paths and registers
Lower power optimization
1.33GHz, 64-bit dual independent frontside buses

667MHz DDR2 ECC fully-buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM) memory
Eight FB-DIMM slots on two memory riser cards (4 slots per card) supporting up to 16GB of main memory
Up to 256-bit wide memory architecture

Double-wide 16-lane PCI Express graphics slot with one of the following graphics cards installed:
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT with 256MB of GDDR2 SDRAM, one single-link DVI port, and one dual-link DVI port
ATI Radeon X1900 XT with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM and two dual-link DVI ports
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, two dual-link DVI ports, and one stereo 3D port
Multiple graphics card configurations including two, three, or four NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT cards
300W for up to four PCI Express graphics cards
Support for up to eight displays(1)
Support for digital resolutions up to 1920 by 1200 pixels; dual-link DVI ports support up to 2560 by 600 pixels
Support for analog resultions up to 2048 by 1536 pixels
DVI to VGA Adapter included
Dual-display support for extended desktop and video mirroring modes

Four independent 3Gb/s Serial ATA cable-free, direct attach hard drive bays; four internal hard drive carriers included
Up to 2TB of internal storage (2) using hard drives in the following capacities:
Hard drive bay 1
160GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200-rpm, 8MB cache
250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200-rpm, 8MB cache
500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200-rpm, 8MB cache
Hard drive bay 2
500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200-rpm, 8MB cache
Hard drive bay 3
500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200-rpm, 8MB cache
Hard drive bay 4
500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200-rpm, 8MB cache
16x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Writes DVD-R discs at up to 16x speed
Writes DVD+R DL discs at up to 6x speed
Reads DVDs at up to 16x speed
Writes CD-R and CD-RW discs at up to 24x speed
Reads CDs at up to 32x speed
One open optical drive bay for optional second SuperDrive

PCI Express expansion (3)
Three open full-length PCI Express expansion slots
Configurable bandwidth that mechanically supports 16-lane cards
300W combined max for all PCI Express slots

Two independent 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet (RJ-45) interfaces with support for jumbo frames
Optional AirPort Extreme wireless networking (4)
Optional Bluetooth 2.0+Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) up to 3Mbps
Optional external Apple USB Modem (RJ-11)

Peripherals and audio
Two FireWire 800 ports (one on front panel, one on back panel)
Two FireWire 400 ports (one on front panel, one on back panel)
Five USB 2.0 ports (two on front panel, three on back panel)
Two USB 1.1 ports on included keyboard
Front -panel headphone minijack and speakcer
Optical digital audio input and output Toslink ports
Analog stereo line-level input and output minijacks

Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger (includes Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat AV, Safari, QuickTime, iCal, and other software)
iLife ’06 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand)
Comic Life
Omni Outliner
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive, iWork ’06 (30-day trial), FileMaker Pro 8.5 trial

’nuff said. adtoyen ti matagtagiuray a sumaruno a version ti ubuntu.

ti maysa a kangrunaan a magustuak itoy a version ket ti automatic lamp iti server option. saankan nga agpakarigat nga aginstol ken agconfig iti apache, mysql ken php no panggepmo ti mangibaskag iti bukodmo a linux webserver. addan automatic a wagas a nalaka nga iwayat. although, siempre, no maysaka a wannabe linux geek, kaykayatmo ngata nga imanual a kas met iti panangpilim iti customized a panagpartition ken panaginstol. komporkayat.

bayat ti panagur-uray dagiti agur-uray, basaentay’ daytoy:

20 Things You Won’t Like About Windows Vista.

Here are the 20 Vista behaviors and functionalities that could turn off Windows users. Windows newbies may not mind some of these things, but they will definitely try the patience of the millions of Windows users who’ve got real experience and muscle memory invested in Microsoft’s desktop operating system.

ken kabayatanna pay, sukimatenyo pay manen dagita makinayo no mabalinto met laeng a mangpataray iti vista.

[manipud iti yahoo news]

Windows 3.0 // May 1990

286 or faster processor

640K conventional memory (additional 256K extended memory recommended)

Hard disk drive

Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA, or 8514/A graphics card (EGA or higher resolution recommended)

MS-DOS 3.1 or later

Mouse optional

[Tidbit: First Windows to be pre-installed on PC hard drives, by Zenith Data Systems and Dell.]

Windows 95 // August 1995

386DX or faster processor (486 recommended)

4MB memory (8MB recommended)

35-55MB hard disk space

3.5-inch high-density floppy disk drive

VGA or higher resolution (256-color SVGA recommended)

Average desktop PC price: $1,926

Average notebook price: $2,819

[Tidbits: 3.5-inch floppy version came on 13 disks; Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 start-up sound.]

Windows NT 4.0 // August 1996

Pentium or faster processor

16MB of memory (32 MB recommended)

110MB hard disk space

CD-ROM drive

VGA or higher-resolution display adapter

Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

Average desktop PC price: $1,988

Average notebook price: $2,997

[Tidbit: Holds the record for most service packs — 6, plus a post-SP “Roll-up” — delivered for a Windows OS.]

Windows 98 // June 1998

486DX 66MHz or faster processor (Pentium recommended)

16MB memory (24MB recommended)

120-355MB hard disk space

3.5-inch high-density floppy disk drive

VGA or higher resolution (16-bit or 24-bit color SVGA recommended)

Average desktop PC price: $1,619

Average notebook price: $2,395

[Tidbit: Crashed catastrophically — complete with infamous “Blue Screen of Death” — during April 1998 COMDEX presentation by Bill Gates, who quipped “That must be why we’re not shipping Windows 98 yet.”]

Windows 2000 // February 2000

133MHz or faster Pentium-compatible

64MB of memory

650MB free hard disk space

CD-ROM or DVD drive

VGA or higher resolution monitor

Keyboard required

Average desktop PC price: $1,306

Average notebook price: $2,167

[Tidbit: First Microsoft OS to make it through development and release without a code name.]

Windows Millennium // September 2000

Pentium 150MHz processor or better

32MB memory

320MB free hard disk space

CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive

3.5-inch high-density floppy disk drive

Video adapter and monitor that support VGA or higher resolution

Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

Sound card

Speakers or headphones

Average desktop PC price: $1,306

Average notebook price: $2,167

[Tidbit: Usually considered the “dog” of Windows, Millennium’s moniker of ME was said to stand for “Moron Edition,” “Migraine Edition,” “Malfeasance Edition,” and “Many Errors.”]

Windows XP // October 2001

Pentium 233MHz processor or faster (300MHz is recommended)

64MB of memory (128MB recommended)

1.5GB free hard disk space

CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive

Video adapter and monitor with Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher resolution

Keyboard and a Microsoft Mouse or some other compatible pointing device

Sound card

Speakers or headphones

Average desktop PC price: $1,163

Average notebook price: $1,876

[Tidbits: First Microsoft OS to require “activation;” metamorphosed into more variations than any other OS, including Home, Professional, Tablet PC, Media Center, N (specifically for the European market, sans Windows Media Player), Starter, and Professional x64.]

Windows Vista // ??

[Premium Ready]

1GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1GB of memory

Graphics processor that runs Windows Aero

128MB of graphics memory

15GB free hard disk space

DVD-ROM drive

Audio output capability

Internet access capability

Average desktop PC price (2005 data): $801\

Average notebook price (2005 data): $1,256

[Tidbits: Longest development track of any Windows OS: first announced in July 2001, prior to XP release; first Microsoft OS to be named in lawsuit before it launched.]

wen, gayam. no maipapan iti upcoming windows vista (kaanonto pay, aya, ngata a mairelease?), sukimatenyo dagiti computeryo no mabalinto met laeng nga ag-vista (no saan, kapilitan a gumatangka iti baro a capable a pc tapno laeng mainstolaram iti vista).