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How to Get Windows 11 for Free (or Under $20)
By Scharon Harding, Avram Piltch last updated
Need an OS for your PC build? Microsoft charges a whopping $139 for Windows 11 Home. Here's how to get Windows free or at least cheap.
Ray Tracer ported to an x86 boot sector in only 483 bytes, run on Pentium Pro and faster CPUs
By Christopher Harper published
An x86 boot sector Ray Tracer, inspired by Ray Tracer for Atari 8-bit Basic, brings some real-time RT rendering to 90s-era hardware.
Spectra Cube heralds new 75,000 TB storage library
By Christopher Harper published
Spectra Cube features support for Amazon S3 and boasts of ease of use and maintenance, running at up to 81TB/hr throughput with compressed data.
How to manage Linux network connections via the terminal
By Les Pounder published
Linux has a great network management GUI but sometimes we need to get our hands dirty in the terminal. In this how to we look at how to manage connections on a typical Debian Linux machine.
Thousands of apps ported back to Windows 95 twenty-eight years later — .NET Framework port enables backward compatibility for modern software
By Christopher Harper published
MattKC painstakingly ports .NET to Windows 95 from Windows 98, enabling many applications that would not otherwise work.
Microsoft lifts two-year-old block that prevented some users from upgrading to Windows 11 — fix finally arrives after a long wait for Rocket Lake CPUs
By Dallin Grimm published
Microsoft fixes a bug preventing PCs with specific Intel drivers from using Windows 11 without crashes and allows affected PCs to upgrade from Windows 10.
How to identify which application is hogging your camera in Windows 11 and 10
By Les Pounder published
Lights, camera, in-action?
Ubuntu 24.04 Beta released after week delay due to malicious code
By Les Pounder published
Delayed by a week due to malicious code in the XZ compression tools, Ubuntu 24.04 'Nodle Numbat' is ready for beta users to test.
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