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nVidia CUDA 2.0 Environment

nVidia released the second version of CUDA environment for computers based on graphical processors.

nVidia CUDA 2.0 based on C language and allows programmers to create applications wich can use possibilities of modern videoadapters. CUDA can surpass in many time traditional tasks based on central processors.

CUDA 2.0 platform supports Apple Mac OS X and 32, 64 bit Windows. nVidia offers a plugin for Adobe Photoshop to speed up the process of image editing. You can find more information about CUDA 2.0 here.

Windows Home Server PowerPack 1

Microsoft corporation has announced new update PowerPack 1 for the Windows Home Server.  PowerPack 1 is available for downloading from official microsoft’s website.

At the present moment there is only English version of PowerPack 1. But in the near future there will be more languages. And starting from the 1st of August PowerPack 1 will be included in automatic update.

New update consists from patches wich resolve loosing of data mistakes and possibility to set up an external hard drive for reserve copying of files.

Make Windows XP Genuine

I came across this trick at some forums related to windows xp, that post was enough old…but i hope it can help you to have a geniune windows :)
Copy the following code into any text editor. Then save it with .reg extension. You can name it as you want. Now run your .reg file. Then go http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/FAQ.aspx and click “Validate Windows”. That is it :)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents]
"OOBETimer"=hex:ff,d5,71,d6,8b,6a,8d,6f,d5,33,93,fd
"LastWPAEventLogged"=hex:d5,07,05,00,06,00,07,00,0f,00,38,00,24,00,fd,02

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]
"CurrentBuild"="1.511.1 () (Obsolete data - do not use)"
"InstallDate"=dword:427cdd95
"ProductId"="69831-640-1780577-45389"
"DigitalProductId"=hex:a4,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,36,39,38,33,31,2d,36,34,30,2d,\
  31,37,38,30,35,37,37,2d,34,35,33,38,39,00,5a,00,00,00,41,32,32,2d,30,30,30,\
  30,31,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,0d,04,89,b2,15,1b,c4,ee,62,4f,e6,64,6f,01,00,\
  00,00,00,00,27,ed,85,43,a2,20,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,31,34,35,30,34,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,ce,0e,\
  00,00,12,42,15,a0,00,08,00,00,87,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,94,a2,b3,ac
"LicenseInfo"=hex:9e,bf,09,d0,3a,76,a5,27,bb,f2,da,88,58,ce,58,e9,05,6b,0b,82,\
  c3,74,ab,42,0d,fb,ee,c3,ea,57,d0,9d,67,a5,3d,6e,42,0d,60,c0,1a,70,24,46,16,\
  0a,0a,ce,0d,b8,27,4a,46,53,f3,17

The trick consists basically in creating a “.reg” file with some code.