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Google's Chrome browser market share hits 10% mark

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@rvt

I've just experimented, and for me, I can enter a search term, press return, end up at google with the term in the search field on the web page. If I then click on a search result, and press the menu bar back button subsequently, I end up back at google with the search term still in the search entry field.

I don't know why you're not experiencing that behaviour.

While I see this behaviour when I actively look for it, the way I normally use chrome is to middle click on each promising search entry to open them in a new tab, so the original search results sit untouched until I've found what I want.

Hope that's some help.

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@rvt

re 2) you search, you end up at the search engine of your choice, with the search terms in the site's search term entry field, so you can modify the search if you wish to.

re3) It doesn't load one site faster, but I'm not infrequently loading half a dozen at a time, at which point it is faster than anything else out there. The separated thread design also means that I've never yet lost a browsing session due to a crash, which is very pleasant.

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O2's free Wi-Fi in detail: How free is free exactly?

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You can run sshd on the port of your choice, not just the default one.

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UK tech retailers are rubbish

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99p HDMI cable

Here you go

http://www.bargainspy.co.uk/node/312883

99p from Wilko.

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Google targets Internet Explorer shops with Chrome admin controls

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eltiT

MS have provided an IE6 frame; it is the XP mode in Win 7 Pro. Not as elegant as the way google has done it, but that's not hugely surprising, they want to encourage migration to IE8+ and Windows 7 after all.

Kudos to what google have done, it makes my life easier, and my users potentially more secure.

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TVonics DTR-HD500 Freeview HD DVR

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Unusual question

Can you use it as a HDMI - SCART converter? Say hook a blue ray player to one of the HDMI inputs and watch the output over SCART?

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Appro overclocks HF1 server for hedge funds

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eltiT

They don't go for old P4s, because the actual number of instructions executed per clock cycle is far lower than for the Nehalem micro architecture.

The goal is really the highest single threaded performance possible, rather than the highest possible clock speed.

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Amazon Kindle 3 e-book reader

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Doesn't this version include a basic web kit based browser? Just how basic is it?

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Crash grounds RAF Eurofighters - for Battle of Britain Day!

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Manchester became Lancaster

Note that they only made 200 Manchesters because the Vulture engine it used was unreliable. The design was changed to use 4 Merlins, and the went on to fame as the Lancaster.

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Google spins out happy-clappy autofill Chrome 6 beta

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The canary build

Is actually pretty stable. I've been using it for all my browsing since it was released, and only had a couple of tabs crash. Looking at my history stats, I typically view ~300 pages a day, so stability should be acceptable to most people.

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Philips BDP3100 Blu-ray player

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The penny-pinchers' player of choice?

I've managed to purchase a Sony BDPS 370 for £99.99, which will also pull tricks like playing freeview over the network connection. It's certainly also worth considering for this title.

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Microsoft to set record with next Patch Tuesday

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Reboot? - once

install all the patches, bounce the machine - once.

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Google discovers Chrome can (really) block ads

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web sites need some form of income

In the absence of an effective micropayment system, and given peoples reluctance to pay large subscription fees, what other funding model is there?

I typically browse with flash and image downloading disabled. I don't consider that actively blocking adverts, I uses negligible bandwidth downloading text adverts, and I feel I'm behaving in a moral fashion, accepting advertising in a reasonable medium in recompense for viewing material I find interesting.

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It's non-stop fun in Zero Carbon Britain, 2030

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infinite resources ?

"Persuade themselves.... that resources are finite" I'm no hair shirt environmentalist, but I'm pretty sure resources are finite, otherwise you'd be tripping over them all the time.

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Bloody George's Budget: How bad is it really?

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Which is a bad idea

The downside to the govt printing all the money it needs is that if gov't expenditure is~40% of GDP, the amount of money in circulation increases by more than 40% (more because the other 60% of GDPs worth of money is recycled, and spent more than once, imagine you spending your pay packet in a pub, the money ends up in a brewers pay packet later on).

That give you easily predictable, insanely high levels of inflation. I'd anticipate higher than Rhodesia, and certainly more than 100% per year. Also, as the money supply is growing so fast, returns on savings will be negligible, so savers will get nothing in the way of interest on their savings, so the elderly etc will be disadvantaged.

So, is that enough of a downside?

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VMware cuts entry vSphere prices

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@ Trevor Pott o_O

Even if you can't run to a SAN, buy an NFS server and put your datastore on that. Then you can mount it from multiple ESXi hosts, so it's quick to move a VM around, and if you snapshot a running VM, you can take a back up without downtime.

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Surprise Adobe update grapples with critical flaws

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so near, yet so far

It gets better. There's an updater visible at ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.3.1/misc/ , which you need a username and password to actually download. I've registered to deploy acrobat reader, but I've never received such a password. Are they actually playing with us?

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Where are the patches?

I go to http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Windows , and right now, the most recent patch listed there is for 12 Jan 2010, and is 9.3. The acrobat auto update gets you 9.3.1, but where's 9.3.1 if you are deploying acrobat rather than relying on the desktop users to click OK to a patch, and trusting them with admin rights?

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NASA's nuclear Mars tank gets improved cooker mod

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@Neil Stansbury

There are quite tight limits on how much mass the existing Entry Descent and Landing (EDL) can handle. Additionally, they're very inaccurate, and limited to areas of high (for mars) atmospheric pressure, which translates to low altitudes. The new, excitingly complex mechanism allows for a heavier payload, at higher altitude, and should also allow a high precision landing.

Landing precision is important for a rover that is used to look at rock outcroppings, as it's possible to land near them safely rather than either avoiding them completely and having a long drive to a site of interest by targeting a smooth landing area, or risking disaster by landing with poor accuracy amongst them.

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VMware: virtualized SMBs do it better

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au contraire

Virtualization can be a big help with DR.

If you can tolerate a little out of hours downtime, it's easy to keep up to date copies of virtual disks, which can be trivially restored to any server that runs your hypervisor of choice. That gives you considerable hardware independence, as well as an easier restore process.

If you can't tolerate downtime, VMs on shared storage can be snapshotted and copied. Not as easy, but you still get a much easier and faster recovery process than running on the metal.

Also, if you've virtualized and have a disaster wiping out your server estate, you've got far fewer machines to replace, saving time acquiring/commisioning them.,

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What’s the point of desktop virtualization?

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@I use a virtual desktop, and I hate it

You're doing something that's a poor use case then. I've got VMs of Solaris x86, XP, and Vista open now on this PC, and they're all fine for web browsing, compiling C, editing code etc.

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