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AnandTech reviews ASUS’s much talked-about Eee PC

The “Eee” in Eee PC is an acronym of sorts, because computer people love those. “Easy to Learn, Easy to Work, Easy to Play”; “Excellent Internet Experience”; “Excellent On-the-Go”. Look at the ASUS Eee webpages, and you will find a preponderance of the use of words starting with “E” used to describe the Eee PC. One acronym you won’t see used is UMPC, but while the Eee PC is certainly different from your typical UMPC - it lacks the touch sensitive stylus interface and it runs Linux by default - it can certainly fulfill the same niche if necessary, with some caveats. Considering it costs half as much as the cheapest UMPCs, anyone looking for such a device should give the Eee PC some consideration.

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Nokia today rolled out a new Internet tablet, which has evolved into a portable entertainment platform that comes with a slide-out keyboard and a GPS receiver.

The new N810 is not quite what we would call a revolution, but it is a solid improvement over the preceding N770 and N800 tablet PCs and pretty much represents what Palm’s recently scrapped Foleo companion device should have been.

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Another geeky prank from MIT.

Back in 1999, Massachusetts Institute of Technology students decorated the campus’ Great Dome to look like Star Wars robot R2D2 in celebration of the legendary film series’ first prequel in 1999. But Star Wars prequels are so last decade. These days, it’s all about the much-hyped Xbox 360 title Halo 3. And why prank your own campus when you can pull a fast one on those snotty Crimsons next door?

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A must-have in your system for troubleshooting and malware hunting.

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names, reliable process information, full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation, simultaneous logging to a file, and much more.

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After quite a few rebuilds and testing, the openSUSE team announces that 10.3 RC1 is now ready and available for download.

The team consider this release to be feature complete, stable, and suitable for testing from any user. For more information on the release schedule, take a look at the Roadmap.

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An innovative propulsion system that could significantly shorten round trips from Earth to Mars (from two years to only six months!) and enable our spaceships to reach Jupiter after one year of space traveling.

Click for more on New Nuclear-powered Spaceship Design Revealed »

The Admin’s Swiss Army Knife, utilities from Sysinternals, get some update today, which includes the popular ProcessMonitor and TcpView.

Process Monitor v1.22: This update adds the ability to specify the level of information saved when you export to XML.

Tcpview v2.51: This fixes a bug in the endpoint status bar statistics when you toggle between showing unconnected and connected ednpoints.

DebugView v4.7: This update allows you to enable or disable verbose kernel debug output.

Autoruns 8.72: Version 8.72 fixes a couple of minor bugs.

Source: Sysinternals