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Tizen OS soon to launch

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         <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Samsung has a lot rolling on this new OS(remember Bada?).And after years of development and a host of other tests and delays,rumors have finally sprung around the internet about 2 or so smartphones running the TIZEN OS to be launched in Russia around May according to <u><span style="color: #666666;">Tizen Indonesia</span></u>,as stated by certain other blogs.Also,it is rumored that developing countries are the primary target of these new devices.One's a high end flagship class smartphone(reminds me of the time when they launched Galaxy S and the Wave S) and the other is a mid-ranger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">        For those learning about this the first time round,Tizen is an Intel-Samsung venture into the smartphone OS category.Tizen is based on Linux and is actually the successor of the failed MeeGo OS.But Tizen has recieved a lot of dev support in recent years and hopefully wont be problematic.Shame what happened to MeeGo though,it was good,but competition obliterated it,and it's developers went on to create the "Jolla"smartphone using the Sailfish OS,a succcessor to MeeGo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">        Is Samsung finally breaking free of Android?Is Tizen the future of Samsung Mobile?Well folks we have seen the way they let Wave series smartphones sway around the market and of course,wither away.Google's domination in the smartphone OS segment is undeniable.But still it is worth noting the level of success Samsung has had with it's arsenal of products so far....Maybe the Korean giant finally got it right this time.</span><br />
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Tizen OS soon to launch

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How To Improve Slow Windows 7 and 8 Boot Times

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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A common question that plagues most windows users till date is  <b>"Why does my Windows take so long to boot up?"</b> Fret not,for this is very common among pc users and happens sometimes even to the best of us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This problem most predominantly plagues Windows 8 users.....Yet Windows  8 was designed for blazing fast startup speeds....But sadly,this iteration of the Windows OS also gets plagued by the treasure trove of apps and softwares available....Most of them have the tendency to load during boot and when there's too many apps loading on startup,your OS starts taking more time to load.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now as it opens go to the "boot" tab</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here in the "timeout"</span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">field instead of 30 seconds enter 3 as shown in the above pic and apply it.It's effectiveness is debatable as it only decreases the time win8 would wait before a full boot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After that,open task manager by the usual Ctrl+Alt+Delete method (after it pops up,click on startup tab) or click the "Startup" tab in msconfig window and click on the Task Manager link.</span><br />
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Bye Bye Windows XP!

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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">        </b>Microsoft Windows XP.An Operating System that was near perfect for it's time.A new UI,easily navigable(similar to the older ones though) and a Help Center that actually solved issues(more than the earlier ones anyway).The OS spread around the world's PCs like willdfire,but the part Microsoft couldn't come to terms with was that despite their security measures,there were a humongous number of pirated copies of XP circulating around the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">               As if that was not enough,till date a staggering number of computers still run the OS,and for 12 long years Microsoft has reluctantly kept support for this OS alive.But now it seems they've had enough.On April 8,2014 Microsoft ended support for Win XP.Now companies like Malwarebytes still support XP,but for how long?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">     Those using XP won't really be flinching,but I really hope banks and other such systems we rely on consider an upgrade as hackers are going to be on a roll anytime soon.If you're thinking about upgrading,now is a good time as always.</span></div>

Bye Bye Windows XP!

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Windows 8.1 Features and Microsoft's new offer

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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Windows 8 OS,the latest product of Microsoft's Windows line of Operating Systems has been widely criticised for it's UI overhaul that is suited for touch screens.The Metro UI has a rather steep learning curve for many.Also,considering that XP is abandoned by Microsoft now,many wish to switch to the latest OS(or get it preinstalled in the laptop they just bought),they face some issues in coming to terms with the new OS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I have heard of it having performance and compatibility issues.For most users,especially gamers,while the latter is true can't say that windows 8 performs poorer than windows 7.Actually,it is supposed to be better for gaming compared to 7.There is just a small range of compatibility issues that i hope will be completely worked out in future updates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A post in Microsoft's blog dated April 7 is a jaw-dropper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now you only have weeks (Till 13th May,2014)left before Microsoft forsakes your Windows 8,updates wise.But Microsoft will be supporting Windows 8 until January 12,2016.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Windows 8.1 is not bad once you get to know it actually.But this new 'offer'?</span><br />
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Browse faster using Firefox- Pipelining

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There is a very well known internet speed boosting technique circulating around the net for quite a while.It is the pipelining technique of the open source Mozilla Firefox Web Browser.</div>
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Pipelining is a technique of HTTP request sending in the browser where the browser sends multiple requests to the server instead of the usual request as per input that is traditionally followed.</div>
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From the above image you can see that the server answers to each single request the client(your browser) gives.For slower connections the time between two requests is higher and thus the page loads slower.Instead of sending requests one by one,why not send a batch of requests at the same time?So when the server responds you could be getting a lot more data with one batch of requests just a little later than one tiny request.THIS is pipelining(in short).</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">       (NOTE:This is where you configure firefox to run as you want it to(open source ftw!).But those who are new to this,just leave anything you dont know as it is.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>STEP 3:</b>Next,search fo</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">r "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 8  by double clicking it and entering 8 in the dialog box that appears.It's default value is 32.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">There,you're set.Note that the difference in speed is significant only for fast connections.If you are using a really slow connection like a dial up,you wont see the difference at all.In fact,Firefox actually becomes slower!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">And not all sites can handle pipelined requests(it's 2014 so i'm hoping that's no longer an issue).There is also a little trick in Firefox that shows your page as it is being rendered(instead of showing white for a while and then the full page).in about:config,search for "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to 0.This does <b>NOT</b> make your page load faster but displays your page as it loads bit by bit.Hope this helps!</span></span></div>
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INTRODUCTION TO SATA AND RAID

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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Introduction To SATA and RAID<br /><br />  With the arrival of SATA 3.0 with the capability of delivering transfer speeds of about 6GB/s,a jump from the staple SATA 2.0 which could deliver 3GB/s,and at a rate of 1.5 GB/s SATA 1.0 was nowhere nearby.But this is what the average person who just occassionally peeks into this stuff knows....The mentioned speeds are the speed of the SATA interface,while they support a bandwidth throughput of 1/10 of the said interface speed,which means the 6GB/s SATA 3.0 actually gives you 600MB/s of transfers.<br /><br />  Confused?SATA stands for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment,which is nothing but a method of connecting the Hard Disk to the rest of the computer using a cable of at least 4 wires(if you've seen the insides of your desktop,it's the belt like cable linking the HDD to the rest of the PC.SATA replaced the P-ATA (Parallel ATA),which had upto 40 pins,and thus is now the staple storage interface for today's PCs.<br /><br /><br />  Now the rather uncommon yet really powerful  alternative is the RAID configuration. RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks.This configuration is versatile in many ways but requires some technical knowledge to run it.There are several ways to implement this configuration.They are:<br /><br />RAID 0:This isn't technically RAID,but instead it is just two HDDs linked together so that read/write work takes place        alternately.But if this array crashes,all data is lost.Plus(although i havent seen proof otherwise) data recovery        softwares dont function as good as they do in SATA.Meaning deleted files have lesser chance of recovery in RAID        0.However they are more resilient to crashes and the like when using SSDs(Yes,they are worth the price).<br />       <br /><br />RAID 1:Here you preferably should use 2 drives of the same amount of storage as the data is duplicated in both drives.In other words,using a pair of 1TB HDDs in RAID 1 would actually act like just a single 1TB HDD.But this is more Redundant(The "R" in RAID) in that even if one drive crashes,your data isnt exactly lost.But in this configuration,read speed is better and write speeds are a little less than the original.But still RAID 1 is just one drive of data duplicated in two HDDs and is not a kind of backup configuration.<br /><br />RAID 5:This uses a bare minimum of 3 HDDs.It uses a parity stripe,which gives data integrity without having to duplicate all the data.This is a quite safe configuration and ensures better safety in case of drive failure.And here you'll feel the decrease in your write speed.<br /><br />RAID 10: Also known as RAID 1+0,combines 1 and 0.So if you use 4 1TB HDDs you'll have 2 1TB RAID 0 drives that have their copies like in RAID 1.This is not exactly cost effective but is a safe way of using RAID 0<br /><br />Now there are a multitude of RAID setups and I have only covered the most common ones.<br /><br />Why RAID?<br />   RAID0 configuration offers fast game loading times and two SATA 2 HDDs are a cheaper solution to the latest and fastest disks available now.But that is all there is and there's also the risk of losing data.In general RAIDs are all about safety in case of drive failures.<br /><br /><br />Bottomline: SATA is your choice for everything unless you insist on data safety,and a better read speed(loading times) for what you pay.</span></div>

INTRODUCTION TO SATA AND RAID

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Welcome to GeeKiosk!

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Welcome to GeeKiosk! If you are reading this post then I’d like to thank you for taking the time to visit my new blog.I am Ranadeep Majumdar,and currently am doing my Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering( Computer Science).<br />
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 I’ve always had a knack for all things tech.I love to trot around the web,improving my tech knowhow.I started blogging in 2011 when I wanted to become an expert with computers(I never focused on just one aspect…….ever).I saw all these blogs with half baked data so I thought,why not make one myself?So I,along with a friend C.A.Vigneshwar(thanks for stickin around,pal) started "TimepassWidTr!X"(timepasswidtrix.blogspot.com), which I started with the intention of making an archive of data on tech.As time passed,I had the feeling that TWT became your typical half-baked tech blog(or I became too lazy to post,can’t remember which).<br />
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 Years later(Now),I just couldn’t help the itch to bring back my presence online.So I just went on with it.No fancy ceremonies or launch events,just the pangs of hunger indicating I had to have lunch as I was typing this post.And there,my blog came to existence.<br />
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GeeKiosk was started with the idea that the blog could become a one-stop solution for all your technological information needs.I am working on this and I hope it fulfils the goal and is appealing to the readers at the same time.<br />
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I have just started this blog so I’d really like some pointers from the pro bloggers and my fellow <br />
readers’ constructive criticism is always welcome.</div>

Welcome to GeeKiosk!

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