Daily Friction #304
Update your Wine to version 0.9.55, browse your Linux or any ext2 and ext3 file system from the comfort of your Windows workstation, extend you battery life with new technology, learn if you are or any of your workmates are workplace pyros? and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Software and Services
- Wine 0.9.55 Released New in this release: Direct3D improvements, including driver version emulation, support for OLE objects, several fixes to the animation control, lots of bug fixes and more.
- Explore2fs - Explore2fs is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems. It runs under all versions of Windows and can read almost any ext2 and ext3 filesystem.
Hardware
- Israel IBM set to feed your power-hungry devices - If NASA can send human beings to outer space, why is it that cell phone batteries die out after a couple of hours of use? Taking on the challenge of improving battery and power performance in electronic devices, is a team of developers from the IBM Haifa Research Lab.
Information
- Are you a workplace pyro? The manager who makes every little problem a three-alarm fire can burn your business. Is it you?
Bargains
- Remember: Many of these bargains may be discontinued hours or less after they are announced, check the specified price to see if you arrived on time.
- HP Color LaserJet 2605dn printer
($249.99) Valid through February 16, 2008.
- GE 28821FE2 DECT 6.0 Digital expandable cordless phone with answering machine
Fun
- Luminara - Nice Geometry Wars style shooter. Movement: A,S,D,W, Point and shoot with the mouse.
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