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Think twice about tweaking Mac hardware from Windows

Think twice about tweaking Mac hardware from WindowsRemember it's BETA softwareBoot Camp is still in beta. It works so well we all seem to forget that. Apple will deliver a production version of Boot Camp with MacOS 10.5 later this year. Who knows, DMA access may be...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Remember IT, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, DMA, hardware, Microsoft Windows, PC

Discussion threads 2007-08-28

Think twice about tweaking Mac hardware from Windows

I noticed a tip in several blogs last week about tweaking hard drive memory settings from within Windows when running under Boot Camp. As far as I can see, the tip originates from a blogger named LamboMan from Bristol, England.His suggestion concerns Boot Camp performance on the Mac Pro workstations....

Tags: Hard Drive, Apple Macintosh, Storage, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Hardware, DMA, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-08-27

Senate approves antispam bill

Senate approves antispam billWaiting on the House...to get off their fat-arses and pass the legislation, resolve the differences with the Senate bill and get this puppy signed!I'm sure the overseas spammers are scared......This smells like a "Look what I did for you poor gits!! Now re-elect me!!!" gimmick.It's not...

Tags: Cyberthreats, DMA, spam, spammer, U.S. Senate, anti-spam

Discussion threads 2003-10-23

Voodoo_m460_Infrared_Driver_5.60.exe 5.6.9820.307 (Windows)

This package supports the following driver models:Winbond Fast Infrared ControllerDMA Winbond W83977A/W83517D FIR Controller DMA Winbond W83877AFIR Controller DMA Winbond W83977A/W83517D FIR Controller DMA Winbond W83877A FIR Controller DMA Winbond Infrared Controller DMA

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., DMA, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2002-07-10

ir_57.zip 5.6.9820.307 (Windows)

This package supports the following driver models:Winbond Fast Infrared ControllerDMA Winbond W83977A/W83517D FIR Controller DMA Winbond W83877AFIR Controller DMA Winbond W83977A/W83517D FIR Controller DMA Winbond W83877A FIR Controller DMA Winbond Infrared Controller DMA

Tags: Package, Driver, DMA, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2002-05-13

xp400ir.zip 2002-03-07 (Windows)

This package supports the following driver models:Winbond Fast Infrared ControllerDMA Winbond W83977A/W83517D FIR Controller DMA Winbond W83877AFIR Controller DMA Winbond W83977A/W83517D FIR Controller DMA Winbond W83877A FIR Controller DMA Winbond Infrared Controller DMA

Tags: Shuttle, DMA, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2002-03-07

mexp560.zip 5.5.9820.1205 (Windows)

This package supports the following driver models:Winbond Fast Infrared ControllerDMA Winbond W83977A/W83517D FIR Controller DMA Winbond W83877AFIR Controller DMA Winbond W83977A/W83517D FIR Controller DMA Winbond W83877A FIR Controller DMA Winbond Infrared Controller DMA

Tags: Package, Driver, DMA, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2001-12-05

mexp56.zip 5.5.9820.1205 (Windows)

This package supports the following driver models:Winbond Fast Infrared ControllerDMA Winbond W83977A/W83517D FIR Controller DMA Winbond W83877AFIR Controller DMA Winbond W83977A/W83517D FIR Controller DMA Winbond W83877A FIR Controller DMA Winbond Infrared Controller DMA

Tags: Package, Driver, DMA, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2001-12-05

Additional Resources

Windows Server 2008 R2 Releases to Manufacturing

Windows Server 2008 R2, which released to manufacturing today, July 22nd, 2009, contains major functionality improvements in virtualization and networking over the previous version. This afternoon, Microsoft has announced the Release to Manufacturing RTM of Windows Server 2008 R2, which incorporates many hundreds...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Manufacturing, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Feature, Live Migration, Hyper-V Live Migration, CSV, NTFS CSV, SCVMM 2008 R2, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Virtualization, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-22

System Analyser 5.3w (Windows)

System Analyser gives comprehensive information about your system: Bios, Network, Dos, CPU/FPU, Cache, Memory, SPD, Video, AGP, Monitor, Drives, partitions, IDE, ATAPI, SATA, CD-Rom, DVD, Blue-ray Disk, RPC2, Lpt, Rs232, Mouse, Keyboard, IEEE 1284, Modem, Fax, ISDN, Sound, ASPI/CAM, SCSI, DMI, PCI, PCI Express, PCMCIA, Plug and Play, APM, ESCD,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Hans Niekus, PCI, Y2K, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-22

Make no bones about it: Server 2008 R2 is really Windows Server 7

Whether you call it Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 7, there's no doubt that this is a major Server product release for Microsoft. While the Windows 7 Release Candidate is getting all the attention this week, I thought I might bring...

Tags: NTFS, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Va will rewrite antispam law

Va will rewrite antispam lawGood thing for the spammers......that the Virginia General Assembly won't be meeting again until January barring the possibility of a special session. Maybe the DMA can send a few extra lobbyists to make sure the issue never comes to a vote at all (after all,...

Tags: Spam, anti-spam

Discussion threads 2009-03-31

Top US markets for content downloaders in 2008

Rank Market % of adults who downloaded online content the past month 1 San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose DMA 32 2 San Diego DMA 31 3 Austin DMA 31 4 Washington, D.C. DMA 30 5 Salt Lake City DMA 29 ...

Tags: Phoenix Technologies, Adult, NB

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Where online shoppers live in the US

Rank Market % of Adults who spent $500 + online the past year 1 Washington, D.C. DMA 39 2 San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose DMA 35 3 Seattle/Tacoma DMA 34 4 Honolulu DMA 33 5 Phoenix DMA 32 6 Boston...

Tags: Phoenix Technologies, NB

Blog posts 2008-12-30

DiskCheck 3.6.2 (Windows)

All miray SATs with harddisk access use the same driver architecture, and this program now enables one to check if the SATs will work on a system. It also offers a rather reliable speed guess for the SAT applications. In case of undetected devices, the program can also output a...

Tags: IDE, Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows, DiskCheck, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-11-25

No FireWire over Ethernet; but maybe in Snow Leopard

Since Apple announced the new MacBook last week sans FireWire, there's been a backlash from the Apple community about the omission. Users love the high-speed data protocol for things like Target Disk Mode TDM, transferring clips from digital video cameras and for connecting to external hard drives....

Tags: Ethernet, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., FireWire, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-20

BIOS settings demystified

BIOS settings demystifiedVery good info - thanks!One thing I found which maybe everyone else already knew, and I don't know if it is common to all BIOS versions or just the ASUS KV8 that I have, but under the Advanced tab, there's a Legacy USB support option - having it...

Tags: BIOS, BIOS Settings

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Neocleus secure access

Neocleus secure accessNeocleus is not secureNeocleus security architecture is flawed at its basic level. The architecture uses a software mechanism to provide direct physical device assignment to virtual machines, such as graphics cards and wireless networks. It does not support hardware based direct I/O assignment or hardware based...

Tags: desktop virtualization, SECURITY, Neocleus, virtual machine, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Mozilla admits that Firefox EULA is flawed

Mozilla admits that Firefox EULA is flawedCompeting with ChromeThis is Mozilla trying to compete with Google for evil ;-pBut really, they have good reason to lock things down - "community builds" that were called "Firefox" and were within the rules, but happened to be loaded with spyware - but have...

Tags: Web browsers, EULA, Firefox EULA, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

Plat'Home OpenBlockS: Made in Japan

Embedded Linux devices have always fascinated me, because besides on the server, it's where I think the Open Source OS is going to make the most impact. From 2002 to 2004, I worked for SHARP as a developer liaison consultant on the very much before its time ZAURUS Linux/Java PDA,...

Tags: Developer, Device, Storage, Debian, OpenBlockS, OpenBlockS266, CF, Plat'Home Linux, TheOpenBlockS, Linux, Embedded Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-03