Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
Additional Resources
- Apple to smokers: butt out or void your warranty
- Well here it is...http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0446.htmlI have seen tar filled electronicsIt gets nasty. You open them up, and they can be full of tar and all this brown/black gunk. You can get a nicotine high just by touching the parts.As for second hand smoke risk, thats kind of unfounded. Is that gunk...
- Tags: Apple Inc., cigarette, joint, Cannabis, tar, smoker, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Do we need a 'beautiful mess' in operating systems? Yup
- To make a good soup, you've got to stir the pot...Ok, sure - it turns cloudy, short-term. Just be sure to filter it or let it settle, before serving.Whereas the classic 'design-by-committee' model so often fails, its always useful to have multiple, talented teams working on similar projects, independently. With...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Programming languages, Linux Distro, operating system, John Gruber, Linux, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Inappropriate Performance Review Phrases (We'd All Like to Use)
- Complete waste of skin. nt..The 7 P's"Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Performance. He has the last three down to a science." or "I'm not sure what we would do without his wit, however, I'm not sure what he does without it." This employee......will only be productive when we discover...
- Tags: Performance management, Inappropriate Performance Review Phrases, performance
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- More evidence of the coming collision between home broadband and the smart grid
- Collision?Not the word I would have used.In any event, I think this is a positive and necessary direction to go. In order to manage more diversified, less dependable/consistent sources of energy, the demand side HAS TO be managed. Without it, we are just setting ourselves up for a lot of...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, collision, home broadband, grid, smart grid
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Calculator for Science Students 2.9 (Windows)
- This is a very useful calculator for students. The system is designed to quickly carry out calculations and find commonly used reference data. The system contains a scientific calculator that can also calculate molecular mass, and from this main calculator over 80 other calculators and science tools can be called....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Dot Point Learning Systems, Note Pad Area, Measurement Converter, Productivity
- Software downloads 2009-11-04
- Smart grid grants
- Over $3 billion dollars worth of federal money will be awarded to smart grid projects in the U.S. today. President Obama has chosen a Florida solar power plant as the location for making his announcement. He'll be in Arcadia, Florida, at Florida Power and Light Co.’s...
- Tags: Grant, Monitors & Displays, Wi-Fi, Hardware, Components, Wireless And Mobility, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Alternative to electrical retrofits helps Verizon Center save $25K monthly
- So, you're not so sure your business can afford an electrical systems retrofit in order to save money on power consumption? The Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., has sidestepped this problem by installing some technology from Energy Automation Systems that is helping it save about $25,000 per month on electricity.That's...
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- A word of warning on hard disk recovery by swapping logic boards
- Freezing it?"Popping it into a sealed plastic bag and freezing it for a few hours."Pardon my ignorance - what does this do to help?Except in this case, the problem is almostcertainly fried electronics because of the method in which the drive failed.Strange. Hu?I can't say how it works, but I...
- Tags: logic board, hard drive, hard-disk recovery, Cooling
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Computers have speed limit as unbreakable as speed of light, say physicists
- A pair of physicists have shown that if processors continue to accelerate in accordance to Moore's Law, we'll hit the wall of faster processing in roughly 75 years. The curtain will eventually come down for silicon in today's manufacturing methods once engineers can no longer further shrink...
- Tags: Processor, Physicist, Speed, Computer, Moore, Productivity, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Indigo 4.1.1 (Mac)
- Indigo is a home control server that integrates INSTEON and X10 hardware devices. Save money, conserve water, and reduce electrical usage by automating your home with Indigo's unlimited scheduling and control logic. Using Indigo's built-in Web server, you can access and control your home from anywhere using any modern Web...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Indigo
- Software downloads 2009-10-10
- A brain-computer interface that communicates thoughts between people
- Oh, good griefthis is a bit of a stretch. Thoughts? Here's what happened:One person raised his left or right arm. Another person saw it.The only difference is, we put a computer in the middle of it, reduced the action to electrical impulses and called it brain to brain communication.Of course,...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, EEG
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Why on ZDnet?
- I think most of the folks who read this section of ZDnet understand how digital tech and the future of energy, mineral and water and air resource use are so closely interconnected. But occasionally somebody who really doesn't want global warming written about, or hates the very idea that...
- Tags: Pollution, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
- A Quick Primer on Data Center Tier Classifications
- Today, a number of companies are either consolidating their data centers or implementing new data center projects. Their decisions are often based on the appropriate "tier level" of the IT facility. The tier level is determined by an industry standard classification system for infrastructure performance. A four-tier system rates a...
- Tags: Data Center, STC Associates, Tier Level, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2009-10-01
- Open source does not work well for bad guys
- Open_Source is the futureOpen_Source 'Linux distro' driven appliances are the future, such as the many companies already doing extremely well.Closed source is a huge lethargic insecure monopoly trying to license/patent everything, however it is failing miserably. Look at the exploits of Windows, $9 Billion in damages last year just from...
- Tags: open source, bad guy, Conficker, Linux, Closed Source
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Tinnitus Tamer 4.0.3 (Mac)
- It appears only natural to assume that as our ears pick up sound waves, they convert them into electrical nerve signals that represent the sounds, a loud sound producing a large nerve signal, silence producing no nerve signal at all, and once these nerve signals arrive at the brain we...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Neural Network, Sound, VAVsoft
- Software downloads 2009-09-19
- Document your network now...save pain later
- Do you really need to do this?I guess you have looked for the electrical blueprint of the building and couldn't find it but shouldn't there be an electrical blueprint of the building for the power company? Normally both power and telcom wires are included even in older blueprints (at least...
- Tags: Internet connection, Internet, network
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Microsoft starts warning of support phase-out for older Windows Server releases
- Added benefit of "activation" (automatic "kill switch")Neccessary or desirable to reinstall XP or change hardware? Flip the kill switch. No more activation, no more XP or any other later Windows release.Any OS that depends on a remote server is an excercise in futility.You confuse 'support' with 'activation'.There's no indication that...
- Tags: Operating systems, Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Windows Server, server, kill switch, Microsoft Corp., misinformation, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- 802.11n: The End of Ethernet?
- The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE 802.11n standard represents the beginning of the end for wired Ethernet as the dominant Local Area Network LAN access technology in the enterprise. Over the next few years, refinements in system silicon, radio design, network control, wireless security, and power management will...
- Tags: Burton Group, IEEE 802.11n, IEEE, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Network Technology, Networking, Wireless And Mobility
- White papers 2009-09-14
- Windmills stir up opposition
- Let's do some mathHarry:How much energy is recoverable, year in, year out, for vertical turbine blades?What percentage of the US' domestic energy usage does that amount to?This is very basic arithmetic.Likewise, when you factor in the energy costs needed to make the lithium ion batteries of the Prius, and assume...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wind energy
- Discussion threads 2009-09-13
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
Popular Sanity Saver Videos
White Papers and Webcasts
The Business Essentials Guide provides you useful tools and templates to help grow your business and save you time with automated shipping solutions.
When you transition from your existing Red Hat environment to SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell, you can recognize dramatic cost savings, perhaps as much 50%
Doc delivers the scoop on today's enterprise content management, printer maintenance, and all other issues related to document management. It's the DocuMentor Blog.
Read about top issues IT decision-makers face every day, plus get cost-effective solutions to real-life IT problems.
