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Shutting down your PC: Frugal fact, or financial fiction?

Shutting down your PC: Frugal fact, or financial fiction?Dave's is closerHowever 10 minutes and 5 minutes are a bit of an exaggeration unless you are using 5+ year old equipment. Which most workers do not. The actual number of minutes is probably half that, maybe less. However that still puts...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Shutting Down, Frugal fact, financial fiction, Frugal, computer, PC, financial, Dave

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

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GOP will present a health care bill

Good startGood work Dana. This blog is not biased to the left (we'll see how you fare in the talkbacks though).There's of course still the question why you put politics on this IT tech site."ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals. Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, IT Pros, health care, No., Pelosi, GOP

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

CentOS: Getting Their S#!t Together is a Top Priority

CentOS: Getting Their S#!t Together is a Top Priorityre: CentOSSeems a tad early to state they won't get their sh*t together.There was a real problem (i.e. Davis) but the crew that's left over are working to address the problems he created. There's not enough publicized facts to determine if they...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, CentOS

Discussion threads 2009-08-02

Frugal Friday: Angry Mac Bastards, iPhone 3G S Mania, Fedora 11, ProxMox, Mono, Presidio Networked Solutions

Frugal Friday: Angry Mac Bastards, iPhone 3G S Mania, Fedora 11, ProxMox, Mono, Presidio Networked Solutionsmeaning clarificationwe know "Bastard" can mean1) disagreeable person2) child born out of wedlockI presume you mean #1 but is your use of the word "bastard" implying an less-than-favorable opinion on #2?Given that #2 can be...

Tags: .NET, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Apple iPhone, Angry Mac Bastards, Mono, Apple iPhone 3G, Fedora Project

Discussion threads 2009-06-19

News to know: StumbleUpon; Facebook Apps; Satyam; Steve Jobs

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: eBay starts undoing bad acquisitions: Sets StumbleUpon free Andrew Nusca: Top Facebook applications see 25% drop in...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Satyam, Apple Inc., StumbleUpon, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, 3G, Hardware, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Shutting down your PC: Frugal fact, or financial fiction?

There's a great post over at BNET, ZDNet's business-minded sister site, questioning the benefits of shutting off your computer at night. In "Guy vs. Guy: Shutting down your PC at night: Money saved or productivity lost?", tech guys Rick and Dave square off, pitting thousands of dollars...

Tags: Financial, PC, Computer, Rick, Dave, Productivity, Financial Accounting, Finance, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-13

Frugal Friday: Conficker, SGI, TomTom, Tableau Software

Frugal Friday: Conficker, SGI, TomTom, Tableau SoftwareMS has serious problems.......MS Windows is an insecure platform period.Anyone who is staying with this money pit isgoing to be faced with more exploits and uneducated decisions because they are afraidof 'IT Change' in IT things change and the oldguard is scare of Open_Source...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Frugal Friday, Tableau Software, Conficker, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, MS HAS, Linux Distro, Silicon Graphics Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-04

Google's future: Predictions for 2009

At the end of each year, the blogosphere is flooded with predictions for the next. It's time for a sneak peak into 2009 for one of the most exciting, and unpredictable, companies in existence -- Google. There are a few things that are almost certain to...

Tags: Google Inc., Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-12-25

$350 barebones Vista/7 PC

$350 barebones Vista/7 PCDidn't you forget somethingWhere is the case?RE: $350 barebones Vista/7 PCAdrian: Read what you write:"Prices of PC components are falling weekly, and what $350 will buy you a lot more horsepower today that it would a few months ago."Which variant of English is this? And if so,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVD, Vista/7 PC

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

Amazon Kindle: It’s not for us, Jack

My grubby hands on the Amazon Kindle at Continental Airlines' Presidents Club Lounge at  Newark Liberty International Airport. See Jason's Amazon Kindle Gallery. As I've discussed in this column before, I spend about 4 days a week away from home and about 8...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Arthur C. Clarke, E-books, Wireless LANs, Personal Technology, Wireless, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-21

Surviving the recession with Free Linux distributions (Part 1)

Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers was recently asked by a colleague the following question: "If an SMB...

Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Distribution, Recession, Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Debian, Times, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Debian Support Cycle, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Gartner: $100 laptop still too expensive for the emerging markets

Gartner: $100 laptop still too expensive for the emerging marketsIt is a process to hit price points that will work everywhere. OLPC hasat least hit price points that mean probably hundreds of millions more will now be able to afford computers. True, there are billions in need, but, prices will...

Tags: Financial services, Marketing research, emerging market, $100 laptop, laptop computer, Gartner Inc., phone, computer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-07

And now for a sexy notebook that businesses can actually use

And now for a sexy notebook that businesses can actually useSo are you saying that a business can't use the Air?I'm not sure that is a safe bet. I don't have a use for it. But what of those who end up buying the Air and using it...

Tags: Notebooks, notebook, MBA, Lenovo Group Ltd., optical drive, sexy notebook, Ethernet

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

Tech indicators that could point to a coming recession

Tech indicators that could point to a coming recessionRE: Tech indicators that could point to a coming recessionYou should think about changing the title of this article to "Consumer Tech indicators....." it is naive to think that the tech world revolves around consumer and seasonal demands. I work with business...

Tags: Games, Game players, Sales strategy, game console

Discussion threads 2008-01-14

Crysis on the Alienware m9750

Crysis on the Alienware m9750Question about your WEI score[i]Primary hard disk: 5.9[/i]What hard drive and configuration are you using to get a 5.9? My hard drive is the only measure below 5.9.Crysis IndeedAt $400 the PS3 is the most expensive console you can buy. It comes with a broadband cpu...

Tags: Games, Crysis, Alienware, console, PC

Discussion threads 2007-11-28

Why the GOS will fail

The GPC with GOS is really quite amazing. I remember feeling pretty frugal early this decade, when I bought a 733 MHz PC with a 40 Gigabyte hard drive for just $700. Here you've got something twice as fast, with twice the storage, for $200 retail. ...

Tags: Advertisement, Phone, Telephony, Network, Broadband, Fact, Cable, Telecom & Utilities, Network Technology, Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-05

German solar firms boost capacity to meet demand

German solar firms boost capacity to meet demandGood news never attracts attentionIts too bad that the only thing the posters care about is the dangling red meat articles. They claim to want good news and ignore it. Go figure.Good article.Actually I sent this off too severalof my friends in Germany...

Tags: Engineering, bad day

Discussion threads 2007-08-15

Podcast: Is Carr right? Does IT not matter? Gartner attendees respond

Podcast: Is Carr right? Does IT not matter? Gartner attendees respondThorn in the side?My inclination is to say "Heh!" and go on with my job.How much do you want to bleedOverall, a company has to determine if they want to be on the Bleeding edge of technology or the Leading...

Tags: Strategy, Overall IT, Microsoft Corp., podcast, Gartner Inc., YouTube Inc., information technology, Carr, IT IS

Discussion threads 2006-10-13

An early skirmish in the HD DVD wars

An early skirmish in the HD DVD warsThe real competitionis DVD, though. Why spend major money to replace your television, player, and library for barely perceptible improvements (or, in many cases, actual degradations) in viewing quality?Especially when the announced roadmap will make all of them not only obsolete but...

Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Digital media, HD-DVD

Discussion threads 2006-07-14

Report: Software piracy costs $34 billion

Report: Software piracy costs $34 billionEvery convict sent to prison thought it was their "right".They were wrong...hey no ax what a sec hereit not because usa send kid to jail that everybody must go to jail...:)there are other country you see out there. who dont care about...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, piracy, software

Discussion threads 2006-05-23