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- Hardware
- Machinery and equipment (CPUs, disk and tape drives, modems, keyboards, printers, scanners, cables, etc.). In operation, a computer is both hardware and software. One is useless without the...
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- Screen resolutions - is 800x600 dead?
- Time for a quick poll ...Almost all the web data I have access to both for my own sites and others seems to indicate that the 800x600 screen resolution is dead and that 1024x768 is the new 800x600. However, when I talk to web developers they continue to preach to...
- Tags: Trends, Thoughts, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Your Mileage May Vary - Is this the best we can expect from Vista?
- Last Friday Robert McLaws Windows Now posted an interesting piece of Windows Vista as a response to a news item on AP entitled Six months on, Vista users still griping. The piece is based on Chris Pirillo's experiences with Vista. Both pieces are worth a read but one thing that struck me...
- Tags: Vista, Upgrading, Thoughts, Microsoft, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- What's the point of Gobuntu?
- A couple of days ago Mark Shuttleworth the founder of Ubuntu announced the release of a new flavor of Ubuntu called Gobuntu. What's Gobuntu? Here's how Shuttleworth describes it:It is a flavour of Ubuntu like Kubuntu or Xubuntu that is basically the same desktop environment as Ubuntu a GNOME desktop and...
- Tags: Hardware, Linux, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- It's content that drives the adoption of new technology
- Many companies still seem to be missing the point. Outside of a small number of tech-heads, it's content that drives the adoption of new technology, not how cool the technology actually is.Two areas where this simple but trustworthy rule of thumb has been forgotten are home entertainment and games consoles. ...
- Tags: Blu-ray, Gadgets, Gaming, Hardware, HD-DVD, Marketing, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Erasing hard drives
- Having read How to REALLY erase a hard drive by my ZDNet blogging colleague Robin Harris, I though Id share my views about erasing hard drives.When getting rid of old PCs or hard drives, people tend to fall into one of three categories:Just chuck it outThese folks just throw out...
- Tags: Thoughts, Security, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Making sense of "mean time to failure" (MTTF)
- Last week researchers at Carnegie Mellon University published a paper which examined the real-world reliability of hard drives. It concluded that hard drive failure rate was much higher by a factor of about fifteen times higher than that expected based on mean time to failure MTTF information supplied by...
- Tags: mean time to failure, hard drive
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Choosing the right PSU for your PC
- So, just how big a power supply unit does a PC really need? In this post Ill show you how you can work out how big a PSU your system needs and some of the considerations that you need to keep in mind when buying a PSU.It seems to...
- Tags: Desktops, PSU, PC, calculator
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Are you ready for DST changes?
- This year sees Daylight Saving Time in many jurisdictions of the United States and Canada move as a result of Energy Policy Act of 2005 from its usual slots of the first Sunday in April and and the last Sunday of October to the second Sunday in March and the...
- Tags: Industry, In the news, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
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- MobileTechRoundup show #141, jkOnTheRun is aquired, Sony Reader, battery life, and more
- I had a good time recording MobileTechRoundup show #141 with the two newest members of the Giga Om Media group, James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel. Don't worry listeners and readers, you will still get the same content from those two and from me here on the podcast for the foreseeable...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Sony Corp., Battery, Sony Reader, Kevin, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Foxconn snubs Linux users
- Foxconn snubs Linux usersWho needs Foxconn anyway.There are plenty of good MB makers that do support Linux.It's a good idea to look at hardware compatibility at the distro's website anyway. I use Asus. But I have had to update the BIOS on every Asus MB I've bought to get...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Foxconn, Linux, BIOS, ASUS, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Foxconn snubs Linux users
- Several readers have sent me a link to a discussion in progress on the Ubuntu forums which outlines how hardware manufacturer Foxconn crippled Linux support on the G33M-S motherboard by breaking ACPI support. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Foxconn, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)
- Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops
- Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptopsjust thinknow instead of being stuck in a little puddle they can go out there and swim in the ocean of windows applications like the rest of us - a zillion kids just smiledlinuxhelp.net:~# apt-get install mozilla-firefoxReading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneThe following...
- Tags: Operating systems, Vista-64, Microsoft Windows XP, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., OLPC Laptop, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarityBingo! ntnt"insanely profitable"Yes, IBM retained those parts of its business in which it was possible to obtain a huge markup and not worry as much about performance compared to alternatives.Microsoft already has part of that approach, as witness the markup on software. ...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards
- Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awardsRE:Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards"their motivation is to take money out of the system,..."is this a good thing?Hmmm...kinda wrong..."...their motivation is to take money out of the system, to take down the old Microsoft monopoly. They lack compelling business models of their own."If the only biz...
- Tags: Leadership, Web browsers, OpenOffice, motivation, old-Microsoft monopoly, old-Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., SourceForge
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 08
- Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 089800 GTX?At $200 dollars, I think that the 9800 GTX is finally able to be considered for the mid-range level card. I was surprised by nVidia and their recent price drops, but after purchasing two of these cards, I have been pleased.Linux...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hardware 2.0, SoundBlaster X-Fi, Linux, Lol, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 08
- OK, it's time once again for The Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 08. Here I've put together a list of the best high-end and mid-range components currently available, with some decent budget parts listed too, along with a few honorable mentions. So if you're thinking of buying, building...
- Tags: ASUS, Card, Video Card, Performance, Board, Motherboard, Price, CPU, List, RAM, Graphics, Intel Corp., Radeon, LGA775, Q9300, DDR3, XFX GeForce GTX 280, PSU, Western Digital Raptor/RaptorX, Galaxy EGX1000EWL, Corporate Governance, Video Cards, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Components, Semiconductors, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- AOL gussies up for potential sale, but who's buying?
- AOL is shutting down XDrive, AOL Pictures and other properties in a belt tightening move that may indicate the company is setting itself up to be sold. The larger question: Who will buy AOL from Time Warner? According to a memo posted by TechCrunch, AOL executive vice...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Portals, Business Structures, Litigation, Internet, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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