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- Beginning of the end for PATA
- Beginning of the end for PATAAlthough I want toI am one of those people who are still chomping at the bit to keep some older systems running. phasing out older tech only means I have to spend more time cobbling it together. Now is about time, but I...
- Tags: FireWire, Who-ever, PATA Drives, Serial ATA
- Discussion threads 2007-08-01
- Beginning of the end for PATA
- It's the beginning of the end for the 20 year old technology. Now that Seagate has announced plans to phase out PATA drives in favor of the faster SATA technology, other hard drive manufacturers will follow suit and PATA's days are numbered.From a personal perspectivemost ofl my PCs now use SATA drives and PATA...
- Tags: Poll of the Day
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
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- Nothing stealthy about this Windows Update update
- Nothing stealthy about this Windows Update updateStill got it wrong?!?!What part of "check for updates but let me decide" do they not understand???If the people at MS are feeling so benevolentwhy not have the programmers pop up a box when the update occurs, sort of hand holding for the wary.If...
- Tags: Operating systems, Opting-Out, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows, proper warning
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Helpdesks and productivity
- Helpdesks and productivityGood start, and then...You lost it.1980 CalledThey want their mainframes back. :DWhy don't you explain your present value...calculation. Do you even know what present value means? What time period are we talking?Huh?You imply that on a Sun Ray platform the only problems are the applications or how they...
- Tags: Call centers, help desk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- End Spywares & Adwares (exe)
- Remove spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, and hijackers in one click. End Spywares & ADwares scans your PC's registry, hard drives, and external storage devices. You can instantly remove spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, home page hijackers, and malware threats even dangerous threats. Spyware Remover can clean your system. This version is...
- Tags: Adware, Keylogger, Trojan Horse, Malware, Essentials, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- Software downloads 2008-07-03
- Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the cost
- Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the costYou make sense... I don't usually like your blogs, but you've stumbled into a real gem here.I personally use a laptop with a traditional drive, and store my user data on a 16G SD card. Best of both worlds apparently: my data...
- Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, battery, RPM, Wattage, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the cost
- Tom's Hardware is reporting test results that show that costly notebook flash drives actually use MORE power than hard drives - shrinking battery life by up to an hour. How could this be? The test Testing 4 SSDs against a 7200 RPM 2.5" drive on a...
- Tags: Disk, Battery, USB Flash Drive, Tom, Notebooks, Engineering, Flash Memory, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- AVADirect Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System
- If you consider this upper midrange $3,220 AVADirect's Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System representative of the value and build quality available from this small custom builder, we can report that we were mostly happy with this PC, even if we found it loud and its gaming performance a bit...
- Tags: Games, AVADirect Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System
- Product reviews 2008-07-02
- Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past
- To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil production, now or in some dreamy future. All the major fossil fuels will be in declining supply by 2025...
- Tags: Oil, Coal, Energy, Fossil Fuel, Chris Nelder, Nelder, IEA, U235, Corporate Communications, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Why computers fail
- Why computers failA good UPS...will decrease failure rates tremendously. I use Belkin AVR UPS's and the only systems I've had go down in the last year were ones installed by my predecessor without UPS's. There is no doubt in my mind that bad power is a PC's worst enemy....
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, chip, failure rate, hardware, software, United Parcel Service of America Inc., redundancy, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- A nice customer service experience with Dell?
- A nice customer service experience with Dell?Very good supportMy most recent involvement with Dell was very positive. I have bought machines from them in the past, but this time I ordered just a single Latitude as a grad present for my daughter. The machine was a special deal...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Servers, customer service, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Asus Eee PC 901 (Windows XP)
- We've been impressed by the Asus Eee PC line from the very first 7-inch model in the fall of 2007, and it seems as if every time we turn around, there's a new version hitting store shelves. This 9-inch version, the
- Tags: Chipsets, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Eee PC, Eee PC 900, Intel Corp., Asus Eee, ASUS
- Product reviews 2008-06-30
- My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born
- Once upon a time, when Bill Gates still flew commercial and I was a budding journalist in need of a haircut, I had a number of opportunities to interview and otherwise interact with Bill Gates. It was often contentious, always intriguing, and more often than not frustrating as well. Part...
- Tags: Web, Multimedia, PC, Bill Gates, Bill, Desktops, Hardware, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Google's culture 'not fit' for enterprise apps
- Google's culture 'not fit' for enterprise appsTruth, Google will never win the entrprise.Sure they make products/services that geeks or light/occasional users can use, but no way will they win the enterprise over."Open Source as Free Software" = FUBARNo Management, No Structure, No DisciplineEveryone gets to do their own thing.This the...
- Tags: Google Servers, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Is there really a market for an open source router?
- Is there really a market for an open source router?Certainly isAs someone who installed Tomato on an old Linksys router, I think there is a market for this. Myself and others like me have looked on places like Craigslist to find the particular models that the open source firmware will...
- Tags: Routers & switches, NETWORKING, Home networking, ShadeTree, Linkys Routers, open source, open source router, router, DD-WRT Firmware
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- HP Media Vault MV2120 (500GB)
- The HP Media Vault MV2120 is a two-bay network-attached-storage device with 500GB of storage and room to expand. It keeps things simple and serves up basic NAS features, including an iTunes server, remote Web access, and scheduled backups. While the device is a snap to set up, we found the...
- Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, Media Vault, hard drive, MV2120, Media Vault MV2120, NAS, HP Media Vault MV2120, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Product reviews 2008-06-27
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Put some pizzaz in your presentations with free Keynote Objects
- There are a lot of ZDNet readers out there who have to give presentations at the office -- and any way to distinguish yourself from the monotonous pack is worthwhile. Thanksfully, iPresentee recently released free Keynote Objects, a package of 100 images suitable for use in Apple...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- (Fun with openSUSE 11.0)
- (Fun with openSUSE 11.0)But it's not Blue Like Windows ...Let's see who runs with that.I'm running OpenSuSE 11 on 2 machines and love both the KDE and GNOME desktop implementations. And, as an added surprise, all the server bits are there as well.If you've looked at Ubuntu or other...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Novell OpenSuse, openSUSE 11.0, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE 11, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Ressource Explorer (zip)
- Ressource Explorer will scan the directories and drives on your computer and extract all Bitmap, Icon, JPEG/GIF/PNG image and AVI/WAVE media resources inside the programs and all the resources files in any directory of your choice, and save them as regular image/media files. This version is the first release on...
- Tags: Directory, Resource, Web-software, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-06-27
- Dell Studio laptops now available
- Dell has announced its new Studio line of laptops. The Studio series includes models with 15.4-inch and 17-inch displays. Dell is in the process of expanding its retail business, and the flashier design and more compelling features of the Studio models are tailored to retail customers who would typically choose...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Laptop Computer, Dell Inspiron, Studio Series, Notebooks, Wireless, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
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