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- Vintage Computer Festival: The rare, historic, and bizarre
- Blow off the dust and get ready to dig through boxes. News.com's Kara Tsuboi takes a tour of the biggest garage sale for antique computers, vintage video games, and discarded gadgets--the Vintage Computer Festival at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. And for the first time in decades,...
- Tags: Productivity, Games, Personal Technology, vintage, computer, geek, collector, hardware, linc, synthesizer, history, kara tsuboi
- Videos 2007-11-06
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- (Photos: The Ford Model T turns 100)
- (Photos: The Ford Model T turns 100)one correctionThe model T first ran on alcohol. John Rockefeller was making kerosene for heating and lighting, and gasoline was a useless byproduct. He was literally dumping it into a river at night.Then he realized there could be a huge market for this stuff....
- Tags: Ford Model T, alcohol, Ford Motor Co., photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Would you buy a Linux desktop?
- Would you buy a Linux desktop?Would you buy a Linux desktop?Absolutely not! There is no place for linux on the desktop, especially in education. It can't even run Reader Rabbit or Lemonade Stand! How are these kids going to have fun learning if the system doesn't run...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Desktops, Linux, desktop, Linux desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Enomaly's open source virtual platform moves VMs in the cloud
- Enomaly's open source virtual platform moves VMs in the cloudEnomalism == VaporwareThis is old news (2005 vintage). Did you test the software? Apparently not because if you did you would have given it an absolute panning like everyone else - I tried to get it working a week or two...
- Tags: Enomaly, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- (Photos: America's biggest air show in Oshkosh, by gosh)
- (Photos: America's biggest air show in Oshkosh, by gosh)corrected numbers....An attendance of 650,000 coming from 70 nations…�� More than 4,000 volunteer EAA members, creating their own marvelous annual convention and welcoming flight enthusiasts from around the world…�� Some 10,000 aircraft from every state and many other countries, winging to Oshkosh...
- Tags: Aerospace & Defense, OshKosh, air show, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Linux laptop, make or buy?
- Linux laptop, make or buy?The answer may simply be[i]I sort of expected a vendor representative to write and offer a unit, but that did not happen. This may tell more about the state of this market than anything else[/i].Maybe they simply had not read your blog? :)RE: Linux laptop, make...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux laptop, Linux, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- FTP: untrustworthy file transfer
- FTP - file transfer protocol - is the most commonly used method for moving files around Web. Now Steve Frank, a founder and developer for Mac software company Panic, has come out and recommended that people stop using FTP. I wrote about this (see If hackers don't...
- Tags: FTP, SFTP, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- In the information age, IT innovation means everything
- In the information age, IT innovation means everythingInteresting.I think many IT failures are due to misundersyanding the company's business model. The nuances if you will. This is another reason to develop internally. To take it one step further. There are many good IT personnel that only understand IT. They don't...
- Tags: Strategy, Leadership, Operating systems, information technology, innovation, Linux, Unix, blog
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- (Photos: Pinball wizard offers look at machines' innards)
- (Photos: Pinball wizard offers look at machines' innards)More PhotosHow about some photos of the vintage pinball machines?
- Tags: Pinball, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- Photos: Pinball wizard offers look at machines' innards
- Museum houses scores of vintage pinball machines and has a unique way of teaching visitors a thing or two about how they work. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Machine, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-06-07
- OpenSUSE 11 RC1: The Mercedes-Benz to Ubuntu's Volkswagen
- 2008 will be a very good vintage for community end-user Linux distributions. So far, we've seen the release of Ubuntu 8.04, which is universally considered to be a major milestone release in usability and device compatibility, and one of the easiest distros to install. While not as widely lauded, we...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Volkswagen AG, GNOME, Software Update Utility, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Firefox 3.0 RC 1 takes the lead on speed - ACID 3
- Firefox 3.0 RC 1 takes the lead on speed - ACID 3None of that mattersThe only metric that matters is market share. All of the others combined don't amount to a quarter of Microsoft's.RE: Firefox 3.0 RC 1 takes the lead on speed - ACID 3It matters a great...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Firefox 3.0 RC-1, ACID 3, Mozilla Firefox 3.0
- Discussion threads 2008-05-18
- Sennheiser HD 600
- When Steve Guttenberg reviewed the Sennheiser HD 650 headphones, he rightfully called them "fit for a king"--while noting that they retail for a correspondingly princely sum of $500. Thankfully, the HD 650s aren't the only model in Sennheiser's high-end audiophile line. The Sennheiser HD 600s can be bought at a...
- Tags: Sennheiser, headphone
- Product reviews 2008-05-13
- The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers
- The greatest advantage of the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. The biggest problem with the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. Ironic, isn't it? The sheer number of choices means you can almost certainly...
- Tags: Problem, Driver, OEM, Graphics Subsystem, Vista/Server 2008/Win7 Ecosystem, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Notebooks, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- The Wine Cellar Book - Le Livre de Cave (exe)
- A software to manage your private wine cellar and recipe collection. Record your purchases, consumption and other information about your wines, e.g. origin, vintage, price, tasting notes etc. It includes a guest book and event tracking feature which allows you to record details about an event including the menu and...
- Tags: Wine, Werner F. Bruhin
- Software downloads 2008-05-13
- A brief summary
- A brief summaryCompare with CFOIn many parts of the world, the CFO must be a chartered/certified accountant. In the US, this is now also essentially the case, due to SOx, and SOx is there as a result of accounting scandals.IT continues to disregard formal qualifications and licencing. Maybe the CIO...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Databases, IBM AIX, SOx, shareholder, AIX 5.3, Schwartz, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- 'Iron Man' swoops into theaters
- The new movie Iron Man may be based on the 1963 comic strip, but its special effects are anything but vintage. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi talks with the visual and animation supervisors at Industrial Light Magic about pushing the limits of computer generated images to create those "Marvel moments."
- Tags: News, kara tsuboi, ilm, lucas film, ironman, marvel comics, robert downey jr, superhero, Workforce Management, Productivity, Human Resources
- Videos 2008-05-01
- Adventures with Ubuntu 8.04
- Yesterday saw the release of Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" so I grabbed myself a copy of the .ISO and took a look. So, what's it like? First impressions Hardy Heron is what I've come to expect from an Ubuntu release. ...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Western Digital Corp., PIII System, Video Cards, Memory, Processors, Hardware, Components, Semiconductors, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Fixing Windows Vista, one machine at a time
- If the "Vista sucks" movement has a public face, it's the Sony Vaio. No one knows that better than my new friend Jeremy Toeman. In May 2007, this 15-year Windows veteran replaced his old, beloved, XP-powered Vaio with a newer Vaio that came with Windows Vista Business installed. Practically overnight,...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Clean Install, Installation, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Machine, Recovery Partition, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- eBay: Did listings change make a difference?
- eBay: Did listings change make a difference?Ebay - protect the seller, screw the customerI am one of the folks that got ripped off, $800, too bad. PayPal Protection? It's for the seller stupid. Every try to have PayPal use a credit card and STILL have it take money from your...
- Tags: Financial services, eBay Inc., PayPal
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
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