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Apple becoming a serious player in enterprise

Posted January 9, 2012 - 11:51 am

Forrester Research forecasts big growth in enterprise sales of Apple hardware as employees insist on using iPads and even Macs in the workplace.
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Floppy disk drives create Star Wars Imperial March

Posted September 30, 2011 - 3:51 pm

If you have a bunch of floppy disk drives lying around, do what this guy did - create the Star Wars Imperial March theme from it. Sure, it looks easy. Or you could just enjoy this video.
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Wearable Tech: The Video Coat

Posted July 12, 2011 - 10:34 am

I'm sure we'll see this at the next CES...
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Intel pushes micro servers without the room to grow

Posted March 21, 2011 - 3:11 pm

Micro servers offer efficiency only by being small and weak. Buy real servers, virtualize and, if you still want to downsize, switch to diet pizza.
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Raising your salary through theft

Posted January 10, 2011 - 1:56 pm

EMC reseller cooperates with feds to escape prosecution in theft of more than $1 million in parts by two former EMC employees in Mass. and N.C.
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Oracle shares jump after hours following strong Q2 earnings

Posted December 16, 2010 - 7:55 pm

Shares of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) jumped more than 4 percent in after-hours trading Thursday after the database giant reported impressive second-quarter earnings.
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Lamenting the Death of Features

Posted February 12, 2010 - 3:14 pm

We have all become accustomed to having new features added to our operating systems and applications: plug and play, USB support, browser extensions, docking station support, dual-head display settings. It's a nice feeling to play with new tools. Except, of course, when some of these features are removed in newer versions of the software.
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A factor of a thousand: five general-interest notes on hardware performance

Posted February 11, 2010 - 9:02 pm

Hardware will be faster in the future. Several different techniques will contribute to that acceleration. Cameron has collected good reading on a range of possibilities.
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Windows tip: Re-using domain controller names

Posted December 16, 2008 - 3:12 pm

You have five domain controllers named SEA-DC1 thru SEA-DC5. The physical hardware for SEA-DC3 is getting kind of old, so you do the following:
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Are You A Geek? Take This Test

Posted September 24, 2008 - 6:00 am

Here's a tip on avoiding "click frustration" when removing USB flash drives--and a simple test you can perform to tell whether you're a geek or not.
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Introduction to Virtual Iron

Posted July 14, 2008 - 5:10 pm

Since few servers run at full capacity, virtualization uses some software and memory techniques to leverage the speed of the server processor(s) to host multiple virtual servers on one physical server. Just as one Windows personal computer can run multiple applications at once, server virtualization allows one physical server to run multiple copies of a server operating system. This offers great value by reducing the number of physical servers needed, reducing hardware and supporting energy costs.
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