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PC Hardware: How Ego Can Cost Your Clients

Your clients might be tempted to outfit their top managers and producers with the latest and greatest PC hardware.

Microsoft Debuts New Mac Hardware

It’s not an UMPC designed to run OS X, but a newly designed keyboard and mouse for the stylishly designed Macintosh computer line.

HP Invited Lab To Shoot Its Hardware

The high-tech ballistics center managed by National Technical Systems (NTS) in Camden, AR, pulled off the kind of test that system administrators worldwide dream about: taking a rifle and putting a bullet into a piece of hardware.

Microsoft Offers U2 Licensing

Hardware licenses for technologies developed by Microsoft provide third-party firms the opportunity to build devices based on those innovations.

$100 Laptops Face Hurdles

M.I.T lit up the world when it announced its massively philanthropic One Laptop Per Child program (OLPC) with the aim of putting $100 laptop computers into the hands of the poorest children on Earth. And no one is blaming them, but despite all noble intentions, skeptics are saying project leader Nicholas Negroponte is putting the cart before the horse.

Open Source Vyatta Takes On Hardware

After years of open source projects like Linux and MySQL taking share from proprietary software companies, hardware makers like Cisco and Juniper get to experience the heart-stopping terror of open source hardware hitting the market.

Managed Hosting Service Review

When considering managed hosting services, I have to say the first company that comes to mind is Rackspace.

DIY PR in a ‘Cheap’ Economy

Putting aside all the recent rhetoric and controversy surrounding Web 2.0 companies, a few facts remain, one of which is this: the costs associated with starting and running a business today are significantly lower than they were a few years ago.

IBM Tweaks Software For Sun Hardware

“To be honest, we’ve had a little bit of a chill in our IBM relationship,” said Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s president and chief operating officer.

How to Attain SQL Server High Availability

You may find it hard to believe, but it is possible to maintain SQL Server high availability and not spend a fortune. In fact, you can spend a fortune and still not get SQL Server high availability. Sound like a paradox? Not really. SQL Server high availability is not a direct function of how much you spend. Instead, high availability is more about what you do right and what you do wrong.

Firefox Delays 1.1 Update, Discusses 2.0

Mozilla’s increasingly popular Firefox browser has been making quite a few waves since its official launch.

AMD Officially Announces Mobile Processor Turion

Looking to compete Intel’s Pentium-M mobile chip, AMD has introduced its Turion processor, a 64-bit chip designed for mobile-based technologies.

SQL Server Hardware Performance Checklist

Auditing SQL Server Hardware Is An Important Early Step

Using Performance Monitor to Identify SQL Server Hardware Bottlenecks

The best place to start your SQL Server performance audit is to begin with the Performance Monitor (System Monitor). By monitoring a few key counters over a 24 hour period, you should get a pretty good feel for any major hardware bottlenecks your SQL Server is experiencing.

Terry Hinge & Hardware Deploys Siebel CRM OnDemand

Global Provider of Hardware Component Parts Uses Hosted CRM Solution to Increase Sales Productivity and Shorten Sales Cycles.

Worldwide Wireless LAN Hardware Revenue Up 3%

Worldwide wireless LAN hardware revenue reached $719.5 million in 2Q04, up 3% from 1Q04, and will grow 9% to $786.2 million by 2Q05, according to Infonetics Research’s quarterly market share service, Wireless LAN APs, Switches, and NICs.

Transferring to New Hardware With a Supertar

With any of the Supertars, transferring to new hardware is easy. If the new hardware uses the same disk controller (or the same driver) as the old, you can just boot from your recovery media and proceed to recover the system. But what about when the new hardware is different?

Strong Authentication Alternatives Report for Customer X

Customer X has a requirement for remote users to use strong authentication when accessing Customer X networks and systems. The use of username and passwords does not constitute strong authentication.

Future Directions: Too Much of a Good Thing

Managing IT complexity is a major problem for most companies. This is especially true for the many small and mid-market companies struggling to manage all of the distributed systems they deployed over the past decade. If you couple this proliferation of systems with the increasing demands being placed on IT organizations because of the move to e-business, you’ll begin to see why so many customers are looking to IBM for help.

Carey Holzman Answers MS Windows and PC Hardware Questions
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Does your Windows PC have issues? Having trouble getting your Windows 98 computers to talk to each other? That new video card driving disagreeing with your system? Carey Holzman can help!

Software vs Hardware Firewalls – The Basics

Was that the right decision? That is a problem not many think about when it comes to protecting their computer or network with a firewall. Although both software-based firewalls and hardware-based firewalls attempt to do the same thing, they perform in different ways.