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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You may not be surprised that in the future, we'll all have Microsoft Media Center PCs in every room, all networked to each other and a central home server that stores incoming digital entertainment from satellite, terrestrial and broadband.
[April 29, 2005, 20:10]
Wednesday
Blog It would make more sense if the PCs were closer to a Webpad, a basically portable device that clips into a stand at work, plops into a briefcase and then clips into a similar stand at home. The same cost for PCs, says Sun would be closer to a...
[September 20, 2002, 17:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Which is where Folding@Home comes in — a distributed computing project from Stanford University that uses volunteer PCs donating spare time over the Net to get the calculations done in a fraction of the time.
[August 25, 2006, 19:20]
Acronis True Image 11 Home
Blog Acronis has been in the backup business for a long time - pretty much as long as I can remember being interested in backing up PCs. Both PCs are backed up to the shared disk on the router. If you're using something other than Acronis True Image...
[February 27, 2008, 11:39]
FTP not VPN
Blog Aside from the security of the VPN connection itself, it is inherently risky to allow the staffs' home PCs, that are out of sight and mind, the total trust of office LAN. Even the lowest risk user is at a much greater risk of when working from home.
[January 7, 2009, 7:03]
MS Store Trek: The Next Generation
Blog It’s why most IT professionals don’t even bother to run the default installs on their home PCs, they just install a clean OS from scratch. Microsoft is now selling PCs, not just software and peripherals.
[November 30, 2009, 7:48]
Ballmer memo to customers: Ready for the revolution
Blog Why can't we easily access the documents we create at work on our home PCs? It is also based on our belief that the key to delivering value today and in the future lies in combining the best aspects of software running on PCs, servers, and devices...
[October 29, 2008, 14:28]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Seti@home takes observations from the Arecibo radio telescope, parcels them up into bundles of raw data called work units and sends them out to PCs around the world. But most of my active extra-terrestrial tracking activities are courtesy of Seti...
[November 8, 2002, 16:51]
IRC admins claim TimeWarner hijacks DNS to clean botnets
Blog It is well known that botnets consisting of large numbers of compromised PCs are becoming more of a problem and are harder to find, harder to fight and harder to destroy. It is then up to the computer administrator, or home user to install this...
[July 25, 2007, 15:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog It's not the PR company's fault: the manufacturer, like most Unix hardware companies, doesn't like letting anyone actually use the hardware and won't hand any out for magazine evaluation PC companies used to be like this, before the competition...
[January 25, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog It's not the PR company's fault: the manufacturer, like most Unix hardware companies, doesn't like letting anyone actually use the hardware and won't hand any out for magazine evaluation PC companies used to be like this, before the competition...
[January 25, 1997, 7:00]
Ballmer memo on where Microsoft is headed
Blog The future is about having a platform in the cloud and delivering applications across PCs, phones, TVs, and other devices, at work and in the home. Apple: In the competition between PCs and Macs, we outsell Apple 30-to-1.
[July 25, 2008, 12:41]
Microsoft launches subscription Office
Blog Oh, and the licence covers up to 3 PCs. Microsoft, continuing its fine tradition of making major announcements at the end of the day, has begun selling its "all-in-one security and productivity software subscription service for home computer users...
[October 14, 2008, 16:43]
You may say I'm a dreamer...
Blog If it was a stalker, they'd gone to the trouble of setting up a network of zombie PCs controlled by bots - but is that so much trouble, these days? I was back at home, by myself, late at night, going through her evidence, looking for clues.
[December 8, 2006, 6:40]
Slate Engine Time (Again)
Blog Windows Tablet PCs have remained a niche product, as active digitisers add to hardware costs. I’ve kept on using Tablet PCs since then - they’re an ideal tool for technology journalists, especially when combined with software like OneNote.
[January 8, 2010, 8:24]
BT: Your guardian angel this Christmas
Blog Operating systems, such as Windows for PCs and OSX for Macs, will do this automatically and ask you to confirm that you want to go ahead with the update There are a range of IT support services available, including BT Home IT Visit and BT Home IT...
[December 20, 2006, 15:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog There was a period of years when I longed to advise people to buy Macintoshes instead of PCs because I knew that for most of their work, it'd be a much better machine -- if only it didn't cost quite so much.
[July 12, 1997, 9:00]
Virtual Dreaming (revised)
Blog At least in the non-hardware related settings, the two 2 virtual PCs are the same. To finish off my project I've been running Virtual PC 2007 at home and at work. At home my lone XP Pro box hosts a selectively mirrored clone of the registry of the...
[August 7, 2008, 8:03]
Lord of the Ring-Tones
Blog Home networking technology allows seamless synchronisation with PCs and other devices. It is also why Symbian thinks home networking will grow in popularity; people will take pictures and videos and then consume them on their PC or television.
[August 4, 2007, 20:15]
ooVoo - The Next Candidate
Blog The bad news is, this is only for PCs running Windows 2000, XP or Vista. With my laptop now running Windows XP Professional very nicely, and Windows Vista Home Premium relegated to its box on the shelf, I am now ready to continue on my original...
[November 27, 2007, 15:09]
