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Linux Mint 8 (Helena) Released
Blog Besides these generally available pre-installed packages, Linux Mint includes a number of Mint-utilities to make system administration, backup, software management and such easier. This release is derived from Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), with a lot...
[November 30, 2009, 9:23]
McAfee VirusScan 9.0 review
Reviews In our informal tests, McAfee VirusScan 9.0 installed in less than 5 minutes. The lightest hit on system resources came from Computer Associates' eTrust EZ Antivirus 2005. Yes, but VirusScan does it without bringing your computer to its knees...
[October 7, 2004, 10:45]
Deadline looms for demise of Windows XP
News These systems are pre-installed with XP Pro, and the customer receives the Vista licence so that they can upgrade to the new OS when they are ready, as well as restore discs for both operating systems.
[June 17, 2008, 9:12]
Tablet PC productivity tips review
Reviews Then print the document to Journal Note Writer (every tablet PC has this as one of its installed printers). Your team will be able to see your edits even if they aren't working on tablets -- as long as they have the free Windows Journal Viewer...
[December 8, 2005, 12:00]
Unix/Linux shops -- beware of Kerberos hole
News Some of these operating systems that did include a vulnerable version of Kerberos may not have had it installed by default and therefore may not be vulnerable. Although this appears to be just a Kerberos 4 problem, many implementations of Kerberos...
[November 11, 2002, 16:54]
LindowsOS - What to expect
News They can be difficult to install, and anyone who's installed an application on a Linux workstation knows the process can be significantly more tedious than installing Windows software. Buy a single copy of LindowsOS, and you can install it on every...
[April 4, 2002, 13:11]
Moblin 2.1 Final Release
Blog The first thing I noticed when I booted the installed Moblin system was that the graphics look considerably nicer than they did in the 2.0 release. First impressions are good at this stage, as Moblin is one of the fastest Linux distributions I have...
[November 10, 2009, 13:48]
TK Maxx owner: 45.7m accounts were compromised
News In its filing, TJX noted that cyberthieves first accessed its computer systems in July 2005 and installed software to harvest such sensitive customer information as account information, names and addresses, drivers' licence numbers and military...
[March 30, 2007, 15:19]
Google unveils desktop search
News Users must have 128MB of memory installed on their PC, but the application uses only about 8MB. It's like photographic memory for your computer -- if you've seen it before, you should be able to find it," said Marissa Mayer, director of consumer...
[October 14, 2004, 15:40]
WebDAV flaw exposes Win2K systems running IIS 5.0
News WebDAV is installed by default on a Windows 2000 Server installation. In Windows 2000 Professional systems, it is not installed by default. How to lock down or disable IIS if your computer does not require it.How to disable WebDAV if you do not...
[March 19, 2003, 10:08]
InFocus IN1100 review
Reviews When you plug a DisplayLink-compliant device into a suitable computer, the driver software is automatically installed, icons appear on the Taskbar and Start menu and the device should simply plug-and-display from then on.
[December 18, 2008, 10:59]
Gates: Custom Windows could run on PCs
News But Kuney said that in fact someone at Microsoft must have clearly identified those components because XP Embedded -- developed using the code base of Windows XP Professional, a corporate version of XP that's virtually identical to the main...
[April 25, 2002, 9:15]
Windows XP: meet the family review
Reviews Remote Installation Service (RIS) remote OS installations where desktops can be installed across the network It's also quite good at sharing a single computer among multiple users: you can switch from one desktop to another while keeping track of...
[October 30, 2001, 15:20]
Microsoft slashes Windows XP price to fend off Linux
News None of the large US-based PC makers -- HP, IBM and Dell -- have been known to sell consumer desktops or notebooks with the Linux OS pre-installed until recently. Last month, Thailand's Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) ministry...
[June 19, 2003, 7:58]
Windows Vista: a first look review
Reviews For example, a leading cause of the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (system crash) is printer drivers, which have historically been installed at the kernel level of the OS. With Windows Vista, printers will be installed only at the user level -- thus...
[July 28, 2005, 5:50]
US Report: Jobs outlines new OS strategy for the Mac
News I think they're managing the installed base tremendously well, better than I've ever seen it," said Gartner Group analyst Kimball Brown. To demonstrate the feature, Jobs streamed live video of himself onto a relatively smooth display on another...
[May 12, 1998, 8:29]
New Linux worm 'Adore' arrives
News The vulnerabilities exploited by Ramen occur in three programs shipped with most Linux distributions and installed by default. The 1i0n worm, discovered last month by the Systems Administration Networking and Security Institute (SANS), used a...
[April 5, 2001, 9:06]
The high tech van that is a CEO's dream
News The electronics installed in the van aren't just for Jones' business needs. Believe it or not, the most important piece of hardware installed on the van may not be the server or the drives or the communications equipment, but the suspension.
[April 26, 2002, 16:22]
Nimda rampage starts to slow
News The company has since installed filters to block the most common ways the worm replicates and spreads. Companies infected with the Nimda worm worked at cleaning the malicious program out of their computer systems Thursday, as the worm's spread...
[September 21, 2001, 9:27]
Why you should switch to Firefox now review
Reviews If you've taken my past advice, you've already bailed out from Internet Explorer and installed Mozilla's Firefox as your default Internet browser. Because gdiplus.dll is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack, malicious code lurking inside an...
[September 27, 2004, 9:15]
