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Has The Linux 'dream Machine' Arrived? Part I
News If Linux and the data can both reside on the mainframe, the data will be able to flow significantly faster. IBM's pitch to make the mainframe the premier e-business platform is getting a little help from an unexpected place: Linux.
[March 31, 2000, 8:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog For reasons unclear, while everything else on their machine can happily see the little server Frontpage installs to do local webbery, FrontPage itself refuses to make contact. There then follows ten minutes of frustration as I don't have the...
[February 12, 1999, 17:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News For reasons unclear, while everything else on their machine can happily see the little server Frontpage installs to do local webbery, FrontPage itself refuses to make contact. There then follows ten minutes of frustration as I don't have the...
[February 12, 1999, 17:35]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News In view of your ill-judged and precipitate decision to go public on the Web, a mere two years after buying the machine, I've been told it's out of my hands. So this machine has dual boot Windows 95 and Windows NT.
[April 4, 1998, 7:00]
Desktop Linux For Small Business
Talkback There is a lot to be said for this distro - it does install easily, integrates with Windows networks, shares printers etc.and has a great boot manager that can handle multiple OS' on a machine. I'm looking to replace my XP machine 90%.
[November 29, 2005, 17:00]
Sony Plans Patch After DRM Rootkit Row
Talkback So is everything hidden via $sys$ or is there SOMETHING that we (as network admins) can identify on a PC to point out that a machine is infected (and I don't use that word lightly)? Basically, I want to see if an SMS software inventory of our...
[November 10, 2005, 21:00]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment It's a bit slower than XP (noticeably, but not irritatingly) at times, but given that my machine won't touch Vista, but is running a system I find to be more powerful, easier to use, and frankly prettier (particularly compiz-fusion on 7.10 - I...
[October 24, 2007, 4:46]
Chernobyl - What Can You Do?
News Use that file to make a bootable floppy, stick the floppy in the unhealthy machine and boot it. An infected machine does not load windows, has no access to the hard disk, and in some cases will not even light the floppy disk light when powered up.
[April 27, 1999, 15:47]
Hyperthreading Hurts Server Performance, Say Developers
Talkback When hyperthreading first came out, I found a 2 proc hyperthread machine, (4 virtual), to spec close to 100% of a real 4 proc machine. I wonder if the problems people are seeing is runing multiple threads on a single hyper threaded proc machine...
[December 27, 2005, 0:02]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback Ok, so to avoid the language barrier, i ordered a machine online. Dell shipped me a machine with the wrong processer, one that i did not want, an HT instead of a D. Someone on the inside CANCELLED my new order and tried to convince me to take back...
[April 5, 2006, 23:24]
The Screen Is Excellent
Member Review I bought the machine 4 months ago. Not so good when you think about how much it costs -- at the price they should send someone out to fix the machine. I still have to send it to Sony for repair, not sure what they can do though --either the battery...
[January 20, 2004, 10:04]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News It is a mistake to put your machine on a high-FAT diet, but that's what I did this weekend. If you want the details, it goes like this: very smugly, I back up my home machine to the office, and vice-versa.
[April 12, 1997, 8:00]
Symantec Kills Off Free Sygate Firewall
Talkback I can secure a machine too - I do it by patching, pruning services and attack vectors and then installing EFFICIENT security software. I haven't sniffed in their direction since, but I get annoyed any time I work with a machine being slowed down by...
[September 24, 2006, 3:32]
Is Upgrading To A PIII Worth It?
News Then I called several local companies, saying, "I have a machine with an old Pentium chip in it. If your machine's configuration can be upgraded, the chip itself is going to be expensive. Even if you don't take the deduction, you'll feel good if...
[May 17, 1999, 9:44]
Great Machine For Serious Users
Member Review The processor has romped through all of the tasks with barely a hesitation and, whilst I could have bought a desktop to work at, I can pack this machine up into a bag, sling it over my shoulder and cart it off to work/home without any problem.
[January 10, 2007, 20:22]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News What I can't do, and it's driving me nuts, is plug it into a Psion Series 5, or any Eat Plenty Of Carrots (EPOC)32 machine. My experience with Quake II, to be polite, was that it has been sponsored by Intel, because where I can play Quake pretty...
[December 6, 1997, 7:00]
Two Utilities To Provide Dual OS Support
News But this is very inconvenient, because it would require the support tech to constantly reboot his or her PC during the day and could result in a significant lag time when answering support calls.You can install virtual PC software such as VMware...
[May 29, 2002, 11:03]
The NASA Hacker: Scapegoat Or Public Enemy?
Talkback I can't tell you how easy it is to confuse what is openly seen with an attempted possible threat, I remember the days of monitoring firewall log's and finding automated zombied computer inbound intrusion attempts via other computers close by on...
[April 13, 2006, 20:39]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I have an XP machine and a full Ubuntu virtual machine to get into all that Ubuntu offers, truly the best of both worlds. Really easy to use, great interface lots of configuration options and performs wayyy faster than Virtual PC (running same...
[October 23, 2007, 8:12]
Vista Vs Ubuntu: This Time, It's Virtual
Blog And I found it frustrating that you can't apparently change virtual machine settings, such as unmounting an ISO image from the virtual CD drive, on the fly, but that could be unreasonable of me. Charles Mclellan has just done something very similar...
[October 23, 2007, 14:20]
