When thin clients first appeared on the market over 10 years ago, IBM was a great proponent of this technology even though the first units had slow CPUs, limited memory, and Linux-based operating systems. In the early days of thin clients, networks were still employing hubs instead of switches. Hubs share all network traffic with all the attached devices; therefore, this type of technology did not work well with the boot-server type of thin clients. In other words, when many thin clients were started at the same time, the network …

You know, we should have paid a little closer attention to Microsoft’s decision yesterday to extend Windows XP sales to “June 2010 or one year after the general availability of Windows 7″
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MILPITAS, Calif., March 11, 2008– SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a leading seller of MP3 players in the United States, today unveiled the multi-faceted Sansa® Fuze™ MP3 player. The stylish music player is loaded with capabilities and features to keep consumers well entertained while on the go. Not only is it easy on the eye, it’s easy on the pocketbook. With availability planned for early April in the United States, the Sansa Fuze player comes in a wide array of colors (pink, red, blue, black and silver) and capacities (2, 4 and …

ReactOS is a computer operating system intended to be binary-compatible with application software and device drivers made for Microsoft Windows NT versions 5.x and up (Windows 2000 and its successors). It is composed entirely of free software, by means of a complete clean room reverse engineering process.
Although the project is in the alpha development stage as of 2008, many Windows programs already work well. While the ReactOS kernel has been written from scratch, the userland is mostly based on the Wine compatibility layer for Unix-like operating systems.
ReactOS is primarily written …

Using Ubuntu 7.10 to connect to wireless networks has been great. Linux for many years has only been for the geeks. I truly feel that the only thing that was holding linux back was the problems with installing Linux on laptops. You either had problems with screen resolution, your touch pad and or your wireless network card. The only people who could get the wireless portion of Linux to work would need to have command line skills and be able to either program the driver you self your find one …

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Overview
Windows® XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system. This white paper summarizes what is new in Windows XP SP3.  More

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Two weeks after it last handed a new build of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to several thousand invitation-only testers, Microsoft Corp. today posted that version for public downloading. Want to try it out? Here’s how: Uninstall RC1 if you have that first, download the reg patch from http://tinyurl.com/2mflo7 , then run windows update to get it.
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Often after we make changes to our computer, we will be ready to do our work and find out there is a problem with the computer. These problems can make it impossible to do schoolwork, business reports, or other tasks. Often, we can use the System Restore function in Microsoft Windows XP to go back to a point when the computer was working properly.
System Restore acts very much like a photographer, constantly poking around behind the scenes of your computer and taking “snapshots” of the current state of the operating …

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