Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Scott Rolf knows trouble when he sees it. An IT director for a law firm near Cleveland, Ohio, Rolf was asked by a friend to check out the new Web site the friend had put up on a DSL-connected Web server. Rolf did more than just visit his friend's site; ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
System memory is often the forgotten cousin among components when you're building a new PC. A lot of PC builders just buy whatever's out there, as long as it works in their systems. Some enthusiasts take the opposite route. They get expensive ultra-high-frequency or low-latency memory, hoping it will give ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A group of technology companies including Texas Instruments, Broadcom, and STMicroelectronics is pushing their proposal for the eventual 802.11n Wi-Fi standard that they claim will offer speeds "up to 10 times the speed of the current generation". Glenn Fleishman over at Wi-Fi Networking News cuts to the chase: "An array ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Q. I've heard that frequently turning my computer on and off can hurt the performance of internal parts. But I don't want to leave it on all the time either and waste power. What's the best course?
A. While it once might have been true that computer hard drives ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
For Immediate Release. Please distribute as you see fit
December 2, 2003 -- We in the antispyware, antivirus and security communities would like to express our disappointment with the new technical support policy in place at Dell Inc. Dell's new support policy does a disservice to its customers and puts everyone ...
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