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- Dirty computers: Revenge of the dust bunnies
- You think you've got dirt...?Unfortunately I do not have a photo of the worst unit I have ever worked on, but it bears mentioning. This particular unit resided on the manufacturing floor of a local packaging company and was donated to charity. I was asked to give a once-over to...
- Tags: computer, contamination, denodave@..., dirt, Dirty, dust bunny, enclosure, filth, hardware, This WAS, workstation
- Discussion threads 2005-12-29
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- Water Safety Protection Company Protects Its Real-Time Communications With FaceTime
- Founded in 1874, Watts Regulator Company leads the market in backflow prevention, protecting potable water supplies from contamination. The helpdesk at the company's US headquarters in North Andover, Massachusetts, was struggling to keep up with the number of PCs and laptops being sent in for rebuilding because of spyware issues....
- Tags: FaceTime Communications, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Help Desk, Call Centers, Viruses And Worms, Security, It Operations
- Case studies
- Plantwide Information: Manufacturing Execution Systems for SMB
- Manufacturers can no longer afford to have their plant floor be a black hole for information, run on paper-based systems. To be an On Demand company and respond to shifting market conditions, information must flow into, out of and through the plant smoothly. Further, customers or government regulations mandate most...
- Tags: Industry, Manufacturer, Small And Medium Business, Manufacturing, Smb/Sme
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Complex Systems Data Analysis With GIS
- GIS technology is becoming an integrating factor in solving problems with large data sets, and the interest in using ArcView in teaching and research is expanding in new areas. The paper describes the collaborative effort of several departments to use GIS for teaching and investigations. Students and faculty are using...
- Tags: Boston College, Data Analysis, ArcView, GIS Technology, GIS, Software
- White papers 2004-09-08
- Dropped Hard Disk
- How can I retrieve data from my external hard disk which has been accidentally dropped and perhaps damaged in any form internally?DependsThe first thing to try would be to plug it in....assuming that does't work, try taking the disk out of the case and making it a slave internal drive...
- Tags: pfng772004@..., hard drive
- Discussion threads 2007-08-23
- Secure Blade PC Solutions Save Money and Help Save Lives at Backus Hospital
- William. W. Backus Hospital chose the ClearCube solution because it is secure in high traffic areas, non-intrusive at the patient bedside, considerate of sterilization issues, and compatible with both the hospital's PACS system as well as its Health Care Information System HCIS. ClearCube has been installed in OR and patient...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, PC, Blade, Blade PC, ClearCube Technology, Healthcare
- White papers 2005-02-01
- A Translational Solution to Semantic-Interoperability Among Expressive System
- The need to support the exchange of rich context-based information is increasingly gaining importance in the arena of semantic-oriented, decision-support systems. Unlike data-oriented exchange, such semantic interoperability must venture beyond the elementary communication of discrete data values and endeavor to translate between significantly more expressive representations. Further, support of this...
- Tags: Interoperability, Exchange
- White papers 2006-04-12
- computer wants Password now after the power went out
- Ok here it goes,I am not trying to hack into any computer I am trying to help a friend get his going again.After the power went off when we had a bad sturm his computer try`d to boot up but it came up by wanting a password and it even...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows XP, Viruses and worms, Spyware, adware & malware, IckeUTA@..., computer, hard drive, password, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-08-26
- Environmental Protection Agency Delivers Rapid Damage Assessments
- If the nation experiences a toxic chemical spill or other health-threatening pollution, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA swings into action, dispatching analysts to size up the contamination. The application developed by the EPA's Region 5 Superfund Division has resulted in the EPA analysts having the data they need at...
- Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- CRT Knows Exactly What's in Store After Going Wireless in Its Warehouse and Logistics Business
- The CRT Group is an Australian national logistics company incorporating transport via road, rail and sea in an integrated logistics offering. CRT handles large volumes of specialised materials used to make products as diverse as medical syringes and Compact Discs. These raw materials need specialised handling to avoid product contamination...
- Tags: Logistics, CRT, CRT Group, Supply Chain, Monitors & Displays, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Business Operations, Hardware, Components
- Case studies
- Researchers at CMU adapt algorithm to rank buzzing blogs on the Web
- The team led by Professor Carlos Guestrin used the Cascades algorithm to compile a list of blogs that find the biggest news quickly on the Web. An excerpt from LockerGnome: "The goal of our system when looking at blogs is to detect the big stories as...
- Tags: Algorithm, Web, Blog, Blogging, Engineering, Internet, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- Dihydrogen monoxide - Dangerous material
- BAN DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE! THE INVISIBLE KILLERDihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage....
- Tags: Fuel cells, dspeacock, DHMO
- Discussion threads 2007-04-03
- Water spilled on my laptop
- I accidentally spilled water on my laptop. Soon after, I started to here a fizz sound, hopefully not the circuits burning. I then immediately turned everything off, took the battery out and tried to dry everything I could. I then put it in front of a fan...
- Tags: Notebooks, Corporate governance, arium81@..., laptop computer, Dell Inspiron 6000
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- Prevent high staff turnover with these tactics
- Staff-turnover costs go way beyond recruiting and training costs. When employees leave, so does quite a bit of valuable knowledge. Stemming the tide and making sure you keep knowledge in-house requires both a strategy and some technology.Losing a good employee, for whatever reason, represents far more than a slight drop...
- Tags: Strategy, Bob Weinstein, knowledge, Teradata, attrition
- Technical articles 2002-05-08
- Can you put business logic in the properties files ?
- Properties files were initially introduced to store configuration. Then, they got extended to include localisation information.Now, how about storing business logic in properties files ?We are doing a project that involves supporting several mobile handsets. Keeping this criteria in mind, we evolved a design whereby the core functionality remains as...
- Tags: Cellular phones, handset
- Discussion threads 2006-04-05
- What DVD/scene to use when shopping for speakers?
- What DVD/scene to use when shopping for speakers?Back in the day (i.e., pre-Internet Bubble) I was told to bring a copy of "Star Trek: Generations" when I went shopping for new speakers. The scene where the Enterprise crashes onto the planet has everything–dialogue and music playing above the gigantic booming...
- Tags: speaker, speakers, dvd, RexWorld, off-topic, DTS, movie
- Discussion threads 2006-03-06
- Have some anti-virus firms lulled us into a false sense of security?
- In a recent commentary, ZDNet Australia's Fran Foo takes Symantec to task for not appropriately responding to a flaw discovered in Symantec's Norton Internet Security 2004.Read Foo's commentary on Virus Threat Center:http://www.virusthreatcenter.com/article.aspx?articleId=130The flaw allows an unprivileged user to disable the software's auto-protection feature. When asked about the flaw, a Symantec...
- Tags: SECURITY, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, AV company, Symantec Corp., antivirus, virus
- Discussion threads 2004-10-19
- repair software for 3rd party computers
- Being an independant IT Consultant I am asked to repair software issues for customers. I am looking for a software package that I can install on a customers computer, do the repair and then uninstall the software so as to not violate the EULA. This shows the customer...
- Tags: bartlmay, computer, software
- Q&A 2005-11-12
- Global warming is real, and caused by humans.
- Excerpt from http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/911/2For the entire article, purchase a membership to www.sciencemag.org"Hurricanes are born in the warm waters of the tropical Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which are both getting warmer. Over the 20th century, ocean surface temperatures increased by between 0.32 degrees Celsius in the Pacific tropical region and 0.67 degrees...
- Tags: CO2, global warming, sea surface temperature
- Discussion threads 2006-09-12
- Computer stalls on compaq screen
- When I log on to computer it stalls at compaq screen. All I can do is press f10 I believe and it takes me to BIOS screen. No matter what values I change at BIOS screen my computer never goes past compaq screen. I have pictures of the screens off...
- Tags: BIOS, boot problems, boot-disk, computer, disk, fran_loman@..., hardware, Service Pack 2, software
- Discussion threads 2006-10-21
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