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- Microsoft announces digital phone systems for the SMB
- Just a day after we reported on 3Com's new focus on the SMB IP telephony market, Microsoft joined the fray by manufacturing software that will power digital phone systems for small businesses. It appears that Microsoft has decided to stick to its tried-and-true strategy of focusing on...
- Tags: Digital Phone, D-Link Systems, Phone, Microsoft Corp., Small And Medium Business, Quanta, Response Point, Phone System, Telecom & Utilities, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- Quanta to build the $100 laptop
- $100 LaptopQuanta $ 100 Laptop!I'm a senior citizen, aged 68, and am legally deaf. I cannot do sign language because of arthritis in both hands. I would love to have one of these lap tops in order to communicate with people one on one when I'm...
- Tags: Notebooks, $100-laptop
- Discussion threads 2005-12-16
Additional Resources
- Quantum Support for Multiprocessor Pfair Scheduling in Linux
- This paper discusses several modifications to the Linux operating system in order to support aligned, staggered, and desynchronized quanta across multiple processors, where a quantum is a unit of processor allocation. The authors also evaluate one approach for supporting aligned quanta. These types of quanta are required for global multiprocessor...
- Tags: Algorithm, Quantum, Multiprocessor, Quantum Corp., University Of North Carolina, Engineering, Linux, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2006-06-15
- Geek Trivia: Shedding some (laser) light
- QuibbleA photon would be an energy quantum, photons would be energy quanta.Acronymical naming of devicesLaser, sure, but "iraser"? Isn't that a device made by Apple for cleaning chalkboards?Only because...some dot-com had patented the e-raser in the late 90's. Fortunately we still have to oraser, uraser, and sometimes yraser before everything...
- Tags: Leon Tribe, laser
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- KDE Case Study: Computer & Network Consulting
- Located at Jena, Germany Computer & Network Consulting use KDE since 1.0 on all office and development workstations and notebooks (Celeron 400 up to Athlon 1200). The desktop is easy to use and powerfull for all users. There were no problems for former Windows users. From KDE the company used...
- Tags: Desktop, KDE, Open Source, Workstations
- Case studies
- New photos of the first working prototype of the $100 MIT laptop
- Today at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting, the first working prototype of MIT's now famous $100 laptop was presented. Looking at these pictures compared to the earlier ones, I'm wondering where the hand-crank is now. Is it in those horns that are sticking up? Whatever the case may be, I think this...
- Tags: $100 Laptop, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Photograph, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2006-05-23
- Tradeoffs in Transactional Memory Virtualization
- For Transactional Memory TM to achieve widespread acceptance, transactions should not be limited to the physical resources of any specific hardware implementation. TM systems should guarantee correct execution even when transactions exceed scheduling quanta, overflow the capacity of hardware caches and physical memory, or include more independent nesting levels than...
- Tags: Memory, XTM, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2006-10-25
- XO laptop finally goes into mass production
- After a number of delays, the much-anticipated XO laptop finally went into mass production. CNET News.com reported that Taiwan's Quanta Computer started producing the XO early Tuesday morning in its new Changshu manufacturing center, just two hours northwest of Shanghai. Excerpt from News.com: The commencement...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- invalid drive specification!!!!!!
- I recently received two hhds from a friend that had his master hhd crash on him. He hooked up a 20 gb quanta bigfoot hhd with XP home loaded same os as the problem hhd and transferred all his data to the big foot.I tried to load xp pro on...
- Tags: BIOS, drive-I, egypt2fla, invalid, Microsoft Windows XP, Recovery Console, windows
- Discussion threads 2005-06-15
- INFORMATION AS A FOUNDATION
- INFORMATION AS A FOUNDATIONof the universe is an emerging view in deep science. In fact, the universe is built on far more information than its capacity to store it. More interesting, the basis of the particle universe is digital and not analog. This then brings into question what is our...
- Tags: chaos, FluxIt, GeoBub, MrMiami, off-topic
- Discussion threads 2005-03-08
- Geek Trivia: A sound argument
- When you say the words "red book," the average (non-engineer) person probably assumes you're referring either to Redbook magazine or the so-called Little Red Book, the nickname of the pocket version of Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. However, audio technicians and audiophiles know the Red Book as shorthand for IEC...
- Tags: Sony Corp., CD, Disc, Philips Electronics N.V., Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- What is in your Web development toolbox?
- Another text editor...HTML-Kit http://www.htmlkit.com/ is a robust HTML editor that supports many programming languages. It is free and has numerous plug-ins for myriad purposes. It also includes a utility for writing custom plug-ins. Many useful features, including built-in ftp client, etc., etc., etc.What tools?G.I.M.P. for the graphics work.S.C.R.E.E.M. for editing...
- Tags: tool, Jaqui, graphics, context, programming, Web, Web development
- Discussion threads 2006-08-15
- Microsoft UC for the rest of us
- Most everyone in the IT industry has heard of Microsoft's Live Communications Server 2005/Office Communications Server 2007 (LCS/OCS), the previous/just-released versions of its instant messaging, audio/video conferencing, and "presence" product for the enterprise, which now supports VoIP using the standard SIP protocols. But Microsoft designed LCS/OCS for...
- Tags: Appliance, Phone, IP, Small Business, Microsoft Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Speech Recognition, Emerging Technologies, Deb Shinder
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Geek Trivia: Shedding some (laser) light
- Geek Trivia: Shedding some laser lightarticle rootAnother type of graser has been put forwardas well. In science fiction circles there two types of graser in use - read about them in some of the several thousand books I have. One uses Gamma Rays as per a laser, the other works...
- Tags: gravity, laser, trivia, technology, Deadly Ernest, career, Einstein
- Discussion threads 2006-04-12
- Favorite tools for LAMP development?
- So I've been dragged somewhat reluctantly back into the software development world, working on a PHP interface that lets users search our content database stored in MySQL. Basically there's nobody else available to work on this, so I'm jumping in to help out even though I kinda suck as...
- Tags: Apache Software Foundation, database, Eclipse, FTP, IDE, LAMP, LAMP Development, MySQL, PHP, PHPMyAdmin, programming, RexWorld, tool, tools
- Discussion threads 2005-12-21
- Best Practices: Adjust performance options to speed up Windows XP clients
- If you have some Windows XP clients that run slower than others, it could be due to some of the default settings located in the Performance Options dialog box. You can change the options in this dialog box to boost the performance of a Windows XP client. In this article,...
- Tags: dialog box, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, performance, Performance Options, Performance Options dialog box, processor, RAM, Scott Lowe MCSE
- Technical articles 2003-02-18
- Geek Trivia: Shedding some (laser) light
- Editor's note: Once again, the Trivia Geek has bailed on his commitment to originality and instead scavenged a Classic Geek from the archives, which originally ran on April 11, 2006. He swears this will be the last time it happens until Christmas (yeah, right). This week, we...
- Tags: Community, Editor, Laser, Einstein, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Geek Trivia: Shedding some (laser) light
- Who wrote the first published use of the word laser? This week, we start by dispelling a Geek Trivia myth: Albert Einstein did not win a Nobel Prize for his theory of relativity. Yes, everyone's favorite patent clerk did win a Nobel Prize in...
- Tags: Einstein, Jay Garmon, laser, maser, relativity, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Community, Radiation
- Technical articles 2006-04-11
- Boost slower Windows XP clients by adjusting the Performance Options dialog box
- You can tweak Windows XP's Performance Options to boost slow-running applications and solve other performance problems, as well as to make modifications that will better meet your users' needs. In this Daily Feature, Scott Lowe shows you how it's done.Does it seem that some of your Windows XP clients run...
- Tags: Performance management, Scott Lowe MCSE, performance, Performance Options, Microsoft Windows XP, Performance Options dialog box, Microsoft Windows, dialog box, processor, Visual Effects
- Technical articles 2002-11-21
- :) the truth :D
- :) the truth :DOh my, they're great.Love you twist in: "When I make a mistake,you're an idiot."Never call yourself an idiot!! :D isn't it. :^0Do have a nice long weekend, enjoy the stay of your parents. :)Robedited for emoticon typoMore truthAs scientists and concerned citizens, we applaud the recent trend...
- Tags: This Product, Consumer
- Discussion threads 2006-05-12
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