Anybody with even a slight understanding of how a hard drive operates knows that there are some problems that go along with it. Because many of the parts require high precision alignment it's entirely too easy to mess that up. Just ask the guy who bought a new ...
I don't know quite what the deal is but lately I've been seeing stories that are trying to push the idea that the mouse as a computer input device is going to die out. The latest I've seen of these stories is an over dramatic Bold type headline on ...
I just saw an interesting article about some research GM is doing that is aimed at eventually having cars equipped with a HUD (Head Up Display).
The article goes out of it's way to emphasize the fact that this is intended to benefit older drivers but it's plainly obvious that such ...
I was trying to install Ubuntu 8.04 today and ran into a problem.
The machine is a 333mhz pentium 2 w/ 384mb ram. A couple days before I had booted the 'live cd' and run it for a while to try it out and it worked fine. Today, I ...
With the oil companies doing their level best to put the economy belly up, lots of people are turning to more and more ways to conserve the cash. One option that many have overlooked until now involves getting some cash out of old hardware that they're not using anymore.
Lots ...
Good news for Linux users, According to a recent Slashdot article, Sun Microsystems is finally moving on a decision to open-source Java.
Once it's done and released, this will clear the way for Open source linux distributions like Debian to be able to include Sun Java in their distributions.
Apparently Sun has ...
Cookies are not just the sugary, crumbly treat they used to be. Now they're all about websites and advertisers having your browser store information that they can call back up and among other things, allow advertisers to track your online habits from the websites you visit to the purchases ...
Well, it looks like *somebody* has learned a lesson. According to the folks at Microsoft watch, the Justice Department is overseeing the development of "Windows 7", which is the version that's supposed to replace the disaster everybody loves to call veeesta.
This government sanctioned "Technical Committee" is overseeing Windows development ...
Of interest to Ruby Programmers I just read about some serious vulnerabilities were discovered in Ruby by Drew Yao, a member of Apple's security team.
According to the article about it that I read, these vulnerabilities could be exploited to allow the execution of arbitrary code or lead to a denial ...
When it comes to bad ideas for the Internet, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) a non profit organization that handles IP address space allocation has approved a wide expansion of TLDs (Top Level Domains).
Up until a few years ago, the most common endings for domain name have ...
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