The latest technology craze even before it’s unveiling was Apple’s latest hybrid tablet PC. What is known as “iPad” is essentially an oversized iPhone or iPod touch. A mix of features that are from tablet PC and iPhone. I was asking if iPad tablet would be a hit gadget or will it be worth your [...]

Finding ways to reduce cost is a managers task in a slump economy. Computer and Information Technology is an easy target for cost reduction. For example, businesses hire fresh college graduates as developers of relational database applications. I don’t have anything against it as having new blood to the organization is good. To prove their [...]

People living in remote areas have a great desire to watch TV news, report, sports or HBO movies. On the mountain areas of the province that I have visited where there’s no source of electricity people use transistor radios. A few have access to a television powered by car battery. Whenever a neighborhood has a [...]

Virtual machine are cool to use even for a working desktop. Backup of the whole virtual machine and taking snapshot copies is easy. I have a virtual machine which runs Windows XP SP2. The original system disk size of 10 Gb is a bit limited. Several system updates, installation of MS 2007 Office Suite and [...]

The Internet has build a a growing number of people who are connected online. Internet is really addicting as more web applications and social networking services are made accessible through portable devices and computers. It is even researched that mobile devices like smartphones have over taken computers as the primary device that uses Internet.
The report [...]

Internet distance education is going on mainstream. Home schooling or joining online degree education is getting better acceptance by parents. Students who find going to an established school might have an option for getting better careers by enrolling on Internet online degree programs. Some say that education is expensive, but I would say ignorance is [...]

Reducing IT cost in businesses and other organizations are main goals for management. IT outsourcing services are viewed as an economical alternative to in-house IT services. Our institute has considered outsourcing as a way of cost reduction and obtaining required IT professional service. It is hoped that a pool of experienced and qualified team would [...]

There’s a great concern about safety of Toyota cars, in the US and around the globe. The defects that appears are piling up. More and more complaints are coming and lot’s of reported recall are done for different reason. Thus, some come to suspect that there might be a cover up on the main reason [...]

Gone are the years when the Internet is littered with static web pages. The web has evolved from a collection of still document like geocities.com to a more dynamic web page like facebook.com that have social bookmarks, friendly networks, embedded videos, rotating links, and more. I have observed that website with fresh content gets at [...]

A computer that could make 1 petaflop, or 1 million billion calculations, per second could qualify as a world’s fastest supercomputer. What’s the use of having so much computing power? The use could vary from modeling nuclear explosions, simulate Big Bang, DNA sequencing, to simulate climate change with higher accuracy. The use of the fast [...]

Laser printers, thermal printers, inkjet printers and color printers are becoming inexpensive. Sometimes the cost of the ink is about two thirds of the printer. But most offices which issues invoice or receipt relies still on dot matrix printer. It is very common for every point of sale in the market to have invoice printer [...]

Installation of Linux OS is not an everyday task. Preparing a RedHat Enterprise Linux server to run Oracle Database 10g is a recent task at work. Network configuration for a system is critical for networked services especially with Oracle Database 10g server.
The result default configuration file entries are based on the data provided on the [...]

Surfing the Internet makes you vulnerable to all sorts of malicious program attack. A common scenario I experience is some web pop-up that falsely informs vulnerability to malicious programs and computer virus infection. It’s a consolation to the unsuspecting user to see these web pop-up messages as it offers a solution.
Warning, be careful when [...]

The clutter of LAN cable at home are an eye sore. Imagine the UTP cable that crisscross the floor when I connect a netbook, two laptop, and desktop computer. It looks like jungle at home. It’s also inconvenient to move around and settle on a comfortable place with UTP cable dangling. Not really the best [...]

People would be running full speed on the Internet highway with Google’s experimental broad band networks. Google has unveiled its plans that would deliver Internet speeds of about 100 times the ordinary Internet connectivity. It’s a direct competition with big mobile operators, which offer the same services.
I could not wait to see super fast mobile [...]

In a perfect world of Database Administrator everything is worry free. Everything could be automated using a software where nothing to think about backup and disaster recovery. Tuning up the database for optimum performance is magically taken cared by the software. That’s my impression of Oracle RAC One Node during the i-Seminar. Database administrator’s life [...]

Communication and sharing of ideas is quiet easy with online collaboration tools on the Internet. Major businesses are leveraging Internet with collaboration tools. Online collaboration software could be used in meetings, training, online events, sales, to as simple as sharing videos.
The newly released software Google Buzz in Gmail on a personal use level could be [...]

IT training are very important for an IT professional to keep up with the fast changing computer world. I welcome training for it’s an opportunity to go out of the four walls of the office. Reality never allows a leave at work to attend training due to the busy work load. An option for this [...]

Doing business online providing e-commerce service is main source of income for some IT people. Making money online comes from a vast variety of sources. This could include providing IT support services remotely to do computer system maintenance or computer software re-installation. It could also be a web design or web development work, providing web [...]

Global warming alleviation are some of the primary drivers of technology innovation. Trucks and cars are some of the culprits of carbon emission that causes green house effect. Environment friendly energy source are hot topics in news articles. Headlines with alternative fuel catches peoples attention hoping that there’s already a solution to rising cost of [...]