08 Mar
Cost factor are always on the fore front of every business decision process especially. Targeting IT cost reduction is no different. Computer information officers could not agree over enterprise desktop virtualization as a cost saving investment. Maybe you are aware of Dell’s OptiPlex 980 desktop and FX100 zero client computer which is touted to be [...]
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17 Feb
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 [...]
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16 Feb
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 [...]
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12 Feb
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 [...]
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27 Jan
Many rumors have been moving around Apple’s next big thing, which is a tablet computer. Some computer geeks and sleuths have guessed it to be Apple iTablet. There’s even a website which offers money to give a photo or video of the most anticipated Apple technology. However, all of that is now irrelevant after Steve [...]
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24 Jan
Computer servers are dedicated machine to handle high demand software applications. The concern most small time businesses face is that more computing power packed computer servers don’t come cheap. There are times that an inexpensive desktop computer would be used as a server of various software applications.
In our office, cost is a primary factor when [...]
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10 Dec
Power hungry super fast computer processors and video graphic cards need to be cooled effectively to guarantee performance. Gaming computer systems that have Intel Core i7 Processor Extreme Edition or the AMD Phenom II X4 Processor requires a good power supply unit. Especially when computers that have a super fast graphic adapter like nVidia GeForce [...]
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05 Dec
Technology home based business using Internet is gaining popularity as an alternative to a regular work. Some of the businesses are actually retailing of consumable product, but utilizes Internet web application sales tracking software. Laptop presentation enhances the clarity of message delivery of the product to the prospect. Business presentation laden with images, graphs, [...]
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21 Oct
School semester has commenced a new. People are busy again searching new laptop or netbook computer as studying companion. The Acer Aspire One AOD250-1924 10.1-inch netbook captured my notice in the Zeer IT Mall. I have seen Acer Aspire One AOD250 as a fit for students and business travelers who prefers to travel light.
The 6-cell [...]
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03 Oct
Robot computer applications that will run with GNU/Linux is now available. Robot hobbyists, makers, or software developers could now use the Linux-friendly USB-based sensing and control modules from Phidget. Phidget previous product versions need to be connected to a desktop computer via USB to work, but now it released a single board computer (SBC) to [...]
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29 Sep
Information technology has facilitated the storage and retrieval of data. Computers such as database servers and file servers store a large amount of data. Large organizations such as hospitals, government offices, private companies, and others have a form of computer storage.
I have read about news that tons of public records were lost due to natural [...]
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05 Aug
The portable Seagate FreeAgent external drive is easy to use with Windows XP for data backup. It’s very easy to use with a plug-n-play mode for Windows XP. Anyway, it’s important to follow the Seagate FreeAgent Windows XP installation guide.
Seagate FreeAgent Windows XP Installation:
Take your FreeAgent and cables out of the box and plug in [...]
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30 Jul
A friend asked to help out his colleagues business to setup an ecommerce website. Small businesses due to constrained IT expertise and budget usually starts out with the minimum ecommerce web hosting available. The initial goal is to reach as much customers with minimum cost.
Small businesses have the tendency to hire some PHP web [...]
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24 Jul
When my seven (7) year old Windows XP desktop computer crashed, I got a replacement computer CPU. An office mate insisted on getting an IBM or Dell computer, but due to budget constraints, I got SVOA computer. The brand is not very popular, but I am happy to have it.
Some SVOA Warrior C2D 29300A Specification:
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21 Jul
Power failures and power fluctuations are computer system killers. Every computer have uninterruptible power systems installed, but sometimes unthinkable things do happen. We’ve been hit by power outage as usually, but what’s surprising is our Dell PowerEdge 2550 computer server lost power.
The Dell PowerEdge was placed on a server rack which have it’s own cooling [...]
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18 Jul
Computer data at work and home is growing tremendously. A wide variety of media files like photo images, audio files, video files, and other office suite files increase in volume as days passes by. Those files are very important and that’s why we need to backup data. When it comes to data backup, the most [...]
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25 Jun
A simple task of removing an internal tape drive for Windows 2000 Computer Server turned to be a disaster. I was tasked to remove a tape drive from Dell PowerEdge 2550 Rack Computer Server which host MSSQL Database. The job is nothing to be afraid worried about. So, after office hours, I shutdown the server [...]
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20 Jun
Having a computer glitch surprise at work is a thing which I don’t like especially if it’s on a Friday. I was intensively thinking on how to generate the data required for Web Evaluation Report which interactively gives the output based on unit chosen. Anyway, I was rushing to finish the it using PL/SQL Developer.
I [...]
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13 Jun
I inherited a Canon MP160 printer from my sister about three years ago. I am thinking then of completing the productivity set at home by getting a printer for the desktop computer. Well, I got a really cool Canon MP160 printer with all-in-one feature. This allows more things to be done at home.
It’s amazing [...]
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01 Jun
Newer computer software applications demands more computing hardware resource. Especially, if you want to run multiple operating system by setting up Virtual Machines on your computer. Before a 2GB of computer memory is enough to run Windows Vista, but the as programs are loaded everything seems to be not enough. For a desktop computer running [...]
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