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Here’s a little device that will reduce the number of cables you carry. ThinkGeek is selling this Ethernet crossover adapter for $7.99 US plus shipping and handling. It converts an ordinary ethernet cable into a crossover cable. A crossover cable is used when you want to connect two computers to each other [...]

Vista is the Windows version to bypass - like Windows Mistake Edition (ME) was. The combination of Microsoft having to pull employees off of Vista to help write XP Service Pack 2 and discovering that the XP code base was unusable (Vista was written from scratch) meant that MS released a typical first effort in [...]

Terry Childs is a 43 year old network administrator for the city of San Francisco. They pay him a $127,735-a-year salary - plus he made an additional $22,534 last year in overtime for coming in to cover emergency situations.
He was part of a team that built a fibre WAN that now stores [...]

Ever needed to know how to replace the motherboard on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000?
If Windows boots:
Boot Windows. Put the Windows CD in the drive and start Setup with the Upgrade option. Follow instructions until the computer reboots.
When it reboots, pull the plug. Replace the motherboard. Restart [...]

In this press release from the Intel Developer Forum, Intel, HP, Microsoft Corporation, NEC Corporation, NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments Incorporated have formed the USB 3.0 Promoter Group to develop a USB 3.0 standard expected to be over ten times faster than the current USB 2.0 standard. The proposed 3.0 standard will be backwards [...]

Do you support a computer user - even in an informal way (e.g. your Dad or Mom)? This article explains some of the ways our superior knowledge and skills may hamper your understanding of what a user means when they ask what seems to you to be a stupid question. Remember, there are [...]

Microsoft has written the Fundamental Computer Investigation Guide for Windows. If you have suspicions and need more data - but you are not yet ready to call in someone for a complete forensic investigation - this guide will help you to investigate further using forensic principles. Using forensic principles will preserve evidence for [...]

Thanks to the Windows Secrets newsletter for this one.
We’ve all seen the PC vs Mac ads by Apple, there are plenty of them. But now it’s time for the PC to counterattack, with the help of director Laurie McGuinness, who created four small hilarious clips, with the same character personalities (the PC being older, “boring,” [...]

Intel’s recent announcement of a 80 core processor on a single chip combined with this story on the huge amount of energy used by data centres has (I predict) data centre managers on the edges of their seats - hoping that the Intel innovation is released to market soon. If you combine that with [...]

“Which original ENIAC programmer helped develop COBOL and Fortran?“
For all those computer geeks out there who will spend yet another Valentine’s Day in the presence of a computer rather than a significant other, it’s time to change the game. Toss off the shackles of this Hallmark-addled so-called holiday, and celebrate a far more important and [...]