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All those lonely PCs waiting to be sold now have something to do: Tuesday, Gateway unveiled a plan to link nearly 8,000 PCs in hundreds of its retail stores in a grid-computing environment, and make the horsepower available to business, government agencies, research firms and universities. Gateway's Processing On Demand service maxes out at 14-teraflop performance, which makes it, according
I rolled out of here Sunday night armed and ready. Laptop was good to go dial-up numbers secured etc. I get to my hotel in the mainland and I'll be damn if I could stay connected more than 30 seconds. My schedule was 100% full on Tuesday and the last thing I wanted to do at 9pm was find a
I am simply amazed. I have been doing research on finding some mini cube computers. I need to save some space on a project I am working on and this thing will fit the bill. I will be writing more about this as I research it. But if you are in the need of a mini computer these should work.
Seems a article that was written several weeks ago on the Detroit Free Press of a self appointed Spam king which in turn enraged the Slashdot crowd. He is getting a taste of his own medicine. A group of Anti-Spammers have signed him up for 100's if not thousands of mailing list which are arriving via snail mail and e-mail
Well if you absolutely can not live 4-5 hours without your Internet Fix then Lufthansa will be offering Internet access on flights from Germany and Dulles. I had done some research on this upcoming service some time ago. Lufthansa is the first company to utilize the Connexion which was designed by Boeing. I am excited about this as this is
With a planned mini weekend getaway and last weeks server outage has made for very little news on Geek News. Tonight I plan on dumping a bunch of backlogged tips that I have stashed so that you all can get some new news.
Out there on the Web, increasingly sophisticated tools are being used by sites and marketers to track visitor movements. Back at the office, about a third of workers - more than 27 million - have their Internet or e-mail use under continuous surveillance, the Privacy Foundation estimates. The key to not getting tracked is by using a proxy server and
For years the liberal left administrators in schools have blocked Military Recruiters from getting phone numbers of students. I personally think the new Law that requires schools to hand over information or loose funding is a good one so long as the data is only used for recruiting. [Wired]
The entertainment industry scored a victory Monday when a U.S. district court judge issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the peer-to-peer (P2P) service Madster. U.S. District Court Judge Marvin Aspen of Chicago ordered Madster to immediately disconnect any computers or services used in connection with file swapping. [Internet.Com]
This article caught my attention. This is a great guide for small companies or even individuals. If you follow all steps in the guide you should be protected pretty good. [SecurityNewsCentral]
Our Service provider blew a hard drive last week which resulted in the site being down a lot longer than it should have ever been. A key point in any web-hosting business is to assume the worst can happen and prepare for it. The Customer is King and you go all out to keep your customer Happy. I am not
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