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Technical

Desktop replacement Laptop

I replaced my desktop over a year ago with a desktop replacement laptop from Sony. It has a huge screen and travels well for it's size. Even though I have given up some mobility due to it's size the laptop has been a dream. It seems Acer is trying to kick-start it's lagging sales with a desktop replacement that has

Kodak Film Processing Station

I have always been a photography buff and actually did some professional work in the 80's, due to time constraints I sort of dropped the hobby. with advances with digital technology many people have quit buying film and have went 100% digital. I still like break out my 35mm camera from time to time and shoot a roll. Having my

Windows XP SP2 is a Must-Have Upgrade

Microsoft is readying the Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) upgrade for release in mid-2004. The upgrade will address many of the security problems that currently plague the company's flagship operating system.

Surgery on a iPod Mini

When I was a kid I used to tear all kinds of electronic stuff apart. I scored big when my dad got some antiquated but functional bell telephone equipment in a lot auction, I had lots of fun figuring out how it all worked. I was the only kid in the country with his own telephone company setup between 7

The full story on how they fixed Spirit

I have had my share of PCAnywhere sessions with sick servers and have had machines die on me in the middle of an extended business trip. At a time not so long ago I developed a emergency recovery routine that has saved my butt more than once. Happily the team at JPL where also thinking the same thing. [EE Times]

$8000.00 PC?

You might scratch your head and say who would pay $8000.00 for a computer these days. Well from what this thing supposedly has under the hood it may be well worth $8000.00 [Design Technica]

Source code to Win NT and Windows 2000 available

Well it appears the cat is out of the bag and Microsoft probably about had a stroke as the worst possibly thing that could happen to a software company has happened the source code to Windows NT and Windows 2000 have been released on the Internet. I have yet to see many details about this but I bet computer programmers