Cloud computing is that part of the computing experience where the applications are on the web, allowing for access anywhere, as well as for groupware capability. One of the successful implementations of this concept is with SalesForce.com, Google Docs, as well as some other implementations of a base stations.
The whole concept of cloud computing is [...]
A while back, there was a point in time when Iomega storage devices were the backup media of choice for desktops, small office and home office environments. Now that it’s an EMC company, it’s again becoming more aggressive in the backup media and data storage market for personal use, small office and home office.
Iomega recently [...]
I recently installed a personal wiki on one of my home computers. The MediaWiki install was part of the package for Ubuntu Linux. Other wiki flavors with install packages listed in the Synaptic Package Manager also included MoinMoin and 13 or so others. Among all the choices, I opted for MediaWiki simply because this was [...]
The USB flash drive has become the de facto standard for mobile data transfer. The flash drive has effectively taken the place of the floppy disk. One floppy disk function which the flash drive has not addressed (or at least users are not aware of it) is to use it to boot a computer.
For most [...]
If you’re like me who’s wired to the internet or the corporate LAN all the time, it might come as a shock that you’re computer is no longer the hardware you’re supposed to have. It’s just a conduit, or worse, you can think of it as just the viewing end.
The computer is now the browser.
A [...]
As a guy who has been using computers since the age of the IBM360/370 dinosaurs, I’ve always been agnostic with regards my box.
I’ve had the pleasure of using UNIX boxes from SUN, NCR, DEC and also terminals from SCO-UNIX. I’ve also had some time tinkering with the old TRS-80s, Apple ][’s and a Timex-Sinclair. I [...]
I’ve been using PCs for more than 25 years and in all those years I’ve learned that a hard disk crash happens when it happens. You might have an idea that it’s impending but you can never be really sure.
There are several ways to make sure that your data survives a hard disk crash. A [...]
Around the start of the year, I installed Linux on my home PC. It was okay, as it was an old Fedora distro. I had no problems as it worked fine and I really wanted to play around with it a bit. The real problem was that it was installed on top of WinXP and [...]