Hardware

When it comes to sheer, unadorned speed, nothing else even comes close to Linux.

Remote user calls to report that her terminal screen is blank -- and after 45 minutes of troubleshooting, this help desk pilot fish starts to see the light.

I'm preparing for a meeting with the Citrix folks today to talk about desktop virtualization and I'm looking for questions. Citrix is rolling the dice is it folds XenApp into its new XenDesktop offering. Will IT climb aboard?

This IT boss stomps into the printer room in a big hurry, ignoring the signs warning not to wear loose clothing near the shredder -- and what happens next is predictable.

Let's face it, most backup administrators are typically under paid, under appreciated, and only become important in the eyes of upper management when things go wrong.

This pilot fish has watched his IT shop grow from a single IBM minicomputer to dozens of servers connected to hundreds of PCs over the past 20 years, and these days he only occasionally sits in on a department meeting. But sometimes, that's a good thing.

An effort to manage cable clutter and save energy goes horribly wrong.

It seems the only way to learn the number of platters inside a hard drive is to ask the company.

Looks like Android 2.0 is shaping up to be an attractive proposition. And Motorola has new hardware to match. Yes, Motorola: who knew? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers type the words "killer" and "iPhone" (not necessarily in that order). Not to mention pumpkin cannon...
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Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical, which makes Ubuntu, the popular version of Linux, recently said that he is "delighted" with the release of Windows 7, calling it an "excellent release." But don't expect that to stop many of the Linux faithful from badmouthing Windows.

Now that Windows 7 and Snow Leopard are both out and Ubuntu 9.10 is all but out, it's time to revisit which one is the easiest to upgrade.

Defensively buying a hard drive means taking into consideration the number of platters -- the fewer the better. But, you have to sleuth around in the specs to find the drives with the fewest platters.

In today's podcast: Microsoft revenue and earnings drop; Icahn quits Yahoo board; Some Windows 7 upgrades crash.

User calls support pilot fish with an improbable story: She says she dropped her mouse and her PC shut down.