64-bit computing is as prevalent today as multicore computing. Almost any new processor from Intel or AMD has the AMD long mode extensions, allowing the processor to use...

In the press release issued yesterday was another intereting news: Sun released a new version of it´s Coolstack. It consists out of:The primary components in the Web...

Finally, folks rocking to a BlackBerry can rest easy knowing that they will be able to check out their online buddies over on Windows Live Messenger, long after other...

http://onesite.thoughtsmedia.com/?o...form(posting)=&"The Acer Aspire One is now available from U.S. retailers including Amazon.com, Buy.com, NewEgg.com and many others....

Sun Microsystems announced the availability of the Sun Web Stack, a fully supported and integrated enterprise-quality AMP (Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP) stack for Solaris and...

One of the technological advantages that Sun's Solaris (and OpenSolaris) operating systems have over Linux is their ZFS file-system. ZFS has a number of features not...

 This months BJOSUG will be fully discussion of the OpenSolaris 2008.05 Live CD distribution, including  installation, configuration and upgrade,...

Microsoft has had enough to see Apple communicate (negatively) about Vista: they have launched an initiative that aims to “educate” customers on the current...

If you haven’t managed to get into the Live Mesh preview then I would recommend you trying it now: We are doubling the upper limit of our technology preview program....

I have been playing around with the SystemInfo command in windows, and I wanted a concise way to see what the uptime of my system was. It is actually very simple. Get a...

The Places Bar in Windows appears in every save and open dialog in Windows. It is placed on the left side of the dialog displaying five locations that can be reached by...

From the 0wzign j00! dept.: ...On Monday, the Air Force Research Laboratory introduced a two-year, $11 million effort to put together hardware and software tools for...

I must admit that seeing an LG-branded hard drive would leave me rather skeptical as they're much more famous for their LCD displays and other home appliances. This time...

Sunday was the tenth anniversary of the government filing its antitrust case against Microsoft. The date passed almost unnoticed, though echoes of the case continue to...

I can probably cover the problems with one long sentence. Each console has unique advantages and disadvantages but no one game plays on all of them (and you...

The EuroOffice Dictionary is an Open Office extension that provides access to on the fly translations of words in Open Office. The user only needs to hover over a word or...

Storage costs eat up at least 11 percent of IT hardware budgets, but there are plenty of ways to save money without sacrificing performance or security. In a new report...

Three years ago come August, O’Reilly’s Nat Torkington, interviewing Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz, pressed the CEO on the issues of patents generally and...

In the past, I posted about one of the important requirements of the next generation datacenter NGDC, the ability to consolidate diverse applications on a unified...

Linux and UNIX-like operating systems in general are regarded as being more secure for the common user, in contrast with operating systems that have "Windows" as part of...