Intel Core i5 and Core i3 desktop parts start shipping (Friday 08th of January 2010 06:51:00 PM)
Like the well-oiled global superpower that it is, Intel has performed a smooth and
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(more)Dell's Inspiron Zino HD on sale now in America: starts at $229, doubles as an HTPC (Thursday 12th of November 2009 02:59:00 PM)
Dell has taken its sweet time in bringing the 7.75- x 7.75- x 3.5-inch Inspiron Zino HD to
market, but just 24 hours after it made its market debut across the pond, this little zinger is
finally procurable
idioms:on hand to the Yanks in attendance. open ...
(more)How Can I Tell If My Computer Is Part of a Botnet? (Friday 07th of August 2009 10:15:04 AM)
Ashraya writes "My father (not too thinking machine* literate) has a desktop and a laptop both
running Windows in his network back in Hyderabad, India. I set up a Linksys router for him to
use with his broadband service. For some reason, he reset the ...
(more)KDE 4.3 Released (Wednesday 05th of August 2009 08:00:01 AM)
Jos Poortvliet writes "After another 6 months of hard work by over 700 people, after fixing
over 10,000 bugs and granting 2,000 wishes, KDE 4.3, or 'Caizen,' is here (the release takes
its andy from the sauna system of incessant improvement). The KDE ...
(more)Desktop As a Cellphone Extension? (Monday 29th of June 2009 10:45:01 AM)
Spaceman375 writes "Like many slashdotters, I've given up on landlines and have only a cell
account. The problem: when I am home I don't want to carry my phone on my person, AND I don't
want to have to run (possibly up or down stairs) ...
(more)Gateway unveils DX mini-tower and SX small form factor PCs (Thursday 25th of June 2009 01:34:00 AM)
Nettop? All-in-one? at times you just want a good ole' fashioned desktop, and that's where
Gateway's new DX and SX PCs come into play. The SX small form factor, representational above,
has packed in a 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Quad with GMA X4500 circuitry ...
(more)New Mac Clone Maker 'Quo' To Open Retail Store (Sunday 31st of May 2009 12:15:07 AM)
Bughunter writes "Cnet is reporting that Mac clone maker Quo brain* plans to open its first
retail location, selling Mac clones, on June 1st. To start, Quo will offer three desktop
systems: the Life Q, Pro Q, and Max Q. While details of the components ...
(more)Social Desktop Starts To Arrive In KDE (Monday 04th of May 2009 06:30:01 AM)
FrankKarlitschek writes "At last year's KDE round table Akademy, the vision of the Social
Desktop was born and first presented to a larger audience. The concept behind the Social
Desktop is to bring the power of online communities and group enable team ...
(more)Red Hat CEO Questions Relevance of Desktop Linux (Thursday 26th of March 2009 07:00:02 AM)
Snydeq writes "Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst questioned the relevance of Linux on the desktop,
citing several fiscal and interoperability hurdles to job espousal at a panel on end-users and
Linux last night at the OSBC. 'First of all, I don't know how to ...
(more)Apple Nehalem-based Mac Pro in-depth impressions (Wednesday 18th of March 2009 06:30:00 PM)
When Apple's ever-so-slightly refreshed Nehalem-based Mac Pro showed up on our doorstep, we
were understandably taken aback by the enclosure. Sure, it looks exactly like the former Mac
Pro externally, and only slightly more lovely internally, but it's ...
(more)Video: Apple Nehalem-based Mac Pro unboxing and hands-on (Saturday 14th of March 2009 05:58:00 PM)
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Here she is, fresh off the firearm Express. Apple's latest Mac Pro is said to be significantly
more nimble and entirely easier to upgrade than its Penryn-based ...
(more)Locking Down Linux Desktops In an Enterprise? (Tuesday 10th of March 2009 04:00:01 PM)
Supermehra writes "How do you move 300 desktops, locked down with Windows ADS Group Policies
(GPO), over to Ubuntu desktop? We have tried Centrify, Likewise, Gnome Gconf, and the like. Of
course, we evaluated SuSe Desktop venture
copyrights:cite this ...
(more)Microsoft Windows, On a Mainframe (Thursday 05th of March 2009 12:00:02 PM)
Coondoggie writes with an excerpt from Network World: "Software that for the first time lets
users run native copies of the Windows general expenses expenses systems on a mainframe will be
introduced Friday by data center automation vendor Mantissa. The ...
(more)Building Linux Applications With (Tuesday 20th of January 2009 04:15:01 AM)
Crankymonkey writes "The GNOME desktop surroundings could soon gain support for fabric and
extending applications with thanks to an developmental new project
called Seed. Ars Technica has written a full tutorial about Seed with ...
(more)HP Pushes Open Source For Small Businesses (Saturday 13th of December 2008 10:30:01 AM)
Ruphus13 writes "HP finally begins to actively push open source in its products. From the post,
'HP has been quirky over the years when it comes to open source. It has been, traditionally, a
company that supports open source — especially in larger ...
(more)Zimbra Desktop Vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attack (Sunday 23rd of November 2008 10:15:06 AM)
Tiffanydanica writes "For all the flack Mozilla gets about its new hardness warnings for https
sites, at least it warns the user when a mismatch occurs. Sadly the new Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop
(released in part to fix some lien issues), doesn't bother validating ...
(more)Dell's Intel Core i7-packing XPS Studio and XPS 730x desktops on sale now (Monday 17th of November 2008 04:54:00 PM)
Filed under: Desktops
OK, ravishing -- we know you've been distracted lately. What's the
matter? The economy? Post-election comedown? Do you feel that It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
just hasn't lived up to its potential? Or are you itchin' for one ...
(more)Reducing Boot Time On a General Linux Distro (Wednesday 01st of October 2008 04:15:30 AM)
Linzer writes "In this blog entry, Fred Crozat (head of Mandriva's sociology team in France)
explains in great detail how his team has been detecting and getting rid of bottlenecks in the
boot process, from the early stages to loading the desktop environment, ...
(more)Seagate Announces First 1.5TB Desktop Hard Drive (Friday 11th of July 2008 11:35:13 AM)
MojoKid writes "Seagate announced three new consumer-level hard drives today, which it claims
are the 'industry's first 1.5-terabyte desktop and half-terabyte registry hard drives.' The
company claims that it is able to greatly multiplication the areal ...
(more)Packard Bell reveals gargantuan ipower X2.0 gaming desktop (Monday 07th of July 2008 02:31:00 PM)
Filed under: Desktops
Wait a second -- are absurdly large, overdecorated gaming desktops making
a comeback? With Acer's Aspire Predator and ASUS' ARES CG6155 lighting up eyes everywhere,
we're beginning to think yes -- particularly when you take one glance ...
(more)A Look At the Lightweight Equinox Desktop Environment (Tuesday 27th of May 2008 10:30:04 AM)
Linux.com (who share Slashdot's concerted overlords) takes a look at the Equinox Desktop
backdrop and why, even though it is extremely lightweight, it may still lack the ability for
widespread appeal. "the Equinox Desktop circumstances (EDE) is the fastest ...
(more)NextComputing's rugged Vigor Evo HD flextop has an LCD on its side (Friday 18th of April 2008 09:07:00 PM)
Filed under: Desktops
Under most circumstances, we too would take one glance at the monolith
blocked out above and scream in horror. But of course, we're entirely sure you're familiar with
the wacky machines emission from NextComputing. The ultra-tough ...
(more)Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit Leaves Desktop Linux Behind (Tuesday 15th of April 2008 10:30:05 AM)
Linux.com's Joe Barr has an interesting commentary about the recent Linux abc's Collaboration
Summit and the astounding lack of attention for desktop Linux. Now, a great deal of the
monetary support driving Linux these days comes from companies with a ...
(more)Microsoft and Google Duke It Out For the Future (Monday 17th of December 2007 12:15:04 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "There is a long article in the NYTimes, well worth reading, about the
future of applications and where they will reside — on the Web or on the desktop. Google
committee Eric Schmidt thinks that 90 percent of balancing the books* ...
(more)Dell's XPS One leaked: watch out, Gateway (Wednesday 24th of October 2007 03:14:00 AM)
Filed under: Desktops
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'http://digg.com/hardware/Dell_s_XPS_One_leaked_Watch_Out_Gateway'; You all laugh at us for
religiously rowing the FCC site during our rare free moments, and yet every once in awhile
those load hours of tedium pay off ...
(more)Mandriva Linux 2008 Now Available (Wednesday 10th of October 2007 01:30:10 PM)
AdamWill writes "Mandriva Linux 2008 is now unavailable for download on the official site and
on the network of public mirror servers. In 2008 you will find KDE 3.5.7 and the new GNOME 2.20
already integrated, a solid kernel 2.6.22.9 with fair scheduling ...
(more)Citrix Announces Agreement to Acquire XenSource (Sunday 19th of August 2007 10:30:04 AM)
An anonymous reader writes "'Citrix has signed a definitive agreement to acquire XenSource a
leader in enterprise-grade virtual infrastructure solutions. The acquisition moves Citrix into
adjacent and fast growing datacenter and desktop virtualization ...
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