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I'm with you on this, we won't be making an overall switch right away by any means, but still would like to start testing and be prepared. After all, testing out your software on a Beta of Windows 7 is free, while testing on the final Windows 7 would still require the full purchase of a Windows...

Greetings again all, I have a question here for you just in case anyone has played with this yet or has any inside knowledge of what to expect. I have received a Beta testing copy of Windows 7 to begin playing around with some and wanted to try out our existing software and drivers to see what...

In most all the computer systems I've built through the past ten years, I've found hands down that the AMD systems ran not only more smoothly than the Intel systems I've worked with, but have also had a longer lifespan. But, as stated above numerous times, technology changes fast today. Yes...

Any USB hard drive, including thumb drive, may cause the computer not to boot into Windows (depending upon the boot order in CMOS) but would still show the introduction screen when the computer is POSTing initially, such as the mobo manufacturer's logo or the detailed POST information. If none...

I've been trying to read up a lot on the new Windows 7 coming out end of '09. I've heard lots of varying things on the real core which makes me feel somewhat wary on what to believe. First, I've heard from numerous sources that Windows 7 will be based off the code from Vista, basically they...

Rather ironic that this happens to show up on Engadget today: researchers say new state of matter could extend moores law/ I agree with you, the majority of technology that we use today may seem top-of-the-line and brand new, but really the basis of that technology is old. It's just that the...

While right now this computer concept may be "unpractical" or "unnecessary" it is important to understand that the computer world is slowly growing more and more towards liquid cooling in some form for high-performance computing. You can get high-powered gaming computers with certain components...

This could possibly be the SATA Operation setting that you have the computer set to, as we have had the same problems before with Dell systems here at the University of Kansas. In the BIOS often the SATA operation is set to the type that is ONLY compatible with Windows Vista, and must be...

If your average upload speed is supposed to be 320 kbits/sec. then it sounds like you are actually running at the correct speed if it is uploading at about 40 kb/sec. Network traffic likes to make it sound all fast and powerful by confusedly using kbits/sec speed while the standard for storage...

We have had issues before sometimes where a USB keyboard or USB mouse when plugged into a certain USB port on the dell machines used in our labs at the university that they will sometimes, at random, begin to not respond or take incredibly long to communicate with the computer. Granted, these...

I would suggest trying to follow on the path that Signburst suggested. If all the computers are acting slow, and it would be very helpful to find out what "slow" they are acting (opening files, loading programs, starting up Windows, accessing internet pages/loading networked files, printing...

A lot of security threats are targeted towards IE, and one of the biggest security problems present is in the ActiveX controls. Firefox is much more secure in handling requests for ActiveX controls than IE which basically just allows most things right through. Firefox has a long-standing...

download helper allows you to download streaming content you can't normally download, such as video streaming video from youtube or google video. Foxmarks synchronizes your bookmarks and favorites among all your computers. That way on all of your computers you will automatically have all the...

This is really great to hear, thank you for your work! I've really been playing with the idea of setting up a Linux workstation just to test out some things and see the feasibility of one in the business. Anymore you can get a solid operating system with a quite friendly user interface so just...

I am still very wary of the idea of Midori (and all cloud computing-based OS for that matter) because it has so many inherited risks compared to standard client installed OS. If your entire computer is on the network, hosted by some great server someplace, then your ENTIRE business computation...

In your type of setting where you will have two computers running art files at any time, it's best not to get an actual separate computer to use as a server (just yet) but set up one of your existing two computers to also carry the function of the server. Say you have a newer computer with a...

64-bit computing has got to be one of my biggest complaints about the computer industry. Generally, any new computing standard (such as PCI-express 2.0) that is released is instantly picked up and adapted in software to utilize it to the full potential. But we have had the hardware capable of...

I saw a news article just yesterday that said Microsoft is planning its largest advertising campaign ever for "new products" and "revitalized Vista" and plan to spend upwards of $300 million, and have joined up with one of the leading advertising agencies for this task. This could be the...

We were successful in installing a digital design application called Quartus II onto a mapped network drive and run it from several computers simultaneous without having to actually install it on each individual workstation. All we had to do was open and run the main program executable within...

Recently I have been working with some different configurations and setups for running very large software packages from a server instead of on individual workstations. To give you some background, here at the School of Engineering at the University of Kansas we have hundreds of different...