Skills in demand at the IT level (no mention of Linux but mention of .NET and Silverlight) - and - order by pertinence

Dell and IBM preparing ARM processor servers

Now that we know that the ARM architecture will soon find its place in servers, it appears that Dell and IBM are testing multi-core processors for low energy use servers.

News published on the May 18th, 2010 - 11:20 AM ET

Spirit: jailbreak the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

The DevTeam has announced that their Sprint tool is now available, providing users with the possibility of jailbreaking the iPad tablet in addition to the iPhone and iPod Touch, allowing for unauthorised Apple applications to be installed on these ...

News published on the May 3rd, 2010 - 10:15 AM ET

IE and 0-day fault : Microsoft developing a corrective patch

Microsoft is currently testing a patch to correct a publically released security fault affecting Internet Explorer 6 and 7. They haven’t specified if the publication of this will be fast tracked.

News published on the March 15th, 2010 - 9:15 AM ET

Test and comparision: Seven high capacity memory sticks

PC’s and MACs are today delivered without floppy disk drives. This isn’t really a problem, as a small memory stick that weighs a few grams will do the trick! On this Christmas Eve, we have tested seven high storage memory sticks. These aren’t ...

Review published on the December 24th, 2008 - 8:18 AM ET

Internet Security: Protection and prevention for your PC

How do our systems become infected? How can we avoid this? These questions may seem obvious, but this isn’t necessarily true for everyone. This article, dedicated to the rules of prevention and protection in terms of computer security should be ...

Review published on the December 14th, 2007 - 4:55 AM ET

A comparison between ATI and nVidia video cards for gamers

If in the field of office use, the Internet and multimedia, most video cards on the market more then meet our requirements, with people wishing to perform video editing requiring something more powerful. But with the consequent reduction in prices ...

Review published on the December 4th, 2006 - 6:00 PM ET

Opera Web browser: Description and Functionalities

This tutorial is dedicated to the free web browser, Opera, which as we will see is more then just a simple navigator. Fast, respecting current Internet standards and security, you will be seduced by this alternative to the Firefox ' Internet ...

Review published on the May 3rd, 2006 - 6:00 PM ET

Skills in demand at the IT level (no mention of Linux but mention of .NET and Silverlight)

ChrisV is obsolete--but wait--he programs in Windows so he's safe. Likewise Peter ASS-MAN (though I would never hire a programmer who thinks you can safely dereference a null pointer). Note to you nitpickers: Unix supports all of the *nix techs ...

Message posted on the December 1st, 2010 - 12:18 PM ET

Re (2): Seeking advice and documentation on non-standard software RAID1 setup

Rob, Also recently my own laptop wouldn't start because of fan troubles (I had to "assist" with the vacuum cleaner ... Advisable to replace the fan before other components have heat damage. Repair is an option too. If the fan has ...

Message posted on the December 1st, 2010 - 11:20 AM ET

can I use both Excel 2003 and Excel 2010 on the same pc ?

Can I use both Excel 2003 and Excel 2010 on the same pc ? I have licenses for both. Thanks, Lynn

Message posted on the November 30th, 2010 - 4:31 PM ET

variants and freeing bstr memory (C++)

I am having a problem with Excel 2003 running out of "memory handles" on my Windows 7 x64 box after creating several hundred excel spreadsheets. I am explicitly releasing all of my Dispatch pointers. Do I need to explicitly release my ...

Message posted on the November 30th, 2010 - 3:40 PM ET

[PATCH 0/2] perf tools: reference timestamp and time history dump

First patch adds a reference timestamp to the perf header. The second patch uses the reference timestamp to convert kernel timestamps to time-of-day and outputs each sample. David Ahern (2): perf tools: add reference timestamp to perf header perf ...

Message posted on the November 29th, 2010 - 6:10 PM ET

Bug#605423: RFA: autossh -- Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the autossh package. I currently don't have time to properly take care of the package. The package description is: autossh is a program to start an instance of ssh and monitor it, restarting ...

Message posted on the November 29th, 2010 - 3:30 PM ET

Bug#605401: debian-installer-launcher: d-i window does not account for GNOME pannels and window decoration

Package: debian-installer-launcher Version: 4 Severity: important I have built a live-cd with an installer included, but whenever I start debian installer I cannot see any buttons, since d-i window is intended to be ran in fullscreen mode with no ...

Message posted on the November 29th, 2010 - 11:50 AM ET