Business and Technology news of the day
Microsofts Steven Sinofsky announced that Windows 8 RC1 will be released in the first week of June 2012. This means it will almost certainly make a September Release to Manufacturing (RTM).
For many years I have been vigorously opposed to copyright extensions, like the Sonny Bono Act. The nut of the argument is that copyright was intended to protect creative works and allow the author to generate revenue from that creative work for a reasonable time. Personally I think a reasonable Read more…
A brief Jack Tramiel of Commodore retrospective video
Microsoft announced that Windows 8 will ship this year and will come in two common forms at retail and OEM outlets: Windows 8 Windows 8 Pro Microsofts Brandon LeBlanc explains the difference: Windows 8 Pro is designed to help tech enthusiasts and business/technical professionals obtain a broader set of Windows Read more…
Here is my ‘Desktop Color Printer Evaluation’ in Excel format. You can use it as a template for evaluating other printer products. It covers obvious items like printer cost and pages per minutes as well as less obvious but very important criteria like second paper tray cost and memory. In the Read more…
As the owner and primary writer of www.commodore.ca, (a site that receives approximately 1500 UNIQUE visitors per day), I can tell you that this is a VERY sad day. Computer business pioneer and visionary Jack Tramiel died on Sunday April 8th 2012. In case you did not know we run www.JackTramiel.com and had offered Read more…
“Two travelers from Britain were prevented from entering the US last week after Homeland Security officials feared one of the pair, 26-year-old Leigh Van Bryan, might follow through with one of his tweets. Prior to leaving the UK, Leigh had tweeted that he was going to “destroy America.” The offending Read more…
UPDATE: Oct 20, 2012: Turn the Windows 8 Start Button back on which includes the power options: urtech.ca/2012/10/solved-solved-solved-oh-joy-solved-how-to-add-the-start-button-into-windows-8 ORIGINAL POST BELOW: _________________ In many posts I and seemingly thousands of others have complained that the lack of a START button in Windows 8 will kill its corporate sales. Apparently Read more…
This is the followup video to our “How to Disassemble a Seagate GoFlex 3TB External USB Hard Disk and Use it Internally” video from 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnAmM-BJFtY The following is a response I sent in April of 2014 to a reader who asked, what should he do if the disk makes no Read more…
I recently had a client request to supply some Visitor / Guest Management software for a office reception that saw between 5 and 30 visitors a day. They felt that their sign in log book made the company look old and out of touch. After an hour of research I could Read more…
“…(the Social Connector) that let you integrate your Hotmail and social networking accounts, such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Instead, you’ll be able to add these accounts using the default configuration of the new Outlook. This makes a lot of sense, not only because it simplifies things, but it also brings Read more…
“…The latest discovery was made by Kaspersky Lab, which received reports of a malware attack hitting a common Java vulnerability (CVE-2011-3544) on Russian Web sites, but without appearing to drop any files in order to instigate a conventional Trojan attack. In fact the attack turned out to run Javascript from Read more…
It appears that Microsoft has depricated Gadgets in favour of Tiled Apps in Windows 8, so know you have four choices: Use the half dozen Gadgets built into Windows 7 andVista Use the 35 or so more Windows Gadgets found on http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/personalize/gadgets?SignedIn=1 Search (Bing, Google…) for specific Gadgets and download Read more…
This short video from Intel explains the key new / enhanced features of the Xeon E5 server processors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdnDL-4HiLQ
A BotNet is a (usually) large number of computers (Apple Mac’s, Linux PC’s, Windows PC’s, Android Phones…) which are infected by software that lets a remote user perform some action. Often these are attackes on website. For instance is 5 million computer all attempt to perform 10 searches on Amazon.com, Read more…
I found this video on a major Canadian travel site. When the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) body scanners were rolled out at airports across the globe, they were said to be crucial in aiding the effort of nabbing security threats that could possibly evade regular metal detectors. Now, a video Read more…