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Top OEMs to Use Splashtop Pre-Boot Business ShellDeviceVM on Monday announced a version of its Splashtop pre-boot environment specifically designed for business purposes, which company executives claimed will appear on Acer, Dell, and HP laptops before the end of 2009.
Wugnet Saturday, October 10, 2009Software To Diagnose Faulty PC Hardware?Etylowy writes "Over the years I have repaired my own, family, and friends' PCs many, many times. While in most cases it turned out to be restoring system after malware/user/Windows made a mess, or simple cases of 'follow the smell of smoke and molten plastic,' there were some nasty ones where the computer mostly works. By 'mostly,' I mean: you can boot it up, it might even work for a while, but will crash way too often to blame it all on Microsoft — what do you do then? Once you strip it off any extra hardware (which with today's motherboards, with pretty much everything integrated, might not be an option) you are left with CPU, motherboard, graphics card, RAM and HDD. You can test HDD, you can run memtest86+ to check RAM, but how do you go about testing CPU, motherboard and graphics card trio to find which is to blame? Replacing them one by one isn't really an option. Do you know any software that would help the way memtest helps with RAM?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Slashdot Saturday, October 10, 2009You Missed the Best Day to BuyAll Motley Fool news Rex MooreThere was once a woman who prayed every day for 20 years that she'd win the lottery. Every single day. Finally, in despair, she said, "God, I've been a true and faithful...
Wugnet Saturday, October 10, 2009The Wrong Way to Invest in ChinaETF (FXI) is not only one of the 25 most popular exchange-traded funds on the market today, but also the most-traded China-focused ETF. In 2009 alone, it has taken in new investment inflows of $2 bill...
Wugnet Saturday, October 10, 2009China's 26th Antarctic exploration team starts expeditionMembers of China's 26th Antarctic exploration team prepare to get on board in Shanghai, China, Oct. 10, 2009. A team of 251 members will leave on board the vessel Snow Dragon for China's 26th Antarcti...
Wugnet Saturday, October 10, 2009Why Cloud Storage Is Lousy For Enterprises (and Individuals)storagedude points to this article at Enterprise Storage Forum which argues that cloud-based storage options have fatal limitations for both businesses and individuals: "The article makes the argument that high volumes of data and bandwidth limitations make external cloud storage all but useless for enterprises because it could take months to restore the data in a disaster. It also appears to be a consumer problem — the author spent three months replicating 1TB of home data via cable modem to an online backup service." Seems like those off-site incremental storage firms could dispatch a station wagon full of tapes, for enough money.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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