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whitepaper Ubuntu Hacks: Make Live CD Data Persistent2006-06-01 O'Reilly Media
  Wouldn't it be handy if the user walks up to any random computer, insert a copy of the Ubuntu Live CD, plug in a USB key, boot it up, and have a fully working system with the own documents, settings, and programs - without modifying the computer in any way? A little-known feature of the Ubuntu Dapper Drake Live CD allows the user to do exactly that. When it starts up, it searches for a volume that has been given the label casper-cow and uses it to store documents, themes, and even extra programs that the user installs.

Tags: CD-R - CD-RW - CD-ROM, Linux Server OS		   
whitepaper Creating a Rural Renaissance0000-00-00 Intel
  Despite the recent years of modernization and urbanization, large areas of China are still occupied by farming communities. The rapid development experienced by the cities needs to be balanced by development in rural areas. The farming community recognizes that in order to keep pace with modernization in urban areas and develop local economies, access to current information is a must. The use of IT is fundamental in the provision of information access in the 21st Century. However, past efforts at increasing IT adoption in the rural areas of Beijing was challenging due to the lack of IT literacy and suitable solutions. The Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (BMSTC) have teamed up with Intel and other vendors to form the "Changfeng PC Promotion Committee" to address this issue.

Tags: Desktop Systems - PCs, Linux Server OS, 		  
whitepaper Beverly Enterprises Continues to Optimize Operations by Leveraging Virtualization Solutions From HP2006-03-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Founded in 1963, Beverly Enterprises, Inc. has developed an impressive portfolio of skilled nursing facilities. The company had been running a distributed systems model where servers, software and PCs were located in every facility, and as they aged they were requiring increasing levels of maintenance. Beverly Enterprises set out with a phased approach to move to a centralized model, and three or so years ago completed the initial transition to having the applications hosted centrally at their corporate office. They made the decision to standardize on HP BladeSystem with Citrix Access Suite to enable the existing local PCs to act as terminals and pass data directly to the central servers.

Tags: Desktop Systems - PCs, Blades, Virtualization		   
whitepaper HCI Success for John Lewis Partnership With HP and Microsoft0000-00-00 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  The John Lewis Partnership is one of the UK's top 10 retail businesses; the Partnership is also the country's largest example of employee co-ownership. Shops must work hard to attract customers when retail sector was becoming, but at the same time staff turnover was high. If the company can keep staff happy and fulfilled, then they will stay with the company longer and provide the customers with a better service. A number of key criteria were identified, including the provider's previous experience of HCI schemes, competitive pricing and the availability of a good range of high quality products backed up by top class support. After reviewing the market, the Partnership decided to work with HP.

Tags: Windows XP, Laptops		   
whitepaper HP Case Study: Banco de Credito0000-00-00 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Banco de Credito - BCP, the most important and industry-leading financial institution in the country, was facing the need to reduce the high cost resulting from the support provided to all its desktop PCs. Today, HP's on demand Access services provide, manage, support, transport and store all the desktop PCs, achieving a better distribution of budget allocation which will result in significant value for the institution.

Tags: Desktop Systems - PCs, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.		   
whitepaper Building the 21st Century College North Hertfordshire College of Further Education0000-00-00 Higher Education Funding Council for England
  North Hertfordshire College, a general further education college based in Stevenage, Hitchin and Letchworth, serves approximately 2,500 full time and 15,000 part time students each academic year. The Stevenage Centre was opened in 2003 with the aim of providing a state-of-the-art learning environment that would offer the best possible educational and training opportunities for the local community. To equip the Stevenage Centre, North Hertfordshire College purchased 520 Dell PCs for learners and for staff. Specially adapted computers and laptops with changes to keyboard size and mouse design have been introduced to support learners with disabilities.

Tags: Laptops, Mobile - Wireless Communications		   
whitepaper Reliability Underlies Jacksonville Sheriff's Office's 10-Year Dell Relationship2006-05-04 Dell
  The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (JSO) strives to be one of the top law enforcement agencies in the country. JSO wanted to find a consistent, standard technology platform to make purchasing and maintaining notebooks, desktops and servers simple and reliable for the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. After reviewing several vendors, JSO was impressed with Dell's support offerings. The agency is also able to save money with Dell's competitive pricing and the efficiency of working with one vendor.

Tags: Laptops		   
whitepaper RAM Allocation With Microsoft Windows XP and HP Commercial Desktops2006-05-01 Hewlett-Packard
  This white paper discusses the limitation of RAM allocation using a 32-bit operating system such as Microsoft Windows XP on HP x86-based commercial desktop PCs. The Intel 945-based chipset, as well as older commercial desktop systems are covered by this paper. The current world consists of 32-bit and 64-bit Operating Systems (OSes). Both the home and professional versions of Microsoft Windows XP are 32-bit operating systems. Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 is a 64-bit OS. Windows XP Home/Professional, along with all other 32-bit OSes, supports a memory address range of up to 4 GB for both virtual and physical memory addresses.

Tags: Windows XP		   
whitepaper Intel vPro Technology - Helping Reduce the Cost of Desktop PC Management2006-05-01 Intel
  Enterprise desktop computing environments are increasingly complex - and managing the complexity of these PCs contributes to rising IT costs. Now Intel vPro technology helps businesses reduce IT costs and streamline PC management through a combination of PC hardware and software. PCs with Intel vPro technology are Microsoft Windows Vista capable and broadly supported by hardware manufacturers and software companies, giving IT managers the support and stability they need to meet the manageability and security demands of the next generation of business computing.

Tags: Desktop Systems - PCs, Windows Vista		   
whitepaper WinScribe Case Study: Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust2006-04-27 WinScribe
  Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the largest acute Hospital trusts in England, serves almost one million people. 550,000 in South-East Hampshire, and many more from surrounding counties including the Isle of Wight and Channel Islands. The company's system needed to be capable of supporting at least seven typists and 15 authors. This would give the Department room to expand and possibly, provide access to the four registrars, who currently hand write their reports or use tapes. The Trust deployed WinScribe LAN version 3.2, which is an open standards PC-based digital dictation and workflow management solution designed and built on industry standard Microsoft Windows (95/98, NT, 2000 and XP) and SQL database server technologies.

Tags: Voice Recognition, Desktop Systems - PCs		   


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