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Apple Mac Pro
Reviews Apple's Mac Pro has design innovations that we hope will cross over to other systems. Its performance is as strong as you'd expect for a system in its class, and it's priced right, too. You might need more flexibility in your configuration options, especially for 3D design. But otherwise, the Mac Pro is as solid a professional-class PC as we've seen.
Tags: Apple Mac Pro, Apple Inc., CPU, Apple Macintosh, 3D, Apple Power Mac, Exterior, Number System, DivX Video Codec, Default Plan
Symbian's open source journey
Insight newsmaker How do you open up a closed codebase? Symbian research chief David Wood weighs potential and practicality, and the promise of multicore phones.
Tags: Smart phones, Open source, Software engineering/development, Software licensing, Smart Phone, Android, Plug-in, GPL, Symbian Inc., EPL
One giant step against spam
Insight Non-proprietary, interoperable and easy-to-adopt anti-spam standards have all fallen short, said David Berlind, until now.
Master Oracle's time interval datatypes
Techguide With Oracle9i, the time interval datatypes INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH and INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND were added to comply with the SQL 99 standard, along with several other datatypes to deal more precisely with points in time. Learn more about time interval datatypes.
AMD to unveil Athlon XP 3000+ chip
News Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices on Monday added some muscle to its desktop processor line with the introduction of the new processor.
Intel to drive home chip-numbering system in May
News The chipmaker will borrow from BMW's playbook when it comes to assigning a new classification system to processors.
AMD cuts prices, power of Opteron chip
News Advanced Micro Devices begins shipments of low-power versions of its 64-bit processor for servers. Will the chip find the home AMD hopes for in the rack server market?
Troubleshoot unbootable PCs
Techguide Whether you're combating virus damage, corrupted registry files or other boot issues, Winternals' ERD Commander 2005 is often the right tool for the job.
Simplify PowerShell script creation with PowerGUI
Techguide PowerShell offers a powerful and extensible scripting language, but memorizing complete syntax for every command and procedure would not be a simple task.
Tags: Server platforms, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows PowerShell, Tool, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Quest Software Inc., code snippet, scripting language, PowerGUI, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Kill runaway Oracle processes on Windows with OraKill
Techguide Use Oracle's orakill.exe to kill the Oracle thread, instead of Windows Task Manager which would bring down all users and background threads and crash the database.
Tags: Software, Business applications, Databases
Create a scalable remote management strategy
Techguide A scalable remote management strategy ensures that your remote administration tools will keep working for you as the network grows.
Batch scripting of Windows host file changes
Techguide DNS is the manageable way to resolve computer names to IP addresses, yet Windows admins usually use host files. When you need to make a change to a bunch of host entries, where do you start?
Tags: LANs and WANs, Microsoft Windows, Entry, IP, Tool, static IP address, IP Address, Sed, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, name resolution
Move endnotes to the end of a Word document
Techguide After creating a Word document, you may find that the notes you so laboriously created belong at the end. Mary Ann Richardson explains how to move the endnotes where they belong.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Frethem worm hits unpatched systems and naive users
Insight The Frethem worm should be old news that's not worthy of coverage, but it has recently made a comeback by hitting unpatched systems. It's also luring users to open its attachment, which can infect even properly patched systems.
Spam fighters open up
Insight Yahoo and Microsoft each have put the interests of all Internet e-mail users ahead of their own by not only inventing techniques that could lay the necessary foundation for ending spam, but by making those techniques freely available to competitors.
