Bar Code Printing Software by Eddie Tobey
All products in the market are bar coded these days. Even the smallest retail items, like chocolates or pencils, have a unique bar code to identify them accurately. Bar codes have specific symbology that is defined in the height and width of the bars as well as the spacing between them. ... Also available are variations that work on operating systems such as Unix, ASP and Linux. ... All bar code printing software is compatible with popular operating systems such as Windows, Macintosh, and DOS. ... Colors, designs and fonts can be designed as per the user’s requirements.

Free Timesheet Software by Elizabeth Morgan
The term "open source" is usually associated with software that is made available to the public free of charge by software developers. One good example of such is the Linux operating system, which is provided to the public for free, unlike some of its rivals that includes Windows OS and Mac OS. ... Another important feature that most free timesheet software has is that it can help business owners effectively manage their human resource areas, which include being able to maintain an employee database, an attendance management system, and performance evaluation systems.

Game Cabinets - A Newcomer's Guide by Michael Russell
Game cabinets are basically cabinets that contain low-end computers and are sometimes painted and decorated to look like real retro arcade machines. The computer is hidden inside the cabinet, opening with a lock and key; if the PC needs to be taken out for some reason. ... ;) Now on such a computer, a low-end operating system with low system requirements will do, such as Microsoft Windows 98 or Windows Me, or a minimal distribution of Linux (such as Zenwalk). ... However, if you want to cut down on expenses, you can download a free Linux distribution from the internet.

How to Prevent Spyware Infecting your PC by Derren Fung
What is spyware? Spyware is a broad category of software that is installed on computers without the user’s consent, for monetary purposes. They are the usual suspects for causing excessive pop ups, changing your home page, taking you to advertisement or pornographic web sites that you did not... These are generally free software such as peer to peer (P2P) programs for file sharing, free weather reporting utilities that sit in your system tray, clock synchronisation tools, etc. ... Use a different operating system like Linux.

Virtual Machines - Rapid Security Tool Deployment by Darren Miller
Virtual Machines - Many of you have probably heard of them, and/or even used them . But for those of you who have not, here is a brief description. Virtual Machines, or OS Virtualization, allows heterogeneous operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware. ... Using Virtualization, we have pre-created many operating environments such as Windows, Linux, BSD, and Solaris to name a few, with clean installs and hardened operating systems. ... Each virtualized operating system, or environment, has access to disk drives, memory, video, input devices, and...

Multi-Platform Point of Sales by Edward Duval
I love Microsoft and I love Windows. I hate to admit it but they make the best software you can buy. But when you can get a really awesome Operating System for FREE then as a business you have to look at the bottom line. I’m not saying Linux is an end-all be-all against Microsoft’s offerings,... The technical support required for a non-Microsoft operating system drops considerably. ... Suddenly Linux systems don’t require a specialized software install, just a web browser. ... Many large businesses have embraced alternate operating systems for a lone time and I hope the trend will continue.

Know Linux by Pawan Bangar
Linux essentials: It’s free for download but you have to pay a tiny bit to mail order it or buy it from a company. If you’re getting Linux for more than 2-3 PCs, you can also get training and support at a small free, if you choose to have it. Else it’s the Linux community on the Net to your... The popular distributions or destroys include Red Hat Linux Mandrake Linux, Corel Linux SUSE Linux and Debian . ... Linux being an open source operating system, means that the code that runs is open for everyone to see, work with, modify and develop their own innovative apps for it.

What's the Fuss over FOSS? by Chin Wong
What’s the fuss over FOSS? IN an industry where acronyms are de rigueur, it seemed inevitable that an old computing concept would get a new name. Last November at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (which goes by its own unwieldy acronym WSIS), FOSS was on everyone’s lips... Dissatisfied by the limits that companies were putting on software, including Unix, he set out in 1983 to create a free operating system that he called GNU – a recursive acronym for Gnu’s Not Unix—and invited other programmers to help.

Did You Ever Want to Completely Erase Everything on Your Computer? by Ken Savage
Did you ever want to erase everything on your computer? This is a program I found that does that for you quickly and easily. Active@ KillDisk is a hard drive eraser and is powerful and compact DOS software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any... If you use FDISK, FORMAT utilities, or DELETE standard operating system command for data removal, there is always a chance to recover deleted data (using undelete file or some data recovery software) and use against the owner’s will.

Welcome to the World of Knoppix by Mike Ber
Knoppix is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. Knoppix can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for... And more importantly, this could be a precursor of things to come with respect to OS development and how the industry perceives the role of an operating system, be it Linux or Windows. ... The reality is that such problems are expected from an Open Source operating system.