Small Business Technology - What You Really Need by Louis Rosas-Guyon
Overview Technology is not the answer to all small business problems. You must deal with employee theft, salaries, credit, insurance, customer relations, cash flow and more. But in all of these areas and others the proper implementation of technology can save you time and money and enable you... Computer Hardware None of this software does any good if you don't have a good computer system. ... There are software packages available that allow you to set up a server-based network, such as Windows Server, LINUX or UNIX.

Waiting for Windows Vista by James Hayes
Windows XP have started to show their age, as they have actually been around for more than four years. Microsoft has already released two service packs to patch up to correct some security issues with XP, and the number of added patches is sufficiently large. ... By using the User Account Protection system, any time a user (or a malicious program?) would need to perform an operation on the system that requires administrative privileges, they will need to supply a password. ... The User Account Protection system is particularly interesting and appears in Windows for the first time, although...

Microsoft Blues by Tony Dean
With the advent of 'Service Pack 2' for Windows XP operating system, Microsoft have really made the forums hum. Every forum on computer problems is replete with complaints that since downloading and installing 'SP2', many 'third party' applications don't work. ... Some programs reported not working are webservers such as "Internet Information Services" (IIS), "Remote Desktop", "File Sharing". ... Many people have said they will buy a Mac or try Linux instead. ... Applications which may not work are programs that have to contact a server to work at all, some ftp, multimedia streaming...

Building A PC by Declan Tobin
Many people simply go to the retail store and get sold to when it comes to computing equipment. You would be very surprised how easily you can pick up all the core components and assemble yourself or get a friend or family member in the know to do it for you. ... Depending on what you want and what you are used to using before you can get free operating system such as Linux. ... Software: Hardware is one thing but you also need the software such as the operating system and anti virus software for protection against viruses.

Computer Safety for Kids by Rob Pirozzi
Start With the Basics - Protect Your PC Guarding Access to Your PC - Get a Firewall Beginning in the Zhou Dynasty, which was in the 11th century BC, construction was begun on what was to become the Great Wall of China. For 2,700 years, culminating in the mid-1600s, construction continued on... It will search your computer's memory, file system, system registry, and browser caches for the existence of adware and spyware. ... Plug the Holes - Make Sure to Download Operating System Updates and Patches By now, the security holes and flaws in Windows have become legendary.

A Virtualisation Article by Michael Hart
An analogy: One bus can carry 30 passengers, but cars are now so relatively cheap we all travel by car. That’s up to 30 vehicles that need maintaining,rather than just one. If you can equip the bus with all the facilities you get in the cars (eg airline style seats with all the personal... However, with a virtualised system, both the live system and testing environments can coexist on the same system in total isolation. ... Products such as “Virtual PC” emulate the operating system, applications and the underlying hardware of the simulated system, interposed between the physical hardware...

Data Storage Media – A Guide to Selecting Media For Storing and Backing Up Computer Data by David Haysom
Data, or information stored on your computer, can either be held on fixed disk drives inside the computer or on removable media such as CD's that can be inserted and removed. Removable media can be used to transfer files between computers or to backup the data already existing on fixed disk drives. ... 1Mb/sec) Edit, rewrite, delete as many times as desired Help desk personnel can use Flash Drives as a portable toolkit that includes system updates and recovery tools. ... They are compatible with any PC that has USB port and with Mac OS 9 and OS X, Windows 2000 and XP or Linux 2.4.17.

Review: Implementing the Google Search Appliance in an Intranet environment by Bryan Mjaanes
Our corporate intranet is a non-framed environment with both Lotus Domino and IIS (.Net and classic ASP) applications and content. We have between 300,000-500,000 pages of web content and documents across more than 1200 “sites” on approximately 30 unique domains. ... By “black box” I mean, Google gives you a web interface to administer the device but do not want you to access the Operating System (a heavily Google-customized version of Linux). ... Those looking for a solution to integrate directly with a content/document management system, databases, or indexing network drives should look...

3.5" FDD (Floppy Disk Drive) is Dead! Long live the USB Drive! by Akhilesh Singh
Do you remember the last time you used the FDD drive of your computer, and for what? Chance is if you have used it then it would be for some emergency booting of the computer, or for recovery of your broken OS. Meaning you would have not used it for data transfer using this medium. ... It does allow you to format the USB drive and choose the file system format, but Make Booteble option is not present at all. ... (Windows/Macintosh/Linux supports it natively out of the box). ... Meaning you can have your whole operating system on this device, or simply use it as the bootable floppy...

How FOSS Might Benefit Your Small Business by Charles Trumpess
Starting a small business or working from home takes time and costs money. After you have done all the groundwork, such as a business plan, marketing strategy and finances, you will probably start thinking about the cost of PCs and software licenses. ... Of course, you won’t have to worry about viruses if you have already plumped for a Linux operating system. ... Having established what operating system your computer uses, you can now go in search of Freeware and Open Source Software (FOSS). ... CRMLogix is a free customer relationship management system (CRM) that automates the workflow of...