Laptop or Tower by Alastair Harris
When asking the question which is better to buy a tower/workstation or a laptop the question used to come down to the size of your wallet. For a long time PC towers were simply cheaper than a laptop to buy. Normally half the price for the same specifications. ... Towers on the other hand are fixed to a single workplace unless you get some sick joy out of lugging wires and equipment from one place to another and figuring out where every connection goes. ... This fixed location though does have some advantages, your display screen can be the size you want.

How To Improve Your Chess Game by Ari Darmapala
It is a mistaken belief that playing chess is a god-gifted art and barring reaching an ordinary 'cognizable standard' you cannot improve. The 'cognizable standard' means you are reaching to the standard which makes you only recognize the good and bad points of the game but without any ability to... The expert steps from board to board, making a move at each one. ... For single games, you cannot use a time handicap unless you have chess clocks. ... Just keep a small chess board with pieces alongside and convert descriptive notations into Algebraic notations.

How Does a Computer Know ? by Denny Knutson
Have you ever wondered just how the computer knows what to do when it first boots up? Have you ever wondered what exactly it does when it starts up? Well, for the curious minded, I will give you brief synopsis of how your computer works. But first a little background information. ... At this point, the computer is pretty dumb and doesn't know what to do, so there is a component in the computer (on the mother board) called a ROM (READ ONLY MEMORY) Chip. ... Yet in all that time he never lived at the University or delivered a single lecture there.

Blade Servers Offer Efficient Energy Usage and a Lower TCO by Mike Colesante
With the release of dual-core Xeon chips for blade servers, Intel has again accentuated the ability of companies to save money in terms of lower power consumption and increased reliability. Studies indicate a blade server can reduce power and cooling costs 15 to 25 percent, meeting the needs of... Add new, low power processors to the efficiency of a single chassis and blade servers become an increasingly attractive option for server consolidation projects. ... It packs two to four times greater performance-per-watt than its predecessor, a 55-watt version of a single-core Intel Xeon chip...

Networking Terms: Educating Your Clients by Joshua Feinberg
It is very important to educate your small business prospects and clients on key small business networking terms and buzzwords. After all, in order to "win them over", you need to be speaking the same language. In fact, you may even want to prepare a "cheat sheet", based on the below... • NIC (Network Interface Card) - a printed circuit board, adapter card or the underlying supporting chipset that snaps into the motherboard of a desktop PC, notebook or server and transmits and receives packets on a network; used to connect to networks including a local area network (LAN), wide area network...

Nintendo Wii Mod Chip - A Review And Comparison Of Wii Modchips by Steven Fields
The Nintendo Wii has just barely hit retail stores, and already the homebrew scene is fast at work. Creating not only killer applications and homebrew games, but also developing (or at least helping develop) the worlds first Nintendo Wii mod chip(s). ... Like the other mod chips for the Wii, the Wiinja will enable you to play all Wii and Gamecube Backup games, as well as Wii Import backup games, and original import games with just a single swap. ... Original import games can be played as well, with a simple, single swap methos.

Blade Servers and How They Effect Your TCO by Mike Colesante
Welcome to Blade Server 101, where we will teach you the ins and outs of what a blade server is and how its use can lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) for any business. First of all, what is a blade server? The best way to answer that question is to compare it to a traditional low-profile... With these ingredients in the shared chassis, the server - the processors, memory, logic board, storage and connectivity - becomes much smaller in size and perfect to place in a centralized data center.

Knowing Your Computer: Types of Memory by Michael Russell
All computers require memory to operate. The main computer memory is Random Access Memory, or RAM for short. It is called this because the data contained in it can be accessed in any, or random, order. It is produced on small circuit boards in the form of sticks, which are often referred to as... With in the past several years, Double Data Rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM, or simply DDR) has become the standard for most systems, with older memory now being referred to as Single Data Rate (SDR SDRAM). ... So a 100 MHz system bus that handles DDR memory can effectively use 200 MHz RAM.

Expansion Cards Part 3: PCI Express by Jason Kohrs
In the first two installments of this series of Tech Tips, we took a look at PCI and AGP, undoubtedly the most common expansion slots in a computer today. With a few key improvements over both of these, PCI Express is destined to replace both and offer a whole new level of computer performance. ... The data from a PCI Express device will no longer have to travel over a single bus, or a single dedicated connection, but can use a combination of these two-way serial connections to optimize throughput.

Compare KVM over IP vs Remote Access Software by Robert Pavlakovic
With many IT departments operating in down-sized environments as well as under-staffed employees being forced to manage an exceptional amount of mission-critical server room equipment than what they can handle; the ability to remotely monitor and repair computer problems on the go is an... VNC on the other hand can be used in most operating system environments across the board. ... KVM over IP Remote Access Management KVM over IP is a hardware based solution which allows users to gain both in-band and out-of-band access to all the servers either connected to your KVM switch or directly...