- relevance
- date |
- Sort by :
-
Holiday Tech Toys: What NOT To Buy
- Picture Stories
you’re at all concerned about your battery usage, invest in rechargeable batteries, or go the extra mile to buy that $40 charging dock that will nix the battery-buying habit from the get-go. If you’re not committed to continually feeding the machine, skip...
-
The Last Mile - Common PC Problems
- Reviews
to get a different NIC. Client DHCP Issues Check with the appropriate utility for your operating system to determine whether a PC has a proper IP address. (ipconfig on Windows, System Preferences on Mac OS X, ifconfig for 'nix and BSD distros) Make...
-
Get Fresh 'n Clean With an Organized PC
- Picture Stories
clicking until you get down to the level of individual programs. Use the File drop-down to create New Folders and move programs into your new folders to organize them anyway you wish. Not using those shareware applications you downloaded two years ago ? Nix...
-
Wii Shines, Xbox 360 Tanks
- News
said that U.S. retail reported sales of 405,500 PS3s and 219,800 Xbox 360s. Nintendo leads the way with sales of 666,700 Wiis. It took Nintendo only 20 months to catch up with Microsoft and nix the Xbox 360s 12-month lead. Even portable consoles were selling...
-
Routing
- Reviews
all machines on all subnets can see and communicate with each other. That requires a Domain controller, which you get by either adding a Microsoft-based server or 'nix machine running SAMBA. There are two kinds of additional routing features. Static routing...
-
Performance
- Reviews
surprised by this result and re-ran the tests, but the results were essentially the same. Since I'm always having readers tell me that I should use a *nix system for these types of tests, I fired up my system running SuSE Linux 7.3 and copied the same test...
-
QuickView: Linksys WCF54G Wireless-G Compact Flash Card
- Reviews
chipset beauty. Figure 1: The Board The adapter fits a Type II CompactFlash slot and has Link and Power LEDs. What it doesn't have is drivers for anything other than Windows PocketPC 2002 or higher. This not only means no 'nix support, but also no-go with...
-
Shares, Security & Services
- Reviews
ADS) for login authentication. The backup share is by default available to Windows and Mac OS X users (or any other OSes that support access via CIFS / SMB) and 'nix users via NFS. The media share is enabled for CIFS / SMB access only. But Mac-heads who...