easy-to-use, and well-documented PC diagnostics and test kit, you won’t be sorry you spent the money on this PC-Doctor offering. But if you’re prepared to roll up your sleeves and substitute elbow grease and ingenuity for cold hard cash, there are many...

is an open source IDS that can be custom-tailored to fit your wireless network. Calling itself "the de facto standard for intrusion detection", Snort is flexible, fast, and most importantly, free. All it takes is a little bit of elbow grease to get it up and...

your organization or ISP provides VPN access before you depart, as it can save a great deal of heartache along the road. If you want a cheaper VPN solution, and don't mind a bit of elbow grease and setup time, OpenVPN provides a free way of deploying a VPN...

certain usage patterns. Were this a work notebook and one not clearly designed for multimedia uses, this might just be considered a minor annoyance. As it was, because the sound worked at one point, we assumed that with sufficient effort and elbow grease we...

coating on the top deck and palm rest takes smudges far too well (every time we touched it we left fingerprints all over the place), but it cleans up easily with a soft cloth or paper towel and little bit of elbow grease. The bottom deck is made of matte finish...

my overall reactions and attitudes to this always fascinating and sometimes frustrating operating system. If you really want to make Vista work properly, you will have to do some work yourself. There’s just no getting away from elbow grease, regular...