Low End PC Article Archive
Articles on Low End PC
- Value and cost: With a PC,
you get what you pay for, Katherine Keller, Low End PC,
02.26. With the right choices, your PC can be easy to upgrade and avoid
becoming a doorstop.
- Networking 101, Dan
Knight, Online Tech Journal, 02.10. An introduction to ethernet, hubs,
switches, routers, and wireless networking.
- Pixels and points, screens
and paper, Dan Knight, Low End PC's Online Tech Journal, 02.06.
What you see on the screen corresponds to what you get on the printed
page. A brief history of points, pixels, and the changing face of
computer displays.
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Around the Web
- Opinion: The dark side of
software upgrades, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive, 05.09. New
features are great - but what about those who have to use an older
version of the program on another computer?
- Dark Side: Best Buy &
Microsoft named in scam lawsuit, Vern Seward, Mac Observer, 05.08.
Store employee scans "free" MSN disk at checkout. Customer gets billed
for MSN service he never signed up for.
- Analysis: The startup that saved
ATI, Rick Merritt, EE Times, 04.21. How the acquisition of ArtX
turned ATI from a has been into serious competition for Nvidia.
- Spam: EarthLink wins
$16 million settlement in spam case, Paul Roberts, MacCentral,
05.08. Court awarded "$16 million in damages against a New York state
man that it alleged used illegal means to send out more than 825
million unsolicited e-mail messages."
- Analysis: Does
four-thirds stand a chance?, Dan Knight, Digigraphica, 05.07. What
is Olympus proposing with their "four-thirds" digital standard? Does it
really stand a chance against Nikon, Canon, and other established
brands?
- Spam: EarthLink
to offer anti-spam e-mail system, Jonathan Krim, Washington Post,
05.07. "Some experts see problems with the technology and doubt that
consumers will warm to a process that adds another step to e-mail
delivery."
- Forum:
Earthlink deploying challenge-response anti-spam system, Slashdot,
05.07. "The problem with Challenge - Response is that it makes the
assumption that if there's not a human behind the email that it's
spam."
- Opinion: Digital
hijacking, Vern Seward, Just a Thought, Mac Observer, 05.07. "Some
Web sites load files and scripts onto your computer when you click on a
pop-up or visit some innocent seeming sites."
Spam: Government to crack
down on spam, BBC News, 05.06. "From October, a European Union
directive will make unsolicited e-mails illegal across member
states."- Humor: Future advertising
blunders by Microsoft, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side, 05.06. After the
"butterfly backfire" and "fake switcher," what will the folks in
Redmond come up with next?
- Rights:
Record labels back software to stem piracy, Yahoo/Reuters, 05.04.
"The industry's big five labels . . . have all backed the development
of counterpiracy programs" that can lock up, crash, or slow down
computers of suspected pirates.
Rights:
U.S. says Canada cares too much about liberties, Jim Bronskill,
Ottawa Citizen, 05.01. U.S. State Department report suggests Canada
"doesn't spend enough on policing and places too much emphasis on civil
liberties."- Rights: RIAA cashes in on
file-swapping students, Ashlee Vance, The Register, 05.01. Help
others find MP3s on your school's network, get sued just as if you were
providing the files yourself.
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