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Taking Surveys to the Next Level
Enterprises spend a significant amount of money every year on survey technologies, trying to figure out how to satisfy their customers, employees and partners. For organizations looking to collect data online, Web survey solutions such as Inquisite Inc.’s Inquisite 6.5 and WebSurveyor Corp.’s WebSurveyor 5.0 fit the bill. But there are also organizations that wish…
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BladeRunner Is Linux Cluster-Ready
Penguin Computing Inc.’s first blade system, the BladeRunner, is a cluster-ready Linux solution with a reasonable price tag. eWEEK Labs’ tests show that the BladeRunner is a good choice for server consolidation projects or for high-density Linux computing clusters in midsize companies. Click here to read the full review of BladeRunner. Penguin Computing Inc.’s first…
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Nanometer Wars: Athlon 64 versus…Athlon 64
Last fall, AMD quietly started shipping Athlon 64 processors built on a 90nm process developed with IBM. Using its own product naming system, the 90nm processors top out with the Athlon 64 3500+, which clocks at 2.2GHz and contains 512KB of L2 cache. Codenamed “Winchester,” the 90nm 3500+ is a scant 84 mm2, compared to…
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D-Link’s Broadband Router Aims to End Latency
Any serious gamer these days probably has a broadband connection that is often shared by multiple devices. With the help of a small broadband router, which usually has four ports, a gamer can have online access on several computers or game consoles simultaneously. Your connection speed or hardware isn’t necessarily your biggest problem in online…
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ATI’s Radeon X800 XL: The latest of a Growing Family
Between midrange and high-end graphics cards lies a barren wasteland where products known as “tweeners” go to die. Historically, there have been two main price-points for 3D cards: $200 and whatever else the market would bear for the top-end, bragging-rights-be-mine “glory SKU.” Squeezed from both sides, products in the $250–400 price-range rarely, if ever, have…
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Xandros Desktop OS 3 Deluxe Edition
The Sum of the Parts We frequently get the same question from our readers in the ExtremeTech forum: I want to get rid of Windows, so which Linux distribution should I try? Now we have a definite answer: Get Xandros. With the release of version 3, the Xandros folks have finally come up with a…
