Recent Articles
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There’s a New Gaim in Town
As anyone who uses multiple public instant messaging networks knows, running multiple clients on the desktop is too much of a hassle—or was until last month. That’s when the Gaim open-source, multiprotocol IM client project released Version 1.0. Gaim supports not only the three main public IM networks —AOL, Yahoo IM and MSN Messenger—but also…
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AMD’s New Athlon 64: Fast and Pricey
Despite all the recent talk about dual-core processors, it’ll still be a year or more before they’re widely available as desktop CPUs. The march of processor technology comes in many forms: Process size shrinking and materials changing, caches changing, major and minor architectural enhancements, and of course, clock speed increases. The most interesting new CPU…
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Firefox Preview Release Shows Promise
Firefox, the lightweight, open-source Web browser from Mozilla, includes good features in its preview release, but it still needs more work in its installation routines before it can be used in large business deployments. Still, the Mozilla Foundation‘s Firefox boasts several advantages over today’s most popular Web browser, IE (Internet Explorer). First, Firefox is not…
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Solaris 10 Shines in Early Testing
The increasing prominence of freely licensed Linux has prompted many to view operating systems in general as a commodity. With Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems hopes to demonstrate that a company’s choice of operating system does matter and that the level of innovation Sun has built into Solaris 10 can deliver benefits across a company’s infrastructure.…
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Socket 939 Motherboard Showdown
There aren’t a lot of Socket 939 processors out there—the vast majority of Athlon 64 CPUs sold are the Socket 754 variety. That’s sort of a shame, since the 128 bit memory interface of Socket 939 offers a nice little performance boost. We also expect AMD’s desktop dual-core processors, scheduled to release in about a…
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Moving from NT to Samba
As you face the end of NT4 support,, you have another alternative to switching to Server 2003: Samba. If you’re happy with your domain network, or you want to use one Server 2003 system to run AD (Active Directory), you can switch to Samba. Samba is an open-source program that provides file and print services…
