Recent Articles
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Shared-Hosting Perils
Shared hosting can be a cost-efficient solution for many Web sites, but you may end up paying a different sort of price. As always when sharing with strangers, there’s a risk of the unknown. A well-designed and -managed operating system along with other system software may be able to protect applications and users from one…
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How to Replace Internet Explorer
If you believe, as I do, that Internet Explorer has just gotten too dangerous for everyday use, your next conclusion must be to move yourself and your clients to another browser. But now come the hard questions: Which browser do you use, and how do you migrate users? Before I jump into those questions, though,…
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Build It: A $1500 All-Around PC
Usually, when we do a Build It story, we piece together a rig for a very definite purpose. Typically, the idea is to choose an aggressive price and show our readers how a little careful shopping and part selection can come together to make an impressive…something. Perhaps it’s a Digital Audio Workstation, an inexpensive gaming…
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Intel’s Prescott 3.6GHz CPU
Unless you’ve been living in a cave with no Internet access for the past six months, you know that Prescott is the latest incarnation of Intel’s Pentium 4 CPU line. We first took a look at the performance of Intel’s most recent desktop processor back in late January. We revisited Prescott performance when Intel bumped…
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Desktop Linux: Sun Shines
Desktop Linux is good enough to supplant Windows in a number of enterprise desktop roles, and it has been for some time now. However, major enterprise Linux vendors—most notably Red Hat Inc.—have been too busy until recently with server-room Linux to produce desktop products with the sort of management frameworks and stable product road maps…
