Recent Articles
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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…
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Getting MS Applications Right for Your Customers the First Time
You’re proud of the custom application you wrote for your big client. Not only does the software do everything they asked for—with a little extra panache—but you’ve thoroughly tested it on your development environment and you know it’s rock solid. However, when you sit down at the user workstation to show off the software, your…
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Code for the Road
JetBlue Airways may be known for its high-tech efficiencies, but its system for tracking cargo—computers and airplane parts—that it hauls between hubs in New York; in Long Beach, California; and around the country was decidedly low-tech. As the airline grew, its inventory tracking needed to keep pace with the times too. JetBlue turned to a…
