| TECHNOLOGY Q&A: How to handle spills on laptop | | Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 3:02:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | Q. What do you do with your laptop after your child spills water on it? Although it's better to spill water than something like juice into a laptop, no spill is a good spill. The extra danger with liquids such as soda, coffee or wine is that they're all slightly acidic and can corrode metal parts inside the computer. They also can make your keys sticky as they dry. Spills are common enough that Lenovo, the Research Triangle Park-based company that bought IBM's ThinkPad brand, has put drainage holes in the bottom of its notebooks, spokesman Ray Gorman said. "We've learned that it's not just children that create spills," Gorman wrote in an e-mail message. "Lenovo products are designed specifically to compensate for us bigger kids who have accidentally knocked over a cup of coffee or soda can onto their keyboard." He offers a quick process for cleaning up: First, unplug the computer from the outlet.... | |
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| | | Verizon Wireless completes EV-DO broadband expansion | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 1:04:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | Verizon Wireless users in the Tampa Bay region as well as Orlando, Jacksonville and parts of South Florida have the option of using Evolution-Data Optimized BroadbandAccess now that the company completed its expansion work that began in 2004. EV-DO allows customers to utilize high-speed applications and services on their wireless phone, laptop computers and other wireless devices using typical connection speeds of 400 to 700 kilobits per second. .... | |
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| | | Caught in the Web | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 7:01:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | A few months ago, it wasn't unusual for 47-year-old Carla Toebe to spend 15 hours per day online. She'd wake up early, turn on her laptop and chat on Internet dating sites and instant-messaging programs -- leaving her bed for only brief intervals. Her household bills piled up, along with the dishes and dirty laundry, but it took near-constant complaints from her four daughters before she realized she had a problem. "I was starting to feel like my whole world was falling apart -- kind of slipping into a depression," said the Richland, Wash., resident. "I knew that if I didn't get off of the dating sites, I would just keep going," detaching herself further from the outside world. .... | |
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| | | A Broken Mind | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 3:28:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | BRANDON - THE YOUNG WRESTLER WAS SITTING ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR, HIS bloody face illuminated by the early-morning light that streamed through a nearby window. In other parts of the world, the shadow of the moon was edging across the rising sun, marking the beginning of a dramatic and well-publicized total eclipse. Will Hollingsworth had talked of little else for the past four days: the last eclipse of the millennium and the apocalypse some believed would follow. He had not slept in more than 100 hours, holed up in his room, paging restlessly through a Bible, his television tuned to news of the eclipse. It was a peculiar obsession for a 20-year-old college student who spent most of his time training to be a world-class athlete. Will didn't appear intoxicated. To the contrary, he was alert, engaging and philosophical, though strangely fixated on current events.... | |
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| | | News to Start Your Weekend 11.10.06 | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:22:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | There's a crapload of stuff to talk about in this one, and it's mostly positive! That's new, right? Mostly Rutgers and Ring of Honor, but Survivor Series stuff as well. And positivity. Strap in, kids! Well I certainly am a happy fellow today, which is quite a different story than what you've seen from me last week, but other than the fact that I'm kind of hungry and would really enjoy a nice juicy steak to celebrate, I can't complain. Plus my neck is kinda sore. But other than that, it's all positivity today, peoples. My Rutgers Scarlet Knights will REMAIN UNDEFEATED for at least one more week, as we have knocked off FORMER #3 in the country, the Louisville Cardinals, and did so in spectacular fashion. A 28-25 victory, scoring 14 unanswered points in the second half it was 25-7 at one point, but the defense held ridiculously strong and aided us in shutting Louisville (the former number 3 team in the country, by the way) out for the entire second half.... | |
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| | | In The Trenches At VF Boot Camp | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 11:22:21 PM by Blog57 Team | | A skeptical reporter attends the apparel maker's Leadership Institute and comes out a believer There were six of us,squinting down the length of a conference table at a single laptop. It was past 9 p.m., and what we could make out on the screen wasn't encouraging. We'd all met just 13 hours earlier--when I was thrown together with five fast-climbing executives at apparel maker VF Corp. (VFC ) for an exercise in management boot camp. Over the four days of the Leadership Institute, as VF calls it, we would face more important challenges, but what had us all flummoxed at the moment was a computer game at which we were failing spectacularly. .... | |
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| | | Review: Gizoo IDE Sata Driver | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:04:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | The IDE Sata Driver is a set of parts; a power supply, interface box and various cables. It allows you to power up a naked hard disk drive and connect it to a PC via a USB2 cable. This is very convenient if you only want to perform some quick tests or backup some data, without all the hassle of opening up a PC for even a temporary install of the disk. The main component is a small silver interface box, with five connectors distributed around all four sides. On one side is the mini USB port for connection to a PC. Sitting alongside this is a four-pin AMP connector that connects to the switching power supply. A four pin AMP splitter cable is also included and can be used to split the power supply output between the interface and a drive if required, although the PSU is limited to a maximum of 2 amps.... | |
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| | | What's up, what's down in IT? | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 3:15:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | The convergence of voice- and data-network technologies, the rise of on-demand applications that let users securely access enterprise data from any Internet connection, and the widespread availability of high-speed Internet connections to the "last mile" are driving a new breed of business-process outsourcing. BPO 2.0 breaks down the physical constructs of the office or call center and the geographical characteristics of the labor pool to let companies outsource jobs?or even parts of jobs?to the most qualified workers at the lowest cost, regardless of location. Of course, BPO 2.0 does pose challenges. In addition to technology hurdles, companies will have to rethink human resources, scheduling, accounting, corporate culture, and training practices to maximize the benefits of a distributed labor pool.... | |
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| | | Grandaddy To Release 2xCD Sumday Next Month | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:20:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | Amped-up bedroom rockers/Alan Parsons fan club members Grandaddy are substantially beefing up Sumday with a "special edition" double-disc reissue next month in the UK. According to Dotmusic, the expanded album will come packaged with a bonus live disc collecting six cuts from this year's Glastonbury festival appearance and three from a Black Sessions broadcast on French radio. There are no plans to release the expanded package domestically, but with a sticker price of around twelve pounds, the import should be comparable to the price of a domestic copy. The double-disc monstrosity hits UK shoppes November 3rd. Tracklist for the bonus disc: 01 The Crystal Lake 02 For The Dishwasher 03 Yeah Is What We Had 04 AM 180 05 Our Dying Brains 06 Laughing Stock 07 The Go In The Go For It 08 Saddest Vacant Lot In All The World 09 He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot As previously reported, Grandaddy are on tour for pretty much the remainder of the year, jes' wrapping up some West Coast dates this week and getting set to storm the UK and Europe early next month, around the same time the expanded Sumday hits shelves.... | |
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| | | Two challenge incumbent for District 23 representation | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 7:10:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | In the race to represent District 23 in the Oregon House, incumbent Brian Boquist faces a challenge from Democrat Jason Brown, a former Hewlett-Packard Co. supervisor in Corvallis, and Libertarian Paul Delaney of Willamina.District 23 includes most of Benton County outside Corvallis and Philomath, plus parts of Linn, Polk, Marion and Yamhill counties. Boquist has represented the district since being elected in 2004. Boquist said the success of the next Legislature will depend on effective leadership that can stop the infighting. With his experience in Salem, Boquist said he is the most qualified to get the job done.His top priorities include funding for prevention, education, prosecution and treatment related to methamphetamine; restoring funding to the Oregon State Police and other emergency services; and passage of legislation that promotes the use of biofuels.Getting control of the budget process to ensure adequate funding for education, senior services and health care for those who cannot afford it are among his other priorities."The real difference is I've already started down the road to getting this done," he said, referring to his opponents.Boquist added that he has not been in office "long enough to be tainted" and that he's "not in lockstep with the parties.""The future is about working together, not against each other," he said.At the top of Brown's priority list is tax fairness.... | |
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