“60 Minutes” freaks out over Conficker. Where’s John Hodgman when …
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- “60 Minutes” freaks out over Conficker. Where’s John Hodgman when …
- April Fool’s is No Laughing Matter for PC Users
- PC to Mac: Cheap is the new cool
- How to Shut Down Your PC Automatically
- Reliability of Computer Memory?
- NEC to quit PC market abroad with Asia-Pacific exit
“60 Minutes” freaks out over Conficker. Where’s John Hodgman when …
Kansas City Star
)I’ll leave it to the interwebs’ approximately 10 million computer experts to dissect Stahl’s script line by line (my favorite: “I hear ‘Jaws’ music!”). But as a media guy I couldn’t help but notice that CBS has had millions of dollars thrown at it by Microsoft Windows for a new ad campaign running during the NCAA tournament. And yet I waited in vain for any mention in the “60 Minutes” story of the fact that the only computers capable of being infected by the dreaded Conficker virus were PCs running Windows. Just to amuse myself I started doing a variation on the old fortune-cookie game — you know where you tack on “.
April Fool’s is No Laughing Matter for PC Users
KPTM-TV
“They don't know what they're after. ” “Your privacy could be threatened by this. ” the conficker worm first surfaced late last year but computer system engineers like Dane Johnson say it's what could happen in a few days that should worry PC users. “They could install a lot of whatever they want on your computer. They could install child porn on there or transfer things back and forth. ” Johnson says the online worm has the potential of affecting over 10 million PC users a good portion of whom may have already downloaded the worm without knowing it. He says just browsing the web or opening an email attachment without really thinking could put you at risk.
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PC to Mac: Cheap is the new cool
Computerworld
The Digits blog reports that: According to Brad Brooks corporate vice president for Windows consumer product marketing at Microsoft the agency told recruits it was a market research firm and didn’t mention it was working with Microsoft. The recruits were told they could keep whatever money they didn?t spend on a PC so they had incentives to look for good values. The blog goes on to say: Brooks says of the roughly dozen computer shoppers its agency recruited not a single one ended up spending their money on a Mac. Brooks says he "swears on a stack of Bibles" that the agency didn’t in any way steer the shoppers towards a particular brand of computer or operating system. "Value is on the top of everybody’s mind these days with the economic situation we?re in" he says. The message in all this: In a dire recession cheap is the new cool.
How to Shut Down Your PC Automatically
PC Magazine
If you double-click on the program itself nothing will happen. So in the advanced properties dialog in the Run box append a space plus at least one item below from Menu A and any or no items from Menu B to the end of the shortcut. Menu A -s shut down -l log off -r reboot Menu B -t xx delay shutdown for xx seconds (Windows will display a warning box) -c “Your text” add “Your text” to the warning box Before clicking K to close the box mouse over to the Settings tab and check the box nly start the task if the computer has been idle for at least: and set a comfortable amount of time. Don’t bother with the box about stopping the task if the computer ceases to be idle; it won’t work in this case. To set up a scheduled shutdown in Windows Vista the process is very much the same. Instead of starting in the Control Panel simply invoke the Task Scheduler from the Start menu (taskschd.
Reliability of Computer Memory?
Slashdot
Now home PCs are stuffed with 6GB or 8GB and no one uses ECC memory in them. Recently I had consistent BSDs with Vista64 on a PC with 4GB; I tried memtest86 and it always failed within hours. Yet when I ran 64-bit Ubuntu at 100% load and using all memory it ran fine for days.
NEC to quit PC market abroad with Asia-Pacific exit
Reuters
NEC which has the top PC market share in Japan last month signaled a withdrawal from the PC business in Europe Africa and the Middle East amid slumping demand and tough competition. NEC has warned it would post a net loss of 290 billion yen ($2. 96 billion) for the business year ending this month and is accelerating restructuring efforts which include pulling out from weak businesses and cutting more than 20000 jobs worldwide. Competition with rivals such as Hewlett-Packard Co and Dell Inc has been fierce and NEC sold its retail PC business in Europe in 2006. NEC sells about one-sixth of its annual global sales of 3 million PCs outside Japan.
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