Although the famous Man Versus Machine matches of Garry Kasparov against IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer and the upcoming match of Vladimir Kramnik against Deep Fritz coming November 25, 2006 get the media attention, this article is more about how computers have helped people play better chess.
If you have just installed GNU/Linux on your computer, and have only ever used Windows before, here are five things you need to know to get going rapidly.
The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, and Yahoo! are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE [...]
This morning, a former associate of mine sent me a link to this article posted on his web site. I know this violates Eric’s rules of Christmas, which is “No Christmas anything before Thanksgiving”, but this was too funny not to share, so enjoy.
Ontrack Data Recovery™, the largest, most experienced and most technologically advanced provider of data recovery products and services in the world, has unveiled its annual Top Ten list of remarkable data loss disasters in 2006. Taken from a global poll of Ontrack data recovery experts, this year’s list of data disasters is even more incredible [...]
What IT services and technologies can a small or medium sized business use to increase productivity and give them a competitive edge?
Well without an IT guru knowing your business it is very difficult to give the right set of answers. So instead I hope this list will provide you with some ideas for you to [...]
12 weirdest yet useful USB Accessories that you can actually buy…
Hopefully, you have heard of some of these or maybe even all, but if not then let me introduce you to ten tools that every admin should have.
Recover your data from failing hard drives. Call these services.
If your hard drive makes noises, is unable to read data or you need to recover your valuable data,
shut down the computer, remove the hard drive, and call any of these data recovery services.
If you’ve met some of the people that repair computers for a living, you might be shocked at their diversity of knowledge, experience, and behavior. Some are hands-down great technicians, but many seem like unprepared and ignorant kids who you wouldn’t trust your toaster to, let alone something as critical to your life or business [...]
Studies show that far too many of us are not sleeping well, and lack of good-quality sleep can lead to more than just feeling tired: everything from traffic accidents and poor work performance to crankiness, illness, and a less-than-attractive appearance can be the result of sleeping poorly.
To look and feel your absolute best, you need [...]
Want to enhance your mobile experience? Here are thirty-three ways to have a whole lot more fun with phones.
For every world-famous name with a world famous fortune, such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell, there are hundreds of other individuals who have moved the IT industry and its technology inexorably forward.
Fame and fortune has rarely been their immediate spur. A passion for changing the world through technology…
In your Perl development, it’s quite likely that you will encounter files in different formats — XML, PDF, CSV, RSS — and different binary data formats. Your Perl application may need to manipulate these files, either reading from them or writing to them.
You can simplify this task by turning to the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network [...]
