Western Digital may purchase Fujitsu’s hard disk drive development and manufacturing assets, getting closer to market-leader, Seagate, with greater manufacturing capacity and access to the laptop OEM market
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The Road Warrior’s Laptop
This is part of an ongoing series of longer articles I will be posting every Sunday as part of an experiment in offering more in-depth content. For IT-centric workers, being productive from the road requires more than just exceptional personal skills: A killer laptop is needed to replace an entire office full of equipment. Let’s consider what […]
An Ode to Visual Voicemail
This is part of an ongoing series of longer articles I will be posting every Sunday as part of an experiment in offering more in-depth content. I have long felt that voicemail was archaic. Like fax machines, voice mail systems seem stuck in an earlier era, with arcane controls and so little feedback that the user has […]
Microsoft Working to Improve Windows 7 Boot Times
Confirming my observation of longish Windows boot times, Microsoft engineer Michael Fortin today blogged about the booting improvements scheduled for Windows 7. He rightly points out that there are really three different “boot times” to consider: Boot Resume from sleep Resume from hibernate Note that the Microsoft definition of “boot (1)” only gets us through […]
Custom Drive Icons in Mac OS X
Custom drive icons can help you to keep your removable and internal drives straight. It’s simple to do in Mac OS X, but illustrates an odd way in which Apple implemented their split resource/data fork filesystem idea in a GUI.
