Archive for the 'Computers' Category

I bought a scanner, Canon CanoScan 4400F review

The new scanner Canon CanoScan 4400F that I brought some months ago has very good performances, but I do not like that Canon did not make a driver for linux operating system. From what I read, will be added a driver to genesys frontend for sane. Has a higher speed for scanning compared with Canon [...]

I love Nvidia video cards, GeForce 8600 GTS

I have a video card from Nvidia, is a GeForce 8600 GTS with 256 MB RAM, DDR3, has SLI and is made by Gigabyte with nvidia chipset, I’m very satisfied with the performances in the video games and in day to day work. First I had a problem in Windows VISTA when I was watching [...]

Future of the computers

I wait for the day when we would not need to use a keyboard or a mouse; we would simply talk with the computers. Would it be running Windows, linux or other operating system? God knows. I hope only that will be cheap and will “know” what I want to do before I do it [...]

Customers bank confidential data found on a sold computer

A milion UK customers confidential data where found on a computer sold on eBay. Where found addresses, names, codes, credit and debit card and also security questions because the hard disk had not been erased.  IT manager Andrew Chapman, 56 years, Oxford that bought the PC found the sensitive data. The confidential financial data belongs to American Express, [...]

Windows VISTA Aero needs 32 bit

I don’t know if you did know that Windows VISTA with Aero needs 32 bit to be set so you can enjoy Aero interface. Can happen when you update your video card driver, if you before had 16 bit, after that to still have 16 bit, and because of this, the AERO interface to not [...]