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Hard disk shortage will get worse: Piper Jaffray

wcampise — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:25:40 +0000

The scarcity of hard drives will only get worse in the coming weeks and months, according to an analyst at Piper Jaffray. "We could run out of drives by the end of November," Piper Jaffray analyst Gus Richard said in an interview this week while discussing the shortage in the wake of the severe flooding in Thailand, where half of the world's production of HDD's takes place

Prestigious Waldorf Private School Keeps Computers Away from Kids

Shauna Wright — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:12:03 +0000

The 160 Waldorf private schools in the United States boast an impressive student body: the children of tech luminaries from firms like eBay, Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard.

But what makes Waldorf a seemingly odd choice for such parents is that until kids are in the eighth grade, the school is completely unwired with not a computer screen to be found.

Tips And Tricks For Windows 7

wcampise — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:30:10 +0000

I thought I would share a few tips I came across from win7news.net that could help solve some specific computer problems. Provided for informational purposes only, of course. For starters, if you are using Windows 7 and can not get the Windows Firewall to load on start-up, Microsoft has released a web-based diagnostic tool that’s [...]