Hasta La Gadget!

After seeing Sharp’s 10.6 glasses-free 3D display last September, we left convinced that parallax barrier 3D technology was a long way off from being ready for prime-time, and then we reached for a bottle of aspirin. Demonstrations by Intel and Sony at CES this year proved, however, that a lot can change in four months, and we hope for Japan’s collective eye sight that Fujitsu’s Esprimo FH99/CM desktop PC follows this trend. That’s because Fujitsu claims it’s the world’s first glasses-free all-in-one, and it’s scheduled to launch in the country on February 25th with a whopping $3,100 price tag. All that dough will get buyers a naked-eye 23-inch full HD 3D display plus top-of-the-line features such as a Blu-ray drive with 3D Blu-ray support, a 2Ghz Core i7 processor, 4GB of memory, a 2TB hard drive, and two USB 3.0 ports. There’s no word whether the computer will land stateside, but if it doesn’t, Toshiba has hinted they could fill the void with a glasses-free 3D PC of its own by late 2011. Still, we wouldn’t recommend stomping your 3D glasses just yet.

Fujitsu unveils Esprimo FH99/CM, touts it as the world’s first glasses-free 3D desktop originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on October 02, 2008 by CyberNet.

Tutorial Thursday

The other day I had someone who ran into a big problem that many of us hope to never come across. What happened was the user had forgotten the administrator password for their Windows Vista machine, and had no idea how they could log on. I’ve had people ask how to do this kind of thing in the past, but had never actually looked for a viable solution myself.

I was determined to find a workaround this time, and it had to be one that didn’t involve reinstalling Windows. That’s when I came across the free Trinity Rescue Kit, which turned out to be exactly what the doctor ordered. As you might expect this is a Linux-based password reset tool, and it takes no time at all to put it to work. In fact this works so well that it will make you think twice about the security of your own system!

Here’s what you have to do:

1. Download and burn the Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) ISO image to a CD or DVD.
2. Restart your computer, and make sure it boots from the TRK CD/DVD.
3. When presented with the TRK menu be sure to select the first option that reads Run Trinity Rescue Kit 3.3 (default):
   
4. TRK will take a minute or so to finish loading, and when it’s done you should be left with a prompt where you can type your commands. Note that Steps 5 and 6 are not needed to change a password, but can be helpful.
5. The main command we’ll be working with is winpass, and for getting started you should type winpass -l to see a list of users on the machine. When you type that command it will ask you which drive you want the user list retrieved from, and in most cases you’ll want to type the number 1 followed by the Enter key (this selects the primary partition):
   
6. After you’ve selected the partition you’ll be presented with a list of users on the machine along with what accounts have been disabled or locked:
   
7. You should once again be at a prompt, and this time we’re actually going to change or reset a password for one of the accounts on the machine. At the prompt type:
   winpass -u Administrator
   In this example “Administrator” is the username you want to reset the password for. Replace it with the username you’re working with.
8. You’ll now be asked which partition you’d like to have analyzed/mounted just like in Step 5, and you’ll likely want to select the first one. After that you can look under the Account Bits section which lets you know whether the user’s password ever expires, if the account is disabled, and more. What you’ll want to focus on, however, is the User Edit Menu that lists the type of operations you can perform on the account. The easiest thing for you would probably be to choose the first option, which will just clear the password on the account:
   
9. That’s all there is to it. After that you should receive a message stating that a backup of the account has been made, and all you have to do now is restart the computer. If you’ve chosen to clear the password the next time you boot up you want to be sure to leave the password blank.

If you look at the options available in Step 8 you’ll also notice that there are other things you can do to accounts on the machine. This includes changing a password, promoting a non-admin user to an administrator, or enabling a disabled account. Once you get the hang of this tool you’ll pretty much be able to give yourself full access to any Windows machine that you can physically get your hands on. Crazy, huh?

Get Trinity Rescue Kit

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There are a lot of features on the computer that we use everyday without ever knowing where they were derived from. So we thought it would be fun to give you a brief history lesson so that you can appreciate even the simplest features on your computer!

Below we’ll walk you through how the cut, copy, and paste commands developed into what we use today, and also tell you the real reason that Ctrl+Alt+Del was invented. Lets jump into the time machine!

–History of Cut/Copy/Paste  (Wikipedia)–

Could you imagine using a computer that never let you use the cut, copy, and paste commands? It has become such an essential part of our daily lives that it would be nearly impossible to live without.

Before computers were even born the term “cut and paste” was widely used when editing manuscripts, where people would literally cut something out on paper and paste it on another page. It wasn’t until 1974 that “cut and paste” was used when referring to a editing text on a computer, and it was Larry Tesler from Xerox who made the connection.

In 1981 Apple made “cut and paste” popular with the release of Lisa, which was a computer with a graphical interface. It was Apple who standardized the keyboard shortcuts, which at the time were the modifier key + X for cutting, C for copying, and V for pasting. Microsoft later adopted it into Windows with nearly identical key combinations.

–History of Ctrl+Alt+Del (Wikipedia)–

Ctrl+Alt+Del is well known as the way to shutdown unresponsive applications, restart the computer, and in some instances it is needed to login:

Who started the keyboard shortcut that has become a way of life for so many people? David Bradley, a designer of the original IBM PC, implemented it to reboot the computer after programs would hang. He got sick of having to power down the PC, wait a few seconds, and then go through the power up process all over again. Originally the shortcut was Ctrl+Alt+Esc, but he found that those keys could accidentally be pressed with just one hand. By using the Delete key instead of Escape he helped ensure that two hands were needed to perform a reboot.

Max posted a funny video over in the forum of Bradley being interviewed, where he said that “I may have invented [Control-Alt-Delete], but Bill [Gates] made it famous”:

So there you have it. You now know where and why two important pieces of computer history came from. Go tell your friends all about it so that they’ll know what a geek you really are.

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The Direct2Dell blog just posted about a new laptop that Michael Dell has. It is a Dell Precision M90 that is fully tricked out with all of the latest technologies that most of us just dream about. So what kind of specs does this bad boy have? Check them out:

• Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 Processor
• 4GB DDR2 667Mhz DRAM
• 17″ WXGA+ Widescreen LCD
• 160GB 7200rpm SATA hard drive
• 8X DVD +/- RW optical drive
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 512MB

Is your mouth watering yet? The picture above is a snapshot of what the laptop looks like along with a configuration that I did with similar specs…resulting in a $4,881 pricetag! Then to top it all off this is the main list of software he has installed:

• Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
• VMWare Workstation 6 Beta
• OpenOffice.org 2.2
• Automatix2
• Firefox 2.0.0.3
• Evolution Groupware 2.10

Yep, the laptop costs nearly $5,000 and he is running Ubuntu on it which probably has some of the lowest system requirements when compared to other mainstream operating systems. Of course, if I was the founder of Dell computers I would probably go a little overkill as well.

Oh yeah, and that is just the laptop he uses at home…he actually has 3 laptops and 2 desktops in total:

• Dell Precision M90 Laptop
• Dell XPS 710 H2C Desktop
• Dell XPS M1710 Laptop
• Dell Latitude D420 Laptop
• Dell Precision 690 Desktop

The Precision M90 got me thinking though. He has Ubuntu installed on it and Dell is supposed to be coming out with computers that offer Linux as a choice for operating systems. One of the OS choices in the Linux survey was Ubuntu, and seeing that it is one of the most popular distributions of Linux it will probably be what is offered on the computers. Does this mean that the Precision M90 will be one of the computers to be offered with Ubuntu? I surely hope that it won’t be the only option because this one has a pretty high starting price ($1650+), but right now that laptop is only selling with Windows.

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Windows only
Getting both the hardware and software details of your system typically requires using multiple apps. You’d have to peruse through the device manager, jump on over to the Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel, and then if you want to run some diagnostics or benchmarks you’d have to go hunt down some apps to do that as well.

PC Wizard 2010 is the all-in-one Swiss Army knife when it comes to that kind of stuff. It can provide a detailed breakdown of both the hardware and software on your computer, and can even be used to run some benchmarks. The included benchmark tools will let you test out the performance of your CPU, cache, RAM, hard drives, DVD drives, video, and more.

To top it all off most of the data can be saved off to a text file so that it can be referenced again later on. If you look at all the information PC Wizard provides (which I’ve put at the end of this article) you’ll likely see the value in being able to export some of the data to a simple archivable format. And did I mention that it’s not only free but also portable? Yeah, it’s an all-around worthwhile app to have in your collection.

PC Wizard 2010 Homepage (Windows only; 32/64-bit; Freeware/Portable)

Hardware Information

• Mainboard / Bios (Connectors, ID String, MP Support …)
• Chipset (FSB Frequency, Norhtbridge, Hub, Direct Media Interface, XMB, NSI, …)
• Main Memory (FPM, EDO, SDRAM, DDR SDRAM, DDR-2 SDRAM, DDR-3 SDRAM, RDRAM, FB_DIMM, Timings …)
• Memory Profiles : EPP (SLi Ready), Intel XMP.
• Cache Memory (L1, L2, L3, Size, Frequency …)
• Processors (Type, Speed, Multiplier coeff., Features, Model Number, Vanderpool Technology …)
• Coprocessor
• APM & ACPI
• Busses : ISA, PCI, AGP (2x, 4x,8x), SMBus/ i2c, CardBus, Firewire, Hyper-Transport … )
• DMI / SMBIOS
• Mainboard Sensors, Processor, Hard Disk & Battery (Voltage, Temperature, Fans)
• Video (Monitor, Card, Bios, Capabilities, Memory, Integrated Memory, Frequencies …)
• OpenGL & 3Dfx
• DirectX (DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectSound (3D), DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectInput, DirectX Media)
• Keyboard, Mouse & Joystick
• Drives (Hard Disk, Removable, CD-ROM, CDRW, DVD …)
• SCSI (Card, Controller, Adapter, Devices …)
• ATA/ATAPI & S-ATA (Devices, Type, Capabilities, S.M.A.R.T. Features, RAID)
• Ports (Serial, Parallel, USB, IEEE-1394)
• IDE & SCSI Devices
• Twain & WIA Devices
• PCMCIA (PC Card) Devices
• Bluetooth Devices
• Biometric Sensor Devices
• Sound Card (wave, midi, aux, mix, AC’97 codec, High Definition Audio)
• Printers (Local & Network)
• Modem (Features, Speed …)
• Network (Server, Connexion, Firewall …)
• Security (Scan Ports …)
• PocketPC & SmartPhone Devices
• Virtual Machines

System Information

• MCI Devices (mpeg, avi, seq, vcr, video-disc, wave) & ACM
• SAPI
• Passwords (Outlook, Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger, Dialup …)
• DOS Memory (base, HMA, UMB, XMS, EMS, DPMI, VCPI)
• Windows Memory
• Windows (Version, Product Key, Environment, Desktop, XP Themes …)
• Windows UpTime (Boot, Shutdown, BlueScreen, System Restore Points …)
• TrueType & OpenType Fonts
• WinSock (Internet), Telephony et Remote Access
• OLE (Objects, Servers …)
• Microsoft® Applications
• Activity (Process, Tasks, Threads)
• Modules (DLL, DRV, 32 & 16-bits) & NT Services
• Internet Navigator (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, FireFox)
• .NET Global Assembly Cache (GAC)
• ODBC
• CMOS/RTC
• Resources (IRQ, DMA, E/S, Memory)
• System files (.ini, .log, .bat, .nt, .dos …)

System Benchmarks

• Processor (Dhrystone (MIPS), Whetstone (MFLOPS), Mandelbrot fractal …)
• L1, L2, L3 Cache, RAM (Bandwidth, Latency …)
• Main Memory (Bandwidth, Latency …)
• Hard Drives
• CD/DVD Rom
• DirectX
• Video
• Removable/Flash Support
• MP3 Compression
• VISTA Experience Index

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