hardware in cheat sheets
Cheat Sheet: QR codes
Cheat Sheet In fact the company does a line in 2D barcode scanning hardware and software so is clearly happy for everyone and their dog to be consuming QR codes. QR codes? I'm thinking this is something to do with barcodes… [28 May 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Google Android
Cheat Sheet Google says third-party apps written for Android will be fully integrated with the OS - i.e.the user will notice no break between their operation and the hardware's operation. Because it's free, mobile manufacturers will be able to stick it on... [12 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Supercomputing
Cheat Sheet No, the main difference between these different pieces of hardware is a supercomputer channels all its power into executing a few programs as fast as possible, whereas a mainframe executes many programs concurrently and a botnet uses its power to... [20 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
Cheat Sheet Fewer physical servers mean a smaller electricity bill from the reduced amount of hardware and the fewer cooling systems needed. Virtualisation? So I get to put on a funky headset and walk around a simulated landscape shooting aliens? [04 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: The $100 laptop
Cheat Sheet But surely we should be shipping over help and not hardware to developing countries? No, it's the $100 laptop. Basically some clever types are trying to build a load of laptops for poor children who can't afford to get on the internet. [29 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Blade servers and PCs
Cheat Sheet This means applications are not tied to specific hardware or platform and the blades are interchangeable. Both kinds of blades make IT systems easier to manage as the hardware is located in one place and problems can be easily isolated and solved. [24 Jan 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Six Sigma
Cheat Sheet First, IT vendors, especially hardware manufacturers (though there is definitely a role for it in software development too), use Six Sigma. Six Sigma? All Greek to me. Very funny. Why the six, why the sigma? [30 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Windows Vista
Cheat Sheet More details on the Vista hardware specs can be found here. What's the lowdown then? Windows Vista is Microsoft's long-awaited, long-delayed next-generation operating system release, which finally launches on 30 November. [28 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Security appliances
Cheat Sheet While a number of companies put their bets on appliances some years ago, over the past year or so we've seen a lot of companies jumping on the bandwagon and bringing out their own appliances; so software vendors are now doing hardware and services... [20 Feb 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Contactless payments
Cheat Sheet Some experts believe so, citing the fact that the software and hardware capabilities already exist in something most people carry around with them. Contactless payments (CP) - what's that, then? Rather than hand over cash, sign your name or even do... [11 Oct 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Podcasting
Cheat Sheet Technically you could download this content and listen to it with any hardware MP3 player, though. Podcasting, then. All sounds a bit A Space Odyssey to me. Can't argue with you there. If you haven't guessed, it gets its name from the ubiquitous... [17 Jun 2005]
Cheat Sheet: The A-Z of 802.11
Cheat Sheet Done and dusted, this is a useful standard of no interest to anyone not designing wireless LAN hardware. Wireless networking is part of the furniture these days but the zoo of standards still baffles the non-specialist. [04 Apr 2003]
Cheat Sheet: Storage virtualisation
Cheat Sheet Users can implement virtualisation with software, as a hardware-software hybrid appliance that sits somewhere in the fabric and redirects all the input/output traffic to the appropriate device, or within the storage array itself. [27 May 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Windows XP
Cheat Sheet This means that if hardware dies or a user decides to do a major system reconfiguration they'll find themselves on the phone to the XP hotline asking for permission to continue to use the software. As part of Microsoft's fight against piracy it has... [22 Oct 2001]
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