Datamation Staff

There are several possible reasons why you might choose to use the command line interface (CLI) as your desktop environment. For one thing, it uses less electricity, so you could maximize battery life on your laptop computer. Secondly, it forces you to think about your operating system and directory structure in a totally different way […]

Ever since 9/11, we’ve found an increasing emphasis by top management and government regulators on asking disaster planners to demonstrate that their plans will actually work. For an organization with even a limited amount of complexity this “show me” requirement can seem overwhelming — in terms of cost, disruption, and time expended. However, by dividing […]

Harmony, an open source Java implementation, is currently in incubator status at the Apache Software Foundation. The Harmony project mission is to create a compatible, independent implementation of J2SE 5 under the Apache License v2, and “create a community-developed modular runtime (VM and class library) architecture to allow independent implementations to share runtime components, and […]

There were no horse races this year. Datamation.com readers voted for 10 clear winners in the Datamation.com Product of the Year 2006 Awards. For the second year in a row, business software giant SAS won a pair of awards, while two other companies also repeated in their respective categories. This year’s awards featured a new […]

The ballot comes down this weekend, so if you haven’t voted in Datamation’s Product of the Year 2006 Awards, now’s the time. Datamation readers are deciding which contenders across 10 categories will win this year. We added a new category this year — Corporate Blogging Software — that drew a lot of reader nominations. Nine […]

There are a number of really good reasons to update to the latest version of Java. Not the least of which is the fact that older versions of the Java Runtime Environment have now been reported to be at risk from seven highly critical vulnerabilities. Sun advisory number 102171 describes the vulnerabilities and is titled, […]

No matter how talented your IT staff, ultimately it is dependent on technology to get the job done. That’s why the quality of the software, hardware and services used by IT pros goes a long way toward determining not only the effectiveness of any given enterprise, but the success of an entire organization. Datamation has […]

First, the products featuring Wi-Fi announced and/or demonstrated at CES 2006 in Las Vegas over the weekend: Just behind Netgear and Linksys announcing they will use Airgo’s 3rd Generation of MIMO chips comes Buffalo Technology. The company’s new AirStation MIMO Wireless Cable/DSL Router (model WZR-G240, $150) and AirStation MIMO Wireless Notebook Adapter (WLI-CB-G240, $100) will […]

LAS VEGAS — Intel demonstrated three new brands for the notebook and home theater PC markets. Speaking at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show here, Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini formally unveiled the Core Duo brand — a marketing moniker designed to promote the dual-core nature of its newest line of processors. The brand launch […]

Have you ever found yourself quoting something from a favorite old arcade game (“Elf needs food, badly!”) and wondered whatever happened to that original experience? While many games have been updated over the years, those who remember their debut at times feel that the newest versions lost the something special that the original had captured. […]