Fewer college students are pursuing computer-related degrees at a time when demand is increasing and thousands of baby boomers are retiring from technical jobs. The colliding trends have some business leaders worried that they won’t find enough workers needed to maintain expected growth…

Enrollment in undergraduate degree programs in computer sciences is more than 50 percent lower than it was five years ago, the group said. Between 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 the number of new students declaring computer sciences as a major…

Despite incontrovertible evidence that speaking on the cell phone while driving is distracting - and has led to serious accidents - most Canadian provinces still don’t ban the practice. A wireless industry trade group says it favours driver education over legislation.

In Newfoundland and Labrador, for instance, a driver who causes a collision by using a cellular phone or who is observed driving unsafely while using the device could be charged under a number of other provincial, territorial or federal laws…

Vista: Tweaked, Tuned, and Hacked presents over 40 tweaks and tricks to make Vista run better, faster, and less annoying. Learn how to boot faster, get rid of annoying prompts, activate the hidden “super-admin” account, and even use YOUR video clips as an animated wallpaper! >

Board index » Games And Software » Operating Systems

An article about the release of Toyota’s plug in Hybrid scheduled for release in 2010.

@J-Bob You're an idiot man. You obviously havent payed much attention to them; are you a VW-lover? . Toyota has been hitting lithium-ion hard for the past 3 years. In fact they've been testing Li-Ion batteries in plugin…

A device that relays a person’s body movements to an array of electrodes on their tongue could help people with balance problems recover their poise, or wheelchair users avoid pressure sores.

In one experiment volunteers became worse at balancing when their backs were tired, but could compensate when they felt foot pressure on their tongue too. Another study projected data from the ankles onto the tongue. Volunteers found they were…

Not a lot of people know this, but a lot of the extensions available through Firefox are not free/open source software at all. One example is the StumbleUpon Extension. If you want the most free software computer possible, look up the licences of your extensions.

I don't understand why they do not use a free license really. Okay, I sometimes can see why a proprietary license would feel more palatable for the people in charge (I disagree with the reasoning but I can see how they're thinking)…

A new living computer, bred from E. coli bacteria instead of stamped from silica, has for the first time successfully solved a classic mathematical puzzle known as the Burnt Pancake Problem.

The Burnt Pancake Problem works like this: Imagine you are a diner owner. To promote your delicious fare, you want to create a golden pyramid of pancakes. Using a spatula, you have to rearrange an existing stack of different-sized pancakes,…

“Im a huge fan of Ubuntu Linux. Ive used many flavors of Linux over the years, and Ubuntu is my favorite by far. So it pains me to write this. For my needs, Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is worse than 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).”

I’m giving my raw perspective as a user, and the upshot is that Hardy Heron feels like a step backwards on the things that matter to me. If I were a GNOME/Ubuntu/Canonical dev, my first reaction would be to leave a comment that says…

When your computer hardware appears to power up okay, but the Windows XP operating system won’t boot properly, you have to begin a troubleshooting expedition that includes getting into the operating system, determining the problem, and then fixing it. To help you get started on this expedition, here are 10…

Performing a Windows XP in-place upgrade is pretty straightforward. To begin, insert the Windows XP CD into the drive, restart your system, and boot from the CD. Once the initial preparation is complete, you’ll see the Windows XP…

Windows is getting better, albeit with SP hick-ups, but the Linux desktop is still the best desktop.

To take one example of why I'm in no danger of switching to Windows anytime soon, security continues to be a fundamental problem in any variety of Windows starting with Windows for Workgroups to Vista SP1 and Server 2008. In fact, the newest…

The worst thing about the new 'Fox on ubuntu!

I get random freezes all the time in Gutsy 7.10 AMD64. Seems especially frequent when using Evolution. Looking at Sys Monitor, it appears that my system skips between maxing out one core and then the other. Super frustrating.

The bounceback e-mail messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two every hour. The subject lines are disquieting: “Cyails, Vygara nad Levytar,” “UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you.”

But the problem would largely disappear if server administrators configured their mail servers to immediately reject mail that is sent to nonexistent users, rather than accepting it and then bouncing it back to the faked addresses. Some ISPs…

We've heard Microsoft hint at keeping XP on shelves longer than initially stated, but Dell is the first retailer to confirm having plans to sell the OS past the end of June. But it isn't because Microsoft's changed their policy; it's because Dell is taking advantage of a loophole in Vista licensing that lets weaselly Microsoft pad their numbers.

Most of my purchases, reports, and recommendations under my budget have been for computers that have XP and I always recommend DELL. They're the only company that will sell it. Other than that I would purchase the license and build the…

Apple continues to apply for novel patents that may or may not have much practical application. A series of recent patent fillings shows Apple paving the way for all the cool kids to wear lightweight and comfortable head-mounted displays, or HMDs, with frickin’ lasers.

The problem, as identified by Apple researchers (and discussed in-depth by Apple Insider), are that the components in HMDs can be bulky and heavy, making them rather unwieldy. (Remember Lawnmower Man?) The displays can draw a…