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With the increasing price oil, perhaps companies will begin to leverage technologies such as Microsoft Roundtable ? Perhaps leveraging such remote office technologies would also help the environment as well as productivity?
Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.
COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB “thumb drive” that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June.
I’ve read that the number of personal computers in the world will reach one billion by the end of 2008 and two billion by 2015.
What problems might be solved and diseases cured if all (or a substantial number) of the world’s workstations were working together for a greater cause?
Perhaps instead of Microsoft installing numerous 3D logo screensavers with every Windows install, Microsoft could install numerous distributed computing applications (from trustworthy sources) by default?
As a result, instead of the world’s workstations flashing the Window’s logo when not in use, the workstations would work on solving difficult problems. Of course, these distributed computing screensavers could be disabled (as with any screensaver) if the end user didn’t want to participate.
Perhaps Google could also offer an optional download of Folding@Home with all of their applications?
I suspect that all of our lives would be greatly improved if such a paradigm were to be embraced.
Several free e-books are being offered by Microsoft.
HP MediaSmart Server LED easter egg to adds some interesting effects to the HDD LED lights can be found at MediaSmartServer.net.
As the first Microsoft product ever released that is a true home server, WHS allows you to configure user accounts, make unattended back-ups of any PC in your home, and even set up remote access to your storage using an interface that is both powerful and relatively straightforward. read more
