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Troubleshooting
begins where fine-tuning ends
by Vipul
Verma
THE
first basic principle of troubleshooting is "Never trouble trouble, till
trouble troubles you." This simply means that one should not be
unnecessarily conscious about the performance and the overall health of the PC.
Assuming without any logic that the PC has become slow is the easiest way to
invite trouble for the PC.
‘Goner’
suspects under house arrest in Israel after confession
by Steven Scheer & Bernhard
Warner
FOUR
Israeli teenagers were placed under house arrest after admitting they wrote and
spread the "Goner" worm that wreaked havoc on computers worldwide, the
police said.
Object-based
development with VB
by Sumesh
Raizada
NEARLY
a decade ago when Windows were in its evolution stage, Microsoft also developed
application-based program called Visual Basic or VB. Its numerous applications
made it suitable for Web programming, designing of computers games, graphics or
clip arts, multimedia, etc.
UK, USA
crack whip on cyber piracy
THE
UK police arrested six men as part of an internationally coordinated crackdown
on a multi-million pound software piracy scam. Officers from the National
Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHCTU) detained the six men, all British nationals in their
20s and 30s, in raids across the country last week.
IT
consultation services may be hit, Dataquest predicts
THE
Indian IT services expenditure is projected to reach $-1.6 billion in 2001, a
25.2 per cent increase over 2000 revenue of $ 1.3 billion, according to industry
analyst firm, Gartner Dataquest. The industry is forecast to continue growing
strongly through 2005, when IT services revenue will reach $ 5.8 billion.
Community-based
e-newspaper
THE
site, www.chdmail.com, an IT promotion portal was launched by Vivek Attray,
Director, Information and Technology, last week.
ON HARDWARE
Artificial thumb ‘mimics’ forefinger
Singapore
students have created a battery-free artificial thumb that may give renewed
hopes of flexibility to people missing the digit because of accidents or birth
defects.
Music
Beat
The immortal music of
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Kids
Chat
Gorillas go to bed at 6 p.m
Cyber
Kids
Play Harry Potter games
Compuquiz
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