Hewlett-Packard <HPQ.N>, the world's top personal computer seller, said on Thursday it is exploring new ways to help businesses afford PCs as many cut back on spending in the current economic downturn.

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Logitech on Wednesday announced that is has shipped its one billionth mouse for personal computers, with the news coming, appropriately, one week ahead of the fortieth anniversary of the very first public demonstration of a computer mouse by Doug Engelbart. Logitech manufactured its first mouse prototype, the P4, back in 1982, and sold the first mouse in 1985. Back then, a mouse was mainly an inte...


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Logitech on Wednesday announced that is has shipped its one billionth mouse for personal computers, with the news coming, appropriately, one week ahead of the fortieth anniversary of the very first public demonstration of a computer mouse by Doug Engelbart. Logitech manufactured its first mouse prototype, the P4, back in 1982, and sold the first mouse in 1985. Back then, a mouse was mainly an inte...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Two top research firms are cutting forecasts for 2009 personal computer sales, expecting shipment values to drop next year as the weak economy discourages some buyers and tight credit thwarts others.

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/windowosxvirus.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="804" height="359" style="display:block;float:none;" //p div style='float:right; margin-left:-9px;'script type="text/javascript" digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Why_OS_X_Shrugs_Off_Viruses_Off_Better_Than_Windows'; /scriptscript src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript" /script/div pMac OS X, mythically immune to common computer plagues, has actually always a href="http://gizmodo.com/5100996/false-alarm-apple-mac-os-x-anti+virus-recommendation-is-old"welcomed antivirus software/a. Or, uh, a href="http://gizmodo.com/5101266/apple-removes-antivirus-support-note-reiterates-os-xs-built+in-protection"maybe not/a. Confused? No worriesmdash;here's how OS X and Windows differ on resisting viruses and other nasties./p pIt's not a matter of opinion: OS X emis/em less susceptible to catching a cold than Windows. So is Linux, for that matter. There are two major reasons (and a href="http://gizmodo.com/5100217/the-simpsons-gets-20-years-of-apple-jokes-out-of-the-way-at-once"Steve Jobs' pee/a actually isn't one of them). First, Windows is a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/154800/.html"on 89.6 percent of the world's personal computers/a, while OS X is on just 8.9 percent of them. Second, the Unix architecture that OS X and Linux are based on is inherently more secure than Windows, particularly pre-Vista versions. (If these reasons are familiar to you, you may not know the subtler side-effects of each reason that strengthen the case even more, so read on.)/p pThere are a few different ways that Microsoft's mammoth market share actually hurts Windows and helps OS X. For one, writing nastiness that the vast majority of the world's personal computers are susceptible to is a more efficient use of resources than writing the same evil for a sliver of the population. In biology, a more homogeneous population is more susceptible to a genocidal plague. Same principle applies to the vast, Windows-powered ecosystem. I don't mean someone could write a virus that wipes ieverybody/i out. Just that if everybody's running Windows, the population is a much easier target./p pThe flipside of thismdash;which you might not have consideredmdash;is that most malware writers obviously use Windows. They're going to whip up code for the OS they're familiar with and know best. And more to that point, most of the tools and scripts used to wreak havoc on computers are written for Windows. The same ecosystem that provides the biggest, most susceptible audience also provides the most fertile breeding ground for the nasty executables./p pBut suppose this was some bizarro world where OS X was king. Would Microsoft run ads about how virus-plagued OS X was? Well, it would still be more prudent to run anti-virus software, since there'd be a lot more crap thrown at the Mac OS, but if malware acted mostly like it does today, it likely wouldn't have the same impact as it did on Windows pre-Vista./p pA lot of that is because of the way permissions work in OS X vs. Windows. Basically, Unix-based systems are architected so that they require administrator privileges to modify the OS and are traditionally more strict in enforcing them. Critical areas are walled off from normal usersmdash;you see this when OS X asks for a password to install updates or change a system setting. A standard non-admin user account is restricted; bad software can't wreak much havoc at all without that password./p pThis is precisely what Vista's somewhat-maligned User Account Control attempts to replicate, limiting points of intrusion and requiring explicit user permission to get anywhere deep. On Windows, historically, the enforcement of these restrictions has been lax in the name of convenience./p pa href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9007883pageNumber=1"This is not to say/a that OS X is invulnerable, a href="http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-251586.html"by any means/a. The main applications folder is a href="http://www.macforensicslab.com/ProductsAndServices/index.php?main_page=document_general_infocPath=11products_id=174"relatively unprotected/a, and any running app can write to it and most of what's inside. Coupled with OS X's app-bundling architecture, this makes it easier to replace program executables or sneak in a piggybacking one. Even then, however, the malware would need to elicit elevated permissions to do any hardcore damage to the core OS; it could, unfortunately, nuke your relatively unprotected Home folder though. Another point of vulnerability, or at least a pain point, according to Mac Forensics Lab, is OS X's centralized address book, which also has weak defenses. If the Home folder book did require the same level of permissions, it would be kinda unusable, because you'd have to elevate permissions to make any and every change./p pThis brings us to OS X's biggest security hole, the one that it actually shares with every operating system: you. It doesn't matter how good baked-in security is if a user throws out the welcome mat for whatever crap comes their way. On the flip side, you're also the first, and best, line of protection. Don't do anything stupid, and you'll be fine, anti-virus software or notmdash;whatever OS you're running./p pemSomething you still wanna know? 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PC Prices Set to Fall Amid Shipments Growth in 2009 - IDC

Before I begin I would like to let it be known that at this point I am successfully running Return To Zork (1993) in DOS format using DOSBOX. I have an eMac running Panther 10.3.9. It took quite some tweaking but I got it to run and I am really happy about that.

I am a diehard fan of the Zork series of games and I own all of them. :)

I have the same game for "Power Macs" and it was released in 1994. But Classic wont run it on my eMac. I do believe it needs 256 colors and resolution of 640x480. I run it really well in my :apple: PM 8500/180 but that computer is being used by my 2 year old and this is my personal computer so I wish it would work here.

I need a good, reliable, Power Macintosh emulator in which I can play these games. I have loads of them (at least 300) that I wish I could play here. I was looking into this old archive and I see not many people gave really good useful advice: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=18451

There someone suggests the poster to go and buy new games. Heck if there were GOOD games out there nowadays, and those who know what I am talking about, games nowadays they just don't impress me. Played and passed Half-Life 2 in my hubby's laptop, I am not impressed :confused:

Would love to see some constructive help please and thank you so much!!

BOSTON (Reuters) - A top research firm cut its forecasts for 2009 personal computer sales, expecting shipment value to drop 5.3 percent as the weak economy discourages some buyers and tight credit thwarts others.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?a=9Rh4Y7SS"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?a=vGpZYFiu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?i=vGpZYFiu" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?a=PmTLbs8i"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?i=PmTLbs8i" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/technologyNews/~4/bfdG5lzRBdI" height="1" width="1"/

Another day, another video interview. This one was with Greg Jarboe at SES San Jose. You can watch it on the Search Engine Strategies channel on YouTube, or I’ll embed it below:

Some of the things we discussed:
- a quick story about interviewing at Google in 1999
- the opportunities of cell phones and mobile platforms (3 billion of them!) vs. personal computers, as well as hyperlocal information.
- cloud storage servers and storing your data in the cloud
- how it’s cheaper than ever to start an internet business, with a choice of platforms ranging from Facebook, iPhone, Android, OpenSocial, to Google App Engine.

In my last video I got rickroll’ed in the background. This time the background was psychedelic, because the main conference stage was behind us.

As the economic crisis continues to evolve demand for personal computers is expected to slow quickly. IDC expects worldwide PC shipments to grow just 3.8% in 2009 with shipment value falling by 5.3%.