hardware

It is looking more and more like Apple is getting set to launch a desktop refresh in the coming months. But why has it taken so long? I have a theory...

I can understand how the government is seeking to have vendors verify that the equipment they’re selling the government is authentic. According to Gautham Nagesh’s article, hundreds of pieces of hardware being used by the government (and later seized) was in fact, counterfeit. Those products are usually inferior and can wind up being very costly – especially when they result in network failures and data loss. Nagesh notes for example, that the FBI seized over 400 pieces of bogus Cisco network hardware.

The New York Times has created a helpful online guide to find your polling place and much more.

One official disputes news reports that alleged lines of voters, hours-long delays and computer system crashes when early voters went to the polls last week.

A Texas non-profit watchdog group alleges that some voters are saying that their votes are being "flipped" from Obama to McCain, but a county election official said it's due to errant voter input on the machines.

An election clerk's demonstration of the technology isn't too convincing as the machine miscasts several votes, despite being recalibrated for "accuracy."

As American voters prepare to head to the polls for the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 4, officials in the United Kingdom say no such option will be coming to that nation at least through 2009.

Secretary of State says the machines are fine, even after several residents reported e-voting problems when early voting began last week.

For the first time ever at LinuxWorld, a group of volunteers gathered en masse to help the ongoing Alameda County Computer Resource Center refurbish donated old PCs and turn them into working, Linux-based, functional machines. This is their story.