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A Quarter of Us Would Rather Buy a New PC than Fix a Problem
Nearly a quarter of UK computer users would rather buy a new computer than fix a problem, a survey has shown.The poll, conducted by Virgin Media, revealed that 63 per cent of us shout at the screen when programs freeze or crash, while 58 per cent of respondents admitted swearing at the computer. More than a quarter (27 per cent) admitted that they had gone so far as to hit their machines.
Having exhausted that line of attack, about a quarter will attempt to put the blame on a friend or family member, and as many as 22 per cent will end up admitting defeat and buying a new PC rather than trying more conventional methods of solving the problem.
The survey also revealed that women are far more likely to seek professional advice to solve computer problems than men, who will persevere on their own for longer, and invariably end up angry and frustrated more often.
Jon James, Virgin Media's executive director of broadband, said the results showed not only the public's continuing struggle to get to grips with modern technology, but also the lack of decent support.
“A lack of computer knowledge combined with a lack of easily accessed support is leading to massive consumer frustration,” James said. “Our research found evidence of customers so frustrated with fixing PC problems, they ended up buying a new PC when only a simple fix was needed.”
The survey was timed to coincide with the launch of Virgin Media's Digital Home Support Service, a UK-wide remote support network offering help with a wide range of computer problems.
Source: IT-23
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IBM Launches Three New Blade Servers
IBM has unveiled three new blade servers to add to its server line-up for 2010.The new servers are built on IBM’s own Power 7 architecture, released back in February, and claim to offer reduced workload times as well as shaving 25 per cent from, overheads.
The PS700 is an entry level server featuring just one blade and the four-core Power 7 chip, however, the rest of the line continues to grow in specs.
The PS701 single socket product offers an eight-core Power 7 chip and the PS702 features two of the eight-core processors.
Whilst its previous Power 6 chip was just dual-core and had a single-thread, this next-generation Power 7 scales from two to eight cores and can run up to four threads at once.
The new technology has led IBM to make bold claims that the last of these server models – the PS702 Express – offers 188 per cent better performance per blade than the HP Integrity BL860c Blade and a massive 225 per cent better performance per blade than the Oracle Sun Blade T6340.
UK pricing has yet to be confirmed.
Source: IT-23
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Business Recovery Boosts PC Sales by 27 per Cent
PC shipments have taken off again, posting a 27.4 per cent jump in the first quarter off the back of business desktop refreshes.Europe lead the recovery, with Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) posting 24.8 per cent growth and posting it's biggest volume of shipments on record for the first quarter.
While mobile consumer computers - laptops and netbooks - continued to lead the market, it was SMBs that helped drive recovery in the professional market, not larger enterprises. "However, the pipeline is positive with large tenders for major hardware refreshes coinciding with Windows 7 deployments," Gartner noted.
Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner, said: "These first quarter results indicate that the professional PC market is gradually picking up, driven by PC replacements in mature markets."
"With a relatively positive macroeconomic outlook, business demand was more forthcoming. Major PC replacement demand driven by Windows 7 will become more apparent in the second half of 2010 and the beginning of 2011," she added in a statement.
PC makers
HP held onto the top spot globally, but faced steady competition from Asian rivals, Gartner said, knocking its market share to 18.2 per cent from 19.3 per cent last year. Gartner said the PC-maker's "strength" would become clearer as the business market continues to recover.
Dell slid to third place with a 12.1 per cent market share, but still posted 20 per cent growth year-on-year, the first time it's done so in two years off the back of strong international sales.
Acer moved up to second place with 14.2 per cent share this quarter, up from 11.7 per cent this time last year. "Acer's business model allows it to meet price points that other vendors find difficult to match," Gartner said.
By Nicole Kobie, IT PRO
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Apache Server Suffers Hack Attack
Hackers have attacked the Apache Software Foundation’s (ASF) project server and stolen the passwords of all its users.The attack began on 5 April when hackers broke into Apache’s Atlassian JIRA software – used to track all its projects and any bugs that emerge.
They sent server admins a TinyURL link claiming they were having problems whilst browsing projects. When admins clicked on the link, it compromised their sessions and allowed the hackers to get hold of administrator rights.
By 9 April, the hackers had planted a password stealing programme and taken full control of JIRA, as well as Apache’s Confluence and Bugzilla programmes.
“If you are a user of the Apache hosted JIRA, Bugzilla, or Confluence, a hashed copy of your password has been compromised,” said a blog post from the Apache Infrastructure team.
It has warned users of any of these programs to change their passwords, especially if they logged in between 6-9 April.
It has also left those who had Atlassian accounts before July 2008 in danger as an old unencrypted database containing customer passwords was left online and could have been compromised.
“We made a big error,” admitted Mike Cannon-Brookes, chief executive of Atlassian, in a blog post. “For this we are, of course, extremely sorry.”
He added: “The legacy customer database, with passwords stored in plain text, was a liability. Even though it wasn't active, it should have been deleted. There's no logical explanation for why it wasn't, other than as we moved off one project, and on to the next one, we dropped the ball and screwed up.”
Apache is running JIRA on a proxy configuration for the meantime and has made a number of changes to make the server safer.
“We hope our disclosure has been as open as possible and true to the ASF spirit,” concluded the Apache blog. “Hopefully others can learn from our mistakes.”
By Jennifer Scott, IT PRO
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