Upgrade to window 7 from Windows Vista
Upgrading is the easiest option. However, upgrading can take a long time. To upgrade to Windows 7 from Windows Vista
1. Insert the Windows 7 DVD into your DVD-ROM drive.
2. Click Run setup.exe from the Autoplay menu.
3. Click Install now on the Install Windows screen.
4. Setup will begin by copying files to your computer.
5. Accept the license terms and click Next.
6. Now click Upgrade and follow the instructions. You may get a compatibility report, which will help you determine what may not work properly after the upgrade.
Nov. 7: A survey has found that men and women have different approaches when it comes to dealing with technological problems. According to a gadget helpline, 64 per cent male and 24 per cent female callers do not read the instruction manual before calling up, and that 12 per cent male and 7 per cent female customers need only plug in or turn on their appliances.
Gadget Helpline surveyed 75,000 calls received between September 25 and October 23, 2009, and it found that 120,000 of its subscribers in UK, are over the age of 35.
The survey showed that women spent 32 per cent longer on the phone to their helpers than men – but 66 per cent of the helpline staff preferred speaking to them. “There is evidence of a gender divide in technology, although a lot of it comes down to interpretation,” the ‘BBC’ quoted Joanna Bawa, chartered psychologist and editor of the ‘Usability News’ website, as saying.
In general terms, men treat technology as something to be understood and conquered while women are more motivated by appliances that benefit them. Gadget Helpline’s founder and chief executive Crispin Thomas said the company’s busiest times are Monday mornings and Boxing Day.
Getting gadgets to communicate with each other was the subject of a large number of requests for help. “Syncing one gadget with another causes problems,” he said. [click to continue…]
London: The world could well run out of Internet addresses next year, unless urgent action is taken to switch to a new generation of net addresses, the European Commission has warned.
According to the commission, businesses urgently need to upgrade to Internet protocol version six or IPv6, a new version of the Internet’s addressing protocol, which will hugely increase the number of available addresses.
The IPv6 system has been ready for over a decade and is providing 340 trillion, trillion, trillion web addresses. But, not many companies are actually ready to migrate to the new platform.
In fact, a survey, conducted by the Commission, found that few companies are prepared for the switch from the current naming protocol, IPv4, to the new regime, IPv6, ‘The Daily Telegraph’ reported. The IPv4 and IPv6 protocols refer to the way in which web addresses are created and assigned. Each website has a unique IP address, represented by a string of numbers, such as 192.168.1.1, which are then given a user-friendly web address to make them easier to remember.
The IPv4 protocol uses 32-bit addresses, which enables the web to support around 4.3 billion unique addresses while IPv6 uses 128-bit web addresses, creating billions of possible new web addresses.
The EC survey found that of the 610 government, educational and other industry organisations questioned across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, just 17 per cent have upgraded to IPv6.
The Commission has warned that the timely deployment of the protocol is vital to the growth and stability of the Internet. Detlef Eckert, Director in Commission’s information society and media directorate-general, said: “In the last 10 years, the Internet has become hugely important worldwide from a socio-economic perspective. “Only by ensuring that all devices connected to the internet are compatible with IPv6 can we stay connected and safeguard sustainable growth of the Internet and the global digital economy, now and in the years to come.”
People running the risk of Internet addiction have help at hand with the first of its kind residential rehab clinic in the Seattle suburb of Fall City, Washington.
The ReSTART clinic reportedly costs 9,000 pounds for 45 days of live-in treatment, including taking care of the farm’s goats, building a chicken coop, long walks around the greens, receiving counselling and massages.
The rehab treats the addiction in many forms such as excessive gaming, inordinate online social networking, uncontrolled online shopping or gambling. Co-founder-psychologist Dr Hilarie Cash warned how internet addiction was fast becoming a growing global problem.
“Wherever the technology exists, the problem follows. The internet can be as addictive as alcohol or gambling,” the Daily Express quoted Dr. Cash as saying.
But the treatment has sparked debates since the American Psychiatric Association does not recognise internet addiction as a legitimate disorder.
In the mean time, Dr Cash offered pointers to judge if one is addicted or not, explaining: “If you do it compulsively, despite the negative consequences, then we’d say that’s an addiction.”
Melbourne-based Swinburne University has launched a unique online treatment clinic for people with anxiety disorder.
The online assessment and treatment clinic has been developed by the University’s National eTherapy Centre and is said to be one of its kind in the world. “Anxiety Online is the first full-service online psychology clinic in the world,” David Austin, Co-Director of the National eTherapy Centre said in a statement. [click to continue…]
Researchers have produced an all-optical switch within a plastic optical fibre (POF), which could vastly increase Internet data speeds.
The high-speed backbone of the Internet is based on networks of glass optical fibres. But this is too fragile and expensive to install in the small distances between local exchanges and the home.
A cheaper alternative is to use POF, but this has been unable to transmit data with the kind of speeds that would make it worth replacing copper. That may soon change. In recent years, POF with a bandwidth of 1 gigabit per second over 100 metres has been demonstrated.
Now, Polycom, a European Union-funded collaboration between researchers across Europe, has shown how to squeeze more data into a POF, bringing it a step closer to the market. Polycom has produced an all-optical switch within a POF that can turn an optical signal on and off on in a matter of femtoseconds.
Using an array of these switches it is possible to introduce a technique called time division multiplexing, in which two or more data streams are divided into small chunks of short duration before the various segments are interleaved together and sent down the same fibre. [click to continue…]
For people fed up with their mobile telephone or iPod batteries running out, Japan’s Toshiba Corp announced today the launch of a portable fuel-cell that can power up digital gadgets on the move.
With an injection of methanol, the fuel-cell generates electricity through a chemical reaction with oxygen to recharge mobile digital electronic devices via a USB cable. The high-tech giant, which sees a bright future for fuel cells, said battery exhaustion had become a “major concern” due to the rising power consumption of mobile electronic devices.
It said the palm-sized fuel-cell, called Dynario, “delivers almost instant refuelling that untethers electrical equipment from AC adapters and power outlets.” [click to continue…]
