Friday, June 19, 2009

Hardware Information and Diagnostic Tools

Hi,

have you ever found difficulty to know what is your computer's mainboard model? which driver is suitable install for it? How about the graphic and audio adapter that build in mainboard?

this info is very important especially for those new buy computer come with free dos, or old computer that lost their driver installation CD.


I would like to suggest this tools to you name HWiNFO and HWiNFO32, both are diagnostic tools and able provide maximum amount of hardware information which enable users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, system integrators and technical experts. It present the retrieved information in a logical and essy understanable way, the retrieved information can exported into various types of reports.

HWiNFO is shareware,it is runs under MS-DOS (i386+), this unregistered version can use for 14 days of trial purposes.

download from official site: http://www.hwinfo.com/download.html

HWiNFO32 is freeware, it provide Graphic User Interface, come with two packages available for download: a self-installing .EXE file and a portable .ZIP file which doesn't require install.

download from official site: http://www.hwinfo.com/download32.html
download portable .zip version from alternative site : http://www.mediafire.com/?zxoz2zohyzn

contact writer: Ngai Siew Kuen
e-mail:s_k_ngai
Subject:[From Blog]Hardware Information and Diagnostic Tools
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Monday, June 8, 2009

China plan to add parental control software into each new PC

中國電腦擬要安裝監察軟件

《華爾街日報》報導,中國擬要求由7月1日起,所有出售的個人電腦,均需安裝封鎖某些網站的軟件。

報導指出,政府已通知全球的個人電腦製造商,但尚未向公眾發布消息。負責發展有關軟件的開發商稱,有關措施是希望保護青少年接觸“有害”的內容,如色情內容。

報導稱,專家分析涉及軟件,發現軟件可傳送個人資料,令電腦出現故障,甚至出現漏洞被黑客入侵。

惠普電腦發言人稱,他們與政府部門研究,最好的解決方法,但他們將集中注意力,令顧客滿意,並符合政府的要求。


Start form 1st July, China government plan to install parental control software into all new Personal Computer, to block users access to certain website.

According to news, government already announce to all computer distributers, but yet announce the detail to public. As the software developer mention, the parental control software aim to protect teenager access to "dangerous" content site, example is porn site.

After analysis the related software, discover that it may send out personal infomation, causing computer not response, even will allow hacker access in through bug.

HP computer provider said, they will research together with the government for the best solution: to fulfill government request, as the same time satisfy those consumers, is their main concerntration.

(華爾街日報)(香港明報)


(source from:星洲互動.2009.06.08)

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Subject:[From Blog]China plan to add parental control software into each new PC

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Friday, April 3, 2009

MacOSX via Pentium D machine

Hi,
Thumbnails below is the specification of the machine that I try to install MacOSX, you may click on each thumbnail to view full size image and read the info inside.
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CPU: Intel Pentium D 915 2.80GHz
Instructions: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, EM64T
Memory: DDR2 512MB
Motherboard chipset: VIA P4M800 Pro / P4 M800 CE
Bios: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Graphic Card: VIA/S3G UniChrome Pro IGP 64.0MB
Sound Card: Realtek AC97 Audio
Network Card: Realtek Family 10/100M Fast Ethernet NIC
CD-Rom: DVD-R / RW Drive (single IDE cable connected, jumper set to master)

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e-mail:s_k_ngai
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