Can’t decide between an Eee and a Wind? A Mini note or an Aspire One? Believe it or not, there’s a bunch of old school smaller laptops that may do the job for less money. We took a look at 7 old school ultraportables.

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Leigh Dyer looks at Sun’s attempts to keep Solaris relevant in a Linux world.

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Network reporting tools are a necessary evil for the SME. We unravel the mysteries of Syslog

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Tim Dean explores the jargon and acronyms of monitor technology in our monthly tech term glossary.

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IBMs IT infrastructure has a very public face in the form of the official Olympic Web site. By the end of the Games it will have received an estimated 1.4 billion page views or the equivalent of sever

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