Bill Detwiler

If not the first home computer, Ed Roberts’ Altair 8800 was definitely the first successful one. Erik Klein, vintage computer collector and Webmaster of Vintage-computer.com, takes you inside the Altair 8800 as he restores one of these classic machines.

Execs show off new Sun Fires and its tower of blade power, the Sun Blade 8000, code-named Andromeda.

Hewlett-Packard plans to offer student discounts on new PCs.

CNET takes an inside look at Firefox 2 (Bon Echo) beta 1, with images of its new features.

The Hewlett-Packard office on Page Mill Road in Palo Alto, Calif., is a time capsule of a bygone tech era.

Microsoft’s Private Folder 1.0 lets users store files in an encrypted, password-protected folder. This gallery’s 30-plus images show the installation process, Private Folder in action, and what happens with you uninstall the application.

You can download Private Folder 1.0 from Microsoft’s Web site.

Read my blog for an explanation of why I believe Private Folder 1.0 could mean headaches for both IT pros and end-users.

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An open-source design in a world of proprietary fonts, DejaVu is catching on for some flavors of Linux.

The Big Green Bus from Dartmouth College runs on vegetable oil from deep fat fryers.

review A new breed of portable speakers sound a lot better than the tinny models you might remember from the Walkman days.

Sun’s x86 overhaul continues with the launch of three significant new Opteron servers. Here’s a look at them.

Zero Assumption Recovery (ZAR) allows you to recover deleted data from within Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. ZAR can recover data from disks that are (or were) formatted FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS, ext2 partitions and digital cameras.

Like with a bad movie that achieves cult status because it’s just that bad, we love to hate something about these unlucky products and downloadable duds from the past three months.