Jim Rapoza

When one thinks of engineers, especially engineers on standards bodies, the last thing that comes to mind is legendary glam and punk rockers. James Williamson is a member of the Standards Association Board of Governors at IEEE and was also until recently a vice president of Technology Standards at Sony. Williamson was also the lead […]

If your main living room television is anything like mine, you’ve probably already run out of space and connections for any new devices. Between things like the satellite box, the DVD player, gaming consoles, etc. there just isn’t any more room for new devices. So while I’ve been intrigued by devices like the Roku, which […]

Usually when a product has single-digit market share (and a low single digit at that), it isn’t considered to be very influential or even relevant. A notable exception is the Opera Web browser: Despite minimal market share (at least on the desktop browser side), Opera has been highly influential, often introducing innovative new browser features […]

My colleague Don Reisinger recently wrote an article where he talked about the rise of netbooks and stated how they were not yet enterprise ready, pointing out their inability to multitask, connect securely to company networks and handle business-class graphics tasks. I have to admit I was a little bit surprised by Don’s article, especially […]

LABS GALLERY: Opera 10 Improves Performance, Tabbed Browsing Options New Look, Layout and Feel Opera 10 introduces an overall new look, layout and feel. Tabbed Browsing Pioneer Opera was an early innovator in the area of tabbed browsing. With Version 10, the tradition continues with an excellent tab system that can be resized to show […]

eWEEK Labs Looks Back at 40 Years of Unix by Jim Rapoza Unix First Edition After AT&T Bell Labs pulled out of the Multics operating system project, two Bell Labs developers—Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie—spent some of their free time in August 1969 building a new operating system (in part to run a game that […]

Few products in the Microsoft portfolio have seen as positive a turnaround as the Internet Information Services Web server. Nine years ago, IIS was a security nightmare that was regularly exploited by dangerous worms and viruses. But, beginning with IIS 6, Microsoft made significant improvements in the security profile of the Web server-improvements that have […]

Windows Server 2008 R2’s New IIS 7.5 Offers Management Improvements Web Server Role As always, Windows Server 2008 R2 administrators can add IIS functionality by adding the Web Server role to their server. Despite the fact that this screen references IIS 7.0, the version supplied with Server 2008 R2 is IIS 7.5. Windows PowerShell Administrators […]

Windows 7s Magical Mystery Tour by Jim Rapoza The Melting Mountains “I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”—Salvador Dali Peace and Love “By the time we got to Woodstock,We were half-a-million strong.”—Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Trippy Trees “There is unrest in the forest,There is trouble with the trees.”—Rush A Strange World “Inner reality is […]

Click here to see the slideshowwin7tripsmall.jpgWhen I test out a new operating system, especially when I’m dealing with early betas and release candidates, I tend to be very utilitarian, focusing on just the hardcore features and capabilities. So it wasn’t until I installed the recently released RTM of Windows 7 that I noticed the wild […]