Revived Fervor for Smart Monitors Linked to a Server

SAN FRANCISCO — Instead of having a big, loud and complex computer on your desk, what if you could have a quiet, thin machine that rarely needed an upgrade or a fix?Skip to next paragraph Hewlett-Packard’s version of a so-called thin client and monitor, top, and the Hot-E device from ThinLinX, above. Enlarge This Image JetBlue AirwaysEmployees of JetBlue at Kennedy Airport using thin clients connected to remote servers that handle the processing of data. That has been the goal of many technology companies over the last 15 or so years. They have...

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Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User

“One of these days, I’m going to write a book called, ‘The Basics.’ It’s going to be a compendium of the essential tech bits that you just assume everyone knows–but you’re wrong.“(I’ll never forget watching a book editor at a publishing house painstakingly drag across a word in a word processor to select it. After 10 minutes of this, I couldn’t stand it. ‘Why don’t you just double-click the word?’ She had no clue you could do that!)”Many readers chimed in with other “basics” that they assumed every computer user knew–but soon discovered that what’s...

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