Entries for the 'PC' Category

 As many of you may know, we used last week’s Oktoberfest party as an unofficial house warming party for our new office space. In addition to having a great turnout despite uncooperative weather, the Kinect Demo team from FedEx Day 2010 put in some extra hours to get our new display case setup to welcome guests. If you haven’t seen the display case, an early video is available here,... [Read the rest of this blog...]

At DMC we pride ourselves on being tech-savvy and using appropriate technology to solve common problems.  So as we moved to our new office space this month, we didn't want to be constrained by the wires that link to our new conference room projectors and wall mounted displays.  The solution we have implemented is the InFocus LiteShow III.  We have three of these on our office ne... [Read the rest of this blog...]

Norton Ghost's mulitcast cloning utility proved to be an effective way to reduce install and setup time on multiple identical PC based test stands running a custom LabVIEW test application.  The stored hard drive images were also very useful in the field for restoring the test stand to a known, clean operating state.

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I was recently called up by a past customer who was using XP Windows embedded on an HP Neoware Thin Client who had lost their hard drive image and needed the machine restored. These types of machines are becoming more and more common, used as terminals for ATM’s, self checkout terminals, etc. They are moderately low cost, light, flexible platforms that don’t have any moving components li... [Read the rest of this blog...]

We have added a few new Case Studies that showcase two of the business areas in which we recently have had a number of projects: Sharepoint Development and Battery Testing.

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The Devcon command line utility is a versatile and powerful way to execute system level operations on any device connected to a computer.  It proved particularly useful for implementing a rescue strategy for unresponsive USB devices in a long term testing application.

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I recently deployed a system where I needed a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 to automatically logon after a shutdown, blackout or any other power loss to the system. Here's what I did to solve this issue: Step 1. Disable Event Tracker In Windows Server 2003 the “Display Shutdown Event Tracker” is enabled by default. This means, that if your server crashes you need to manually input what cau... [Read the rest of this blog...]

For purposes of ghosting SysPrepped PC's it could be important to switch Windows XP to AHCI after installing Windows.  We have been doing this with our Dell laptops. Our baseline SysPrep image works well on Dell Precision M65's and M4300's, which do not support AHCI.  The new Dell Precision M4400's we have been ordering do.  In order to not re-create the image from a fresh Window... [Read the rest of this blog...]