Tech Talk

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Remember the scene from the movie Mission Impossible where Tom Cruise illegally enters a locked-down vault, strapped to a harness hanging by a rope; alarms set to blare at the slightest room temperature change, sound, or touch of the floor; later frantically pulled through a ceiling vent when an agency’s CTO enters a room after completing a retina scan?

Not striking a nerve? How about the last time you:

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Here's more techno-jargon you'll find in the midst of your emails and telephone conversations with Thinlabs representatives - a list of key terms and simple definitions in English that you can understand (N thru Z - updated periodically).  If you want the more technical info, click on the links where available.

  • Parallel Port - connection point on a system for attaching older (often called legacy) devices (such as printers)...
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You may see or hear a bunch of techno-jargon thrown around in the midst of your emails and telephone conversations with Thinlabs representatives - here is a list of some key terms and simple definitions in English that you can understand (A thru M - updated periodically). If you want a more technical explanation, click on the links where available.

  • All-In-One - a system in which a computer case and system components are integrated into the monitor so that an entire...
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Thinlabs latest all-in-one integrated computers and box client modules with Quad Core technology support Microsoft’s newest low-priced subscription-based product, Office 365, for customers incorporating the solution into their cloud-based enterprise.

Highlights of Office 365 include:

  • Automatic software updates - no more worrying about keeping track of updates and service packs
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Why does Thinlabs All-In-One Computers and box client modules feature Solid State Drives instead of Hard Disk Drives in our devices?

Simply put, Solid State Drives, available in a variety of form factors including traditional HDD form factor, SATA and mSATA Disk On Modules, offer a host of benefits over Hard Disk Drives, including:

  • Much quicker bootup time (50-70% on average)
  • Much faster data accessibility time - all data on a SSD can be accessed by a system simultaneously
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RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology presents opportunities for revolutionizing and streamlining a company’s supply chain management process. Utilizing what is essentially the next-generation barcode, RFID tags have the advantage of using secure read-write technology to maintain a complete product history on the tag itself.

Like a vehicle’s EZ-Pass that government agencies use to track cars and automate toll management instead of sorting quarters from “Exact Change” lines, companies can update their product counts immediately by simply...

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An IP Code (IEC Standard 60529) is a two-digit number that indicates the resistance ability of an object to dust & solids (1st digit) and water (2nd digit), respectively, by mechanical casings and electrical enclosures.  The higher the number, the more resistant the object is.

A code of IP54, for example, indicates protection against dust. along with protection against water sprays from any direction, with limited ingress permitted.

Numbers indicate protection against an object, dust or liquid as follows:

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Many educational institutions of all sizes are behind the times in the technology department, working with donated or used second-hand equipment which is well-appreciated but deficient by today’s standards; handcuffed by miniscule budgets due to constant constraints delivered from educational boards and local governmental bodies that think small instead of seeing the big picture.

What they fail to realize is that a properly implemented Thinlabs thin client desktop virtualization solution will bring significant benefits, transforming it into a well-run modern...

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The back wall of the warehouse housing your multi-million dollar three-facility manufacturing operation over the years has transformed into a dizzying array of time cards of your hourly employees and contractors.

Each Wednesday your payroll specialist manually collects and tabulates the necessary payroll data from those cards, receives faxes and phone calls from off-site temporary agency contractors, and follows it up with a thirty-five minute phone call to a representative of your favorite payroll service.

What should be a barrage of smiling, money-in-hand faces the...

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When’s the last time that you sat down to access the internet at a public computer of a hotel business center on a business trip or vacation, or a shared system of a local coffee shop, and see auto-generated hyperlinks of the last forty or fifty websites accessed by previous users while typing?

The majority of the time, computers in public areas are generic low-end desktop PCs with minimal security guidelines and out-dated virus or spyware protection (if there’s any installed at all), not only allowing users to change settings and passwords without ownership knowledge, but risking...

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