Most of us try and keep our machines cleaned periodically from dust and all that. I just retired last year as a heavy machinist where a lot of the work is cast iron. They used a lot of low end Windows NT and 95 desktops and some lasted for 10-15 years with no maintenance. They were always on and...
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At Tech Ed 2011, David Pugmire and I had the pleasure of speaking with Ken Collins from Cogent. He demonstrated the Cogent DataHub WebView product—a product built using Silverlight and backed by cloud services.
The product includes real-time information display from various sensors and...