Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
Friday, September 26th, 2008
There's good and bad here. Good is the fact that the state of Nevada passed a law back in 2005 that as of October 1st this year requires that any business in that state must encrypt all communications that contain personally identifiable information. I wish all states would ...
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
If you’re running Windows XP Pro and you've got it set up with a separate Aministrator account and however many user accounts that each require a password for to logon, sooner or later somebody's going to come to you looking really stressed out like they'd had about six too many ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
A couple of days ago Microsoft made an announcement to warn users that if they installed IE8 Beta 1 prior to updating Windows XP to SP3 that they could be stuck with both SP3 and IE8 if they upgrade IE8 to the Beta 2 version release on 8/28/08.
According to a ...
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Windows Messenger is one of those annoying things that was once a useful tool but has now become more a source of instant message spam than anything else. The trick however is to get rid of the thing, preferably without having to haul your system to a tech or ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Way back in '85 when I got my first computer I knew that there had to be a way to use it to make money. While I was going about life pretty much the same as most folks, from one day to the next, I would occasionally revisit the ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Remember when..
...A ten megabyte hard drive was considered monstrous (and expensive too!)
... "floppy" disks were actually flexible
... Those same "floppy" disks were 5.25 inches and you could only store data on one side of them.
... "640K of ram is enough for anybody"
... The only "color monitor" choices were amber, green ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
I read about this on slashdot recently and then in the last day or so I've gotten a dozen or so emails claiming to be from CNN Alerts. They all had subject lines that read "CNN Alerts: My Custom Alert" or "CNN.com Daily Top 10"
I knew right away that ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Anybody with even a slight understanding of how a hard drive operates knows that there are some problems that go along with it. Because many of the parts require high precision alignment it's entirely too easy to mess that up. Just ask the guy who bought a new ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
I don't know quite what the deal is but lately I've been seeing stories that are trying to push the idea that the mouse as a computer input device is going to die out. The latest I've seen of these stories is an over dramatic Bold type headline on ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
I was trying to install Ubuntu 8.04 today and ran into a problem.
The machine is a 333mhz pentium 2 w/ 384mb ram. A couple days before I had booted the 'live cd' and run it for a while to try it out and it worked fine. Today, I ...
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