I received a subscription newsletter from Amazon yesterday and several of the recommendations were for books written about Vista, specifically about how to install Vista and/or using the new operating system. Prices for the titles listed ranged in price from $19.95 to $29.95 depending on the publication. This got me thinking. Does installing and using […]
I guess many of us started out on a Commodore 64 computer system like I did, since this was the first computer system I actually carried home in a box. That was in 1985 and it was on sale at Montgomery Wards for only $699.00, what a deal! You didn’t get a whole lot for […]
Underprivileged children around the world most likely do not care who supplies them with a free laptop, but a battle is brewing for this third world market. Both Intel and OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) appear now to be in competition with each other to see who can provide the best laptop for the lowest […]
Make sure your system is up to date and that you have the latest protections in place.
AVG anti-virus: 04/29/07
Norton anti-virus: 04/25/07
McAfee anti-virus: 04/25/07
Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE: 04/26/07
Spybot Search and Destroy: 04/25/07
Microsoft Windows Defender: 04/25/07
Nod32: 04/27/07
Tags: norton, mcafee, lavasoft, spybot, microsoft, nod32
I’m going to try something new. Sometimes there are some short articles and notes about computer issues that do not require writing an entire article about, because there just isn’t that much information to digest. So I thought that each Sunday I would post some short takes on some of the minor stuff that has […]
What started off as a worthy project to bring laptop systems to the worlds children, now is facing production delays, and the systems may not get into the hands of children until late 2007. Rumors have surfaced that there could be some kind of manufacturing difficulties from the company that is going to produce these […]
Thursday evening the wife was invited over to one of the neighbors to attend a jewelry party. Us husbands know what these kinds of parties usually mean. It is a obligation to make a purchase of a jewelry that you don’t need or want just to keep peace in the hood. It was bad enough […]
Over the years I have repaired a lot of computer systems, and for the most part, computer hardware is fairly reliable. Though it does happen, it is somewhat rare to see a motherboard or cpu fail, unless the system is just plain old. In computer land a system is considered old when it reaches the […]
I was changing a component on my test box yesterday and noticed that the cpu fan was building up some ‘crunge’ on it. A further inspection also revealed that the power supply needed a cleaning as well. Then it hit me. It is time for a spring cleaning of all my systems. During the past […]
There has been a lot of talk recently about Net Neutrality and the fear associated in that some of the large teleco’s may be able to control the content on the Internet. We all expect that when we log onto the Internet that we will be able to surf where we want, view what we […]
