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, [/tags]
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 [...]
I remember years ago thinking that many people who were using pirated copies of Windows XP deserved what they got by not being able to take advantage of updates or upgrades provided by Microsoft. But as the years have passed it became apparent that some people who were using pirated copies of Windows XP may [...]
Mechanical hard disks have been around since computers were in ‘knickers’, and they have provided us with reliable service over the years. But even as our systems became faster with the use of higher cpu speeds, and now multi-core processing, plus more RAM, for the most part we still have relied on the mechanical hard [...]
It seems that ever since Google announced that they were purchasing Double-Click, another Internet advertising business, plus their intentions to get into radio and TV advertising, some now are viewing Google as a monopoly. Privacy groups, businesses of all types [including Microsoft] and some individuals are looking at Google as becoming a major [...]
For you folks who want to be one of the first to try new software, Microsoft has opened their testing of Windows Server to the public for Longhorn Beta 3 effective immediately. Microsoft describes their new build as:
Microsoft Windows Server code name “Longhorn” is the next generation of the Windows Server operating system that helps [...]
It happens to all of us. A friend or family member asks us for instruction on how to do something on the computer, which we know will not only be difficult to explain, but also time consuming. We also know from past experiences that this will also result in a flood of emails being sent [...]
Microsoft is warning those who are using Microsoft Vista Beta software to upgrade before May 31, 2007 so as not to lose data. This affects those who are still using Windows Vista Beta 2, RC1 and RC2. Users will be able to access their systems after May 31, 2007 in two hour increments only to [...]
In the next 60 days or so, the folks over at Linspire are promising some major changes, some of which sound real exciting and should make using Linux even easier for us to use. If I am reading this correctly, and I think I am, it sounds like Freespire will be based on Ubuntu version [...]
It seems that the folks over at PCLinuxOS are taking it serious the hope of having OEM’s distribute pre-installed copies of Linux on computer systems and are offering a free certification program to prove their point. Though certification by Linux software companies is not new, most charge a fee for certification. The folks at PCLinuxOS [...]
The contest began with a couple of MacBooks which were fully patched with the latest 25 fixes from Apple. A bounty of $10,000 plus a new MacBook was the prize. The occasion was a security event being held in Vancover, British Columbia and two Mac nerds were in control. It took them 9 hours [...]
I was sent a link for a web site that calls itself “Exploit Prevention Labs” and it appears to be hosted by someone called Roger Thompson. He is alleging that some Google sponsored links may send unsuspecting surfers to be redirected to a possible malicious site instead of the legitimate site you wish to see. [...]
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