Ron Schenone
Should ISPs Be Allowed To Throttle Back Connection Speeds?
First it was Comcast who was caught stopping some users from using P2P sites by what is alleged to either bethrottling back download speeds, or deliberately using false packets to thwart the download. Now it seems that Verizon and AT&T may be doing the same thing. The latest is that congress may be taking another [...]
Windows Vista SP1 beta – Windows XP SP3 beta & Firefox 3 Alpha 8
After returning from vacation I participated in beta testing Windows Vista SP1 and also Windows XP SP3 which I have been running on my test system. On or about Wednesday of this week, I received a strange message from the beta team stating some thing to the affect that they didn’t want people downloading the [...]
Why Do People Send Out This Junk?
This past week I must of received this same email at least a dozen times. Doesn’t anyone ever check out the facts before forwarding this junk and gunk? The latest is that the new US $1 coin doesn’t have the words ‘In God We Trust’ engraved on the coin. If one looks on the rim [...]
Security Updates As Of October 28, 2007
Make sure your system is up to date and that you have the latest protections in place. AVG anti-virus: 10/27/07 Norton anti-virus: 10/24/07 McAfee anti-virus: 10/24/07 Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 10/25/07 Spybot Search and Destroy: 10/24/07 Microsoft Windows Defender: 10/24/07 Nod32: 10/25/07 Updates as of October 28, 2007 6:00am CDT. Tags: avg, norton, mcafee, lavasoft, spybot, defender, [...]
Dell Laptop – Battery Problem
My buddy Charlie in CA. is now having another problem with his Dell laptop which is now about 3 years old. He sent me an email concerning the price of a Dell replacement battery vs an over the counter generic replacement. I advised him to get a Dell replacement battery since his battery now fades [...]
Vista – The Best Windows Yet
With 88 million copies of Windows Vista being sold, one can only conclude that Vista must be the best Windows yet, or people wouldn’t be buying it. The 88 million figure is what Microsoft is reporting as the number of copies sold since Vista was released. Microsoft also reports an increase of revenues which they [...]
Dell & Wal-Mart Rumor – Dell Selling Refurbished Units As New?
It didn’t make any sense to me when I first read it, but one blogger has posted that Wal-Mart would be selling refurbished Dell units as new. This was supposed to me some type of hot insider information the blogger received. RichardatDell left a comment to the brief article which stated: Mark I read your [...]
What Is A Router?
Over at my day job, I write a series of articles for a local newspaper where I once lived, which basically caters to first time computer users which we fondly call ‘newbies’. We usually just take for granted sometimes that some of the terms that we use such as the term ‘router’ is basically understood [...]
Hotfix Available For Vista's DVD R/RW Slow Read Speed
If you are using any flavor of Vista, you may notice that the Read/Write may be slower than what you would normally expect from your system. In Microsoft’s knowledge base article # KB 942869 they describe the problem as: Symptom loadTOCNode (1, ‘symptoms’); On a Windows Vista-based computer, you finish recording an optical disc, such [...]
Linux Wants To Know – Where Is America?
Linux wants to know where are the American desktop users? On October 24th, 2007 I posted information on the Linux survey that was taking place here.But it appears that preliminary reports from the Linux Foundation seem to indicate that American users are not reporting their Linux useage. According to the story over at DesktopLinux.com it [...]
