Instruction

I sometimes enjoy playing with codes and ciphers. In fact, a long time ago (eighth grade, 1966), I got my introduction to cryptography from a book aptly named Codes and Ciphers written by Alexander d’Agapeyeff. My friends and I had some good laughs getting caught passing encoded notes in class; the nun couldn’t decipher them. [...]

Most people do, of course, and the best cartoons are the ones that make learning  tough lessons a little easier. PC security lessons are hard for the non-geek user to learn and most people learn them only after getting burned by malware, becoming a victim of identity theft, or suffering financial loss from online fraud. We IT security [...]

I get a lot of ”Ask the Geek” emails from people whose computers won’t shut down properly, either hanging up or rebooting endlessly. (Sometimes, nothing at all happens and you have to press and hold the power button.) Rather than trying to answer each question, I figure it’s time I made this tip available.
So, I wrote a [...]

The Windows Vista beta program is finished and the product has been released to manufacturing, so you can’t go out and download it anymore (at least not from Microsoft). But you can still test drive Vista–as well as Microsoft’s other OS, Office and server products–at TechNet Virtual Labs.
From the site: “Quickly evaluate and test [...]