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2008 June 06

Symantec Releases XP SP3 Fix

In a true case of the lesser of two evils, Symantec has released a tool that fixes the registry corruption issues found on certain machines when the Service Pack 3 for Windows XP is installed.
The story given is that the Symantec product causes part of the problem observed (Microsoft is responsible for the rest, but [...]

Icahn, Trump, and Their Ilk

Carl Icahn, Donald Trump, and so many others like them have the same problem. These people achieve a great deal of success in a very narrow set of circumstances, and suddenly they believe that they have the solution to every problem that exists today.
Icahn has made lots of money breaking up companies, shaking up boards [...]

Want a Truly ‘Green’ Hard Drive?

Sometimes, to make something better, and more progressive, it is necessary to go back, and check something from the past, and evaluate if choices made then can be mitigated today to produce something better.
Such is the case with ‘green hard drives’. Western Digital is producing drives that are given the moniker ‘green’ because they use [...]

Top 5 Antivirus Applications

The people over at Lifehacker have run a small, non-scientific study, compiling statistics on the most popular [best] antivirus applications.
AVG came out on top, with a 33% share of the votes, which is not surprising, as it is one of the products that has a free version. Surprisingly, NOD32, a product that has no [...]

Those Who Don’t Study History…

are doomed to repeat it. So says the maxim.
Get ready for some more repetition.
It appears that the powers that be at Staples were asleep during the last time the idea of disposable DVDs was tried. If these people were awake, they certainly were not paying attention.
The effort failed miserably. Other than the possible ‘Mission: Impossible’ [...]

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