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2009 November 01

Those Saying Reverse Osmosis Will Not Power Large Scale Desalination May Be Right

As someone who was never really political until recently, I now get letters and notices of intent from Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein every so often, advising me of such things as the water shortage in California.
Because I know it is not true, as well as being a stickler for precision, I have written back [...]

Microsoft Moves Forward With Windows 7, Still Includes Underwhelming Disk Defrag

Though Windows 7 is a very big step in bringing the operating system into the 21st century in some ways, in others it seems horrendously stuck in the past. The defragment routines included with Windows 7 don’t look, or act, so differently from those first licensed by Microsoft from Symantec (Norton disk defragger called Speeddisk) [...]

What Do Employees (& Everyone Else) Need to Know About Computer Security?

That’s what many people who work in IT ask themselves. What is to be included to get the correct message in place, without bringing in details lost on all but the most knowledgeable?
A small story in Maximum PC speaks of a listing and article found in a business publication, eWeek, that gives the most essential [...]

Ars Technica Premier – Does Anyone Really Need This?

Other than the people at Condé Nast, that is.
I have not visited the site proper for at least 3 weeks, as I have been doing my perusing using RSSOwl, which by the way, has gotten to revision 2.0 and works without incident of any kind. The programmer’s really got it right with this one!
I was [...]

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