2004 October

Viruses & Spyware & Worms, oh, my!
Lately it seems like not a day goes by we don’t hear about some new kind of threat aimed at wreaking havoc across machines connected to the Internet. While products other than Microsoft’s are certainly vulnerable, due to anti-Microsoft sentiment coupled with the massive installed base, Microsoft products seem [...]

Climb to the top of the ladder by answering fun questions from the Trivia Machine! The game features thousands of trivia questions across nine fun categories. The unique gameplay involves strategy as well as trivia knowledge… it’s challenging and entertaining! New questions are downloaded automatically so you may never see the same question twice.

Modern games are so focused on intense action that you usually don’t even have to think about what you’re doing. Running around while holding down the trigger button often proves to be the best strategy for most games. Some of us actually prefer to think about and plan our moves before we make them. If [...]

When traveling, or when any other long stretch of monotony is placed upon you, it’s a good idea to use things that will help to pass the time. Some read books, others use laptops, and even more people can be found listening to portable music players. Let’s also not forget the individuals who opt to [...]

Q: There are several open wireless networks that I use while I’m out and about. On a couple of occasions I have done some online banking while I’m on these networks, but after reading about all of the security problems, I’m becoming a little uneasy. Should I be concerned?

I didn’t get my associates degree online. Oh no. I got it the old-fashioned way, with my butt in an uncomfortable seat. I confess. I earned my two-year degree over too too many years–by attending a county college. There was little talk of online associate degrees, or any online degrees for that matter, back in [...]

Through the miracle of modern science and medicine, we are doing more to improve the quality and length of life in the world today. The quality of care, the type and variety of medicines, and the miracle of miracles, the ability to transplant from one body to another the gift of life. Today’s Family First [...]

I’m making oodles of progress in my quest to finish a Failsafe guide on installing XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). The majority of the eBook is completed; all that is left now is to finish off the “post installation” section, make a video tutorial, answer 300 e-mails related to SP2, and put together a [...]

Spammers. E-mail marketing at its worst. Who among us has not asked themselves “Who are these spammers, and why do they do it?”
It is this question, among many others, which Brian McWilliams so deftly answers in Spam Kings, a new book just published by O’Reilly, the people who bring us all those incomprehensible books [...]

The idea of a talking computer came into existence long before the PC was ever born. Yet science-fiction aside, the reality is that most people’s PCs don’t actually speak to them at all. We speak to them, whether through voice recognition or desperation, but it’s a one-way thing.