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Edmund Burke, an eighteenth-century writer and philosopher said “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” If spreading tolerance and stopping hatred is important to you, the following sites offer both historical perspective and concrete action items.

Gazette reader Diane M. writes:

Dear Dennis,

I just love getting your newsletters! They have helped me so much in the past. My question is in regard to a process named ccApp.exe: when I shut down my computer, I often have to wait for a long time before it actually shuts down to reboot. Most of the [...]

One of the most common and untreated medical conditions in our country is high blood pressure. Millions of people have it, and aren’t even aware of it, or what the symptoms of it are. In this age of medical miracles, this silent killer should be understood to a greater extent, and one way to do [...]

If you’re an avid software downloader, no doubt you’ve heard of BitTorrent by now. You’re not a dummy if you haven’t yet, but you might be a dummy if you don’t pick up BitTorrent for Dummies when it’s released. Co-authored by a good friend, you’re in for a good tutorial or two:
BitTorrent has the potential [...]

What can Ez SpaceGuard do for you? It can get your system running at peak performance by keeping it clean. Protect your privacy from prying eyes, showing you what others both local and remote can find about you. Support for all three Major Internet Browsers:

Clears Internet Explorer cache and history
Cleans Firefox browser cache and history
Cleans [...]

You should never stop learning or at least trying to learn. There is so much information out there in the world today that is just begging for you to dive into it and pick it up as a hobby or for a career. How can you quiz yourself on these topics of information, [...]

I really used to enjoy going to the library when I was younger. These days, I’m more of a Barnes & Noble guy, but the love for rooms full of books is still with me. I don’t read nearly enough print literature anymore due to the sheer amount of information that I take in through [...]

Picking up loose ends about various aspects of helping seniors protect their data by backing up safely:
Last week I told about a client who has a home business and several workstations connected over a LAN. He had three hard drives go bad in a short time on the server that stored his backup data. The [...]

There are a number of journaling programs out there, but the ones I’ve looked at all had cutesy interfaces, or calculated your horoscope and biorhythms and counted the change in your pockets by radar while registering all the full moons since the birth of Herod, or the code is messed up, or you have to [...]

Although there are many benefits to installing the latest service pack on your computer, there can also be a downside. One such downside with installing service pack 2 for Windows XP is that some programs may no longer function. Typically, the programs you need to be concerned about are those programs considered to be “older.”
Microsoft [...]