2005 November

November 30, 1835
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 - 1910) is one of America’s greatest authors and humorists. He was celebrated in his time, and despite being frequently banned, is still read on campuses today. Of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Ernest Hemingway said, “…all American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There [...]

Okay quick, what’s a Chitika?
No, it’s not one of those terra-cotta pets that grows grass “hair.” Not, Chitika is the name of the online eMiniMall company that allows you to set up minimalls on your Web site and make some extra money.
Pretty cool, huh? So, is that the end of the story?
Well, in a word, [...]

As you likely already caught with the announcement earlier this evening, we officially unveiled our Web search service today. For several weeks now, you’ve undoubtedly witnessed links from the site gada.be - these placements within Lockergnome’s universe were quite intentional. Normally, if I were to pick out keywords for a particular article, you’d have them [...]

On any given day, all of us go through an abundance of information on our computers. That fact may not be evident right off the bat, but if you think back on a normal day of activity on the computer, I’m willing to assume that you probably can’t remember every single thing that you did. [...]

These free programs (as selected by PC World) provide power without the high price of software suites.

When you’re stuck in one location for long enough, you begin to only think in terms of what’s around you, and you tend forget about the big picture on a global scale. This planet is huge, and there’s a lot more to see than that convenience store that’s just down the street from where you [...]

I am writing this on my Dell Inspiron 8600 with an external hard drive attached. It is on a stand that slides under my bed and works similar to the food trays in a hospital. Yup, me and my two little dogs are in the sack, with lots of pillows, TV, surround sound, [...]

When you install Windows Server 2003, there are several tools included with the operating system that can be used to troubleshoot problems. What you may not know is that there are additional support tools available that are not installed by default.
You can easily install the Support Tools using the Windows Server 2003 CD. To [...]

Windows 2000 introduced the ability to integrate two very important services: DNS and DHCP. Some DNS clients can dynamically update their own resource records with a DNS server, thereby eliminating the need for administrators to do so manually. Some clients do not support dynamic updates so you can configure your DHCP server to update resource [...]

It’s inevitable that some people would sign up for a beta test of a product without really thinking through the ramifications of running relatively untested software on their computer. Not necessarily a crisis if it’s a new Web browser or e-mail program (though losing data is never good!), but would you sign up to help [...]