2006 August

Windows Vista uses a feature called User Account Control or UAC to limit the privileges of regular user accounts. UAC ensures that all user accounts that are not part of the local administrators group run with no administrative privileges. This feature is enabled by default. However, in some situations you may want to disable it [...]

This week’s Family First pick is one I just happened to have stumbled upon (as so many of them are). I’ll be getting on a plane Sunday to fly to Raleigh, North Carolina for a week of training. I’ve never been there before, so I wanted to check out the area beforehand.
Sure, there’s Google Maps, [...]

This week, we’re reporting to you live from Alaska! To be more specific, we’re sitting in the waters of the Pacific Northwest on an Alaskan cruise - being able to get online through the ship’s satellite system, with our personal Internet connection sponsored by Pluggd. As I mentioned at the end of last week, we’ll [...]

PC World’s picks range from industrial strength programs to those with fewer features and simpler interfaces.

You are a Devastation Zone Trooper and one of the Blue Star Alliance’s toughest… hardened in combat and trained for action!
During a space border patrol, you receive a code red distress call. The Rakkai Empire is invading the planet! As one of only a few highly skilled survivors, you must use overwhelming firepower and [...]

The way that we receive information has changed quite a bit over the years. Newspapers used to be the standard, but as television became more popular, people began to migrate over to the Idiot Box. When the Internet first came along, the public was impressed with the speed at which we could receive news, but [...]

A couple of remarks…
First of all, I commented in my last column about Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer beta, which I’m using to compose this and like a lot. However, I may have misled you about the size of the program.

Once you connect to the Internet, your computer becomes vulnerable to Internet attacks. If you use Internet Explorer as your Web browser, it has numerous features that you can use to protect your computer against Internet attacks and harmful viruses.
Even though the Web browser includes these security features, your efforts to secure your computer [...]

Windows 2000 and XP only support a single local Group Policy Object (GPO). One of the really nifty features in Windows Vista is that you can create multiple local GPOs. This means that you can create local GPOs for different users that log on to the computer.
To create multiple local GPOs in Windows Vista:

Click [...]

We baby boomers are a stubborn lot. We grew up listening to mom and dad’s weird, old music (which many of us have grown to appreciate later in our own lives). We found our own music, and it was christened rock and roll.
We may sound like snobs to the kids who don’t remember the ’70s, [...]