Connie Devine

As my first re-entry, let me muse about the question of whether to upgrade to the Windows Vista operating system or not. This is not as easy a question as one might imagine, as Chris so eloquently pointed out in his YouTube video.
If you have an older computer, the answer is “probably not.”
Chances are slim [...]

After my initial “opportunities” in trying to get Windows Vista to install on a separate partition on a second hard drive, I must say that I am more and more pleased with what I am seeing.
My first reaction when beginning to work with the new OS was one I had not experienced on a computer [...]

At long last, I’m back on the good ship Vista!
When I last wrote in late June I was waiting out the weather and getting ready to install Vista Beta 2. After the weather cleared, clouds appeared during my attempt to install Vista, Beta 2.

My continuing journey with Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 has gotten nowhere in the last few days. We have been grounded until further notice.
If you live near here, Murphy, NC, or along the East Coast, you have some idea of the weather we have been having. Here we have had cloud to ground lightning every [...]

We meet again. First things first. I was a bit remiss when I mentioned my friend James in my posting yesterday. I did not provide a link to his writings. Look at what James is doing by visiting his site. He has a Vista page located there that discusses dual boot with Vista.

As I mentioned in my previous article, I bought the available video card in town to use with Vista. It is the ATI Radeon 9250 with 256MB. Now this is a very nice card, but just one small thing is missing… Pixel 2.0 shading.

I was bound and determined to not do anymore beta testing after working on XP. I have resisted putting Vista on my desktop all of this time, but I finally have broken down and I am going to give in.
It’s just too much fun for me to get the newest thing around. In [...]

Here we are again, still fighting the good fight. In this installment of a series discussing the elimination, or reduction of spam, I would like to discuss “SPAM BEACONS.”

In part one of this series, we were discussing setting up a primary e-mail address. Once you have chosen a name for your primary e-mail address, the next thing I want you to do involves NOT doing something that seems, on the face of it, a good idea.

As the title suggests, I am going to embark on a series of articles to reduce the amount of spam that you have to deal with on a daily basis. This issue is not going away any time soon, so it is up to us to mitigate the effect that it has on our [...]