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- My father, the casemodder
- I love hearing about these wacky aesthetic computer modifications that people do. While a lot of them definitely have the "cool" factor, most aren't exactly useful or practical. But when I heard about one particular "casemod" from one of my readers, I was intrigued. It just so happened that this...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night
- Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night.....Our arrogance is our own demise. It's that simple. ]:)We already have a crippled two-level systemIt's called Medicare/Medicaid.And once again the author shows his ignorance of economics. In a truly private, competitive health care system, if universal electronic records provided increased profits,...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Episode 61 - The Smelly Laptop
- If you haven't heard the news, Jerry Seinfeld has recently been hired to do an entire campaign of advertisements for Microsoft. When I learned of this, I thought of a classic Seinfeld episode that could be re-enacted, with only a few minor dialogue changes to bring it up to date....
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Security vs. convenience: Apple chooses poorly
- Security vs. convenience: Apple chooses poorlyWhat if..they need to install diagnostic software?You are kidding, right?So you change your password when you get it back. Or change it before you send it in.It's the same in the Windows world - you pretty much need and Admin password to do anything.This...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Security vs. convenience: Apple chooses poorly
- Guest post by Oliver Day My PowerBook is in the third year of its life and has begun falling apart on a regular basis. I've had the laptop in for repair at least five times this year alone. Every time I bring my laptop...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- RegCross Registry Cleaner - Limpiar PC (exe)
- RegCross is easy to use and you can manually clean your PC from the Comfort of your Home. No more headaches for leaving your computer with a technician that costs a lot of money. RegCross cleans and optimizes the registry of your computer. The windows registry contains information and settings...
- Software downloads 2008-08-08
- Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again
- Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over againCerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again[i]Rather than a volume cap, I suggest the introduction of transmission rate caps, which would allow users to purchase access to the Internet at a given minimum data rate and be free...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.
- LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.It hasn't been that long ago...my company got rid of its last Green screen based network in favor of a fancy Windows based network at several of our branch offices. Guess what. We didn't pick up one iota of productivity gain. We...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Airport security part 6: Skimming at airport kiosks
- We've talked a lot about airport security here see other links at the bottom of this article, but one thing we haven't covered yet is airport kiosks. Not that they haven't caught my attention, there's just so much wrong at the airport, it takes time to cover it all. Richard...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...
- Shortly after I posted my diatribe on my problems with my DIRECTV HD receivers and the company's horrible customer service, I was contacted by Stuart Sweet, a moderator on a popular Satellite TV forums site, DBSTalk. Apparently, my post had created quite a stir and I was asked to register...
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- DIRECTV, what about "Make the products work" and "Keep the customers happy" do you not understand?
- DIRECTV, what about "Make the products work" and "Keep the customers happy" do you not understand?DIRECTV postJason - Sounds like an incredibly frustrating experience. I am really surprised the DirecTV employee would suggest disconnecting your service. The "D-word" should never be initiated or used by the employee -- Call Center...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- IT pros: Choose a side
- IT pros: Choose a sideNot so Black and White.The problem of where IT and IT employees fit into the business has never been as black and white as it's been portrayed. The "glass house" concept from the mainframe days didn't work to meet the real needs of the business -...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Gateway FX541XT
- Gateway's FX541XT occupies a strange gaming PC middle ground. At $3,500, it's not in the same price category as high-end PCs such as Dell's XPS 730 H2C, but it's also about $2,000 more than the emergent $1,500 gaming desktop we've seen this year, most recently in the Maingear Prelude....
- Product reviews 2008-06-18
- Cable: Act, Don't React
- Cable companies are no longer just TV programming suppliers. They are mega-utilities, for visual, text and spoken communication. And when service goes out, you're not just cut off from entertainment in the living room, you're cut off from work and friends. The question becomes, very quickly, how...
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Privacy flaw exposes Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan's private MySpace photos
- The recently introduced data availability initiative at MySpace allowing everyone to share their profile data with other community and social networking sites across the Web, has just suffered its first major privacy flaw exposing the private photos of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, prompting Yahoo and MySpace to disable the...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Does OpenOffice.org fall short?
- Here's a bit from occasional contributor Imagineer66 in response to my throw-away comment that choosing between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice on functionality is like choosing between tweedle dum and tweedle dee: I am past-president for our local Lunix User Group and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- What's in a name? For LimeLeap, apparently, a whole lot
- Someone asked me the other day if I thought IT solution providers (what you might call a reseller, VAR or systems integrator) could build a reasonable branding message around green tech or environmental issues. While I haven't seen a whole lot of these companies do anything publicly, two jumped to...
- Blog posts 2008-06-01
- Sabotage and the cost of change
- Sabotage and the cost of changeNot doing a very good job......of keeping the confidentiality of your clients. From what you have written, it's easy to guess that there is only one provincial political party that you would even consider doing work for, and it's not the Liberals.Only question is...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- rXpress (exe)
- rXpress assessment determines printer inventory, print meters & volumes for managed service quotes & corporate print management. rXpress may be used for printing assessments and to track your print vendor's billing information. rXpress facilitates automatic toner ordering and service technician scheduling. Use as often as you wish by simply re-registering....
- Software downloads 2008-05-15
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