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Computer New Year’s resolutions

Most New Year’s resolutions are about as long-lived as a Windows 98 network at a hacker’s convention.  That is to say, New Year’s resolutions are made, broken and forgotten faster than you can say “jack be nimble.”  Why do we even bother...

Are you obeying new e-records rules?

All American businesses, regardless of size, that could ever be involved in federal court litigation or agency inquiries are now required to store and be able to retrieve electronic records, according to new rules that quietly took effect on December 1. If your...

New Windows Vista upgrade a big ho-hum

Email, surfing the Internet and typing letters: that’s what about 90% of average, non-corporate computer users do with their expensive machines.  Throw in looking at photos from Grandma’s digital camera, viewing a few DVDs, playing some games and listening...

Techno-thanks for the good things

I sometimes wonder if folks reading my column think that I’m just a crusty, cranky curmudgeon who can’t see the good in anything.  It seems that if I’m not railing against Microsoft for being a bunch of Internet racketeers, then I’m ranting...

Delete your files for good

I wrote an article last year called Computer Forensics 101, which described the virtual impossibility (outside of physically destroying the hard drive) of truly deleting a file from your computer.  With that in mind, you still need to “sanitize” an old...