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...
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...
By in large, our government systems and agencies do a fairly good job. Services and protections are provided, and things generally flow in a positive way. If they didn’t, our country would be in total chaos. Nevertheless, sometimes an idea comes along that is...
Without much general media fanfare, Microsoft is finally releasing version 7 of its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browsing program. Pardon me if I’m less than excited. After grinding competitor Netscape into dust during the infamous “browser wars” of...