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Privacy, schmivacy

“Privacy is dead; deal with it.” So said Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy in the year 2000. McNealy is no doubt privy to more than a little inside information, as his company has long been a traditional supplier of powerful computers to big...

Why computer geeks care about politics

Computer geeks are indeed an odd and esoteric bunch, puzzling and sometimes frustrating to people who’ve never studied the intricacies of hard drive failures or Internet Protocol stacks. Nowhere are the oddities of computer geeks more openly on display than at the...

Laptop computers will be king

When I bought my first computer in 1984, I immediately realized the need to easily and quickly move the entire system from one room to another. So, being the do-it-yourselfer that I was raised to be, I constructed a 30″x30″ wooden platform, and mounted the...

Bad guys beat up election websites

Websites are not safe. Just last week, I accidentally infected one of my own computers with some nasty spyware by clicking on the wrong link on the wrong creepy website; at least, I think that’s what happened. Some websites host what are called “drive-by...

Internet Security Basics, Part Seven

The next area to be fixed in our quest for better Internet security is network file/print sharing. When a user attempts to share folders and files from a Windows XP machine, he is met with the following warning: “Network sharing and security. As a security...