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Computers should be fun. Part 1: History

I got involved with computers because I thought anything that had to do with technology was fun; therefore, I figured computers should be fun, too. I have my friend Jack to thank for introducing me to computers and getting me started in my career as a computer repair...

Tunneling your way through the Internet

“Surfing” the Internet used to be a popular pastime. You hopped on your computer surfboard and rode the waves of the Internet, randomly surfing and exploring from one website to the next. In recent years, though, random Internet surfing has become a much more...

Hackers, crackers and Feds, oh my!

After a five-year sabbatical, I am once again preparing myself to visit sunny Las Vegas to attend the annual Defcon computer security conference. Billed as “the largest underground hacking event in the world,” Defcon is always attended by an intriguing...

The Internet good guys win one, for a change

To not as much fanfare as I thought the story deserved, news outlets covered the U.S. Department of Justice’s June 2 announcement that a coordinated multi-national effort had led to the actual arrest of some big-time Internet criminals, and the crippling of one...

How I murdered my hard drive

There I was, merrily copying some files from my desktop computer to an external hard drive, when the unthinkable happened: I accidentally murdered my external hard drive. It was a really nice external hard drive, too, a three terabyte drive made by Seagate. One...