Quick Reco’s..
A few items worthy of your consideration.
* Proposed amendments to ECPA would make Orwell squirm
“George Orwell wrote his famous book about Big Brother in 1948. What would he think about the Electronic Communications Privacy Act? Changes to the act are being voted on this week in the U.S. Senate.” Read more..
Computers (and “high tech”) are fundamentally changing.
* Windows 8: It’s only one part of Microsoft’s brave new world
“Just how do you completely rebuild a company? Windows 8 is important but it’s just one step towards the future for Microsoft.” Read more..
* A new checkbox (aka “option”, aka “setting”) Skype users may want to un-check..
They snuck that in during an “update”…
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* Photographers, I recently came across two websites anyone thinking about buying a digital camera should (IMHO) take a look at:
* Cyber Monday: Can The Internet Be Taken Down By Massive DDoS Attacks?
“A security expert from Arbor Networks says bandwidth and performance increases combined with increased sizes of botnets have got service providers worried that large scale DDoS attacks could cause massive Internet interruptions.” Read more..
(… I won’t tell you about the planned hacker “blitzkrieg” attack on US banks… But you can ‘google it’..)
Today’s quote: “Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC’s hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.” ~ Bill Gates
(Sorry, Bill, but I will care [and I will know] ‘cuz I’m not a sheeple.)
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I am a Retired computer & network technician. I used to think the machines were pretty cool. Now I don’t.
They’re anything but.
I regularly posted how-to’s and tricks & tips and general computing advice here starting in 2007. (Use the Search tool to find answers. But be aware, many are rather dated.) Sometimes I answered (your) specific questions in an article if I believed the answer was generally helpful to “everyone”. All the writing you see was my own, typos and all. There always is/was an implied “IMHO” in what you see here.
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