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Category Archives: Computing
Dokken vs Chicken: Norton Antivirus Firewall
This is Stacy’s fault and much thanks to her for pointing me towards these. The premise: what if Dokken were a virus and a chicken was your hard drive.
If you want to Deny Dokken access to your files…
…and should you want to Accept their attack:
Apparently they made stupid internet piles of money for doing so.
10 reasons why Windows XP will be around a while | TechRepublic.com
Now, admittedly, I haven’t played with Windows 7 yet, and I actually have heard good things about it, but I’m apparently not anywhere near the only person not in a rush to ditch XP.
TechPosters: Technical Posters and Cheats for IT Guys
I just found out about this site yesterday and am already pulling stuff from it. Aside from the SQL 2000 System Tables poster, you can find damn near every poster and reference list anyone has put out there when it comes to computing.
If this interests you at all, you should have fun perusing the site.
Computer hardware poster 1.7 by ~Sonic840 on deviantART
Still a work in progress, but this PC hardware chart is pretty damned cool.
I plan on printing it as a nice reference. Lord knows where I’ll hang it up though.
How-to: E-mail
For some reason, I read random how-to articles. I’ve got a couple email related ones to share with you today.
For your consideration, here is one related to better email etiquette, which you have to admit is probably something we ALL need a refresher on.
The other is strictly tied to Google Mail, which I use a lot, and comes in a series of tips at increasing levels of difficulty.
Give them a look. You’ll probably learn a few things you can put to use right away.
Unfair and prickly
So, I’m trolling through the job ads this morning and then bounce over to CNN to check on the news (yes, that IS entertainment for me). Anyways, our unofficial government news agency FoxNews is suing Al Franken because they don’t like the title of his book – nor likely the content of it either. Just goes to show how whiny people get when you give ’em a little power.
Some of you may have come across that nasty MSBlaster/LoveSan worm. Hopefully you do not have it on your computer, but if you do, come on back after your computer reboots.
You back yet? Okay, take a visit over to this link, which will give you directions on where to get your relevant Windows updates. I will give you to quick links to McAfee and Norton’s advice as well. Good luck out there.
A little basic help for ya
I have squandered a lot of time trying to figure out how to make simple explanatory pages for people on how to use their computers and the net. So, I went looking and I found some people who can do it a whole lot better than I can.
If you know people who need help learning the basics of the internet, point them to BBC’s Webwise page. There’s also a really basic tutorial on computers too. They’ll thank you for it.
With Leslie being gone over the past couple of weekends on interviews I have been tinkering about with some ideas for pages and content. Hopefully you’ll see a bit of that in the upcoming weeks.