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Sad, But True, (but Funny!) - Anytime you feel dumb, don't worry. Check out the following excerpts from various computer manufacturer's customer support techs;- caller complains that her mouse was hard to control with the dust cover on. The cover turned out to be the plastic bag the mo
09/01/2006

Help Stop Email Abuse - Every day many of the one billion plus people who use the internet receive unsolicited email messages from individuals and organizations.If only 1 out of 4 of the users received one piece of email spam, that would be 250,000,000 peices of electronic junk m
08/28/2006

Windows Service Pack 2 Updates - Are strange things happening with your Microsoft Windows XP computer this week? It could be that you have the "Automatic Update" settting turned on, and your computer is installing something known as "SP2", (Service Pack 2).Service packs are Microsoft's w
04/16/2005

Virtual Environments: Security for Windows - Earlier today I was browsing through a (print) news article about a new form of PC security being developed by Israeli "whiz kid" Zak Dechovich.Later, while reading some online message boards, I saw that three new worm virus warnings were posted on ZDNET a
02/03/2005

Using ANSI Escape Sequences - An ANSI escape sequence is a series of characters (beginning with an escape character or keystroke) that you can use to define functions to MS-DOS. Specifically, you can reassign keys, change graphic functions, and affect cursor movement.This short help
04/10/2004

Standards is a Plural Word - You're shopping for software that "must be compatable with (this or that version of) some standard".Standards change. In reality, computer standards are more suggestions than rules, and in many cases you need only adopt a small sub-set of the standards fe
03/29/2004