Stop what you’re doing right now, and go ensure that you have a working backup and recovery process in place for your important files. Make sure that both backing up the files and restoring the files work! It’s useless to take backups if you can’t restore them. Now, if you’re a Windows user, go and [...]
Robin “Roblimo” Miller has posted an excellent review of the Windows XP Home Edition operating system over at NewsForge. A long time Linux user, Miller concludes: Given Microsoft’s current development rate, it’s entirely possible that within a few years Windows may be almost as good a choice for most users as Linux, . . . [...]
Adams-Blake Co. has been running its business completely free of Windows for an entire year. Company president Alan Canton tells the full story. Our business is not that different from most others. We have products (books), services (consulting), and employees. If we can go Windowless, others can as well. While the year wasn’t without its [...]
The BBC has done an excellent two-part series on Microsoft. Part one gives an overview on Microsoft’s competition, including Linux and Apple, and includes the revelation that Bill Gates has downloaded and used Firefox, while part two shows how Microsoft plans to beat back its growing competition and maintain its dominant place in the market. [...]
People are actually visiting here looking for technical help with BitTorrent. Here's a nice list of common BitTorrent IO Error messages and the solutions that actually work.
It seems about 65% of my readers still use Windows for whatever reason (work, or games). Microsoft has decided that if your copy of Windows is pirated, you will not have access to Windows Update, and the only way you will get security updates for the computer is via Automatic Updates.
When will businesses, organizations and governments learn that running anything on Windows is asking for trouble? The UK’s Department of Work and Pensions suffered a nearly complete failure of 80% of its computer systems on Monday, and only today have managed to get most everything back to normal and begin clearing the backlog of 60,000 [...]
I make no secret about my love for Linux, and I make no bones about it either. I understand many of you still run Windows and you have good reasons (and sometimes really bad ones) for doing so. But if you must run Windows and connect it to the Internet, please take some steps to secure it, not only for your own sake, but for the rest of us.
Diebold delivering the election to Bush? Say it isn't so! Evidence is mounting that it is, indeed, so.
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