Privacy article
Craig sent me a link to this USA Today article that describes some simple steps you can take to ensure your privacy. Simple apps, tasks increase your privacy manyfold Have a good weekend!
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I don’t know about this
I don’t know what you have to do with a graphic to turn a one-page Word document into a 11.5MB monster, but I now do know exactly what happens when someone tries to send two of them attached in one message to a machine running Outlook 2000 and only 128MB of RAM, and it’s not…
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It’s official!
Last night was, finally, the official beginning of my term as a member of the Friends of the Columbus Library Board of Trustees. (There was a swearing in and everything..) It was an enlightening meeting, in terms of learning about the various ways the Friends work with the library and support the library. It should…
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A sign
When you work in IT for awhile you start to learn to read the signs. Today, I saw one of them, and thought I’d pass along the insight. When your boss heads into your office carrying a pile of IT product marketing materials, you my friend, are about to do a LOT of reading and…
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Anyone tried this out?
The latest issue of WinXPnews points to a fairly interesting little tool that I had not seen before, the Netcraft Anti-phishing toolbar. It apparently gives you the hosting location of the site you’re on and lets you easily report phishing sites. Anyone been using this and have any feedback on how well it works? I…
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XP activation issues?
A reader asked me about a Sony laptop where every time he starts it up, it comes up and says it needs to be activated. Then it comes up and says “Windows is already activated” and contiues on in this circular logic pattern. It’s been happening since installing the MS Anti-spyware and updating WMP, but…