Choosing a creative host name theme for a bunch of computers can be difficult. I’ve hopefully made the process somewhat easier by seeding some simple ideas for you to build upon.
Windows is such a terrible unoperating system that I find myself once a year or so having to wipe a computer I don’t care much about and reinstall everything rather than trying to solve whatever particular problem was surfaced — in stark contrast to troubleshooting my most-often-used computers during which I’d rather suffer losing my [...]
When you view the Network Map on Windows Vista, you can’t see Windows XP computers on the network diagram. But Microsoft says Vista is not to blame.
The company for which I work is in the information security business. You remember George Orwell’s 1984? The stuff created here is Big Brother v2006 and it’s freaking scary! The office computer is no longer your friend (assuming it ever was) and instead it’s purpose is to monitor everything — including printing, emailing, web surfing, [...]
Who in their right minds wants Microsoft full access to whatever information they choose to send to themselves when you accidentally click on the box that pops up wanting you to report an application error or system crash to Microsoft? Not me! I personally find screaming an obscenity at the offending application much more therapeutic [...]
Here’s an interesting question from a reader:
My Dad got a new computer last week which he had me help set up and configure. One of the things I noticed was that the 40GB hard drive he ordered didn’t seem to be as large as advertised. I checked the drive by accessing Properties in My Computer; [...]
I’m paranoid when it comes to the Internet: email, surfing, downloads, shareware, everything. And I’m not exactly a newbie when it comes to anything computer related. Last night I scanned my system with LavaSoft’s Ad-Aware and discovered ClickSpring’s MediaTicketsInstaller lurking on my computer, proof that even I can get viruses and spyware on my home [...]
Some áššhølë took over my computer last night.
To be more specific, some áššhølë wrote some software and published it on the object.passthison.com subdomain which then took over my computer. While Googling for some information for some fellow notaries public, I ran across a notary website that displayed the ad that the bûtthëád created. Despite the [...]
I’m republishing this piece of spam just because I think it so funny:
In what CEO Bill Gates called “an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors,” the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
With the patent, Microsoft’s rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products [...]
I couldn’t pass up a story that I read on an Australian online newspaper website called The Courier-Mail.
Apparently another fast-spreading computer virus has attacked computer networks just one week after the MSBlaster virus caused chaos for thousands of Microsoft Windows users. The new virus is a variation of the original MSBlaster virus that popped up [...]
