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A bill in works has me concerned. It all points to the government allowing companies to employ tactics that will interfere with the utilization of your computer and will allow companies to disrupt services that you may be valid in using and create the real possibility that companies can take arbitrary actions that could damage your PC. The bill still
I used to know a guy who knew a lot about Direct TV systems. I picked his brain quite a bit and was amazed at what was happening in that arena. Being I live in Hawaii I don't think Direct TV is even available but it appears that Direct TV has gotten extremely serious in it's attempts to curb the
I have enough computer experience that I usually can hack my way thru a problem. Sometimes we learn the hard way, but that is the way the ball bounces. I would have paid 10 times the money that the following service is asking to have had good help in recovering a NT machine a few years ago. LiveRepair offers only
I have been beta testing software for about 7 years and I have dedicated computers to do that beta testing. My experience has been remarkable in that companies adapt different strategies. The best thus far is one of the companies ask it's beta testers to actually vote for code release if 75% of the beta testers vote yes they do
Help us Build Geek News Central: Let me go into a little philosophy of this site. There are many sites that do a great job in posting massive amount's of information many times it is impossible to read them all as everyone has busy lives. Our goal is find the Juicy stuff that will make you smarter and your pocket
A Price war is breaking out on the Internet. Buy.com pledges to undercut Amazon's book prices by 10%
This tool will maximize every new Internet Explorer window that you open. Includes a function for hiding/closing all IE windows with a user-defined hot-key. There's also a function that closes pop-up windows. or leaves them as they are. Nice program for those of you that manage a bunch of IE windows.
I have a half dozen computers all with different operating systems on them. Along with those computers I have a box of disk for each OS, Drivers, Tools and the famous Boot Disk. With the change in the way Windows boots in 2000/XP the backup floppy Boot disk has been forgotten. I thought about this the other day and went
My grandmother suffered a mild stroke a number of years ago. She has had several mini strokes since luckily she functions well for a 90+ elderly person and this is a topic that has peaked my interest over the past 3-4 years. With technology exploding the world of Science is exploding also yet it is not as sexy of a
I am surprised it has taken this long there is a report out that 5 babies are on the way and will be born around Christmas time. I am personally in favor of cloning one of the few liberal views I have. I am not so sure I want another Geek running around just like me. But heck if they
The world is becoming a trickier place for people who tell lies
Short-range infrared lasers could beam advanced broadband multimedia services directly into homes and offices. [SCI-American]
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