Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 contain a new condition, which asks you to allow Windows to go and install future updates. This is basically a Microsoft back door. [Source The Register]
As being reported at the register there continues to be problems in that no single virus protection package is 100% init's viral protection. This is pretty scary stuff if you ask me as I rely on one package currently and see hits on e-mail all the time from spammers. This is making me re-think our strategy on virus protection. [Source
A reader sent me a link to a article about how a computer user was able to recover a hosed windows boot sequence when his PC was setup with Linux and he was able to boot into the Linux OS and then mount the messed up Windows partition fix the issue and re-boot back into Linux. I learned this several
Tech TV has a great article on CD Burning well worth the read. I already had a couple of the titles but will be adding the ones they recommend. [Source TechTV]
[Source News.Com] "In a statement released late Thursday, HP said it would not use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a controversial copyright law, to pursue a loosely-organized team of researchers who demonstrated a bug in the company's Tru64 Unix operating system" Amazing these control freaks realized there mistake.
I am almost afraid to post this site as I would hate to see it get slammed as this site has the largest collection of Music Programs downloads: over 1,000 programs to play, edit, convert music as well as addons and plugins for the popular music programs. [Source Internal]
This is a very interesting article and has the potential to open up a way for the geeks to build some cool tools. "One of the coolest and most unknown products Microsoft has released is called the Windows XP Pre-installation Environment, or Windows PE. In short, it's Windows XP-on-a-CD. You boot directly to a Windows XP GUI, which allows you