Bit Buckets
There’s No Good Time for Data to Disappear on You
Say storage and people immediately think of a hard or flash drive…tape…optical media.
In other words, bit buckets to hold your digital stuff.
Until that inevitable fateful day.
Tivoli NetWorks: Too Late, Too Good, Too Bad
Internet Radio, How We Miss You
It's been our link to the world! Our trip overseas as we listen to broadcasts from France, Germany, Italy and, of course, the good old BBC. But it's fading fast.
Internet radio stations are disappearing faster than mom's hot chocolate chip cookies, much to the dismay of listeners and geeks, alike. Although it may be a sign of tough economic times, it pulls at a listener's heartstrings when he gets the message "Station cannot be found" on his new multiband radio or computer.
Too Much Information
Product/Service Recommendations, Support…
More Than You Want to Know
“ He MySpaced me.” – Mary – He’s Just Not That In To You (2009)
Not long ago we read that back in the late 1800s when electricity was first demonstrated people fell to their knees in amazement.
The individuals who demonstrated it probably felt omnipotent.
Annoying Annoyances Redux
I'm not Going to Take it Anymore (Part 2)
Bet you thought my tirade was going to end with Part 1 -- WRONG! I have only begun to rant!
Users of Windows XP have been hit with a new, updated version of the classic smitfraud virus, which attaches itself to various programs and files on your PC or netbook. Unfortunately, this one isn't as easy to eradicate as the older versions and has converted many PCs into expensive door stops.
Usually this scourge of the PCs is linked to a notice that pops up on your computer warning you that you have a virus on your computer. It tells you to "click here" to remove it and, once you click, you're cooked. The pop up is usually linked to a website that guarantees removal of the virus -- for a fee, of course. Unfortunately the so-called virus killer is to viruses as an empty glass is to thirst and you end up spending your hard earned bucks on something that doesn't work.