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Posted in Personal on Aug 29th, 2003
What is it that makes most people never even consider a Mac when it comes time for their next computer purchase?
A little background. I have been in the IT field for 17 years. I owe a lot of my career to Microsoft. I remember a time before the GUI and MS Windows. [...]
Posted in Personal on Aug 19th, 2003
Unbelievable. More variants of the Blaster worm have been released and a new email virus called SoBig.f is running through networks rendering some email systems unusable.
Posted in Personal on Aug 17th, 2003
But I just finished reading the South Beach Diet and it makes a lot of sense to me.
I bought 3 books to read; The South Beach Diet, Atkins For Life, and The Schwarzbein Principle II. After reading them all, and living the Atkins Diet a while ago, I think the South Beach Diet makes [...]
Posted in Personal on Aug 13th, 2003
I would like to think that most Windows users have now patched their PCs for the latest and greatest vulnerabilities, but 1.4 million of you must have ignored the warnings.
I’m not sure what all it takes. Microsoft came out with numerous warnings about a flaw in the Windows operating system that affects just about [...]
Posted in Personal on Aug 10th, 2003
File fragmentation. Do you think it really matters when it comes to system performance?
When files get written to a hard drive, they are usually placed where ever there is a big enough chunk to place the entire file. All of this space in one large chunk is contiguous file space. If there is [...]