Posts Tagged ‘Coding’
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve been using personal computers since 1979, and I’ve been using Linux full-time instead of Linux since July of 2006.
Having been a DOS and Windows power user and support person since the early days, I’m really grateful that [more...]
Tags: Coding, Freedom, Linux, Tech Support, Windows
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
With everything that we’ve learned over the years about its never-ending list of serious security vulnerabilities, I find it really hard to believe that anyone would choose to run Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser any more.
Personally, I switched to Mozilla’s much-more-secure, free and open-source Firefox browser — first in Windows, and then in Linux — on the [more...]
Tags: Bugs, Coding, Consumer Info, Cybercrime, Freedom, Internet, Linux, Microsoft, Security, Software, Windows
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
I love Italian food. I’ve always said that if you cut me, I bleed tomato sauce.
I love Italian food is because I love melted cheese. Specifically, melted mozzarella (or scamorza, if you have some). Whether it’s pizza, lasagna, cannelloni, mannecoti or baked ziti, Italian food usually contains plenty of melted mozzarella.
Low-fat mozzarella, for [more...]
Tags: Bugs, Coding, Consumer Info, Funny, Security, Tech Support, Windows
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Did you know that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of Apple fame used to make and sell electronic devices that allowed people to make free long-distance phone calls?
Did you know that Jobs once used one of those device to call [more...]
Tags: Coding, Cybercrime, Dubious, Ethics, Funny, Hardware, History, Internet, Science, Security, Software, Technology
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve had mixed feelings about Google for a long time.
On the one hand, Google provides the world’s most popular search engine — and several online applications that millions of people use — all for free. [more...]
Tags: Coding, Consumer Info, Google, Internet, Security, Technology, Web Development
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
I’m a technophile.
I love to read about new technologies.
What they do. How they work. How they’re going to make [more...]
Tags: Coding, Consumer Info, Future, Internet, Web Development
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
It used to be that having bugs in your computing system meant that there were mistakes in its programming — things that didn’t work correctly.
Years later, the computing vocabulary expanded to include worms, which use up networking [more...]
Tags: Bugs, Coding, Internet, Security
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Its current lack of a few key features prevents it from seriously competing with Mozilla’s Firefox on my desktop, but lately, I”ve been seeing more forum posts and discussions about Google’s free and open-source Chrome browser.
So that made me curious to learn more about it. [more...]
Tags: Coding, Consumer Info, Google, Images, Internet, Software, Web Development
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Saturday, August 1st, 2009
It’s kind of a slow news day, so I went looking for something funny to share with you.
I eventually found a comic that I thought was amusing.
So I showed it to my wife. She [more...]
Tags: Coding, Funny, Images
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Every once in awhile, I see a ist of “geek skills” posted somewhere out on the web.
And I take a look at it, see that I know most of the things on the list, make a mental note of one or two things that I’d like to learn more about, and move on. [more...]
Tags: Coding, Consumer Info, Internet, Linux, Security, Tech Support, Web Development, Windows
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