Two young guys.

One a techie.

The other a marketing whiz.

Working out of a garage.

Building and selling illegal equipment to phone phreaks. [more...]

A couple of weeks ago, an old friend and I began to discuss bootable Linux USB flash drives — as opposed to bootable Linux LiveCDs.

I was motivated by the fact that I’m down to my last few writable CDs.

Plus, I have a 256MB USB flash drive that is too small to use for much of anything else.

But, in the past, every time I’ve [more...]

Those who know every frame of every episode of The Simpsons have seen them.

References to Apple computers appear in some episodes of that cartoon series.

But here’s something that I’ll bet some of the Simpsons fanboys don’t even know:

There’s a connection between The Simpsons and [more...]

I’ve been a Mac person.

And I’ve been a PC person.

For awhile, I was both at the same time.

But, for the past 5 years, I’ve been [more...]

I’ve been using personal computers since 1979.

I began by using CP/M, MS-DOS, Apple DOS, and other text-based operating systems on computers with monochrome displays, then moved on to the original black-and-white version of the Macintosh OS and the original version of Microsoft Windows.

I used to use computers with only 8KB of RAM; or two [more...]

If you’re using Microsoft Windows, then it’s only a matter of time before your computer becomes infected with some sort of virus, trojan, or other type of malware.

That is, if it isn’t already infected right now.

That’s just the way it is.

If you’re using Mac OS or Linux, [more...]

Several weeks ago, I told you about the nightmare of events that happened to my friend Keith’s Windows PC.

At the time, I recommended that, long term, his best bet will be to buy a Macintosh.

But, since then, several major, unexpected [more...]

Do you practice safe computing?

Do you know enough to be able to explain safe computing to your spouse, your children or one of your friends?

If you’re a Windows user, you’d better know an awful lot about [more...]