Category Archives: Computers and Internet

This is a good read.  I hope that everything works out well for Mike Lynn.  He had a lot of courage to quit his job and risk legal hell to do what he felt was the right thing.

I got started with computers about the time the TRS 80 Model 1 came out. Yes, that long ago.  Back then, pretty much only mainframes had hard drives and they stored very little data – perhaps 20 megabytes.  In the mid 80’s, I got my first hard drive for my Tandy 1200, which was a Tandy […]

Sven Jaschan has been found "guilty" of writing the Sasser worm and turning it loose on an unsuspecting world.  His sentence is a joke.  30 hours of community service and a 18 month suspended sentence.  In other words, he caused millions upon millions of dollars in damage, and he stays out of jail and picks up litter […]