Category Archives: Computers and Internet

I’ve complained about this before, but it just bit me again.  The implementation of the F Lock key on newer Microsoft keyboards is a user interface design gaff of massive proportions.  We have 20 years of people learning how to use function keys, and in one fell swoop, MS decides to change the way everything […]

Last Friday my Windows Media Center 2005 PC started refusing to display live tv, or record any tv.  The error message was that the data rate from the cable box was too low.  Well, after many reboots, shutting the system down to let it cool off, unplugging the cable box, etc, I decided that perhaps […]

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 […]