Low End PC Link ArchiveLinks on Low End PC- Value and cost: With a
PC, you get what you pay for, Katherine Keller,
Thinking From the Box, 02.26. With the right choices,
your PC can be easy to upgrade and avoid becoming a
doorstop.
- Networking
101, Dan Knight, Online Tech Journal, 02.10. An
introduction to ethernet, hubs, switches, routers, and
wireless networking.
- Pixels and points,
screens and paper, Dan Knight, Low End PC's Online
Tech Journal, 02.06. What you see on the screen
corresponds to what you get on the printed page. A brief
history of points, pixels, and the changing face of
computer displays.
- Archives: 2001/09,
2001/10, 2001/11,
2001/12, 2002/01,
2002/02, 2002/03,
2002/04, 2002/05,
2002/06, 2002/07,
2002/08, 2002/09,
2002/10, 2002/11,
2002/12, 2003/01,
2003/02, 2003/03
Around the Web- Opinion: The
dark side of software upgrades, Adam Robert Guha,
Apple Archive, 05.09. New features are great - but what
about those who have to use an older version of the
program on another computer?
- Dark Side: Best
Buy & Microsoft named in scam lawsuit, Vern
Seward, Mac Observer, 05.08. Store employee scans "free"
MSN disk at checkout. Customer gets billed for MSN
service he never signed up for.
- Analysis: The
startup that saved ATI, Rick Merritt, EE Times,
04.21. How the acquisition of ArtX turned ATI from a has
been into serious competition for Nvidia.
- Spam: EarthLink
wins $16 million settlement in spam case, Paul
Roberts, MacCentral, 05.08. Court awarded "$16 million in
damages against a New York state man that it alleged used
illegal means to send out more than 825 million
unsolicited e-mail messages."
- Analysis: Does
four-thirds stand a chance?, Dan Knight,
Digigraphica, 05.07. What is Olympus proposing with their
"four-thirds" digital standard? Does it really stand a
chance against Nikon, Canon, and other established
brands?
- Spam: EarthLink
to offer anti-spam e-mail system, Jonathan Krim,
Washington Post, 05.07. "Some experts see problems with
the technology and doubt that consumers will warm to a
process that adds another step to e-mail delivery."
- Forum: Earthlink
deploying challenge-response anti-spam system,
Slashdot, 05.07. "The problem with Challenge - Response
is that it makes the assumption that if there's not a
human behind the email that it's spam."
- Opinion: Digital
hijacking, Vern Seward, Just a Thought, Mac Observer,
05.07. "Some Web sites load files and scripts onto your
computer when you click on a pop-up or visit some
innocent seeming sites."
Spam: Government
to crack down on spam, BBC News, 05.06. "From
October, a European Union directive will make unsolicited
e-mails illegal across member states."- Humor: Future
advertising blunders by Microsoft, Jeff Adkins, The
Lite Side, 05.06. After the "butterfly backfire" and
"fake switcher," what will the folks in Redmond come up
with next?
- Rights: Record
labels back software to stem piracy, Yahoo/Reuters,
05.04. "The industry's big five labels . . . have all
backed the development of counterpiracy programs" that
can lock up, crash, or slow down computers of suspected
pirates.
Rights: U.S.
says Canada cares too much about liberties, Jim
Bronskill, Ottawa Citizen, 05.01. U.S. State Department
report suggests Canada "doesn't spend enough on policing
and places too much emphasis on civil liberties."- Rights: RIAA
cashes in on file-swapping students, Ashlee Vance,
The Register, 05.01. Help others find MP3s on your
school's network, get sued just as if you were providing
the files yourself.
- Archives: 2001/09,
2001/10, 2001/11,
2001/12, 2002/01,
2002/02, 2002/03,
2002/04, 2002/05,
2002/06, 2002/07,
2002/08, 2002/09,
2002/10, 2002/11,
2002/12, 2003/01,
2003/02, 2003/03
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