Lockergnome's IT
Professionals ~ September 24,
2004
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Mentally-Challenged Jawas (Report)
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Well, folks, I finally did it. No, I did not run down the street
screaming like a madman. I picked up a copy of the original Star Wars
trilogy. It is great! Comes in a nice box set and I was able to get it
without much delay. When I first decided to pick it up, I figured that
this was a great opportunity to go ahead and clear out some of the
older DVDs... [Continued]
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Microsoft Sues Spammer's Web Hosting Provider
(Aunty Spam)
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Microsoft has taken the fight against spam to the next level by
suing not the spammer, but the Web-hosting service which provides
services to the spammers. In their lawsuit against
CheapBulletProof.com (now there's a subtle name, eh?), Microsoft
asserts that they "actively recruit spammers to use their services by
trolling Internet forums frequented by spammers." CheapBulletProof
says that it isn't true, and that they don't tolerate spammers who
(note closely) break the law, and if... [Continued]
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Sharing DVDs Across A Network (Just Ask
Matt!)
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Welcome to Just Ask Matt! - The IT industry's answer to the help
column, only slightly more medicated. Today, Julie writes: Hi, Matt! I
have just added a DVD-ROM to my computer and I want to let others on
my local network access it and watch from their computers. Do I need
software for this? Sharing the drive and mapping it do not seem to
work. Hope you can help. Thank you!... [Continued]
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PC Upgrade Options - Is It Worth It?
(Talk)
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Recently I had a client come to me and ask if he needed to upgrade
his PC. He had a two-year-old Dell running XP Home, and 256 MB of RAM
with a 1.7 GHz processor. My question to him was what he uses his
system for. He quickly responded by saying that he uses it exclusively
for Internet and e-mail. I smiled and told them that his system is
just fine for his needs, but... [Continued]
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VMware - Now I'm Hooked (Download)
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Just explaining to people what VMware is and what it does is
difficult... even to other computer geeks. Showing them, however,
elicits gasps and phrases such as "no way," or "Dude!" Since my
company had purchased a new server and decided to go the way of the
virtual machine, I figured I would get a little hands-on ahead of
time. I downloaded the VMware workstation trial version from their Web
site and installed it onto... [Continued]
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Some IDE Quirks and Comments (Tech)
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Chester Tan's article in yesterday's newsletter made me jump.
Actually, I jumped up and started screaming (virtually) "Yes, BUT!".
The entire IDE/ATA interface is a lot more complicated than the
uninitiated appreciate. Oh, it's easy as pie from a user's viewpoint-
just plug in a drive and go. The details that they don't even 'have
to' think about can make a huge difference. I say 'have to', because
the details they DON'T think about can... [Continued]
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Web conferencing study needs your help
(Events)
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Web conferencing is nothing new to the world. For the most part,
when we think of something like this, we tend to think of a bunch of
people sitting in some darkened office. As they stare blankly at the
screen, a head without a body glimmers from a TV screen, droning on
about God knows what as his audience fights to stay awake. I believe
that this is how many people picture Web conferencing.... [Continued]
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