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Contents

Training & Employment
Software
Hardware
Tips & Tricks
E-Law
Commerce
Anti-Virus
Website Design
Potpourri
Past Articles

Training & Employment

  • Training Funds May Be Cut In Favor Of H-1B Visas
  • Writing for the End User
  • Trainers: Groom To Be Your Replacement
  • U.S. Census Reports We're A Wired Nation
  • Curbing Memory Loss Caused by Information Overload
  • U.S. Skills Gap is a National Problem

    Software

  • Dell Moves Critical Data From Sun Servers To Linux
  • One Percent of Software Bugs Cause Half of All Errors
  • Red Hat Linux 8.0 Released
  • New Red Hat Linux Targets Home and School Desktops
  • Opera Web Browser Update Released
  • Windows XP Update Gets Tested
  • UnitedLinux -Linux Standardization Effort
  • Microsoft Office Has A Viable Competitor
  • McAfee Releases AntiSpam Software
  • Red Hat Linux Version 7.3 Announced
  • Microsoft Security Programs Yield Conflicting Results
  • Microsoft Releases Free Security Analyzer
  • Stop Brilliant Software From Hijacking Your PC
  • CERT Finds PHP Vulnerability
  • Common Standards For Linux Released
  • There's Now A Problem With ICQ
  • Microsoft Assures FBI Windows Can Be Secured
  • Patch Microsoft IE Now!
  • Get Free Microsoft Software
  • Microsoft Web Outlook Security Hole
  • Opera Software Releases Beta Versions of Browser for Windows & Linux
  • FBI Uses Old Hacker Trick to Eavesdrop
  • PalmOS 4.1 Upgrade Special
  • IT Buyers Angry At Microsoft's New Pricing
  • Windows XP Multiple License Security & Pricing
  • Great Firewall of China Under Attack
  • Microsoft Offers Free Security Service
  • Microsoft Office Apps In Your Hand
  • Comparing Microsoft IIS and Apache HTTP Server
  • Windows XP Gets Ready
  • Windows NT/2000 Users Assessed Insurance Surcharge
  • ICQ Servers Cracked Through Hole In Microsoft IIS
  • Smart Tags Removed From Windows XP
  • U.S. Department of Defense Uses StarOffice
  • Microsoft Reports Serious IIS Vulnerability
  • Microsoft Exchange 2000 Security Hole
  • 64-Bit Itanium Opens Opportunities
  • Get Ready, Here Comes Office XP
  • Run Windows Apps For Free on Linux
  • Microsoft Patches Media Player Security Holes
  • 64-Bit Windows Coming in October
  • Microsoft Releases Windows 2000 SP2
  • Unauthorized? Windows 2000 SP2 Available Online
  • QinetiQ - Proactively Preventing Email Viruses
  • Microsoft Scraps Office XP Subscription Plan
  • Microsoft IIS 5.0 Opens Security Hole in Windows 2000
  • Samba, Smashing a Few Windows
  • NSA & PGP Partner on Secure Linux
  • IBM Clusters Linux to Manage Server Farms
  • Norton AntiVirus Bug Locks Email
  • Microsoft and Linux Fight in the Press
  • New Software Instantly Creates Websites and Hyperlinks
  • NSA Opts High-Security Linux Over Windows NT/2000
  • Linux 2.4.1 Appeals To Corporate IT
  • Open Hack III - Grand Prize $50,00
  • Linux Kernel 2.4 Released
  • Is P2P The Future?
  • Privacy Group Releases Web Bug Plug-In
  • Peer-To-Peer Web Searches
  • Slow Adoptions Hurt Microsoft
  • Corel To Sell Linux Line
  • Opera 5.0: Paid or Sponsored, It's Your Choice
  • Microsoft Office 10 Subscription Service
  • Windows 9x/Me Passwords Crackable In One Character
  • Kopernicus Aims To Make Linux GUI Easy
  • Microsoft Webservers Laid Open For All To See
  • Windows Me Glitch Kills AOL Connections
  • Windows Me, An Easy Install
  • Windows Me Responsible for Data Loss on Fast Computers
  • Check Your Apps Carefully Before Upgrading to Windows Me
  • Excuse Me, But Would You Please Help Me Type This Letter?
  • RSA Encryption algorithm Released To The Public Domain
  • MS Word Allows Internet Tracking Cookies
  • Linux Lab Funded With Big Dollars
  • Adobe Brings PDF to E-Books
  • MS Quietly Fixes Serious Bugs in FrontPage Server Extensions
  • Make Your Email Disappear -- When You Want It To
  • Microsoft Releases Office 10 Beta in the Face of Linux Forces
  • AOL Instant Messenger for Linux
  • Watch Linux
  • IETF Narrows Instant Messaging Field
  • Microsoft To Move Hotmail to Windows 2000
  • Microsoft Discounts Windows Me
  • Windows 2000 Bug Fixes Released
  • Microsoft Outlook Security Hole Opens Wide
  • Study Reports Linux a Significant Threat
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer to Cut Cookies
  • P3P Plug-In for Browsers Ensures Personal Privacy
  • High Availability Linux Servers
  • Linux Under The Weather
  • AOL Up to Its Old Tricks
  • 4,000 Linux Servers Used as Backbone of Google Search Engine
  • Gateway & AOL Team to Create Linux Appliance
  • Microsoft Office 2000 Requires Security Update
  • Nearer to ME Than Not
  • 64-Bit PC Linux & Mainframe Linux
  • Microsoft Readies Windows 2000 Update
  • Microsoft Outlook Users Execute Code Without Warning
  • Whistle a Happy Tune
  • Security Breach Bites Microsoft FrontPage & Window NT
  • Novell: Instant Messaging for Suits
  • Netscape Update Coming
  • Internet Explorer 5 Patch Locks Windows 2000
  • Microsoft Clip Art Security Hole
  • Hotmail Purges Spam
  • Feb 29: A Leap Year Computer Snag?
  • Windows Goes Open Source?
  • Windows 2000 Requires Heavy-Duty Hardware
  • Windows 2000 Unveiling
  • Updated Software: WinZip 8.0 Beta
  • Windows 2000: 1 in 4 Will Have Problems
  • Microsoft Office 2000: Register or Shut Down
  • Cross-Site Scripting Security Bug Hits the Web
  • AOL Sued Over Bugs In v5.0
  • Firewall Security for Home Computers
  • AOL 5.0: Hyperaggressive Installation
  • Project@Hand Puts Microsoft Project in your Palm
  • AOL Instant Messenger Security Breach
  • Linux, Microsoft & Synching
  • GuruNet Facilitates Online Searches
  • IBM Plans to Use Linux Everywhere

    Additional articles in this category

    Hardware

  • PlayStation Supercomputer. Only $50,000.
  • Sanyo Doubles CD-R Capacity
  • Two-Headed Hard Drive Thwarts Internet Crackers
  • New Lightbulb Plays Havoc with Wireless Networks
  • Faster DVD Recorders Coming Next Month
  • Rayovac Announces Fast Charging Batteries
  • AMD Debuts 64-Bit Hammer CPU
  • New Battery Technology To Benefit Laptops & Cell Phones
  • 802.11 Doesn't Win Gold
  • Palm Unveils Faster Operating System
  • AMD Unveils Cool 'n' Quiet CPU
  • DNA Used to Create Nanoscale Computer
  • Plextor Makes A Great CD-RW Burner
  • Quantum Mechanics Increases Chip Density
  • HP Readies Low-Cost Laser Printer
  • Intel Demos 3.5GHz Pentium 4
  • AMD Athlon Continues To Be Faster Than Intel Pentium
  • Dell Supports DVD+RW Standard
  • Iomega Thinks It's Peerless
  • Pixie Dust Quadruples Disk Storage
  • Intel Rolls Out 64-Bit Chip
  • Beam Me Some Processor Time
  • New IBM is a True Notebook
  • Literally, Tape Backups
  • AMD Releases 850MHz Duron CPU
  • Copy Protected Hard Drives
  • Bluetooth: Grand Name, Grand Vision
  • Seagate Announces Baraccuda 180GB Drive
  • Handspring Visor - Improved & Color
  • First Bluetooth Product Hits The Street
  • Stowaway That Keyboard In Your Palm
  • HP Posts Free Fix for Broken Floppy Drives
  • Dell Demos 64-Bit Linux Server
  • IBM Pushes Moore's Law -- Forces New Questions
  • Report Says Defrag and Save Billions
  • Pardon Me, But Are You Wearing VGA Resolution?
  • Quantum Announces ATA/100 Hard Drive Specification
  • Ethernet 3000 Times Faster
  • Some Pentium III Systems Hit by MTH Bug
  • USB 2.0 Specification Released
  • PocketPC Hits The Streets
  • Nonvolatile Memory Discards Hard Drives
  • It's a 144MB Floppy
  • Hacker Creates Sub-$200 PC
  • Ink Jet Printers Get a Speed Boost
  • Dell Portables Have Memory Bug
  • AMD Speeds Past Intel to 1GHz
  • 1GHz PCs Coming This Month
  • Compaq Warns of Hardware Defect
  • Much Faster USB Connections
  • Dual-Boot PC Under $500
  • Linux, Microsoft & Synching

    Additional articles in this category

    Tips & Tricks

  • Passwords Aren't So Tough To Guess
  • Global Positioning Systems Fail Today
  • Surfing Without A Ripple
  • What People Search For
  • Move, Copy, and Link in Microsoft Office
  • Dates To Remember

    Additional articles in this category

    E-Law

  • Life Sentences for Computer Hackers
  • Netizens Work To Sink Digital Copyright Bill
  • A National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
  • You've Got Legal Mail!
  • Government IT SWAP Team and IT National Guard?
  • CD Copy Protection May Be Illegal
  • Web Site Security Assessment & Certification
  • U.S. Citizens Oppose A National ID Database
  • Copy Protected CD Makers Forced To Settle
  • U.S.Supreme Court Considers Copyright Argument
  • Microsoft Disappointed At AOL's Course of Action
  • E-Mail Monitoring Bill Gets Caught
  • Microsoft Trademark Infringement Sued in Small Claims Court

    Additional articles in this category

    Digital & General Commerce

  • Largest Internet Attack To Date
  • National Science Foundation Commissions Secure Internet Infrastructure
  • Commercial Broadband: A Digital Safari
  • Earthlink Offers E-Mail By Phone
  • CD Copy Protection No Match For 49-Cent Marker
  • Privacy Survey Reports Web Sites Collect Less Personal Data
  • Yahoo! Choo Choo!
  • AOL Looks To Buy Red Hat Linux
  • Memo Reports Microsoft To Get Serious About Security
  • Boingo Wi-Fi Coming To Your Area
  • New U.S. Government Encryption Standard
  • United Nations Reports E-Commerce Still Strong
  • Windows NT/2000 Users Assessed Insurance Surcharge
  • Turning Free into $71 Million
  • E-Marketing Rule #6: Manage ROI
  • Financial Institutions & CPAs May Not Meet Privacy Law Requirements
  • Microsoft Scraps Snitch Program
  • DDoS Attack Against CERT
  • You've Got a Bigger Bill
  • U.S. Lawmakers Averse to Outlawing Spam
  • More About New Top Level Domains
  • New Top Level Domains Become Available
  • Tax Break for IT Training
  • Spam and the Legal Community
  • Dial a Coke and a Friend
  • Compaq Wins Faulty Hardware Suit
  • File Swapping Services Compound Spam Exposure
  • Mafiaboy, E-Commerce's Thorn, Pleads Guilty
  • U.S. FBI Warns of New Cyber Attacks
  • Microsoft Security Failed Because Of Human Error
  • To What Degree Service?
  • Microsoft Invests In Competition
  • Universities Fight Back By Refusing To Ban Napster
  • RECA: Online Advertisers Target Spam
  • Ask Jeeves Sorts Sites By Popularity
  • Tech Company Receivables
  • Web Bugs Thwart Privacy: Worse than Cookies
  • U.S. Congress Considers Employee Monitoring Bills
  • Internet Growth Report Released
  • Quiet Zone for Cell Phones
  • Big Brother: Mass Voyeurism
  • E-Sign Act is Now Law
  • Digital Signatures: Sign on the Invisible Line
  • What's Your Highest & Best Use?
  • Excuse Me, Can You Help Me Over Here?
  • E-Marketing Rule #5: Simple Graphics Enhance Text
  • E-Marketing Rule #4: Channel Traffic
  • States Side With Justice Against Microsoft
  • House Bill Based on Internet Hoax
  • DDoS Attacks Get Really Wild
  • Websites: Watch Out For Kids
  • Security Breach Bites Microsoft FrontPage & Window NT
  • E-Marketing Rule #3: Create More Than an Online Brochure
  • Not Maybe, Your Boss IS Reading Your Mail
  • Hackers Get Bill Gates' Credit Card
  • Deutsche Telekom Wants Unisys
  • U.S. House Committee Passes Anti-Spam Bill
  • E-Marketing: Deliver Information
  • E-Marketing: Know Your Niche
  • DDOS Outages Cost $1.2 Billion
  • Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Hit the Net
  • Hackers Take Down Yahoo!
  • Cross-Site Scripting Security Bug Hits the Web
  • Linux, Microsoft & Synching
  • Swedes Lose Access to Online Banking
  • DotComGuy Has Only A Virtual Life

    Additional articles in this category

    Virus Information

  • Gone, Gone, Goner
  • Badtrans Worm Hunts Down Microsoft Outlook Users
  • FBI Uses Old Hacker Trick to Eavesdrop
  • Install & Update AntiVirus Software
  • Microsoft Gets Serious About Security
  • Nimda May Return This Evening
  • Nimda Worm Attacks Locally and Globally
  • Redrum: Don't Spell Admin Backward
  • All3gro - The Anti-Virus Virus
  • New Code Red Variant Attacks Microsoft Webservers
  • W32/SirCam Worm Gets High Risk Rating
  • Email Virus Tries to Get You To Delete An Important File
  • Microsoft Reports Word 97/2000 Security Hole
  • Linux Worm Tries To Do Good
  • QinetiQ - Proactively Preventing Email Viruses
  • Worm Infects Microsoft IIS and Solaris Servers
  • Lion Bites Linux BIND DNS Servers
  • A Busy Week for Virus Hunters
  • Kournikova Worm - OnTheFly Author Nabbed
  • First Computer Virus Celebrates a Birthday
  • Melissa X: I'm Back!
  • Red Hat Linux Ramen Worm Found in the Wild
  • A Not So Merry Krizmas
  • Merry Christmas: Here's A Virus For Johnny
  • Anti-Virus Protection for PDAs
  • New Love Bug Worm Targets Specific Computers
  • Microsoft Outlook Security Hole Opens Wide
  • The Serbian Badman Trojan
  • Resume Worm to Attack on Tuesday
  • Love Bug Worm Mutates, Gets More Insidious
  • How Do You Protect Against Virus Attacks?
  • Worm Attacks Fax Machines
  • Firkin-911 Virus Wipes Out Hard Drives
  • PrettyPark Worm Overloads Email Servers

    Additional articles in this category

    Website Design

  • Privacy Survey Reports Web Sites Collect Less Personal Data
  • Web Site Security Assessment & Certification
  • Search Engines Also Record Private Data
  • Website Accessibility: Now It's Law
  • More About New Top Level Domains
  • New Top Level Domains Become Available
  • Bang! Your Browser is Updated
  • Websites in a BIND
  • Johns Hopkins TV Show Floods Search Engines
  • The Mother-in-Law Test
  • ICANN Votes Seven New Top Level Domains (TLDs)
  • Web Bugs Thwart Privacy: Worse than Cookies
  • New Top-Level Domains Approved
  • P3P Plug-In for Browsers Ensures Personal Privacy
  • HTML Forms Get Long-Awaited Update
  • E-Marketing Rule #5: Simple Graphics Enhance Text
  • E-Marketing Rule #4: Channel Traffic
  • Websites: Watch Out For Kids
  • Security Breach Bites Microsoft FrontPage & Window NT
  • E-Marketing Rule #3: Create More Than an Online Brochure
  • Judge Rules on Deep Linking
  • E-Marketing: Deliver Information
  • E-Marketing: Know Your Niche

    Additional articles in this category

    Potpourri

  • Quantum Cryptography From Space
  • Hug A Geek This Friday
  • Do You Stick Or Switch?
  • Your Prime Goal: Win A Million Bucks
  • How Do They Find The Time To Do That?
  • Microsoft & Unisys Trust Unix & Apache For Their Website
  • MIT Creates Quantum Teleportation Device
  • ITAA Recommends Counter-Terrorism Actions
  • Lossless Data Compression
  • Computer Security Day 2001
  • A New Language For Business
  • FBI & SANS Release List of Top 20 Security Holes
  • Online Behavior Changes Following U.S. Terrorist Attacks
  • Internet Not Targeted by Terrorists
  • Worm Hunters Chastised For Releasing Details
  • World's Most Famous Coffee Maker Sold
  • A PC Birthday
  • Bow Wow, You Say?
  • Now That's Not Very PC Of You
  • Choice of Typeface Reveals Personality Traits
  • Generation 2001: Techno-Confident
  • PDA 101
  • Protect Portable Data
  • Cryptologiest Breaks SETI@Home Code
  • E.T. is Safe For a Few Days
  • William Hewlett Dies At 87
  • IT May Be A Scooter
  • What is IT? (Hint: it's not Information Technology.)
  • Digital Video Editing - HOWTO
  • Geek Gadgets
  • Quantum Device Unveiled
  • IT Readings For Us All
  • Codebreaking, a Day Late and a Dollar Short
  • Certification: Required for Technicians & Trainers
  • IT Olympics - More Than Just Geek Games
  • FBI Drags Its Heels on Carnivore Papers
  • More Women Online
  • Have You Hugged Your Geek Today?
  • Commentary: Does ITrain Create Conversation?
  • Million Geek March
  • PKZip Author Dies
  • Internet to be Shut Off for Two Hours
  • Internet Voting in the Grand Canyon State
  • Feb 29: A Leap Year Computer Snag?
  • Linux, Microsoft & Synching

    Additional articles in this category

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