Are you a Windows user who has been wondering about this Linux thing? Now’s your chance. Several of today’s Linux distributions are designed to be easier for Windows users to make the transition to Linux. Some of them even let you boot a CDROM and try out Linux without installing it on your computer. Check [...]
Google Adds Two New Referral Programs
November 4, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Today, Google added the long-awaited Adsense referral program for web site publishers to refer other web site publishers to Google’s Adsense program — and get a referral fee as a result. After the new Adsense affiliate earns $100 (and is, then, at the level for his first payment!), the new Adsense affiliate gets paid his [...]
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Released!
October 21, 2005 By Leave a Comment
OpenOffice.org, the free software suite from the organization the same name, is now available for download as version 2.0 — not just a beta version, not a "pre-release" version — but the real thing!<br /> <br /> OpenOffice.org includes a word processor (Writer), spreadsheet (Calc), presentations (Impress), graphics editing (Draw), formula writing (Math), and a [...]
Data Recovery – Plan now for future needs
September 29, 2005 By Leave a Comment
LangaList meets Terry’s Computer Tips!
September 27, 2005 By Leave a Comment
<b>WOW!</b><br /> Fred Langa's <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=699&entry_id=147" title="http://www.langa.com" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.langa.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">LangaList and LangaList Plus!</a> newsletters mentioned my <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=700&entry_id=147" title="http://www.terryscomputertips.com" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.terryscomputertips.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Terry's Computer Tips website</a> in last Sunday afternoon's issue.<br /> <br /> My visitor count for Sunday was about <em>5 times normal</em>. My visitor count for Monday was about <em>12 times normal</em>.<br [...]
LILO vs GRUB
August 28, 2005 By Leave a Comment
In a recent Slashdot article, I found the link to an IBM article <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=571&entry_id=130" title="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-bootload.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01LILOandGRUB" onmouseover="window.status='http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-bootload.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01LILOandGRUB';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Boot loader showdown: Getting to know LILO and GRUB</a> that discusses the two Linux boot loaders.<br /> <br /> After a high-level explanation of what a boot loader is, the article continues to discuss LILO and [...]
Zotob Worm spreading massively
August 16, 2005 By Leave a Comment
In Sunday's entry, I wrote about the latest worm — I also wrote about it in my <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=556&entry_id=122" title="http://www.terryscomputertips.com/archives/newsletter_20050815.php" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.terryscomputertips.com/archives/newsletter_20050815.php';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">newsletter</a>, which was published on Monday, warning readers to get patched before it was too late.<br /> <br /> It looks like way, way too many folks aren't doing their Windows updates [...]
IE-Only website plans are UNACCEPTABLE!
August 15, 2005 By Leave a Comment
<b>ALERT — The U.S. Copyright Office is planning Internet Explorer-only site functions!</b><br /> <br /> The U.S. Copyright office has posted a request for comments — <b><i>and they need to get them!</i></b> Consistent with old pre-computer ways, and of course to limit comments that would pour from computer users, email comments are not accepted. <br [...]
Linux box is back up!
July 3, 2005 By Leave a Comment
I've just finished downloading and installing the lastest version of CentOS, version 4.1, on my home Linux box.<br /> <br /> At this point, it has SimplyMepis 3.31 bootable from one partition and CentOS 4.1 bootable from another. There is a common partition that I use for file backup from my Windows boxes. I still [...]
Linux woes
July 2, 2005 By Leave a Comment
I've been fighting my Linux box for a couple days now. My problem is that I'm used to the professional distributions, like SuSE and RedHat, but I'm trying to use some of the free distributions instead. The problem is that they take tweaking and tweaking if you're doing anything weird — and that's the status [...]