December 31, 2011
The Internet is so big now, and the average person has more bandwidth at home then existed in the entire world in 1980, that the biggest slow down in web surfing has become the initial DNS or Domain Name Service look up. DNS is the service that translates the human readable Domain Name of 1nova.com [...]
June 24, 2008
In case anyone is not aware, the Computer Virus is here to stay. Even with the dozens of companies that have made billions around stopping the them, computer Virus have reached into just about every possible electronic device there is. Despite the backlash against anti-Virus software, if you’re a Windows user you NEED Anti-Virus Software.
Unluckily, [...]
May 3, 2008
A lot of us old computer geeks like to get nostalgic about pieces of hardware we use to run, work on, and curse on a daily basis. Some of us take it a bit further…
Legalize Adulthood just recently received several old Tektronix terminals for their collection. Dating from the age of “one computer, multiple people [...]
October 5, 2007
Every once in a while you’ll here or read about an absolutely awesome command line utility or X11 program that you must have. After consulting the great Oracle, Google you find that the program you want is in Macports which for those who are not comfortable at the command line may cause some issues. Fear [...]