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Good SF isn't hard to find when you ask the right people.

What does Apple's "other Steve" think of personal computers now?

It's "That Tuesday". Time to patch your XP.

Search your favourite computer science, electrical engineering and physics journals (more to come later).

How do you get started with getting computers smart?

Most just don't have enough horsepower or RAM to make the grade.

If a crash or some other incident renders your WinXP system problematic or unbootable, you can use System Restore to return it to a previous working state.

News for Tuesday, April 11 2006

This new release features many improvements including enhanced support for Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET 2.0 framework. VistaDB 2.1.5 includes a new VistaDB OLE DB Provider for Visual Basic and ASP developers using classic ADO.

Can you put the Internet on this floppy for me? Webaroo is trying.

Should you include references on a resume? Do they actually help or hinder?

More than a cleanser, more than a Greek king, even (only slightly) more than a football team.

Think they'll make a Beta out of it?

In an ongoing merger of online and print media and opinion, a number of newspapers have subscribed to the new BlogBurst service. BlogBurst aggregates over 600 weblogs on topics from technology through travel.

Details about the zero-day hole sat on company portal for hours.

...locations throughout much of the U.S. Fleet managers, security managers and the cartographically challenged get a new whereabouts weapon this week, when Skyhook Wireless Inc. in Boston releases a beta version of its Loki mapping service for mobile users.

Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) association thinks Linux is, "too fat" so, he's moving forward with Windows CE for OLPC computers.

AT&T gave your data to Feds. Where are the privacy advocates when you need them?

News for Monday, April 10 2006

In an effort to boost the level of data security on portable computers, cell phones and other gadgets, IBM is unveiling a method for injecting encryption capabilities into the heart of the machines' circuitry.

For the last two weeks, the Linux army has seized on Tuttle, Oklahoma city manager Jerry Taylor as a symbol of all that's wrong with the world.

Many people know what podcasts are, but few use them. What will it take to make them ubiquitous?

A new virus that infects both Linux and Windows may be on the loose soon after developers release sample code.

Bake four and twenty coders into a pie...