BRUCEB NEWS
The Bad Guys Are Gonna Git You If You Don’t Watch Out
Be careful when you read your email! I’ve noticed an increase in phishing messages in the last few months. The bad guys continue to improve their grammar and the presentation of their fake messages, to make it more likely that you’ll be fooled into giving them a...
SONIC DSL SALE
Sonic is passing along reduced prices on DSL to match SBC's recent promotions. Basic DSL service is $34.95/month from Sonic - similar to SBC's price, but with none of the hassles...
HAVE YOU DONE A BACKUP LATELY?
Hard drives stop working sometimes. It doesn’t happen often, but it happens. Sometimes a system can’t be started because files are damaged that Windows relies on. That can be...
KAISER AND YOUR HEART
This has nothing to do with technology, but these statistics are too extraordinary to miss. Kaiser Permanente shed its poor reputation decades ago and is now well known for the...
AFFORDABLE COLOR LASERJETS
HP has an overlooked line of business color inkjet printers - here's the 1100 series, and here's the 2230 series, for example. There are more expensive models as well. They're...
ORSON SCOTT CARD ON MP3s
Popular SF/fantasy author Orson Scott Card has written a nice article deflating the recording industry rhetoric and explaining why mp3s are not necessarily to blame for the...
ANOTHER WINDOWS CRITICAL UPDATE
Go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and install Critical Updates. There is another important security update. Another vulnerability has been discovered, very similar to the...
OPUS RETURNS!
Life is worth living again! Opus the penguin is returning to the comics pages! Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, creator of Bloom County and Outland, will...
TOYNBEE TILES
I love stuff like this. For years, a reporter for the Kansas City Star had noticed an odd tile embedded in the street near a favorite restaurant. Made of a rock-hard material,...
SUBPOENAS AND COMPUTER CRIME
Here’s a fascinating – and chilling – article by a former head of the Justice Department's computer crime unit describing a recent decision by a federal appeals court in...
GOOGLE TRICKS
You know how valuable Google is for web searches, but take a look at this page for other equally valuable Google services - among others, a price comparison service, an index of...
MICROSOFT SMALL BUSINESS SERVER 2003
Microsoft will release Small Business Server 2003 in October. It is a huge release. It will transform computing for small offices. The reason? It’s simple and it’s cheap. A new...
SPAM AND VIRUS TSUNAMI
I’ve used the same e-mail address for years. It’s listed on my web site and I’ve used it to subscribe to several mailing lists. That makes it a prime target for abuse - but I'm...
FILTERING SOBIG MESSAGES
Messages generated by the Sobig virus arrive in your mailbox with one of nine randomly chosen subject lines: - Re: Details - Re: Approved - Re: Re: My details - Re: Thank you! -...
NORTON ANTIVIRUS 2004 WILL USE PRODUCT ACTIVATION
Norton Antivirus 2004 will be released next month. For the first time, all versions of the product will require product activation, similar to the process of activating Windows...
SOBIG AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET
This article in The Register discusses the long-term effect of spam and viral messages, which are undermining the potential usefulness of e-mail and might lead inexorably to a...