BRUCEB NEWS
Oh Happy Day! It’s The Grand Opening Of The New Bruceb.com Website!
Come in, so glad you could make it, let me take your coat, have a canape! We’ve worked so hard on the remodel and it would have been a shame if nobody came to see it. Is anyone with you? Maybe more people were walking behind you and they’re waiting outside. No? Ah,...
BROADBAND SERIES PRESERVED FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
I wrote some notes a couple of weeks ago about choices for broadband access in rural Sonoma County. It’s scrolling off the news page now, but it’s such stunningly lucid prose...
HISTORY LESSON
Mark Minasi occasionally writes a column for a newsletter from Windows & .NET Magazine. Today he makes an interesting point to support his contention that Windows NT 4.0...
MEDIA MONOPOLIES
I was looking for this the other day - here’s a list of the companies owned by AOL Time Warner. It’s extraordinary. You can get similarly chilling information about other media...
MICROSOFT TO PAY AOL $750 MILLION
You might have seen the news that Microsoft will pay AOL $750 million to settle AOL’s antitrust lawsuit. AOL acquired Netscape in 1998 and sued Microsoft in early 2002 for...
THE MATRIX RELOADED
You can read the conversation between Neo and the Architect here, in case you missed anything the first time. (For goodness’ sake, don’t read it if you haven’t seen the movie...
ADOBE ACROBAT READER 6
Adobe released Acrobat 6 today, including a new version of the free Acrobat Reader. Download Acrobat Reader 6 here. Acrobat PDF format is starting to be used everywhere – you...
KAZAA SECURITY UPDATE
There will be an important update for Kazaa within the next 24 hours. They’ve identified a security vulnerability and they’re urging users to patch their systems quickly. Here’s...
MESSAGE FROM “SUPPORT@MICROSOFT.COM” CONTAINS A VIRUS
The latest virus making the rounds purports to arrive from "support@microsoft.com." The file attachment contains a virus. It's not from Microsoft. You shouldn't have to think...
SPAMMER TESTIMONY
Yesterday a notorious spammer testified in front of the Senate Commerce committee. Here’s the Washington Post article about his testimony. Ronald Scelson, an eighth-grade dropout...
HOW GATOR WORKS
Gator is one of the most widespread and obnoxious of the adware programs out there – sneaky programs that might be installed on your system even though you don’t quite know how...
WORDPERFECT 11
There’s a new release of WordPerfect, so I went through the Corel support newsgroups to get an idea of what people think. The reports are pretty good. It’s reasonably stable for...
ROB BLACK BACK ON THE AIR
The world became dreary and pointless when CNET Radio went off the air a few months ago. True geeks can get a fix by signing up to receive daily downloads of 25 minute newscasts,...
NEW DELL NOTEBOOK
Dell has just introduced another Latitude notebook, if you’re willing to pay extra to get less - less weight, that is. The Latitude D D400 is a full Centrino notebook, with the...
APPLE’S FUTURE IN MULTIMEDIA
Apple’s new music downloading service, iTunes, reported two million downloads in its first 16 days of operation, a startling success. I continue to hope that it falls flat, for...
BROADBAND: ISDN
Part 6 in a series describing choices for Internet access in rural Sonoma County The last option for rural broadband access is expensive, but worth considering if you’re...