Just in case you have failed to notice, the subject that is absolutely dominating the news today is politics. It is everywhere and you cannot escape it—even in the world of technology.
Author: Charles Miller (Charles Miller)
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The Computer Corner: Know When To Cut
The early 1990s was a period when the Internet was unknown to most of the world. Corporate management had heard of the World Wide Web, which could make them tons of money, but they had no idea how and absolutely no technical understanding.
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The Computer Corner: Packet Switching and the Internet
The misconception most internet users believe is that when they point their web browser to a website such as “The New York Times,” it establishes a dedicated, persistent link between their computer and The Times. That is just not how the internet works.
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The Computer Corner: how to use “trace route”
If you are an internet user, but you do not care if it works or not, then you may stop reading now. If you do care then you need to understand that the single most important skill you must have is how to use “trace route.”
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The Computer Corner: Change Happens
One of the frustrating things about using one of the free email services (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.) is that the interface keeps changing.
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Subject de Jour: Greater Demands on Radio Waves in Wi-Fi Networks
The Computer Corner Regular readers of this column may have already gleaned that sometimes my subject du jour is a recounting of a conversation that happened earlier. This is the case tonight as I compose this week’s column. Earlier, I tried to explain to a client that the reason her Wi-Fi was not performing up...
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The Good and Bad News of Tracking Apps
The Computer Corner There is good news, and there is bad news. The good news is that Apple and Google are partnering to build a Bluetooth-enabled technology that could give everyone with a smartphone an app that will warn them when they are near someone identified as being infected with a contagious disease. The bad...
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Do Not Submit to Online Blackmail
The Computer Corner For many people, social distancing has meant spending more time at home and more time online. Criminals are not letting a good epidemic go to waste. Although criminology is not my area of expertise, I don’t believe expertise is required to understand the obvious about criminal enterprises. There is a new twist...