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Don’t you hate it when you turn on your monitor and nothing happens? The 30” display for my Mac Pro desktop machine simply failed to light up this morning. No power light, USB ports don’t work, screen dark. I have two monitors, so I swapped the cables into the video ...
The curvaceous top of the mouse is a multi-touch surface.Apple’s new Magic Mouse is a very nice mousie indeed. No obvious buttons, no scroll wheel, just a sleek multi-touch surface and some groovy new software that lets you scroll with momentum — similar to the way scrolling works on an ...
Review, Computers, Mouse, Magic Mouse, Amazon, Snow Leopard, Software, mac os x, Apple, Gross Finger Oil
Amazon has some great deals on computers and accessories, including hard drives (1TB drives for $99 — I picked one up for myself), webcams, video cards, mice, speaker systems, laptop cases, etc. And don’t forget Father’s Day is coming up this Sunday, June 21st. UPDATE at 6/18/09 5:08:12 pm: Since ...
Here’s an eye-opening article by computer security expert Bruce Schneier on the lessons learned from a database of stolen passwords: Real-World Passwords. How good are the passwords people are choosing to protect their computers and online accounts? It’s a hard question to answer because data is scarce. But recently, ...
Security, Computers, Passwords, Internet, Social Engineering, Schneier
Well, the big computer security mystery of the year turned out to be just another spammers’ tool: Conficker Doomsday Worm Sells Out For $49.95. Last night the dreaded Conficker worm finally got the update we’ve been waiting for since April 1. But cyber Armageddon will have to wait another ...
If you’re using a Windows PC, it would be a very good idea to make sure your anti-virus software is up to date, because the “Conficker” worm is preparing to do ... something ... on April 1st. This article is skeptical about the danger, but since no one really knows ...
Q: What does Little Green Footballs have in common with Cuba? (Besides our Nazi-like suppression of dissent?) A: We’re both running Linux.
Apple announced today that Steve Jobs will not deliver the keynote address to the MacWorld conference this January, and that this will be Apple’s last appearance as an exhibitor. Whoa. Big rocks, thrown into big pond. Ripples soon. TidBITS Tech News has a good story on it: No Jobs Keynote ...
With nearly 10,000 votes, the results from yesterday’s OS poll are a bit surprising; Windows XP had the largest percentage (58%), as expected, but LGF readers apparently prefer Mac OS X at a rate about 4 times that of the general population (21%). So here’s another poll, to find out ...
Because I’m curious, and to help with LGF design issues as we go forward into the new frontier, here’s a poll asking which computer operating system our readers use the most. I didn’t include all OSes, obviously; you won’t find CP/M or BeOS or Atari’s TOS on here, but there’s ...
I’m going out on a limb to make a wild prediction: Bill Gates is going to regret saying this. “We made it way harder for guys to do exploits,” said Mr. Gates. “The number [of exploits] will be way less because we’ve done some dramatic things [to improve security] in ...
Computers, Operating Systems, Technology, OS X, Vista, Windows, Microsoft, Apple
The $100 laptop computer is here (well, a working model anyway, running Red Hat Linux), and boy is it ugly.