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Dead Monitor Open Thread

Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:26 am PST

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 ...

Open Thread, Apple, Computers, Murphy's Law

Tech Review: Apple's Magic Mouse

Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:23 pm PST

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

Deal of the Week

Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:48 pm PDT

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 ...

Amazon, Computers, Hard Drive, Accessories, Deal Alert

How Safe Are Your Passwords?

Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:03 pm PDT

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

Dreaded Conficker Worm Turns Out to Be Another Pointless Spammer

Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:47 pm PDT

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 ...

Computers, Internet, Virus, Worms, Malware, Technology

Windows PC Worm Set to Activate on April 1st

Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:33 pm PDT

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 ...

Computers, Internet, Virus, Worms, Malware, Technology

Open Source Communism

Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:23 pm PST

Q: What does Little Green Footballs have in common with Cuba? (Besides our Nazi-like suppression of dissent?) A: We’re both running Linux.

Cuba, Linux, Operating System, Open Source, Computers

Jobs No-Show at Apple's Last MacWorld Expo

Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:41 pm PST

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 ...

Apple, Computers, Technology, Steve Jobs, MacWorld

Poll: Which Web Browser Do You Prefer?

Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:26 am PST

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 ...

LGF, Poll, Web Browser, Technology, Computers, Internet

Poll: Which Computer OS Do You Use?

Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 6:02 pm PST

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 ...

LGF, Poll, Operating System, Technology, Computers

Gates Dares Hackers

Tue, Feb 6, 2007 at 11:04 am PST

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

A Laptop for $100

Thu, Jun 8, 2006 at 4:16 pm PDT

The $100 laptop computer is here (well, a working model anyway, running Red Hat Linux), and boy is it ugly.

Technology, Computers