Originally posted 2004-09-30 08:20:33 My Panda antivirus software informs me that my antivirus updates subscription approaches its end, and urges me to renew. In fact, the warning defaults to one visible option: Renew Now....

Originally posted 2004-08-25 06:29:03 My 10-year-old son, Tyson, decided he wanted to learn how to make web pages. I bought him a book, which directed him to Netscape Composer, and I showed him how...

Originally posted 2004-08-11 12:49:00 Recently, my company purchased a Sun 420R for testing purposes, so I’ve been installing software on and configuring it. For some reason, it couldn’t get out to the Internet, though...

Originally posted 2004-07-29 13:23:48 A friend of mine who works with .NET recently expressed some interest in Java. I urged him to download and install Eclipse and give Java a whirl. A couple of...

Originally posted 2004-06-25 11:57:35 My e-mail was broken. Irretrievably broken. I knew I had messages out there, out in the ether, but I couldn’t pull them down–not using Thunderbird under Windows XP, nor the...

Originally posted 2004-05-20 12:44:34 I recently attended my first Java Users’ Group (JUG) meeting. My interest in belonging to a JUG has coincided with a renaissance in the previously moribund local JUG, so I...

Originally posted 2004-05-05 12:29:51 After some contemplation and waffling, I finally ventured out of x86-land and got a Mac–one of the new iBook G4 1.25 GHz machines. I think I was swayed less by...