Building a Future-Proof PC

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

It happens to us all: You put together your latest home-built PC masterpiece and before you've even downloaded your first Windows XP patch, some new technology comes along, or the price of an existing one drops, and you find yourself wishing you'd waited just another few days, weeks, or months. ...

Ready to Drop Kick Your PC?

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

There's a famous scene in the classic movie Caddyshack in which Bill Murray (playing demented greenskeeper Carl Spackler) says that in order to defeat the gopher that's ruining his golf course, he must think like a gopher. Troubleshooting computers can be a bit like that: To recognize and fix what's ...

AMD Speeds Turion Chips

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Advanced Micro Devices introduced two new low-power-consumption 64-bit microprocessors, the MT-37 and the MT-40, to its Turion mobile range this week. The model names identify two aspects of the processors' performance. The T signifies that they are part of the low power-consumption range of Turion mobile processors (components from the ML ...

ID Theft Keylogger Examined

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

I have had email conversations with a number of people at Sunbelt Software about the ID theft ring they discovered recently. They were kind enough to provide a HijackThis log entry that identifies the keylogger. I promised not to publish it but said I would warn the helpers at the ...

Securing Wi-Fi Networks Doesn’t Have To Be Painful

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Years ago, in a strip drawn by the great cartoonist Walt Kelly, the characters were following a set of mysterious footprints through the swamp in which they lived. Finally, one of the characters, Pogo, a little opossum, realized that the footprints were their own. That's when he made his much ...