The Weekly Geek

Welcome to another edition of The Weekly Geek.
This week I want to keep it short, so let’s get straight to the material. Since many of you will be buying a new computer for Christmas, the first thing you will want to do is add some software program(s) that you did not get. Please only buy [...]

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Howdy one and all and a great big welcome to The Weekly Geek!
As regular readers know, July 2006 Microsoft officially quit supporting updates for Windows 98 and ME. To their credit, you can still get the updates created up to that point.
Now what happened in the printer market was a little quieter. Last week I [...]

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Welcome back to The Weekly Geek. In this fact filled adventure of SPAM 2.0 I plan on walking you through several available SPAM software filtering programs.
In our previous edition I went over basic preventive measures. The unfortunate fact is no matter how careful you are someway, somewhere, somehow you are going to end up with [...]

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Hello and welcome back to another exciting and fun filled edition of The Weekly Geek. In this weeks edition we are going to go over Microsoft Windows built in self healing options.
The first and most widely known is available in Windows ME and XP only, it is the “System Restore” feature.
Periodically the computer takes a [...]

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Hello to all and a great big welcome back to The Weekly Geek!
This week we are going to discuss firewalls. Computer firewalls are meant to be just like the firewalls between buildings. They are barriers designed to prevent fire, or in computer terms to prevent unwanted intruders from entering.
Think of a firewall as a containment [...]

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