Question: Should I get a 56K modem, a cable modem or higher speed service? –B.B. Answer: The wave of the future is certainly high-speed services such as a digital subscriber line (DSL) or a cable modem connection, but there still is a case to be made for modem dial-up services. It all depends on your […]
Question: A lot of my friends are talking about a virus called Melissa. I guess I need to know more about it, and how to protect myself. – J.L. Answer: It’s true – a devious new Microsoft Word macro virus, with the full name of W97M.Melissa, is tearing across the Internet and threatening the security […]
Question: The real heart of the “I Love You” e-mail virus/worm problem that seems to be going largely undiscussed is e-mail client software that is script-enabled. Does the tiny amount of convenience it affords really outweigh the latent mayhem it enables? Why won’t Microsoft let Outlook users disable it? How are you going to protect […]
To look at Linus Torvalds, you’d never know he leads a double life. In person he is a 29-year-old bookish programmer whose life got caught in the bright lights of the giga-traffic on the Information Superhighway. On the Internet he is a player in the myriad of rumors and innuendoes stemming from his latest project […]
Question: I have a PDF document I have downloaded and I would like to save the information in another document. How can I do this without losing the file or document format? –J.B. Answer: There’s a cheap way to do this and then there’s a more costly way to do this. First a little explanation. […]