| 171 | Microsoft Product Activation Preview: Let's see if I've got this straight. Microsoft bolts together an excellent office package by purchasing programs from many other companies (or just purchasing the companies outright) and improves those products tremendously. They put an incredibly high price on the product, and in spite of that price manage to sell enough to more-or-less own the m... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 172 | Getting Revenge On Bandwidth Stealers Preview: Well, you've discovered that someone is stealing your bandwidth. You've sent them a polite email (if you can figure out an email address) and perhaps even a less than polite message. They keep stealing your images, your sound files, your videos and even your zip files. What do you do now? One thing that is very common is to replace the graphics i... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 173 | Microsoft's Licensing Model (sigh) Preview: One of my biggest, most important responsibilities in my day job is ensuring that we have purchased all of the software licenses that we require. It's my job to ensure that we are 100% legal at all times - which fulfills one of our corporate goals to be a completely ethical company. Most companies make it very simply for me and my staff. If I wan... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 174 | Microsoft's ^@&^#&@ W2K MCSE Policy Preview: Like over 800,000 other people, I spent an incredible amount of time and effort studying to be an MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer). I took six classes, studied several books from cover to cover, took practice tests and used the knowledge in my job and on my own time. Why did I do all of this? Because I wanted to have one of the most pre... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 175 | Turn About On Certification Preview: On October 11th I was reading my email as usual when I opened one which stated something so unbelievable that I had to read it three times. I will admit the news was nothing compared to the events going on in the rest of the world (the September 11th terrorist attack and aftermath). However, it was very welcome nonetheless. Microsoft has changed ... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 176 | Gearing Up for Wireless Revolution Preview: Wireless Internet is booming and we are heading toward an information-everywhere society. Already, it is hot in Europe. U.S. is now catching up at very rapid rate. Worldwide cell phones sales already outpace personal computer purchase. Boston-based Yankee groups says there could be 50 million wireless Internet users by 2004. It projects that by 20... (more) Published By: Richard Hsu Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 177 | Real Life Internet Evil: Microsoft's Smart Tags Preview: Our purpose with this series is to use real life examples of deception, fraud and other evil to show how you can better protect yourself. The examples cited in these articles are intended to demonstrate best practices and recommendations. You've worked hard on your web pages. If you are anything like me, you've spent countless hours writing conte... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 178 | Introduction To Web Technologies Preview: There are literally hundreds of difficult technologies available to the webmaster. Making proper use of these technologies allows the creation of maintainable, efficient and useful web sites. For example, using SSI (server side includes) or CSS (cascading style sheets) a webmaster can change every page on his web site by editing one file. A few o... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 179 | FTP Preview: Believe it or not, browsing the web with Internet Explorer or Netscape is relatively new. It wasn't that long ago (ten to fifteen years) when the tools you would use on the internet (not the web) were email, gopher (a menu based browser), archie (a file and directory locator) and FTP. The letters FTP stand for File Transfer Protocol, and that... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 180 | Microsoft Passport? Good or Bad for the Internet? Preview: If you are anything like me, you've got dozens or even hundreds of accounts spread all over the internet (and the planet, for that matter). Each account has a different username and password combination, which adds up to one big headache, trying to keep it all straight. I am aware of security, so I tend to create a different username and password... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 181 | Electronic Disconnects! – Which way are YOU leaning? Preview: “Every second, worldwide, a PC (personal computer) is connected for the first time, and every half second a cellular telephone is activated,” Frank Feather, futurist from Canada. Contrast such dramatic electronic explosion with the comment from a business exceutive a few weeks ago, “You don’t have to be there” (on the web via the computer). We a... (more) Published By: Ib Hagsten, Ph.D., CAC, Dpl. ACAN Submitted: 14 December,2001 |
| 182 | Turing Machines and Universes Preview: In 1936 an American (Alonzo Church) and a Briton (Alan M. Turing) published independently (as is often the coincidence in science) the basics of a new branch in Mathematics (and logic): computability or recursive functions (later to be developed into Automata Theory). The authors confined themselves to dealing with computations which involved "ef... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 21 December,2001 |
| 183 | The Chinese Room Revisited Preview: Whole forests have been wasted in the effort to refute the Chinese Room Thought Experiment proposed by Searle in 1980 and refined (really derived from axioms) in 1990. The experiment envisages a room in which an English speaker sits, equipped with a book of instructions in English. Through one window messages in Chinese are passed on to him (in th... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 21 December,2001 |
| 184 | The Internet in the Countries in Transition Preview: Though the countries in transition are far from being an homogeneous lot, there are a few denominators common to their Internet experience hitherto: 1. Internet invasion The penetration of the Internet in the countries in transition varies from country to country - but is still very low even by European standards, not to mention by American on... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 21 December,2001 |
| 185 | The Technology of Law Preview: One can discern the following relationships between the Law and Technology: 1. Sometimes technology becomes an inseparable part of the law. In extreme cases, technology itself becomes the law. The use of polygraphs, faxes, telephones, video, audio and computers is an integral part of many laws - etched into them. It is not an artificial co-habit... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 21 December,2001 |
| 186 | The Fourth Law of Robotics - Part I Preview: The movie "I, Robot" is a muddled affair. It relies on shoddy pseudo-science and a general sense of unease that artificial (non-carbon based) intelligent life forms seem to provoke in us. But it goes no deeper than a comic book treatment of the important themes that it broaches. I, Robot is just another - and relatively inferior - entry is a long ... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 21 December,2001 |
| 187 | The Solow Paradox Preview: The PRODUCTIVE HARDWARE The world is debating the Solow Paradox. Named after the Nobel laureate in economics, it was stated by him thus: "You can see the computer age everywhere these days, except in the productivity statistics". The venerable economic magazine, "The Economist" in its issue dated July 24th, quotes the no less venerable Professor... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 21 December,2001 |
| 188 | 3G Technology – Promises and Challenges Preview: Introduction Imagine a situation where you are about to make an important Sales Presentation. You realize that you have brought the wrong presentation slides and you call up your colleague. She immediately emails the file to your 3G terminal and you transfer it to your laptop. Another scenario is having video-conferencing and sending character-ba... (more) Published By: Colin Ong TS Submitted: 07 January,2002 |
| 189 | Streaming Video and Audio In the Internet Preview: Entertainment is a necessity! And thank god we belong to the digitalage when almost all our needs are readily available right in the comforts of our own home. And now that the Internet is here, the focus is not merely on the issue of merely supplying information to the users but giving them the choice to pick only the kind of information they ar... (more) Published By: Lester John M. Policarpio Submitted: 17 January,2002 |
| 190 | Product Review: Professional Capture System Preview: During my career I've written several hundred manuals for dozens of applications, operating systems, routines and hardware. This is an area that I've always felt is vitally important, yet it seems to be either completely overlooked or assigned at the last minute to the person who is lowest on the organization chart. I've seen projects with im... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 19 January,2002 |