The worm proliferates by e-mailing itself through its own SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) engine, according to Sophos. When it infects a computer it scans the hard disk for e-mail addresses and then takes the domains of the addresses it finds and queries search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Lycos looking for similar [...]

Someone decided to take a shot at explaining the Theory of Relativity using only words that are four letters or less. The fact that they did it is impressive. However, I tried to read it and could hardly follow because of the prose necessitated by the word length limitation.

I’m sure it gives a [...]

A week or so ago I requested some feedback from the FG readers about options for LCD monitors and a new video card.
Well, as a by-product of a new PC at the office, I have a new video card. I am using a Dell Dimension 8400 at the office now and the card it came [...]

A nicely written commandline tutorial from RedHat which is good for anyone using a Unix-based OS. OS X has spoiled me and I have gotten away from using the commandline as much as I would like so I have found myself ssh’ing into one of my servers just to play around on the commandline.

The [...]

…or an MP3 player, but we all know that there are no other mp3 players on the market *cough*. What is funny though is that here in Tampa I have yet to meet another person with an iPod. Maybe since I am in the clubs all the time there is no need to carry them, [...]

Maybe iTunes keeps all your music neat and tidy. Good for you. Some of us, however, have large mp3 collections culled before the advent of iTunes. And some us (*cough*me*cough*) are pretty lazy about renaming files and keeping them orderly. With my mp3s barely alphabetized, I might have to follow this [...]

Seems as if Ask Jeeves is trying to mirror Google’s actions. Not necessarily a bad idea, but let’s see if they get the implementation right.

In a blog posting, the search company’s EVP of technology revealed that the two companies got together last month to “discuss Ask Jeeves and mozilla.org working together and how Ask can [...]

Dean has posted some information on IE7 over on the IE Blog after Bill Gates mentioned it this morning at RSA.
It seems that they will have a working beta of IE7 due out this summer and do have a ship date in mind for the final version, but will not speak about it at this [...]

Last week I mentioned the Dell 20″ LCD and the low price that you could get it at. Well this week Dell released a 24″ LCD monitor for the sick price of $1200. I am tempted to return my 30″ Apple and get two of these bad boys, but that would take up a lot [...]

One of the high-flyers during the Internet boom has been sold. Too bad very few others had as much luck. Major League Baseball has bought Tickets.com for $66 million and now you have to wonder what kind of stuff will they do to put their product ahead of the NBA and NFL. I would say [...]

One of the traits that has separated PostgresSQL and MySQL from the proprietary databases is price. However, according to this article it looks as though MySQL will be moving to a subscription-based tech support system allowing companies to get anything from basic email tech support to getting help from a MySQL specialist.
My question now is [...]

I remember my first overclocking experience. I bought a Celeron 300MHz and upped that bad boy to 450MHz, Performance was night and day and gave me a warm fuzzy feeling inside even though the procedure was straight forward and the Celeron 300 was a legend in the overclocking world for it’s success rate.
Somehow this guy [...]

For all you WordPress fans out there, version 1.5 of the popular blogging package has been released in the wild. I would tell you all the new features available, but that information wasn’t available on the download page and there wasn’t a search box for me to use.
I am sure this is another great release [...]

Terrence Parr, in an article for IBM developerWorks, has written an excellent introduction to debugging. It might be too introductory for some, but it covers basic points that are always good to remember.

In this article, walk through a sample problem-solving session to learn the art of debugging and highlight six essential elements of the [...]

So it’s time to give the site a makeover. Simplicity will always remain at the forefront because we like to present you with the content. However, there are features that need to be added as well which the current design prevents us from doing.
Are there any ideas/features you would like to see or takeaway for [...]

This guy doesn’t like Napster and it shows in this writeup. More specifically he doesn’t like the fact that he never owns the music that he is paying for…errr renting. That is the basis of Napster’s new suscriptor service. One month you miss that annoying $15 payment and bam all your songs are usless.
What happens [...]