John Cocke, sometimes known as the father of RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing), has died aged 77.
Guardian obituaries
Thursday, July 25, 2002
Things to do when you run out of hard drive space when running Microsoft Windows; Port 139 reported open; two quick ways to make windows maximized, and open them that way in Internet Explorer; what to do when your Windows application is so minimized you can't seem to get into it. Backchat: one reader points out that a computer that overheats when the processor runs at 100% utilization is a badly-designed computer; and another recommends a book for home PC builders.
Guardian: Ask Jack
At the Tate Modern gallery you can now borrow a multimedia guide, based on a Compaq iPaq handheld computer. It's a pilot programme that only covers a few works, but the developers say it is the first of its kind.
What's New: Tate modem
It's time handheld computers started to fit in with their bigger brethren instead of requiring dedicated peripherals... and the new Toshiba e740 PocketPC seems to be a step in the right direction. Indeed, it is possible to imagine it replacing your desktop and notebook PCs, phone, MP3 player and numerous other gadgets.....
Computer Weekly > Technology > Mobile Computing > Features
Monday, July 22, 2002
How realistic is the technology in the movie Minority Report?
Guardian G2
19.7.02
Summer of content: Books to read on the beach, if you haven't already read them. This is very far from being a complete guide, but does at least get you started in most of the major areas.
Guardian Online
Is a Windows program maxing out your processor and causing crashes through overheating? Is someone sending spam using your e-mail address? What to back up in Outlook Express e-mail. Is it worth building your own PC?Plus: ECOMWR.DLL not found; looking for the virtual truck program; and FavOrg, a free PC Magazine program to keep those favicons up to date.
Ask Jack
More attempts to stop spam from Email Filtering (EMF) and Cloudmark's SpamNet. Microsoft's MapPoint has finally been launched in the UK. Virgin Radio streams MP3 files and is the most listened to station on the Web. How Twinkies saved superheroes. Aneki's ranking site. The OpenFind search engine is now in beta in the US. Things to do to give your Web site more credibility. Six of the best golf sites, and more.
Web watch
Guardian Online
Is a Windows program maxing out your processor and causing crashes through overheating? Is someone sending spam using your e-mail address? What to back up in Outlook Express e-mail. Is it worth building your own PC?Plus: ECOMWR.DLL not found; looking for the virtual truck program; and FavOrg, a free PC Magazine program to keep those favicons up to date.
Ask Jack
More attempts to stop spam from Email Filtering (EMF) and Cloudmark's SpamNet. Microsoft's MapPoint has finally been launched in the UK. Virgin Radio streams MP3 files and is the most listened to station on the Web. How Twinkies saved superheroes. Aneki's ranking site. The OpenFind search engine is now in beta in the US. Things to do to give your Web site more credibility. Six of the best golf sites, and more.
Web watch
12.7.02
Pixels at an exhibition: I sat down with Henry Jenkins, games guru from MIT, before the opening of the Game On exhibition at the Barbican art gallery. This is some of what he had to say....
Guardian Online: Birth of a medium
A billion units: PCs passed a milestone in April and Gartner Dataquest expects the industry to shift another billion by 2008. But there could be a backlash if digital rights management systems are used to control what users can do with entertainment content such as music, videos and games.
Second Sight
Things to do to make Outlook Express safer and protect yourself from virus attacks. Also, what are Favicons and where did they go? How to make sure you get the site you want -- in this case, the UK version of the Financial Times. Plus: other ways to reduce screen contrast and reduce the risk of eye-strain.
Ask Jack
Palladium: prison or protector? There's been a lot of talk about Palladium, and most of it has missed the crucial facts. First, there's an industry-wide attempt to move to "trusted platform" computers, and the world's two biggest computer companies are founder members: IBM and HP/Compaq. It's not just Microsoft, by any means. Second, "trusted platform" hardware can be built into CD-R and DVD drives, keyboards, smart card readers and other peripherals. If you manage to avoid "trusted platform" PCs, you may end up isolated because other things wont talk to them.
Computer Weekly > Technology > Security
Guardian Online: Birth of a medium
A billion units: PCs passed a milestone in April and Gartner Dataquest expects the industry to shift another billion by 2008. But there could be a backlash if digital rights management systems are used to control what users can do with entertainment content such as music, videos and games.
Second Sight
Things to do to make Outlook Express safer and protect yourself from virus attacks. Also, what are Favicons and where did they go? How to make sure you get the site you want -- in this case, the UK version of the Financial Times. Plus: other ways to reduce screen contrast and reduce the risk of eye-strain.
Ask Jack
Palladium: prison or protector? There's been a lot of talk about Palladium, and most of it has missed the crucial facts. First, there's an industry-wide attempt to move to "trusted platform" computers, and the world's two biggest computer companies are founder members: IBM and HP/Compaq. It's not just Microsoft, by any means. Second, "trusted platform" hardware can be built into CD-R and DVD drives, keyboards, smart card readers and other peripherals. If you manage to avoid "trusted platform" PCs, you may end up isolated because other things wont talk to them.
Computer Weekly > Technology > Security
5.7.02
The end of free: Web sites and Web services are under pressure to move from free to fee.
Guardian Online
Ways you can try to reduce the amount of spam in your mailbox; why a virus checker doesn't check all your mail as it arrives; what to do if Internet Explorer will only save images in Bitmap format; one-way messaging for use in school; spyware programs are very unlikely to be password sniffers; where to sell your old home computers online (eBay); a recommendation for Karen's Directory Printer.
Ask Jack
You can register an interest in BT Broadband even if you can't have it. Three sites for movie fans including Movie Poop Shoot. Teaching kids about homelessness (and raising money the IT way). Sites that let you shorten Web addresses. Play the Game On game on the Barbican Art Gallery Web site. Six of the best Lego sites, and more.
Web Watch
Guardian Online
Ways you can try to reduce the amount of spam in your mailbox; why a virus checker doesn't check all your mail as it arrives; what to do if Internet Explorer will only save images in Bitmap format; one-way messaging for use in school; spyware programs are very unlikely to be password sniffers; where to sell your old home computers online (eBay); a recommendation for Karen's Directory Printer.
Ask Jack
You can register an interest in BT Broadband even if you can't have it. Three sites for movie fans including Movie Poop Shoot. Teaching kids about homelessness (and raising money the IT way). Sites that let you shorten Web addresses. Play the Game On game on the Barbican Art Gallery Web site. Six of the best Lego sites, and more.
Web Watch
28.6.02
Blurred vision could lead to a new monitor; the mouse pointer that jumps about; how to remove istarthere; the "not enough memory" message that indicates a Klez virus infection; the Ignore Phone Call message that suggests a Smartlink modem needs a driver update; synchronizing files with Fusionone; better ways to run a Mac in a PC world.
Guardian: Ask Jack
Technology for travelling light: I'd like my Wi-Fi wireless (802.11b) notebook PC to switch seamlessly to always-on GPRS and provide continuous unmetered access at a reasonable rate, please. The forthcoming Nokia D211 combo card shows it is possible.
Computer Weekly > Strategy > Technology Standards
Thursday, June 20, 2002
Anyone in the UK can have broadband now -- via satellite. The problem is paying for it. How about clubbing together to share the cost, and share the connection wirelessly?
Guardian: Second Sight
Ways to synchronize Outlook on a desktop and a notebook PC; how the IT department can help stop spam; why you may not get the Microsoft (or other) page you asked for; problems running ScanDisk; opening Word document files on a Mac, without buying Word; more ways to disable or divert F1 and other function keys, and that Caps Lock key.
Ask Jack
Where to go for the Webby results; where to name that tune you heard in an advert; kinetic typography and other creative arts; a home page for Planet Earth; M is for Nottingham; new words in the Oxford English Dictionary; Megan's map; icons that open up the Web to people with learning difficulties.
Web Watch
F1 2002: the new season's game is out now, but not really essential unless you want to play with the latest teams and drivers.
Gameswatch
Guardian: Ask Jack
Technology for travelling light: I'd like my Wi-Fi wireless (802.11b) notebook PC to switch seamlessly to always-on GPRS and provide continuous unmetered access at a reasonable rate, please. The forthcoming Nokia D211 combo card shows it is possible.
Computer Weekly > Strategy > Technology Standards
Thursday, June 20, 2002
Anyone in the UK can have broadband now -- via satellite. The problem is paying for it. How about clubbing together to share the cost, and share the connection wirelessly?
Guardian: Second Sight
Ways to synchronize Outlook on a desktop and a notebook PC; how the IT department can help stop spam; why you may not get the Microsoft (or other) page you asked for; problems running ScanDisk; opening Word document files on a Mac, without buying Word; more ways to disable or divert F1 and other function keys, and that Caps Lock key.
Ask Jack
Where to go for the Webby results; where to name that tune you heard in an advert; kinetic typography and other creative arts; a home page for Planet Earth; M is for Nottingham; new words in the Oxford English Dictionary; Megan's map; icons that open up the Web to people with learning difficulties.
Web Watch
F1 2002: the new season's game is out now, but not really essential unless you want to play with the latest teams and drivers.
Gameswatch
14.6.02
RealNetworks is finally getting ready to launch a European subscription service like RealOne. The real question is how many people will be willing to pay for it.
Guardian Online
Playing DivX video clips; more on hunting Trojans; how to convert Protext files; how to remove icons from the Windows desktop; deleting filecheck (chk) files; and the Spooky! sound file that turned out not to be spooky at all.
Ask Jack
New smart phones that use handheld computer software are goiing to make life hard for handheld computer suppliers. Nokia, Psion (via Symbian), Handspring and Microsoft are targeting the new market, but isn't it about time we heard more from Palm?
Computer Weekly
Guardian Online
Playing DivX video clips; more on hunting Trojans; how to convert Protext files; how to remove icons from the Windows desktop; deleting filecheck (chk) files; and the Spooky! sound file that turned out not to be spooky at all.
Ask Jack
New smart phones that use handheld computer software are goiing to make life hard for handheld computer suppliers. Nokia, Psion (via Symbian), Handspring and Microsoft are targeting the new market, but isn't it about time we heard more from Palm?
Computer Weekly
10.6.02
Nokia has laucnhed Europe's first camera-phone, and it's also a PDA, being based on the Symbian/Psion Epoc operating system. The camera isn't just a gimmick: the Multimedia Messaging Service lets you send pictures to other phones or to e-mail addresses. No doubt there will be smaller, sexier devices along soon, but the Nokia 7650 is an impressive start.
Guardian Online: Mobile Matters
Kartoo, a different sort of meta-search engine; Web and video competitons for school kids; more World Cup soccer sites; What's better; Google Labs; and the book and the Dynabook. Six of the best: Big Brother 3 sites.
Webwatch
Spooky! Video-conferencing via webcams, programs to remove logos and branding from Internet Explorer, and more on converting Locoscript documents for Word use.
Ask Jack
Championship Manager for the Microsoft Xbox is the real thing, so you can now play one of the world's most engrossing games on a humble console. But if you are the sort of person who, like me, worries about the state of your rapidly growing database of game data, then you may not be too happy to trust it to this kind of device.
Gameswatch
Guardian Online: Mobile Matters
Kartoo, a different sort of meta-search engine; Web and video competitons for school kids; more World Cup soccer sites; What's better; Google Labs; and the book and the Dynabook. Six of the best: Big Brother 3 sites.
Webwatch
Spooky! Video-conferencing via webcams, programs to remove logos and branding from Internet Explorer, and more on converting Locoscript documents for Word use.
Ask Jack
Championship Manager for the Microsoft Xbox is the real thing, so you can now play one of the world's most engrossing games on a humble console. But if you are the sort of person who, like me, worries about the state of your rapidly growing database of game data, then you may not be too happy to trust it to this kind of device.
Gameswatch
31.5.02
The Webbed World Cup -- links to some of the leading sites, and to software you can download for your handheld computer or desktop PC running Microsoft Excel.
Guardian Online
Cheap printers, expensive cartridges -- a business model that could be under threat as the European Commission moves to investigate cartridge prices and any attempts to discourage recycling or refilling cartridges.
Second Sight
Surf Anytime not all the time; the Bill Gates "free money" mailtracking hoax does yet another circuit of the net; reading Locoscript files on a PC; making sites with small type readable; how to get rid of Internet explorer branding and those logos nobody likes; and a reader offers a better way to start more than one Windows program at once. It may not be clear fromthe Guardian presentatin but the four lines of Ben's sample script should read as follows:
Dim WshShell
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run ("C:\PROGRAM1.EXE")
WshShell.Run "C:\PROGRAM2.EXE",7
Ask Jack
Beware proprietary data formats. Follow Schofield's First Law and don't lose access to your own data.
Computer Weekly Strategy > Technology Standards > Columnists
Guardian Online
Cheap printers, expensive cartridges -- a business model that could be under threat as the European Commission moves to investigate cartridge prices and any attempts to discourage recycling or refilling cartridges.
Second Sight
Surf Anytime not all the time; the Bill Gates "free money" mailtracking hoax does yet another circuit of the net; reading Locoscript files on a PC; making sites with small type readable; how to get rid of Internet explorer branding and those logos nobody likes; and a reader offers a better way to start more than one Windows program at once. It may not be clear fromthe Guardian presentatin but the four lines of Ben's sample script should read as follows:
Dim WshShell
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run ("C:\PROGRAM1.EXE")
WshShell.Run "C:\PROGRAM2.EXE",7
Ask Jack
Beware proprietary data formats. Follow Schofield's First Law and don't lose access to your own data.
Computer Weekly Strategy > Technology Standards > Columnists
23.5.02
Kazaa and Madster revisited, streaming the Soccer Six, London Tourist Board, the annual 5K Web-page competition, checking the security of your browser, and The Matrix 2 -- first video sample. Six of the best: Festivals.
Guardian Webwatch
How to write a batch file to run two Windows programs from a single icon; converting WordStar files for Microsoft Office XP; blocking Shockwave ads with Proxomitron; overwriting Windows Me with XP; and Backchat with readers' responses.
Ask Jack
Guardian Webwatch
How to write a batch file to run two Windows programs from a single icon; converting WordStar files for Microsoft Office XP; blocking Shockwave ads with Proxomitron; overwriting Windows Me with XP; and Backchat with readers' responses.
Ask Jack
17.5.02
The world's most comprehensive exhibition of videogames -- hardware, software and associated artifacts -- has just opened at the Barbican Art Gallery in North London. It will be on for four months so see it if you can.
Guardian Online: Game On
The PaceBook is a tablet PC of the sort Microsoft boss Bill Gates reckons will become popular, using a new version of Windows XP, when that appears. PaceBlade is a Microsoft partner so this provides an early look at the direction. (And while I haven't used it, I don't think I would find any Windows machine powered by a slow Transmeta Crusoe usable.) The AlphaSmart 300 is yet another run at the AA battery-powered portable for text entry market. The IBM ThinkPad T30 and similar notebook PCs are much more conventional and therefore much more attractive, if you're buying.
Notebook computers
The jdbgmgr.exe virus hoax; directory services in Outlook Express; ways to delete deleted mail in Outlook Express; and the very slow Windows Explorer problem. Also, readers write back about the ADSL/USB problem with VIA chip sets, stopping popups and other matters.
Ask Jack
What amounts to Microsoft's retrial -- being held for the benefit of the nine non-settling states and Microsoft's competitors -- is thankfully drawing to a close. It only remains to be seen how much (if any) extra damage will be inflicted on PC users as a result.
Computer Weekly > Politics > Strategy & Law
Guardian Online: Game On
The PaceBook is a tablet PC of the sort Microsoft boss Bill Gates reckons will become popular, using a new version of Windows XP, when that appears. PaceBlade is a Microsoft partner so this provides an early look at the direction. (And while I haven't used it, I don't think I would find any Windows machine powered by a slow Transmeta Crusoe usable.) The AlphaSmart 300 is yet another run at the AA battery-powered portable for text entry market. The IBM ThinkPad T30 and similar notebook PCs are much more conventional and therefore much more attractive, if you're buying.
Notebook computers
The jdbgmgr.exe virus hoax; directory services in Outlook Express; ways to delete deleted mail in Outlook Express; and the very slow Windows Explorer problem. Also, readers write back about the ADSL/USB problem with VIA chip sets, stopping popups and other matters.
Ask Jack
What amounts to Microsoft's retrial -- being held for the benefit of the nine non-settling states and Microsoft's competitors -- is thankfully drawing to a close. It only remains to be seen how much (if any) extra damage will be inflicted on PC users as a result.
Computer Weekly > Politics > Strategy & Law
9.5.02
Chris Locke, aka RageBoy, changed the way some of us thought about the Web back in 1994, and his message is becoming more relevant by the day. I sat down with him on his recent visit to London.....
Guardian Online
Star Wars and Spiderman are hot topics on the Web at the moment -- it's the Hollywood movie effect. Plus: a dancing Queen, Lucy Kimbell's LIX, EggPay (or not), new Nasa Mars pictures, and six of the best robot sites.
Webwatch
Connecting to BT Openworld's ADSL service: the VIA chipset problem still hasn't gone away. Other topics include software to block unwanted popups; bug-reporting features in Windows XP; where to report child porn sites. Plus: if you leave your PC switched on all the time, is it likely to burst into flames?
Ask Jack
Guardian Online
Star Wars and Spiderman are hot topics on the Web at the moment -- it's the Hollywood movie effect. Plus: a dancing Queen, Lucy Kimbell's LIX, EggPay (or not), new Nasa Mars pictures, and six of the best robot sites.
Webwatch
Connecting to BT Openworld's ADSL service: the VIA chipset problem still hasn't gone away. Other topics include software to block unwanted popups; bug-reporting features in Windows XP; where to report child porn sites. Plus: if you leave your PC switched on all the time, is it likely to burst into flames?
Ask Jack
2.5.02
Nintendo lauches the GameCube in the UK tomorrow (Friday) and it looks like being a cut-throat battle for the games console market. The GameCube isn't as good as the Xbox, but it's worth buying just to play Rogue Squadron, if you like that sort of thing.
Guardian Online
Yesterday (Wednesday) saw the official opening of the Cambridge University Computer Lab in the Bill Gates building, and the Microsoft Research Cambridge lab is right next door. I went to talk to Professor Roger Needham, former head of one, who founded and has been running the other for the past five years.
Online: Microsoft in Cambridge
The Microsoft cumulative bug fix gave people problems. The main ones were: which Service Pack for IE5.5, and the lack of a patch for IE5.01 on Windows 9x (95/98/SE/Me). Also: what to do about mail stuck on the server, and leaving your PC switched on all the time.
Ask Jack
The Zaurus SL-5500 handheld running Linux has finally reached the UK
What's New
As a judge in the annual Advanced Card Awards, for outstanding smart card developments, technology and applications, I am getting used to handing out gongs to Americans, and now they are going to Moscow and Malawi. It would be nice if the Brits put up stiffer opposition....
Computer Weekly
Guardian Online
Yesterday (Wednesday) saw the official opening of the Cambridge University Computer Lab in the Bill Gates building, and the Microsoft Research Cambridge lab is right next door. I went to talk to Professor Roger Needham, former head of one, who founded and has been running the other for the past five years.
Online: Microsoft in Cambridge
The Microsoft cumulative bug fix gave people problems. The main ones were: which Service Pack for IE5.5, and the lack of a patch for IE5.01 on Windows 9x (95/98/SE/Me). Also: what to do about mail stuck on the server, and leaving your PC switched on all the time.
Ask Jack
The Zaurus SL-5500 handheld running Linux has finally reached the UK
What's New
As a judge in the annual Advanced Card Awards, for outstanding smart card developments, technology and applications, I am getting used to handing out gongs to Americans, and now they are going to Moscow and Malawi. It would be nice if the Brits put up stiffer opposition....
Computer Weekly
26.4.02
Where to report Nigerian scams and other frauds; the budget site; John Nash; Googlematic; sending your thoughts to the future; installation art; a dating service for twins; where to keep track of the current Stanley Cup playoffs, and more. The free issue of Science Week is linked incorrectly from the Guardian site: go here
Guardian Webwatch
The Klez virus and what all PC users need to do now to defend themselves; deleting Microsoft Word's stray scratch files; and importing a Netscape address book into Internet Explorer. Readers respond on the power switch issue and opening new browser windows from Google, while Joia Shillingford reports back on faxing via the Web.
Ask Jack
Guardian Webwatch
The Klez virus and what all PC users need to do now to defend themselves; deleting Microsoft Word's stray scratch files; and importing a Netscape address book into Internet Explorer. Readers respond on the power switch issue and opening new browser windows from Google, while Joia Shillingford reports back on faxing via the Web.
Ask Jack
19.4.02
Can the spam: junk e-mail is costing us billions, but there are ways to stop it, with a bit of help from the government and programs like MailWasher.
Guardian Online
The letter "from Microsoft" that comes with a virus; turning off your PC; Esperanto in Word 2000; saving Outlook Express e-mail on CD; what to do about losing the back button; deleting cookies on an iMac, feedback on browser hijacking, IT training and more.
Ask Jack
Are voice response systems worth their SALT? The capability to create them will soon be coming to a Visual Studio.net near you.
Computer Weekly Technology > Development Tools > Analysis
Guardian Online
The letter "from Microsoft" that comes with a virus; turning off your PC; Esperanto in Word 2000; saving Outlook Express e-mail on CD; what to do about losing the back button; deleting cookies on an iMac, feedback on browser hijacking, IT training and more.
Ask Jack
Are voice response systems worth their SALT? The capability to create them will soon be coming to a Visual Studio.net near you.
Computer Weekly Technology > Development Tools > Analysis
12.4.02
You don't have to steal this book: you can suggest alterations or download and rewirte parts of a new biography of free software guru Richard Stallman because it has been published on much the same basis as free software.
Guardian Online
Gambling may be a mugs' game but these "long bets" are of particular interest, especially if you are the least bit geeky. Other resources include Teoma, iTools, AllSearchEngines and the Encyclopedia Britannica (11th edition). For kids, there are Unfortunate Events and Kylie Minogue sites. Plus: six of the best sites for learning about the Internet.
Webwatch
Having your browser snatched -- so it no longer defaults to the home page you chose -- is bad enough, but it is even worse if you end up a victim of porn spammers. The anti-virus sites have documented some examples of these Trojans, but if you tackle the problem in the methodical way described here, you should be able to recover, and limit the potential for future attacks.
Ask Jack
Guardian Online
Gambling may be a mugs' game but these "long bets" are of particular interest, especially if you are the least bit geeky. Other resources include Teoma, iTools, AllSearchEngines and the Encyclopedia Britannica (11th edition). For kids, there are Unfortunate Events and Kylie Minogue sites. Plus: six of the best sites for learning about the Internet.
Webwatch
Having your browser snatched -- so it no longer defaults to the home page you chose -- is bad enough, but it is even worse if you end up a victim of porn spammers. The anti-virus sites have documented some examples of these Trojans, but if you tackle the problem in the methodical way described here, you should be able to recover, and limit the potential for future attacks.
Ask Jack
5.4.02
Free AV software; downloading stories for offline reading; sorting out your Start menu; and the bug that can cripple Windows 9x if your PC has too much memory.
Guardian Online: Ask Jack
Not as good as sticking a fish in your ear. Plus: the lightest PocketPC, and a voice authentication system that fits in a phone.
What's New
It's time to start fighting back against spam, because it is going to get a lot worse. There are a few things you can do....
Comuter Weekly Technology > Security > Opinion
Guardian Online: Ask Jack
Not as good as sticking a fish in your ear. Plus: the lightest PocketPC, and a voice authentication system that fits in a phone.
What's New
It's time to start fighting back against spam, because it is going to get a lot worse. There are a few things you can do....
Comuter Weekly Technology > Security > Opinion
29.3.02
When the Internet first came into public use, a decade ago, we had the idea that location no longer mattered: we had done away with geography. Now, almost everywhere, suppliers are starting to use maps, and Location-Based Services (LBS) are seen as the coming thing.
Guardian Online
A site to help kids with problems; Sexiest Geek competition; Irish museum exhibits net art; online graffiti competition; searching Microsoft sites from Google; the descent of man; and Flash 99% Good, or should that be bad.
Webwatch
Blacklisted for spamming, even though it wasn't you; sending faxes via the Web; choosing a notebook PC; unhiding files and folders to find the SendTo directory in Windows Me.
Ask Jack
Last week, I complained (in Second Sight) that Web design was bad and getting worse. There were too many responses to print, but you can read some of the ones not published on the Guardian's Web site. There were good arguments on both sides....
Feedback
Guardian Online
A site to help kids with problems; Sexiest Geek competition; Irish museum exhibits net art; online graffiti competition; searching Microsoft sites from Google; the descent of man; and Flash 99% Good, or should that be bad.
Webwatch
Blacklisted for spamming, even though it wasn't you; sending faxes via the Web; choosing a notebook PC; unhiding files and folders to find the SendTo directory in Windows Me.
Ask Jack
Last week, I complained (in Second Sight) that Web design was bad and getting worse. There were too many responses to print, but you can read some of the ones not published on the Guardian's Web site. There were good arguments on both sides....
Feedback
21.3.02
Mira, Microsoft's technology for making PC screens portable, is a nice idea, but having had my hands on samples, I have reservations about the implementation. (And hardly anyone seems to have realised that the "screens" are actually portable network computers in all but name.)
Guardian Online
Macromedia's Flash has emerged as a middleware contender with the launch of a more standards-compliant Flash MX, which also supports streaming video.
Guardian Online
The Web is bad and getting worse because most sites are designed for visual appearance -- or the needs of advertisers -- instead of usability.
Second Sight
Can you catch a virus from a Web page? How do you know if your PC has a Trojan? And how do you add something to the SendTo menu?
Ask Jack
Sun has launched a humungous private lawsuit against Microsoft -- one that is far bigger and far wider in scope than the US government's. This will keep a lot of lawyers in new Mercs for a long time. But Sun might do better if it just spent the money on some decent programmers.
Computer Weekly > Technology > Servers > Opinion
Guardian Online
Macromedia's Flash has emerged as a middleware contender with the launch of a more standards-compliant Flash MX, which also supports streaming video.
Guardian Online
The Web is bad and getting worse because most sites are designed for visual appearance -- or the needs of advertisers -- instead of usability.
Second Sight
Can you catch a virus from a Web page? How do you know if your PC has a Trojan? And how do you add something to the SendTo menu?
Ask Jack
Sun has launched a humungous private lawsuit against Microsoft -- one that is far bigger and far wider in scope than the US government's. This will keep a lot of lawyers in new Mercs for a long time. But Sun might do better if it just spent the money on some decent programmers.
Computer Weekly > Technology > Servers > Opinion
16.3.02
Intel has announced the Pentium 4-M -- the mobile version of the Pentium. Costs more, but it's a better idea than using a desktop processor in a small enclosure, unless the case design is "exquisite". With desktop Pentia due to reach at least 3GHz this year, the heat problem is not going to go away....
Guardian Online
Big Brother Awards, DivX 5 (and spyware), Ambridge audio online, Nurses are bullied, The Framley Examiner, top Xbox sites, and more....
Webwatch
Trojans: can hackers take control of your PC? Getting the right size PC screen for Web sites. Removing AutoComplete from Internet Explorer. Startup error messages that may show your PC has a virus infection.
Ask Jack
Guardian Online
Big Brother Awards, DivX 5 (and spyware), Ambridge audio online, Nurses are bullied, The Framley Examiner, top Xbox sites, and more....
Webwatch
Trojans: can hackers take control of your PC? Getting the right size PC screen for Web sites. Removing AutoComplete from Internet Explorer. Startup error messages that may show your PC has a virus infection.
Ask Jack
7.3.02
Chilling Effects is a new site logging legal moves that may restrict freedom of speech on the Web. Other sites watched this week include Viralbank, the Rocklopedia Fakebandica, and one that invites you to vote on the Seven New Wonders of the World/
Guardian Online: Webwatch
Is it worth refilling printer cartridges? Readers have their say....
Ask Jack
PCs are boring, as the Xbox games console shows. But in this case, being boring is a Good Thing.
Computer Weekly
Guardian Online: Webwatch
Is it worth refilling printer cartridges? Readers have their say....
Ask Jack
PCs are boring, as the Xbox games console shows. But in this case, being boring is a Good Thing.
Computer Weekly
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