BIG NEWS - PC Chat, which has been on the air for over 6-years now, will be changing it's name to Gutsy Geeks (gutsygeeks.com) in Jan08. Our format will be switching over to exclusively Linux and Open Source based content. The new focus of the show will be to inform users of the advantages of swi...
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A volunteer Wikipedia editor who claimed to be a professor with a doctorate in religion has resigned, admitting to being nothing but a 24-year-old college dropout. Joseph Ryan was responsible for editing or removing more than 16,000 entries in the Wikipedia. Ironically, Ryan had previously...
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Things That I Learned, and Doofuses I Met This Week on the Internet. First up, right out of the starting blocks this week, a tip of the hat to an anonymous auction-loving doofus who, for a short time, placed the Norwegian Royal Palace in Oslo, Norway on the auction block at eBay. Bidding was so...
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Several years ago the world suffered an infestation of CDs from AOL. There were places online that would accept your CDs and graciously return them to AOL. There were even a few uses indicated for these discs, like using them as coasters or frisbees. For quite awhile, we've been discouraging pe...
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Everyone's favorite open-source browser, Firefox, is pretty good right out of the box. But there are some cool things you can do to customize it's usage and make it even better. Here is a small list of recommendations: 1. If you use a particular search on a regular basis, but something that'...
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In our last show, we reported that Apple released a beta version of its Safari Web browser for Windows XP and Vista users. I decided to take it for a test spin, so I installed it on my Vista machine. I can best sum up my impression of Safari for Windows in four words: "I'm sticking with Firefox...
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From the New York Post Web site, I ran across a story that speaks volumes about doofus parents and what’s wrong with America today. Summer camps for kids are a billion dollar a year industry, with some camps costing thousands of dollars a week. But what the article focused on was not so much th...
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While eCommerce has been a standard online for quite some years now, the back-end logic has changed quite a bit to handle how this works. Many of these changes have come about because of security concerns with handling sensitive data (like credit card numbers) and the decreasing costs in real-time ...
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