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Can computers detect sarcasm?
Ah, sarcasm. It’s a guilty pleasure few of us would likely admit we enjoy, but have almost certainly employed at one point or another. It’s a verbal catharsis, a momentary sour-lemon bitterness, a passing scorn to ease a flare of frustration or score a stinging humorous point. In my work as a software developer, I’ve [...] -
Hardware vs. Software Firewalls
Hardware firewalls are important because they provide a strong degree of protection from most forms of attack coming from the outside world. Additionally, in most cases, they can be effective with little or no configuration, and they can protect every machine on a local network. A hardware firewall in a typical broadband router employs a [...] -
Securing your network
As you may know already, Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) security is not secure. This first wireless LAN security standard, developed by the IEEE, has been vulnerable to cracking by Wi-Fi hackers for nearly a decade now. In 2003, the Wi-Fi Alliance released a security standard called Wi-Fi Protected Access. Although the first version (WPA), which [...] -
Windows Registry Errors
How many times since you purchased your computer have you seen an annoying message like – “blah-blah” .DLL file is missing or corrupt, unable to open file/program. I’ll bet that if you’ve had a nasty virus, hardware crash, software crash or something similar – you almost certainly have had an error like this at least [...] -
Installing Windows Audio Drivers on older Operating Systems
Perhaps you’ve done it before. Are you familiar with how to efficiently locate and download a Windows audio driver? But wait a second!; check out the following quick article – it’s likely to greatly transform everything you know! It is the case that getting drivers from unknown or suspicious websites can sometimes subject your PC [...] -
Office 2010
Despite it being the second most used application on my work computer (behind the Mozilla Firefox browser), it’s still impossible for me to get excited about a new edition of the Microsoft Office suite. With the final release due in a couple of months, Microsoft have provided a beta test version of Office 2010 that’s [...] -
How to protect your PC from Viruses
These days; as the Internet and other networks are greatly developed, computer viruses are distributed quite rapidly and intensively. Everyday, several new viruses capable of considerably damaging your computer system arise. Anti-virus specialists work hardly to make updates to their software against new viruses as soon as possible. These viruses can get inside your computer [...] -
Reasons to upgrade to OSX Snow Leopard:
1… Boot Camp now allows Windows partitions to read and copy files from HFS+ partitions. The new version also adds support for advanced features on Cinema Displays and a new command-line version of the Startup Disk Control Panel. 2… The Finder has been completely rewritten in 64-bit Cocoa to take advantage of the new technologies [...] -
Microsoft’s newest Operating System: a look at Windows7
Initially released to manufacturing on July 22nd, 2009 and made available to the public on October 22nd, 2009 less than three years after it’s problematic predecessor WIndows Vista, is it worth investing in the latest Operating System from Microsoft? If you were one of the disgruntled users of Vista, and had strong thoughts of “downgrading” [...]