BRUCEB NEWS
Covid-19 Is Straining The Internet
Across the globe, hundreds of millions of people are using their Internet connection more intensely than they did just a few weeks ago. Usage ramped up so quickly that the infrastructure is being stretched past its limits. I don't have any tips. You don't have to do...
SIGN OF THE TIMES
Kodak announced it will stop selling traditional film cameras in the United States, Canada and Western Europe, a startling sign of how quickly consumers have adopted digital...
ADS, POPUPS & BROWSER HIJACKING
For several months, the most frequent complaint from my clients concerns programs surreptitiously installed on their computers that have hijacked their browser home page, taken...
COMCAST HIGH SPEED INTERNET IN SEBASTOPOL
Comcast turned on its high-speed Internet service in Sebastopol a couple of days ago. I called yesterday afternoon and a rep dropped off the installation kit at 9am this morning....
CURRENCY IMAGE DETECTION
From the "Interesting Things To Know" Department: According to a post on the Adobe forums, the latest version of Adobe Photoshop has the built-in ability to detect that an image...
REALPLAYER 10
Real announced a heap of new products and services today, including enhanced quality audio and video streaming and a new player, RealPlayer 10. They promise that it is less...
GOVERNMENT VIOLATES PRIVACY PLEDGE
Here's a chilling article about a government agency deliberately violating a promise not to publish e-mail addresses of people commenting on a proposed government regulation -...
NEW BRUCEB CELL PHONE NUMBER
Late last year, the cell phone carriers implemented "number portability" in one hundred cities across the country. Sonoma County is number 114 on the list. We won't be able to...
APPLE GRIEF
The Press Democrat's business pages frequently feature fawning coverage of Apple's press releases, while attacking Microsoft at every opportunity. Today it was a long article...
CHEAP DVD PLAYERS
The Seattle Times has an interesting article about the ultra-low priced DVD players on the market. No-name DVD players were available on sale before Xmas for under thirty...
TOM’S NETWORKING
Tom's Hardware has long been an important source of information and reviews about computer hardware. Tom's has now opened a new site devoted to networking, Tom's Networking, with...
CALIFORNIA BANS FRONT-SEAT COMPUTER USE
A new law effective January 1, 2004 bans the use of laptop computers in the front seat of a car. It applies to a laptop being used by a passenger in the car, but it excludes most...
DAVE BARRY ON 2003
2003: A Dave Odyssey is Dave Barry's annual review of the past year's most important events. "Some other troubling questions from 2003 were: If Californians hated Gray Davis so...
ADOBE READER 6.0.1
Adobe released a minor update to Adobe Reader (formerly "Acrobat Reader"), from version 6.0 to 6.0.1. If you use Reader, you might get a popup notifying you of the upgrade. A...
OUTLOOK 2003 ANTI-SPAM UPDATE
Microsoft Outlook's 2003 has been doing an extraordinary job of filtering my spam - almost no false positives and a 95%+ job of sending spam to the junk folder. My fear, tough,...
REALNETWORKS SUES MICROSOFT
RealNetworks has filed a $1 billion antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that Microsoft stifled RealNetworks' attempts to develop a market for its RealPlayer software...