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🕑Feb 02, 2006 🖋John Locke 💬0

The myths of big business

Two quick stories caught my eye today, both related to pointing out the propaganda being foisted on us by large corporations...

🕑Jan 13, 2006 🖋John Locke 💬0

Why Linux is more secure

Windows flaws keep causing trouble for most Internet users. Earlier this week I was at a meeting of a group of tech professionals in the Seattle area, all of whom work with small businesses.

🕑Dec 01, 2005 🖋John Locke 💬0

BackupPC: Open Source Backup to disk

Just stumbled upon a pretty cool web interface to a centralized backup system. You can manage a series of snapshot backups of all the computers on your network. It can automatically send a user an email if there's a repeated problem of missed backups.

🕑Nov 28, 2005 🖋John Locke 💬0

Time to give Linux a try?

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Here at Freelock, we're strong believers in that maxim. The problem is, so much about computing is broken these days. And in most cases, we've just learned to live with the problems.

You have had choices. For the past decade, your choice has been between crash-prone and insecure Windows, incompatible, expensive, and slightly strange Macs, or highly technical, user-unfriendly Linux. Times are changing, for all three.

🕑Oct 31, 2005 🖋John Locke 💬0

"Anti-piracy" techniques install spyware on your computer

Fascinating read here, about how a copy-protected music CD from Sony installed a surriptitious program on a computer, hid itself completely from view, and made itself nearly impossible to remove without crippling the user's computer.