According to an article at ComputerWorld.com Microsoft is planning on giving away free copies of the first release candidate for Windows 7, the latest generation of operating systems to make its way out of Redmond. While the general public has to wait a few days (May 5th) to snag this download, it’s already been made [...]
When faced with a question to which we don’t know the answer, we turn to our informational overlords on the internet. The amount of data available on the inernet is rivaled only by the number of people screaming to be heard, and sifting through the noise to track down that one piece of data can [...]
I was browsing the CBC.ca website the other day and found an article about Canadian universities which compelled me to leave a comment, so I clicked on the handy “sign up to comment” button. Things went downhill from there. Apparently every time I tried to submit my information it was considered “unsafe” and it [...]
One of the biggest obstacles I’ve come across during my first few years at University is that there are no clear jumping off points if you want to break out of the theory behind it all and get in to the practical aspects of computers. Finding these jumping off points can be difficult and will [...]
