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Cover Story: From Home to Homeland
by Edwin Davidson, Acting Editor The DataBus
A day in the life of a small business is the focus of our March
monthly meeting. Our speaker will be Linux expert, DMA® trustee and
member Don Corbet, thelinuxguy®. This "user friendly" presentation is
for the business professional or home hobbyist who desires an understanding
of lower cost operating systems and improved performance ... more »
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Prevent Identity Theft
by Jerry Wonderly, Regular columnist
Identity Theft is increasing at an alarming rate. Once someone
assumes your identity, it can take years to clear your good name. The
obvious key is to prevent it in the first place. The Dayton Daily News
wrote an article about ID Theft a few weeks ago but didn't give enough
information on how to prevent identity theft in the first place ... more »
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Telemarketers Trump TeleZapper
by George Gibbs, Acting Editor The DataBus
Back in January, we published an article, "Zap Those Telemarketers",
which told you how to set up your answering machine message to fool
those automated telemarketing calls into thinking your phone number
is disconnected. Well, the telemarketers are striking back with a new
technology that renders obsolete not only the $40 TeleZapper and our
alternative free hint to you ... more »
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Software Review: CD-ROM Tool
by Dan Woodard, DataBus Software Reviewer
Like me, you've probably encountered at least one noisy CD-ROM
drive over the years. You know, the one that sounds like a blender or
spins up and down all the time, annoying the heck out of you. I have
one of these on my secondary system right now, a Sony CD-RW drive that
always spins up and is so loud that it reminds me of a washing machine
when all the clothes end up on one side ... more »
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Technology.talk: Taxing Software
by Pat Suarez, Regular columnist
This year, more than a third of all taxpayers will take advantage
of the electronic filing capabilities of Tax Cut and TurboTax. The latter
is a member of the Intuit family that includes Quicken and Quickbooks.
Up until this year, taxpayers seemed content with the TurboTax/Quicken ... more »
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November DMA® Meeting Report
by Jim Dalley DMA® member
Nearly everyone has used PKZIP, according to the show of hands
at the November DMA® meeting. The ubiquitous compression program is
named for its creator; the PK stands for the late Phil Katz who created
the first package on his mother's kitchen table in 1989 ... more »
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MPEG-4 Video Circus
by Timothy Everingham, N.O.C.C.C.
We currently have three proprietary standards for Internet video:
Windows Media, Real Video, and QuickTime. Of course with such proprietary
standards there becomes an issue of interoperability, which leads to
having to potentially have servers and/or players for each one. So why
not create an international video standard for the Internet like the
MPEG 1 & 2 standards used on CDs and DVDs. Enter MPEG-4 ... more »
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DMA® Computer Museum @ Techfest
by Carol Ewing, Membership Chairman
TechFest2003, a celebration of technology in the Dayton area,
was held at Sinclair College from February 21-23, 2003. The purpose
of this event was so everyone could learn, share and have fun with technology.
Kids could have hands-on experiments; students could discuss careers
in math, science, engineering, computing or technology with people from
local universities ... more »
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Random Access Memory!
By Bob Elgines, CRCC Editor
CORE MEMORY '50: (1950) Pictured below is a single ferrite donut
used in a core memory unit for one bite of memory. When the core is
magne tized that is equal to a one and when it is demagnetized that
is equal to a zero. This required a lot of power, so large DC power
supplies were needed producing a lot of heat ... more »
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The Deals Guy
by Bob "The Cheapskate" Click, GOCUG
I enjoy all the feedback from my personal comments in the column. When
I wrote about my experience with spyware on a friend's computer, I was
surprised at how many people e-mailed to say how many spies they found
on their own machine when they installed Ad-Aware, and many had over
a hundred ... more »
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WOW -- Woody's Office Watch
If you were unfortunate enough to install Producer 1.0 for PowerPoint
- Microsoft's PowerPoint add-in that adds limited audio and video capabilities
to PowerPoint presentations viewed on the Web - I sure hope you didn't
"upgrade" to Windows Media Player 9 ... more »
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