Privacy as the Right to Control Your Information
So, if you find yourself or your child pictured on one of our mugs, send a message to delete@koppie-koppie.biz. We’ll promptly remove the mug...
Author Archives: John Buck
Women are Leaving the Tech Industry in Droves
According to the industry group Code.org, computing jobs will more than double by 2020, to 1.4 million. If women continue to leave the field,...
Lenovo Shipping PC’s with Adware and Root Certificate
It is bad enough when PC manufacturers add all kinds of crapware on a PC to make money as these programs tend to slow...
Removing the Babylon Toolbar
I sort of got to be Jim Dinkey one recent Saturday evening, when a conversation with a friend led me to fix her computer remotely.
The Babylon Toolbar (BT) is foistware software that is insinuated onto your machine because you overlooked some negative option choice to keep it from happening. What does the Babylon Toolbar do? Basically, it makes itself your search engine, in any browser.
All is not lost
I received an email from someone I don’t know, about this item in our April 2011 issue: “Graphs Made Easy—If you have data you want to present graphically, but don’t have Excel or an equivalent number-cruncher, you might want to check out http://www.snapfiles.com/get/gmefree.html.” Not knowing if the sender was a SPAUG member, I went to the Contacts page on our (SPAUG) website, to check the Member Contact page, which turns out to no longer exist on the site. So, I exercised a fallback option—the Wayback Machine