IBM recently announced that it is finally throwing in the towel and withdrawing the last two computers that it ships with OS/2 at the end of this year. And here you thought that died off years ago.

On this day in 1951 the first commercial computer, the Univac 1 , was shipped. The UNIVAC 1 had only 1,000 words of memory. It ran Windows 98… no, that last part may not be correct. According to 50′s web : 46 machines were built, for about $1 million each. UNIVAC I came to the ...

Frustrated with that tech support rep with whom you have been on the phone? This article from Salon tells the story of one tech support’s training and indoctrination as a phone support rep. Our two-week “intensive training” course was helmed by a 19-year-old named Chad. Chad had great difficulty making it to class within three ...

This articleat ananova.com reports on a man who apparently was having some serious trouble with insects at his flat. A German man used so much insect killer that he blew himself up when a spark from his computer ignited the aerosol spray. Walter Mueller, 36, from Schleswig-Holstein, caused more than ?100,000 of damage and debris ...

If you use Excel for home or work you owe it to yourself to get over to Mr Exceland subscribe to an email list to receive the book “Learn Excel from Mr Excel” for free. I saw Mr Excel on Call for Help Canada and learn a cute trick for combining text columns like first ...

If you want to know what will put your office network at risk then consider this article in the Register from the InfoSecurity Europe in 2003. Annually this group has conducted an informal audit to see how easy it would be to talk people into giving up their passwords. The group went to London’s Waterloo ...

When you install software do you read the End User License Agreement (EULA) that gets displayed on the screen? No? You are not alone. SlashDot has a story about Doug Heckman who apparently does read these agreements. Much to his surprise he found a clause that 6,000 people before him had missed. The clause stated ...

ABC News has a piece on their web site with the title “Silicon Insider: R.I.P. Microsoft? “. They compare Microsoft to Silicon Graphics. Back when I started my current job Silicon Graphics was the leading internet server provider. When you walked into a data center there were racks and racks of Silicon Graphics servers and ...

McAfee is certainly trying to drum up business for its Anti-Spyware products but it seems hard to believe. They say that “According to a study by the National Cyber-Security Alliance, 91 percent of all home PCs are infected with some kind of spyware today.”

A friend and co-worker, Dave Land, showed me this trick. There is a plug-in for FireFox called EditCSSwhich let’s you edit the stylesheet of the page you are currently viewing. This is very helpful for web developers who are debugging problems with cascading stylesheets .