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Expand Your Sales By Serving The SOHO Sector

The small office/home office (SOHO) market is the fastest-growing business sector in the country. Its population has been estimated at more than 25 million businesses, with that number expected to rise to more than 32 million by the end of 2003. The SOHO market's purchasing power already tops $100 billion per year.

My Wife Hates my Mac

First: I LOVE my Mac. It's my wife that hates it. I say that in the hopes of heading off a flood of defensive email. Don't bother to write me telling me how wrong this article is: you would be preaching to the converted. I already know that she's wrong, that's she is just hopelessly corrupted by the Microsoft way. I also know that I'm…

American vs. British English: A Webmasters Guide

When writing content for the World Wide Web, a lot of authors wonder if they should have their pages translated into languages such as French or Spanish in order to widen their audience and to give their sites a more international appearance. It is sensible of web designers to consider this question, but one thing few native English speakers ever consider is: Should I write…

Which is Better, Buy-and-Hold or Market Timing?

In politics, Republicans typically have an awful time saying nice things about Democrats, and vice versa. And when you're rooting for a basketball team, the referees always seem to favor the other side. When it comes to investing, many buy-and-hold investors think market timers are grossly misguided, and at the same time many timers just can't understand why buy-and-holders leave their portfolios exposed to potentially…

Perl, Sockets and TCP/IP Networking

An oversimplified introduction to sockets Sockets are a mechanism that allows programs to communicate, either on the same machine or across a network. The way it works is pretty simple: Each machine on a network is identified by some address. In this tutorial we will talk about tcp/ip networking, so by network address we mean an IP address. (like 192.168.4.4) Apart from the IP address…