First, the family of Professor Edward Kasner sued Google. The family claimed that the name Google was infringing on Kasner’s mathematic term, Googol. Now, another group has filed suit against the search engine, claiming Google infringed on their company name. The company filing this suit is called Googles, with an “s”.
Having Trouble Motivating Others? Try WIIFM
Recently my fourteen-year old son Matt dressed up as Santa Claus and attended a Christmas caroling event for one of my professional organizations.
Looking for Trouble: ICMP and IP Statistics to Watch
During the US/Canada road show this past two years, I’ve had the opportunity to share many of my favorite tools, tricks and techniques for network troubleshooting and cybercrime detection and testing.
Trouble With Task Scheduling
Carey: My wife has a windows xp system & I am having trouble scheduling any maintenance tasks to run automatically. No matter what I do on the status page it says “the scheduled task did not run because an incorrect password or user name was used”. I specifically would like to run the disk cleanup when ever the system is idle or when she logs on, as for some reason her “compress files” area just fills up a whole bunch each day 32,000 or more. Is there a way we can stop that also?
Thanks,
Jim Wallace
Monitor Trouble
Dear Carey,
My monitor will not work. How can I find out what is wrong when I cant see anything?
Thanks.
e-Machine Speed Trouble
Question:
hi Carey,
When I restart my E-Machine, it takes a long time just to get to the desktop, and then the computer goes slow when trying to go from page to page. Is there anyway of speeding it up? Also I’m getting Error messages. If I leave the computer it’ll just pop up. One more thing (sorry!!) When I download music on KaZaA I can’t listen to it…The mute is off and the sound is up. Can you help? Thanks!!
greatly appreciated,
Karen Tappa
Brewing Trouble
Admit it: When you’re faced with a lengthy checklist for testing, you’re tempted to skip steps. Some of the items aren’t really necessary, are they? They might be so obvious that there’s no need to include them in the list. In this week’s column, Elisabeth Hendrickson offers some advice on constructing useful checklists that are brief but complete.
The Trouble With Virtual Assistants
3 years ago, an idea sparked the Internet business community, and spread like wildfire. The idea was based on the premise that individuals, small businesses and corporations alike could take advantage of advances in technology by sourcing out much of their administrative tasks to “Virtual Assistants” (VA’s).