David Ramel's Most Recent Posts

A look at today's Swedish court verdict against the four men hosting the notorious file-sharing/torrent-search site PirateBay.org, and one of the men's defiant responses via videos.

A Linux newbie is frustrated by a widespread Ubuntu bug and goes straight to the source in London to get the story about how they're fixed.

After failing to fully connect a mixed home Wi-Fi network of Win 98, XP, Vista, Mac OS and Linux machines, I turn to Linux to replace Win 98, but things don't start out well at all.

An eclectic home network of Win 98, XP, Vista, Mac OS and Linux finally achieves file transfer ability among all machines in each direction. Kinda.

I really like Linux, but why is it so hard to find documentation on removing it and why is it so hard to actually do it?

In the continuing project to fully connect a home network consisting of Win 98, XP, Vista, Linux and Mac OS machines, a major obstacle is overcome thanks to a Computerworld reader's blog comment.

Here are some sites that feature robust discussion about the Navy's first Littoral Combat Ship, the USS Freedom.

So far the home networking project has Win 98, XP, Vista and Linux machines more or less sharing files amongst themselves, with a hiccup here and there. How will the Mac fare? (And can somebody please explain some bizarre networking behaviors?)

In a perhaps-doomed attempt to fully connect Win 98, XP, Vista, Linux and Mac machines on a home network, making Linux and Win 98 play together proved impossible before someone provided an "idiotically simple" fix.

Computerworld's Web analytics logs show some surprising OSs and browsers being used out there. What's the story?

Five different operating systems. 32 and 64 bits. One home network. One clueless journalist. Can it work?

It's not the content. It's the style. It's all about the sig.

The Windows-Guru-Turned-Mac-Crusader has won another battle in his mission to convert the world -- and I have to eat my words.

Have you had too many drinks to drive? How's your hearing? What's your "real" age when considering your habits? Which exercise burns up the most calories? Read on -- the Web has all the answers. Or does it?

Are they serious? Who falls for these things? Here's one that somehow got through our spam filter. Do you have any good ones to share?