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Power is an elusive thing...ask Gorbachev. When you have a little, you want a lot. Give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile, absolute power corrupts absolutely, yadda, yadda, […]

The other day, I received a call from a network user who claimed that the brand-new Compaq computer just delivered to her office had a bad floppy disk drive. Try […]

Every year about this time, I catch a cold. My nose becomes just another appendage through which air will not flow, my eyes water, and I go on sneezing binges […]

Not too many years ago, in what we now think of as the "good times," a computer specialist could handle most of the questions and deliver the goods to a […]

Even the most successful network backup is like kissing your sister. It is an unfulfilling, dreadfully boring, semi-paranoid activity that may be giving you a false sense of security. Whether […]

Things change. What was once a nice little local area network with six trusted friends working in harmony toward a common goal is now a wide area free-for-all with a […]

I love gadgets. Big ones, little ones, absolutely worthless ones. I once bought a complete set of tools to help me fix my car. The only problem is that I […]

Last year I wrote an article about electronic mail. I characterized it as the phone that rings in the middle of the night, the user call from hell, the castor […]

A network manager sits alone watching the monitor, listening to soft music playing in the background. He completes the daily report and mails it to each of the 30 network […]

When I was a kid we had a neighborhood bully. He was big for his age and meaner than a bag of snakes. He demanded cash from the weaker kids […]

Life isn't fair. We never have enough money. We get too many bills. We're constantly getting older, and we still haven't seen the promised good times. Well, hard cheese. If […]

Americans are special. We adhere to principles strongly, guarding our privacy like bulldogs. Rightfully so. I know people who won't give out their Social Security numbes; if anyone asks for […]

Pick a system, any system. Buy about five hundred of them, throw in a few network cards, string a little twisted pair, and call it a network. Now, find a […]

The other day, I was talking to an acquaintance of mine who works in another department. As we walked down the street, he danced around a topic for a few […]

I have always believed in single-vendor support. I think it's better to focus your spending power and get as much bang for the buck as a single vendor, or, in […]

Ten years ago, in the dark days of cassette-tape storage devices, the 88-Kbyte floppy disk was king. You could save and retrieve large files in thousandths of a second. No […]

Microsoft's MS-DOS Version 5.0 arrived around the first of the month. It lay on my desk for more than a week while I thought about the folly of installing a […]

For years I've been satisfied with the DOS prompt and its comfortable presence. Contrary to what Macintosh users might think, I don't labor over copying a file or cringe at […]