Tech Volta

Nothing endures but change.
-Heraclitus
I find myself in my final year of College, at last. This marks yet another year of changing faces, places, and alike. The common thread among all my education has been change. College is about adapting, learning, and changing.
I begun my college career in 2001. Yes I have [...]

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Convicted Linux user, sk0t, is forced to use Windows because the government cannot support Linux to monitor his Internet activities. Do they even need to install software to monitor his traffic? I don’t think so.
I guess they just want to monitor what he is doing on his computer. Still I think there [...]

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There’s a shift occurring in the Computing Industry. A recent report out of mac.co.uk states that Apple is driving a “transformational” shift in PC sales. Somewhere up to 30% of people that are going to purchase a laptop in the next 90 days want to buy a MacBook. I think we shouldn’t [...]

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Out of Arstechnica today. It appears that Windows’ patch tuesday on August 14th brought Skype to a grinding halt. I don’t use the automatic updates at work, well things like this can happen, plus you always want control over what is updating on your computer(s).
“With so many machines restarting, Skype says the network [...]

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Adblock Plus is a great extension for the wonderful and growingly popular browser Firefox. If you don’t have Firefox plus get it and use it! If you don’t like ADs on the pages you view, you have a choice, you can control how you want to experience the Internet. This is much [...]

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