One cause of Firefox 2.x suddenly not loading is corruption in the Firefox section of a user profile.  This can be verified by logging into the affected system with a different user account.  If Firefox works – then the problem is in the profile.  The common solution is to delete the folder, but that will [...]

Microsoft tech support claims to know nothing about this, however on Windows 2003 and XP systems which are still running Internet Explorer 6.x, some combination of service packs and hotfixes causes the browser home page to randomly open to the Microsoft GetItNow download page for Internet Explorer 7. Apparently the Microsoft obsession of forcing [...]

Robert J. Berger posted on his blog “Cognizant Transmutaion” about the poor ranking of US broadband compared to other countries:
http://blog.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/comment-page-1/
He proposes divestiture – separate, perhaps municipal, ownership of the physical cable, fiber, poles, rights-of-way, etc. ISP’s and various content providers would then all have equal opportunity for access to the infrastructure, allowing true competition. [...]

An official definition of Ports, as used in computer networking: “The protocols of the Transport Layer of the Internet Protocol Suite, most notably the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), use a numerical identifier for the data structures of the endpoints for host-to-host communications.  Such an endpoint is known as a [...]

Why can’t Microsoft programmers, with full access to their tightly-controlled source code, find the vulnerabilities that the hackers can find?
And why can’t Microsoft find a way to apply most hotfixes, without a reboot? They claim to have added this ability beginning with Windows 2003, yet it seems every major hotfix is an exception…