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Dr. Brian Lewis' Index
Tech Talk

2008
January	Botnets.
February	64 Bit Computing--Pros and Cons.
March	Wireless Security.
April	Understanding USB and Firewire
May	iFrame Attacks
June	.
July	Rootkits - A continuing Security Problem
August	Cloud Computing - The Future of Personal Computing
September	.
October	.
November	.
December	.

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2007
January	.
February	VISTA ALTERNATIVES
March	Vista Alternatives. Part II
April	Firewalls
May	Build It Yourself
June	What is PCI Express?
July	How to Dual Boot Windows XP & Windows Vista
August	Understanding Your Computer's BIOS
September	Using Dual Monitors
October	Using Imaging Software For Backup
November	Converting To A Portable Office
December	.

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2006
January	Is Freeware/Shareware Worth While?
February	Multi-Core Processors
March	What Does A Cache Do For A Computer?
April	PDF - Portable Document Format PDFNitro Reviewed
May	WordPerfect Office X3
June	Windows Vista Preview
July	Linux Live
August	Quality Freeware
September	Microsoft Vista Beta-First Look
October	Microsoft Vista Beta-Continued Look
November	Should You Upgrade To Vista?
December	SHADOW NTI...On-The-fly Data Backups

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2005
January	RSS Feeds
February	Telephone by Internet/VOIP
March	Who Owns The Internet?
April	.
May	A Graphics Card Primer
June	Internet Infrastructure & Operation
July	What Do I Get With 64-Bit Windows?
August	Why Can't I Just Copy My Programs To My New Computer
September	Adding to the DVD Confusion: Blu-Ray, HD-DVD
October	Indexing The Web
November	USB Flash Drives
December	A USB Primer

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2004
January	NTFS vs. FAT32 (revisited)
February	Safeguarding Your Files
March	Whys & Wherefores of Partitioning Hard Drives (Part 1)
April	Whys & Wherefores of Partitioning Hard Drives (Part 2)
May	Java and Active X
June	What Do I Need in My New Computer?
July	Backing Up With Acronis True Image
August	NAT, DHCP, Routers & Security
September	Why Can't I Open This File?
October	Windows XP Service Pack 2
November	Installing Windows XP Service Pack 2
December	Wireless Network Security

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2003
January	Lindows OS, A Better Operating Ssystem
February	Serial ATA Hard Drives
March	Computer Parasites
April	Preventing Data Loss
May	The Disappearing CD Drive
June	You Have Bugs
July	Dual-Boot Setup
August	More Linux Options
September	Which DVD For Me?
October	Windows Updates
November	Using Retrospect for backups
December	.

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2002
January	Is your computer really safe?
February	Why doesn't it work?
March	NTFS vs. FAT 32
April	Where can I find help?
May	Adventures with Windows XP
June	Points to ponder
July	Spam, Spam, Spam and ...
August	Palladium - Better Computer Security?
September	XP System Tools
October	More Tools for WinXP
November	Power Management
December	Microsoft Passport & Security (?)

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2001
January	Windows problem-solving tools
February	How S.M.A.R.T. is your hard drive?
March	Speeding up your hard disk
April	More Windows tools
May	Is it Hardware or Software?
June	Windows 98 shutdown problems
July	IDE hard drive size limits
August	IDE, EIDE and UDMA
September	Firewalls &
October	Windows XP
November	Wireless Networking
December	Burn, Baby, Burn!

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2000
January	Internet Safety
February	Internet Security - II
March	Windows 2000 & USB
April	Home Networks
May	More computer security
June	Linux - A Primer
July	Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 & 2.4
August	Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 & 2.4 (cont.)
September	The Disappearing CD-ROM
October	Viruses, Viruses, Viruses
November	RAID, Mirrors and Backup
December	Windows ME & Networking

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1999
January	Your hard drive will fail!
February	Upgrading your computer
March	FAT 32
April	Did you know..?
May	Recovering from hard drive failure
June	Virus Season
July	Errors are not always what they seem
August	IRQs revisited
September	.
October	It's the heat!
November	Cookies
December	Back Up Strategy

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1998
January	Give me more SPEED!
February	Hard drive upgrades
March	Where, oh where have my resources gone?
April	Tools for improving system performance
May	Windows 98
June	The Universal Serial Bus
July	.
August	Potpourri
September	Windows 98 System Tools
October	Windows 98 System Tools (cont.)
November	Whys and wherefores of formatting hard drives
December	Solving boot problems

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1997
January	of Com Ports, Irq's and Base addresses
February	Hardware Troubleshooting
March	IDE, EIDE, & SCSI
April	.Plug & Play
May	Recovering the Windows Registry
June	Software conflicts
July	To Speed, or Not to Speed
August	Summer safety
September	Coming to terms with memory
October	CPU's Unscrambled
November	.
December	.

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