Yesterday my ISP blocked my internet access for a couple of hours when their automated spam blocker somehow misidentified my connection as having been sending spam. The ISP did not of course accuse me of sending spam, their block page suggested that it would have actually been caused by a virus or spyware having got [...]

A couple of months ago my ISP did something really strange. They took a perfectly good working home page for their site and replaced it with Flash. Fortunately they left one ordinary web link on their page that takes you to a copy of their old home page or I would have been forced to [...]

Star Office and Open Office (which is what the free version is now called) can easily process Microsoft Word documents almost as well as Word itself can. It also has the advantage of running on operating systems that Word itself doesn’t support. This makes Open Office the ideal choice of office suite software for anyone [...]

My monthly newsletter is sent out on the 22nd of each month and eventually a month or so later is added to the site for everyone to see. If you sign up for the newsletter now you will be in time to receive the April edition which will be sent out in just a few [...]

One thing that OS/2 supports at the command line is the ability to stack commands – either to run simultaneously or one after the other. This article shows how to do it. Stacking Commands in OS/2