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Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, has said that computer users who want to be assured of security should get a Mac.

When an entire generation of computer users first poked our doe-eyed faces onto a young internet, many of us were greeted with a single, encompassing, monolithic face peering back: the AOL Home Screen.

To call it a young internet isn't even fair—it was a mature, thriving AOL. It was ubiquitous, it was powerful, it was everything—and it ended up destroying itself, too flawed by design to last.

And someone's trying to rebuild the Death Star.

Free Software Foundation: "Will you be able to read your documents 20 years from now? Every day, millions of computer users like you edit text and spreadsheets, take pictures and record audio and video.

What if you couldn't read your private letters anymore, or even open that album with pictures from your honeymoon?"

The ERACC Web Log: "Is it correct to compare the freedom of Free Open Source Software (FOSS) to the freedom gained from the Revolution of the States?"

Back when I worked in the Network Operations department at one of my previous jobs, we used to chuckle when a customer would call us reporting that “the Internet is down.” Now, I realize that there are otherwise intelligent computer users out there who don't understand why that might cause a technician to chuckle, and I'm not trying to make fun of them.

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Everyday computer users may not fully understand that the rules allow bandwidth hogs to clog up the Internet at their expense, experts said.

Keeping the files on multiple machines synchronized seems to be a recurring problem for many computer users. Until I discovered Unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) I never really had a completely satisfactory solution.

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