Recently a listener wrote in:
"Can not figure out where or how, when online, I can select a portion of a
page, select color or grayscale, and select "best, normal, draft," etc.

Here is a clip from The Colbert Repore explaining the current state of US telecommunications monopolies.

We seem to regularly receive calls from people having problems or concerns with their computer when connecting it to the Internet. Viruses, hackers, worms, spyware, tojans, and the list goes on. All this craziness to worry about when simply plugging your computer into a cable modem, and then having to wonder if you will be able to login to your own computer the next day. Has my computer been "owned" ("pwn3d" for you uber 3733t [elite] geeks out there)? What can I do to try and protect my computer?

Mike writes in:

Hi I have an old Compaq 7470 PC with a 1999 dated internal hard drive. I was wondering if it was possible to extract the contents (files) of the old hard drive by a simple connection to my laptop. I just thought there
might exist a connection that allows the drive to show up as maybe an external drive ( like a traveldrive ) from an ATA to firewire connection. Maybe my understanding of the process is a bit off however. Thanks for any info.

phpBB3 is the next major release of the phpBB discussion forum software. phpBB is probably one of the most commonly used forums on the Net and this next release has some improvements worth being excited about whether you're a discussion forum administrator or a user on a site that is considering upgrading to phpBB3. Here I will discuss my initial assessment of phpBB3 and highlight some of the key feature enhancements I've noticed.

Well you all know I like talking about Gmail and Firefox, so what better way to start off than a post that combines both!?

Hello Geeks,
I download many things and am always installing and uninstalling whatever
cool new software I can find. Because of this I really need to keep up

Question

We would not be geeks if we did not maintain our own server. The machine that currently hosts this site is fairly complicated.

Thanks in large part to Josh's consistent requests I have put together a GeekSpeak Blog. This system runs on Drupal a PHP based content management system.