All Things Gibbs

Opinion
May 15, 20072 mins

* Gearhead: Welcome back, Winrot * Backspin: To be proactive or not to bee? * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days

Gearhead: Welcome back, Winrot

About 20 months ago we wrote about our struggle against Winrot, which we described as “the creeping, pernicious degradation of the integrity of Windows systems to the point where they run slowly, behave erratically, stop working altogether or all of the above.”

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Backspin: To be proactive or not to bee?

Being “green” has become very fashionable. Along with that there’s a lot more talk about behaving in ways that support our environment rather than our business-as-usual habits. But the problem with being green in practice is how much of our business as usual will we sacrifice to save ourselves?

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Gibbsblog: The past 7 days

Gearhead This Week: Projecting Flash

In Gearhead this week we explain how we turned the Crystal Xcelsius Flash movie of the USS Nimitz Mission Clock into a Windows Executable using a product called SWiSH Studio 2.

This Week in Backspin: Hypersociality and Texting

In Backspin this week our son’s hypersocial texting habits lead me to try to modify his cellphone service. Is T-Mobile of any help? Nope. Are you surprised? Nope.