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My friend and manager of the local PC Club here in southern California, just came to my office and said “They did it again…They closed all the stores”.
Given only 15 minutes to vacate the PC Club store, he grabbed his personal belongings and left.
I’m on hold now with NAOC Holdings, the investment firm that purchased PC Club nationwide back on May 15th or 16th of this year.
After a brief ‘hello, how may I direct your call,” I identified myself as the owner of this blog, wanting verification of the closing of PC Club…”Just a moment please…”… … … … … “Hello, you’ve reached NAOC Holdings, please leave a message and we’ll return your call…”
Well, not a confirmation, but pretty damning if you ask me, to be transfered to the company’s general voicemail by the person who ANSWER’S that voicemail, the receptionist.
More to follow…

When you are connected to the internet, and use a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), you can use a secure (cryptographic) connection for: web browsing, e-mail, instant messaging, and other types of data transfers.

If you want to use a secure connection to Gmail with a web browser, you can go to https://mail.google.com.

Now, you can force your Gmail account to use SSL at login. When you are logged into your Gmail account, go to “Settings”…at the bottom of the “General” tab/section, look for “Browser connection”…

SanDisk now offers an SD WORM card…a Write Once Read Many (WORM) digital memory card…that can archive data for as long as 100 years.  SanDisk states the cards are available in 128-megabyte capacity, and are expected to be available in higher capacities later in the year.

I think I found one for $9…

If you don’t want Windows XP Service Pack 3, and Vista Service Pack 1, to be installed consider installing the Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit.  It will temporarily prevent installation of Service Pack updates through Windows Update.

“…This tool can be used with:
    * Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (valid through March, 2008)
    * Windows XP Service Pack 3 (valid for 12 months following general availability)
    * Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (valid for 12 months following general availability)

“…this toolkit will not prevent the installation of the service pack from CD/DVD, or from the stand-alone download package. This simply prevents the service pack from being delivered over Windows Update.”