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Free Wireless Internet in Portland!

While I wouldn’t exactly call it “high speed”, the Portland City Council and Mayor Tom Potter announced that they have chosen the company MetroFi to provide 1 meg wireless internet to Portland residents at no charge.  That’s faster than many...

Security Update to phpBB

To: all phpBB Webmasters PDXTC always provides the latest installations for any open source software. However, upon your installation, we are no longer able to universally update your installation. This means that it is YOUR responsibility to keep it updated on a...

Windows April Fools prank

Change the default mouse cursor on a computer to an hourglass, and chuckle silently watching your spouse or coworker reboot the computer over and over. Better yet, they may just stare at the screen continuing to “wait” which is what the hourglass in...

New East PDX Blog

The former editor of the East County News (a newspaper in which I wrote computer articles from 1998 to 2001) has begun a local news blog, called EastPDXnews. The URL is  http://www.eastpdxnews.com and if you’re looking for up to date news about issues concerning...