"I wonder if you can help me with a problem I'm having - the IDE cable connecting my hard drive keeps falling off the motherboard.  Any ideas what I can do?"

There are two things that I can think of:

Buy a new cable and try it.  A simple solution that might avoid you having to take [...]

Ionut Alex. Chitu  has discovered an interesting new "feature" present in the latest Google Toolbar:

The latest version of Google Toolbar for IE has a strange new feature: keep Google as the default search engine. There's an exe that runs by default at the startup and monitors if another software (like MSN Toolbar) tries to change [...]

Bruce Schneier  has some interesting thoughts on how to counter iPod thefts:

"What to do about it? Basically, there's not much you can do except be careful. Muggings have long been a low-risk crime, so it makes sense that we're seeing an increase in them as the value of what people are carrying on their person [...]

I’m getting reports that over the weekend Symantec issued an update for Norton AntiVirus 2006 which is causing users to see the following message at reboot:
“Norton AntiVirus 2006 does not support the repair feature. Please uninstall and reinstall.”
Symantec has figured out a workaround for this problem and posted it on their website .  Unfortunately, the article [...]

Important news for 15-inch MacBook Pro owners:

"Apple has initiated a worldwide battery exchange program for certain rechargeable batteries that were sold for use with 15-inch MacBook Pro computer systems from February 2006 through May 2006.
We recently discovered that some 15-inch MacBook Pro batteries supplied to Apple do not meet our high standards for battery [...]

IMPORTANT!
For information on the August 2006 recall by Dell visit:
Dell recalls 4.1 million notebook batteries
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"I've come across two examples of Dell notebooks that have burst into flames (not personally!  On the Web!) for no apparent reason.  Should I be worried that my Dell will burst into flames?  What warning signs do you think would appear [...]