Rickford Grant, author of Linux for Non-Geeks and Linux Made Easy (both No Starch Press), has been a computer operating system maniac for more than 20 years. From the Atari XL600 to today's Linux machines, he has been the guy behind the help desk for family, friends, and colleagues. Rickford currently resides in Raritan, New Jersey, where he spends his working hours as a teacher and his free time cycling along the Delaware and Raritan Canal or annoying his neighbors with his Nyckelharpa (a Swedish key fiddle).
These days, average home computer users spend more time surfing the Web and
writing e-mail messages than doing just about anything else. Even if you're
not much of a surfer, there are still numerous other applications that aren't
really Internet applications per se but that still make use of the Internet
in some way, such as gathering song and album information when you rip audio
CDs to create MP3 files. Having a computer that isn't hooked up to the
Internet is like buying a new Maserati and then refusing to take it out of
the garage.
Of course, how you connect to the Internet depends on your hardware and
provider. There are a number of possibilities in this area, including
high-speed local area networks (LANs), cable modems, and ADSL connections
from phone companies. ... (more)
Rickford Grant, author of Linux for Non-Geeks and Linux Made Easy (both No Starch Press), has been a computer operating system maniac for more than 20 years. From the Atari XL600 to today's Linux machines, he has been the guy behind the help desk for family, friends, and colleagues. Rickford currently resides in Raritan, New Jersey, where he spends his working hours as a teacher and his free time cycling along the Delaware and Raritan Canal or annoying his neighbors with his Nyckelharpa (a Swedish key fiddle).
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