Email and Spam: How Email works and how to reduce your spam intake.MP3 DownloadTopics covered:How Email gets from A to B;How spammers use weaknesses in the Email protocols to send email without revealing their identity;The damage spam can do;Re

Episode 3 - Malware

Feb 24th, 2008

Malware: Viruses, Trojans and other very bad things, and how to protect yourself and your computer. New and Improved Sound Quality! Enriched with Vitamin B12!MP3 DownloadTopics covered:What Malware is;How Malware gets into your computer - email

Episode 2 - The Internet and the World Wide Web

Feb 8th, 2008

What the Internet and the World Wide Web are.MP3 DownloadTopics covered:The Internet as a collection of machines;The Internet as Servers and Clients;The World Wide Web;For New Users: where to begin.External Links:GoogleAltavistaWebCrawlerLycosY

Episode 1 - Computer Hardware and Operating Systems

Jan 28th, 2008

A high-level overview of the major parts of a computer and the basic functions of Operating Systems.Apologies for the appalling sound quality. I'm working on it and hope to have this fixed before posting Episode 2.MP3: http://www.archive.org/d

Episode 0 - Introduction

Jan 28th, 2008

Introducing Geek To GuruMP3 download: http://www.archive.org/download/PeteFordGeekToGuruEpisode0/Ep0.mp3Topics covered:Who this podcast is forWhat I'll be covering, in general terms

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