This site is all about the free sharing of information about Operating Systems, PC Triage (aka: troubleshooting problems), communicating some hard-won tips for surviving in today's IT world and on the web, and is my personal site besides. So, expect some hard-earned opinions.

I say hard-earned because they resulted from lots and lots of hands-on experience. Take 3.6 decades, figure out the hours, then allow for the fact that my average daily use out of all those years was about 1.5 hours a day for the first decade, 3 hours a day for the second, and 7 hours a day average for the remaining time-- yes, you better figure weekends in, I worked on computers on weekends also. Essentially, this huge amount of hands-on work on computers throughout a large part of real "semi-modern to modern" computer history leaves me with hands-on experience and much study serving me as teacher, in what I say on this site.

The only reason I declared a copyright on this material is to keep others who would want to profit monetarily without recompense to me from my syntax and words and simplistic design and ideas from doing so. I do not intend to keep others from passing the ideas presented here on freely to others. I DO mean for free, though in a "free beer" sense, and not totally without any reward. Fair Use usage rights are granted to all readers, but do not publish my words on your site if you gain any gross profit income from it. If that "sounds" like Open Source's GPL in summary form, it is intended to so be "heard."

• Cookieless and deliberately non-tracking, indeed not only does this site not use ads, it does not need to;
• A knowledge site of foundational and practically useable information that will be ever growing;
• A site that links to some of the best proven sites for information in the areanas of IT in which I work and have fun (yeah, my vocation is my avocation);
• A site with a dedicated developer that is designed for maximum compatibility across many kinds and ages of browsers on various age boxes;
• A site that browsers can render well even on a dialup connect, as most of the material is NOT graphic at all, instead it is deliberately presented using plain HTML with some CSS possibly tossed in at some future time, and maybe a pile of structured PHP code on other sites or here if I stick a forum here.