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Hello Friends,
These last three months have been filled with urgent,
sometimes ‘scary’ security alerts, requiring Windows
patches and user vigilance. We are seeing a surge in
virus activity, and we want to offer an oasis from the
madness!
As such, we are dedicating our regular newsletters to
Fun Stuff and Good News! And, as always, we will
continue to provide educational links related to
security at the bottom of the newsletter.
Sincerely,
Keith Schiehl
Rent-A-Geek Founder and Team Leader
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The 2006 Olympic Games in Torino, Italy have
begun!
The games provide the opportunity
for the
world's nations to show their pride and more
importantly, PLAY together. Remember how much
fun it was as a child to simply PLAY, without
prejudice or politics?
Check out these sites:
Official Torino
2006 Site
CBC
Coverage of the Games
Team
Canada Hockey
TSN
Coverage
Locals to Watch!
Watch out for Vernon’s Own Tom VELISEK and Drew Nielson in the BoarderCross
event.
Watch Crispin LIPSCOMB tear
it up in
the Half-Pipe (Crispin was an instructor at Silver Star
in 2000, and coached RAG founder Keith Schiehl)
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| Winter Carnival a Success |
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Our Vernon Winter Carnival Parade crew won first
place in the Commercial Division. Our theme, “Eliot
Ness and The Unhackables” saw an elite team of
technicians enforcing Prohibition on Internet
gangsters, responsible for viruses and identity theft.
A special award goes out to Angus, the St. Bernard,
who made the event extra-special!
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| Google Goes Video! |
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Google launched their improved video content site at
the Annual CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in
Vegas, with a little help from Robin Williams. The
new site provides hours of video content for free
viewing and for paid download.
Many old TV favorites, including “Rocky and
Bullwinkle” and “Ed Sullivan”,
are available for download. Unfortunatley, CBS
content such as “Survivor” and “CSI” are unavailable
in Canada (broadcasting/licensing restrictions, we
guess).
The most fun can be had by browsing videos put up
on the site by “ordinary” folks all over the world. If
you like forwarding funny emails and videos to your
friends, then this site is a must-see.
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| Radio and Television Features... |
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The Rent-A-Geek Team is in the newspapers, on the
radio and television!
Listen to Oldies 1150
in Kelowna
at 8:40AM on Monday mornings to hear our
new "Geek Speak" segment with Phil Johnson and
Howard Alexander. Portions of the live segment are
recorded for airplay on Standard Radio (Sun FM)
stations throughout the Okanagan. Last week we
discussed the Dateline Special on Internet
Predators. This week will be talking VoIP.
Shaw Television filmed a segment on Internet
Security in our offices on January 3rd. Look for the
feature to be presented in rotation on Shaw Channel
11. The segment will also be archived on their
website.
Rent-A-Geek founder, Keith Schiehl, has a regular
column in the Daily Courier; appearing every other
Thursday in the front section. Archived articles can
be found on our website.
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| How Safe is Your Computer? |
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The CBC has done a brilliant job of explaining
Computer Security in plain language we can all
understand.
Check out the MIND BLOWING video of a new
computer being infiltrated in UNDER ONE MINUTE of
being online!
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Secure for a Year GUARANTEED |
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Imagine your security needs looked after by the
experts for a year...
Imagine regular scheduled maintenance to keep your
PC running fast all year long...
Imagine a Guarantee of no down time from known
security exploits...
The Rent-A-Geek Team is making an exclusive offer
of secure computing for a year to it's Okanagan and
BC clients; all for one low fixed price, guaranteed.
Learn more!
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Thanks from the
Rent-A-Geek Team!
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