Archive for November, 2004
Monday, November 29th, 2004
Speaking of Tech Support for Friends and Family…
I just received an entertaining plea for computer help from a friend. The subject? “Bill Gates sucks wet farts out of dead pigeons.” Alrighty then.
Now, this is a great guy, tops at what he does, but sometimes surprising when it comes to computers, given how long he’s been using them. His [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Computers, Humor, Security by Marshall
Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
This and That
I’ll be away for the weekend, and don’t know whether I will get to post anything here. It’s possible, since I’ll have dialup on both my laptop and the “family tech support” computer there. If I don’t, perhaps some of the other contributors will have something to say.
For the server with the bad [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Announcements, Security, Uncategorized by Marshall
Monday, November 22nd, 2004
Carnival of the Capitalists
SocialTwister.com has the latest Carnival of the Capitalists, a weekly collection of business and economics links to posts at various blogs. They are usually self-submitted, sort of a best or most interesting or post you’d like to highlight of the week scenario.
Interesting stuff. We’ll have to come up with some posts about business [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Business by Marshall
Monday, November 22nd, 2004
Ugh
Doing workstation maintenance for a client today, I found there had been a power outage earlier. Checked the servers, just in case. Prevents me from being paged in the morning if anything went awry.
Two of the servers rebooted because they lacked UPS power to go through the entire length of the outage. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Marshall
Monday, November 22nd, 2004
Ugh
Doing workstation maintenance for a client today, I found there had been a power outage earlier. Checked the servers, just in case. Prevents me from being paged in the morning if anything went awry.
Two of the servers rebooted because they lacked UPS power to go through the entire length of the outage. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Marshall
Saturday, November 20th, 2004
Holiday Support
Jaws directs us to an oh so true fact of modern life. When we go home for the holidays, we get to fix computer problems for the parents. I certainly have been there and done that, but I don’t mind at all.
No Comments » - Posted in Computers, Humor by Marshall
Saturday, November 20th, 2004
Even Old Dogs Can Learn Something New Daily
I actually did not know this! Which is a complete shock to me, having a fairly deep knowledge of such tricks and having come from a Microsoft support background.
Ctrl-C while an error message is popped up, text of the message goes on Windows clipboard, you can paste it in an e-mail to your supper [...]
No Comments » - Posted in User Tips by Marshall
Saturday, November 20th, 2004
Graphical Spam
Via Lynn, this is a fascinating visual history of spam and virus infected e-mails from two e-mail accounts. The graphs are fascinating,as is the distinction on the second account, unused and unharvestable since 1995, tracked since 2000.
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Marshall
Saturday, November 20th, 2004
Anyone Remember…
I did an unexpected bit of malware cleanup today, and in the process found myself in the windows and then the system32 directory identifying offending DLL, EXE, DAT, INI, LOG and TXT files, primarily the first three, using old-fashioned DOS commands. You know, dir/ah for hidden files, dir/ah/p to pause if too many for [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Geek Tips, Security by Marshall
Friday, November 19th, 2004
The Basics
Is. It. Plugged. In.
Really, are you sure you checked?
If you help people for money or free, it’s often the first question to ask. It’s also one that people Will Lie About. Well, maybe not lie, but presume about, gloss over, fail to check carefully, not take seriously.
Happens all the time. That’s why [...]
