Archive for the ‘technerd’ Category
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Like all of the well known computer geek peeps, I understand the importance of logging events. On a day in history I like to refer to as a what-is-in-my-log-file? kind of day, I found some events that I have not previously played around with, so I started searching for an ...
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Monday, December 5th, 2011
Logged into my desktop computer at the office this morning and Microsoft's Security Essentials was talking to me, asking me to interact with it. It wasn't a big deal, just a small deal. Well, not a deal but I guess just a thing. Ya, a thing, not a deal. Anyway, ...
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Friday, November 18th, 2011
How about recovery? I don't mean recovery from an alcohol induced night of fun and Bud Light. I'm a major proponent for alcohol, fun, and Bud Light. I'll show you about the Bud Light thing sometime soon, but for now, this is not about Bud Light. This is about how ...
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
I haven't gotten to the download point where there is over 2 TB of proveable downloadable data. I'm sure that I've been responsible for more electron movement than 97.4% of Internet users (helps that the Internet is my friend and it's a loose friend that gives everyone access). Starting to ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
I've dealt with many software programs and viruses (virii?) and trojans and malware and shareware and freeware and payware and stupidware and now I have had the displeasure of dealing with Symantec software removal. Removing Symantec is a chore that proves that you should never install Symantec. Check out what ...
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
I come up with new ideas a lot. A lot. Like, I'm overthinking for others that are underthinking. I have a new list of ideas that I haven't actually listed out anywhere, but in my mind they are ready to develop and become reality instead of just my imagination. Where ...
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Today I was asked about a link that someone received in an email. The link was to a video that appeared to be on Facebook. Because the appearance of the link seemed legitimate there was almost no suspicion drawn, until the user realized that they didn't know the sender ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
I have a Blackberry. I use it daily. Not only does it prove to be valuable for keeping in touch via email, texting, and instant messaging, but it's also excellent for playing games upon. Not all good games cost money, but since most of the better ones do I'll tell ...
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
I usually get asked general questions about computers where I work and today was no exception. I had recommended a small external hard disk drive about a year ago for backing up important data from his computer. Today (about a year later!) I was asked a follow up question... "can ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Have you ever been refused to open a file or make changes to a file? It might be related to some security features that are in Windows XP. This is something that rarely occurs, but when it happens to you the first time it might take you by surprise, so ...
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