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Restore CD

ByMike McBride November 6, 2001July 22, 2015 Reading Time: 1 minute

Well, well, well turns out that we don’t have the latest version of Compaq’s Restore CD, that would be why a quick restore I was trying to do today kept crashing. Well, either that or there’s a hardware failure, they’re not really sure. Great! At least they are overnighting the new version of the Restore CD so I will know relatively quickly whether it’s a hardware failure or not. I guess the repeated failure of Restore of this particular machine was not being helped by having an outdated Restore CD, at least I hope so, I’m really sick of dealing with this one PC!

Of course the computer I swapped the hard drive in and restored just yesterday restored just fine, even with the old version. So I’m not holding my breath that a new restore version is going to be the complete solution Compaq’s tech support seems to think it will be. I think there are bigger problems with this thing, but I’ve got to go through and eliminate all the possibilities. Sometimes being tech support sucks…

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Linked – Microsoft doesn’t want to turn over foreign server data, SCOTUS to weigh in
ByMike McBride February 28, 2018February 27, 2018 Reading Time: 1 minute

I admit it, this case is one I’m strangely fascinated by. “On Tuesday morning, the nine justices of the Supreme Court put a legal theory from Microsoft to the test—that the company should not be forced to hand over data held abroad to the American government, even when served with a valid court order.” The…

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Linked: Cybersecurity: These two basic flaws make it easy for hackers to break into your systems
ByMike McBride August 15, 2020August 14, 2020 Reading Time: 1 minute

The results speak for themselves. “The report, based on anonymised data from real organisations that have had their networks tested, said that for 71% of companies, there’s at least one obvious weakness that could provide malicious outsiders with entry into the network.” I’ll save you the click, but you should go look at the details,…

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Reading – New York City asks Google Maps to discourage left turns
ByMike McBride July 15, 2015July 13, 2015 Reading Time: 1 minute

This, and the other feature mentioned in the article, having the app tell you when you’re approaching a railroad crossing, seem like really good ideas to me. I’ve known plenty of places over the years where turning left was a fool’s game, and found ways to route around that. You should have the option to…

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Who do you trust?
ByMike McBride December 29, 2006July 23, 2015 Reading Time: 1 minute

Marc Orchant trusted Google, at least until he heard about a small number of folks who seem to have lost their Gmail accounts, now he’s madly using Google’s POP3 access to grab a copy of all the email he has stored in Gmail. I use Gmail, I also use Outlook to access Gmail and make…

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Strawberryj.am Goes Offline
ByMike McBride October 31, 2012 Reading Time: 1 minute

It was just over a year ago that I discovered and wrote about Strawberryj.am At the time I was happy to see the service because I thought it brought something useful to the Twitter world, a place I could browse what links my tweeps were sharing the most, to quickly get a feel for what…

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Linked – CCleaner Was Hacked: What You Need to Know
ByMike McBride September 19, 2017September 19, 2017 Reading Time: 1 minute

Seems to maybe be just a small subset of users who might have been infected, but this is scary. Thankfully, it looks like this malware only affected a certain subset of CCleaner users. In particular, it affected: Users running the 32-bit version of the application (not the 64-bit version) Users running version 5.33.6162 of CCleaner…

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