Perfect way to start a Monday:
Being introduced to the new employee that no one bothered to tell you about, and having to explain to her that she doesn’t even have a computer to use yet because no one told you she was starting. Oh joy!
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Things like this are why I think IT people consume more aspirin and migraine medicine than the average person. It’s probably why we cuss more too! I wonder though, now that my educational efforts are apparently doing more harm than good, should I just stop? No more virus warnings no hoax warnings, just leave them…
The good news? I do have ‘net access in class. The bad news? While surfing towards the end of our lunch break I discovered that the Child Abuse site’s been suspended. I don’t have any idea why, and I don’t have the contact information for the host with me. Of course I also noticed that…
Courtesy of John Robb comes this article about Intel putting in some security measures in their new chips, due next year. John’s response: “Intel to include copy protection functionality in new chips. I personally won’t ever buy a chip with type of stuff on it. Unless there is an alternative, my aggressive upgrade cycle has…
I don’t know what you have to do with a graphic to turn a one-page Word document into a 11.5MB monster, but I now do know exactly what happens when someone tries to send two of them attached in one message to a machine running Outlook 2000 and only 128MB of RAM, and it’s not…
By now I’m sure you’ve all heard about the security hole in Firefox, and the “recommended fixes”. Here’s the thing though, turning off Javascript disables all those cool little Greasemonkey scripts, and turning off “Let website install software” just makes it more difficult for people to get extensions for Firefox. It’s those extensions and add-ons…
See, I got that PC setup yesterday, and it didn’t take nearly as long as I thought it would, this particular PC didn’t have nearly as many “extras” to uninstall. The guy doesn’t start until Monday, I knew plenty in advance, enough so that I had time to order and setup the PC, and enough…