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Useless Preinstalled Software

ByMike McBride April 30, 2007July 19, 2014 Reading Time: 1 minute

Remember that big honking new machine I have at work? Well we needed to find something to copy 14GB of data to DVD today, and I noticed that the Roxio Creator Plus -Dell Edition that came with it actually had an option to do disc spanning, so I clicked it. Then I went and added the folder to the burn project.

When I hit the button to start burning, it gave me a warning that this project would require 4 discs, and that I wouldn’t be able to re-write on them. All of this was to be expected. Of course, when the next step was an error because the folder was larger than the disc in the drive. Ugh, no kidding!

Guess I’ll wait for my Nero Ultra order to get approved. Hopefully that’ll have something that will do spanning. Splitting the files up is a pain.

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Linked – Social Media-Related Litigation Surges, Lawyers Report
ByMike McBride June 12, 2017June 13, 2017 Reading Time: 1 minute

This was obviously, inevitable. Wherever you have groups of people interacting, and generating data, you will have legal issues. That can be good for the legal profession, assuming we are willing to get our heads out of the sand and embrace the technology. “The new survey shows what lawyers already knew: millions of people are…

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Linked: The Metaverse Via Oculus Is Awkward if You’re a Woman. And Beware of Griefers
ByMike McBride December 17, 2021December 16, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Why it’s almost as if trolls will be trolls, creeps will be creeps, and people will continue to be everything they are on social media or yes, even in person. Because while those who seem to think that the virtual reality and presence of a real voice will somehow dim the hate and harassment that comes from a network where you can be anonymous, we can see plenty of real-life examples where being identifiable didn’t stop anyone from acting this way. I mean, half the folks who took part in Jan. 6 bragged about it on social media for days. Do you really think a little VR is going to make them suddenly self-conscious?

It’s a humanity issue, not a tech issue. No “new” tech that allows people to interact in real-time is going to be without it.

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Pulling my hair out
ByMike McBride December 13, 2004 Reading Time: 3 minutes

I spent just about all of my work day troubleshooting issues with a new PC I just setup last week and it’s driving me crazy! This is a new OEM of Windows XP Pro, updated to SP2, running Office 2000. There were two issues, both of which involved spooling processes and timeouts. One was sending…

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Linked – Malwarebytes 3.0 Is Here To Kill Your Antivirus, Scans PC 3-4 Times Faster
ByMike McBride December 12, 2016December 9, 2016 Reading Time: 1 minute

The version 3.0 of Malwarebytes has just arrived, and it promises to bring a comprehensive protection against various types of threats that are generally not covered by regular antivirus solutions. The new version has been created from the ground up. I don’t make a lot of specific recommendations about products, but Malwarebytes is an absolute…

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Dropbox Users- Change Your Password
ByMike McBride October 13, 2014October 14, 2014 Reading Time: 1 minute

Hey if you’re a Dropbox user, go change your password. There’s apparently been a breach of user account information! Update: Dropbox says the credentials didn’t come from their servers, but does encourage you to setup two factor authentication. Follow these topics: Tech

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Linked: Stay Safe! How to Prevent Your Devices From Auto-Connecting to Wi-Fi Networks
ByMike McBride May 22, 2019May 24, 2019 Reading Time: 1 minute

If you travel around, and I know plenty of you do, it would behoove you to follow the advice in the article below. When you’re device is set to auto-connect to even just known networks, you may find yourself connecting to a Starbucks network, or hotel network that isn’t actually that network, but rather someone…

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