Twice in the last week, when I logged on to my laptop, “Windows was unable to load my profile”. It loaded a generic, temporary profile instead. Both times a quick restart fixed the problem, but I wonder if this is a sign of bad things to come? Maybe it’s time to do some disk utilities on it and see what’s happening.
OK, pardon me, but I just wanted to do a little plug for the Friends in Tech blog, mostly because when asked about recovering a forgotten password from a protected PST file, I knew I had seen Kevin Devin talk about that before, and sure enough, there it is on the FiT blog. Turns out,…
Added as an update to this post: As of Dec 20, the new version of the Currents app does work on my iPhone 3GS, so I can actually see that the published edition of the site is working correctly. The published edition of my other site, however, seems to be pulling a months old version…
Like Microsoft, Google claims it will still run all of this using clean energy by 2030. However, the current emissions data do not indicate that this is possible. The need for energy will not go down, and these companies will not walk away from the trillions of dollars invested in AI already.
This is happening while we watch the earliest recorded Category 5 hurricane because of the extremely warm water temperatures in the Atlantic.
Let’s make a rule. If you use a mobile device that doesn’t support sub-folders in the address book, don’t bother having sub-folders in your Outlook contacts, ok? Of course in our office it’s not completely the user’s fault. Some years ago, when upgrading to Office 2000 I think, our IT staff created a backup of…
This is often the case with malware – Yet the attack could the been prevented by basic IT practices, the report says. As early as 2014, the Department of Health and the Cabinet had written to NHS trusts, saying it was essential they had “robust plans” to migrate away from old software. In March and…
John makes some valid points below, you have to admit that. “As a general advice. Be cautious, even when the person communicating with you appears to be someone you know. Consider everything to be hacked and your data to be leaked. With this approach you will notice that you’ll take thoughtful decisions and improve your…