“I want to know what breaches like this mean to me. Me personally. Me professionally. I’ve been using Yahoo since 1999. And AOL before that. And Prodigy before that. And the Europa BBS service from my Commodore64 in 1988 before that. That’s a long history on the Internet and its predecessors. What should I do differently going forward to minimize my exposure when things like this happen? Here are 6 ideas to keep yourself and your family safe(r) in the future.”
These aren’t bad ideas. If you’ve been around here long there’s nothing in here you haven’t seen me suggest before. But, if you haven’t taken some time to take some of these steps to protect yourself, take a look!
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…
When you go to restart and the memory is so tied up that you have to break down and hold in the power button, every single time! Speaking of that PC, what is it with Norton Internet Security? I swear every PC I run across on side projects, or doing tech support for friends and…
I got to work this morning and the new super-charged, powerful machine wouldn’t boot. After about an hour and a half of troubleshooting on my own, I eliminated the drive being the problem, even a brand new drive gave me a no device found error. At that point, it was time to gather up all…
Library Filtering Law overturned. -the thing missing from this story, of course, is that filters don’t work and block quite a bit of legitimate information from being available to library patrons. Let’s hope the Supreme Court agrees with this ruling. Look, someone who gets it on airport security! I was beginning to think that no…
